Roger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Political Studies, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College.
Roger Berkowitz
Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Politics, Philosophy, and Human Rights, Berkowitz writes and speaks about how justice is made present in the world. He is author of The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition, co-editor of Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Hannah Arendt's Denktagebuch (2017), Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics (2010), The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis (2012), and editor of the annual journal HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center. His essay "Reconciling Oneself to the Impossibility of Reconciliation: Judgment and Worldliness in Hannah Arendt's Politics," has helped bring attention to the centrality of reconciliation in Hannah Arendt's work. The Arendt Center organizes an annual conference every October. Professor Berkowitz edits the Hannah Arendt Center's weekly newsletter, Amor Mundi. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Paris Review Online, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Interest, and many other publications. Berkowitz is the 2019 recipient of the Hannah Arendt Award for Political Thought given by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Bremen, Germany. (Photo Credit: Doug Menuez)
Samantha Rose Hill
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies Samantha Rose Hill came to Bard in 2015 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.
Samantha Rose Hill
She received her doctorate in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2014. Her research and teaching interests include critical theory, the Frankfurt School, aesthetic theory, and the History of Political Thought. Hill is completing a manuscript of Hannah Arendt's poetry, which has been edited and translated into English: Into the Dark: The Poems of Hannah Arendt. She is currently working on a monograph that explores the ethical dimensions of melancholia. At Bard, she teaches courses on historical political theory, contemporary political theory, radical political thought, affect theory, American political thought, aesthetics and politics. Before coming to Bard, she conducted post-doctoral work at the Institut für Philosophie at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main.
Christine Gonzalez Stanton
Christine Gonzalez Stanton is the Managing Director at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. She joined Bard College in 2014. She brings over 20 years of management experience working in the fields of higher education, arts, and community organizations.
Craig Rothstein
Craig serves as communication and media coordinator for both the Center for Civic Engagement and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. He comes to Bard after working for more than 15 years as a science writer, which included stints in freelance journalism, medical writing, and pharmaceutical advertising.
Thomas Wild
Research Director and Associate Professor of German and Director of the German Studies Program M.A., Free University of Berlin; Ph.D., University of Munich.
Thomas Wild
Also studied at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Has taught at institutions of higher learning in Germany, Vanderbilt University, and Oberlin College, and recently served as Alexander von Humboldt / Feodor Lynen Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. His research and teaching interests include 20th-century German literature and film; the political dimensions of culture, art, and thought; Hannah Arendt; and contemporary developments in German media and society after 1989. Among his publications are a monograph on Arendt's relationships with key postwar German writers; an intellectual biography of Arendt; and a edition of poetry by Thomas Brasch. He coedited Arendt's conversations and correspondence with the eminent German historian and political essayist Joachim Fest. He is also a literary critic and cultural correspondent for the German dailies Sïddeutsche Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel. At Bard since 2012.
Jacob Rivers
Jacob Rivers serves as the program coordinator for the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. He is the author of the chapbook Eros the Length of a Sentence (Ghost City Press 2020). Other writings can be found or are forthcoming in Amor Mundi, The Adirondack Review, The Cortland Review, Green Mountains Review, among other venues. He received an MFA from New England College and a BA from Suffolk University. Currently, he lives in Hudson, NY.
Arendt Center Fellows
The Hannah Arendt Center hosts postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, senior fellows, and doctoral fellows who together form a vibrant and engaged intellectual community at Bard College. Fellows teach one course per semester while pursuing their research. Our current fellows are listed, here.
Student Fellows
Every year, the Center hires a team of Bard College students to organize events, assist in video production, and support HAC staff in the office. Learn more about this year's fellows.
Roger BerkowitzRoger Berkowitz is the Founder and Academic Director of the Hannah Arendt Center and Professor of Political Studies, Philosophy, and Human Rights at Bard College.
Samantha Rose HillVisiting Assistant Professor of Political Studies Samantha Rose Hill came to Bard in 2015 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities.
Thomas WildResearch Director and Associate Professor of German and Director of the German Studies Program M.A., Free University of Berlin; Ph.D., University of Munich.
Jacob RiversJacob Rivers serves as the program coordinator for the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. He is the author of the chapbook Eros the Length of a Sentence (Ghost City Press 2020). Other writings can be found or are forthcoming in Amor Mundi, The Adirondack Review, The Cortland Review, Green Mountains Review, among other venues. He received an MFA from New England College and a BA from Suffolk University. Currently, he lives in Hudson, NY.
Arendt Center FellowsThe Hannah Arendt Center hosts postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, senior fellows, and doctoral fellows who together form a vibrant and engaged intellectual community at Bard College. Fellows teach one course per semester while pursuing their research. Our current fellows are listed, here.
Student FellowsEvery year, the Center hires a team of Bard College students to organize events, assist in video production, and support HAC staff in the office. Learn more about this year's fellows.
