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Roger Berkowitz
Founder & Academic Director

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)

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Christine Gonzalez Stanton
Executive Director

Christine Gonzalez Stanton was named Executive Director of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2020. Prior to her current role, she was the Director of Operations at the center from 2014-to 2020. Christine joined Bard College in 2013 working in the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs. In 2014, she transitioned from ODAA to join the team at the Hannah Arendt Center. Her career spans over 20 years in business management working in the fields of higher education, arts, and non-profit community organizations. Prior to joining Bard College, Stanton held positions working for a world-renowned glass artist, Dale Chihuly, in Seattle, WA, where she managed museum and gallery contracts. Stanton earned her BA degree in Sociology from the Ohio State University. She's a member of the National Association of Non-Profit Organizations and Executives and has received numerous awards throughout her career for her commitment to students and the community.

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Jana Mader
Director of Academic Programs

Jana Mader holds an M.A. in German Studies and Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, both from the University of Munich. Before joining Bard in 2021, she taught at the University of North Carolina and The Juilliard School. Her teaching and research focus on the history, art, and literature of the Hudson River Valley, particularly in the 19th century. As a scholar, writer, and translator, she works at the intersection of theory and practice. She has published four books, including a novel and a comparative analysis of 19th-century literature on the Hudson Valley and the Rhine. More about her work can be found at janamarlene.com.

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Hillary Harvey
Communications Manager

Prior to joining the Hannah Arendt Center, Hillary was Communications Specialist for Ulster County Executives Jen Metzger and (now-Congressman) Pat Ryan, organizing press events, public hearings, and social media management for the Exec's Office and 20+ governmental departments. She served on Ulster County's first Innovation Team, which built and managed the Ulster County COVID-19 Hotline, where she designed and directed Knowledge Management to enable 100+ call agents to answer 35,000 service requests during the pandemic. Hillary earned her BA degree from Bennington College.

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Philip Lindsay
Democracy Innovations Program Manager

Before joining the Hannah Arendt Center, Philip helped run a small community health center in NYC. He has a BA in Latin American Studies from Temple University, and a certificate in Political Economy from the London School of Economics. He spent a year in Germany as a Congress-Bundestag (CBYX) Fellow focusing on the politics of climate change. In his free time, he enjoys organizing intimate concerts and building community through the arts. 

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Jess Feldman
Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow

Jess's book manuscript, Democracy and the General-Strike Tradition, draws on 20th-century political thought, contemporary democratic theory, and African-American political thought to develop an account of how the general strike has shaped the democratic imaginary. Jess's work on W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction has been published in Political Theory, and an essay on Hannah Arendt's political theory won the Best Paper Award (2024) from the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association. For more information about Jess and their work, visit jlfeldman.com. 

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Thomas Wild
Research Director

Thomas Wild has published an introductory book on Hannah Arendt’s life, work, and reception and a monograph on Hannah Arendt’s intellectual relationships with post-war writers. His most recent book on the distinguished poet Ilse Aichinger discusses a contemporary poetics of hospitality. Several editions of letters emerged from Thomas Wild’s ongoing intrigue for correspondences and intellectual networks, including prominent writers such as Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, and Joachim Fest. Poetry is an interlocutor in most of his courses and in many of his publications, among the latter are a collection of poems by Thomas Brasch and translations of contemporary American poets. Thomas Wild serves as general editor on the distinguished international team preparing the first scholarly edition of Hannah Arendt’s Complete Works, which appears in print and digitally, presenting all published and unpublished writings of this eminent thinker in the original English and in the original German – a project providing the foundation for future research on Hannah Arendt, digital humanities, and what it means to think in a plurality of languages.