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Roger Berkowitz: Founder & Academic Director[email protected]
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.
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Christine Gonzalez Stanton: Executive DirectorChristine 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. As a member of the senior management team at the Hannah Arendt Center, Christine works closely with the Founder & Academic Director, and the Advisory Board. She has a broad responsibility for center-wide operations, external relations, membership programs, fundraising, grant life cycles, community outreach, budget oversight, academic partnerships, and fiscal management.
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Tara Needham: Assistant Academic Director[email protected]
Tara has more than twenty-five years of experience serving the public humanities at national and regional cultural organizations as well as within academia, including at the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses, the New York State Writers Institute, and as organizational consultant to small non-profits. Tara has also taught extensively at the college level, most recently at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, while pursuing a Ph. D in English and writing a dissertation about political violence in novels of the late British Empire. She has been ardently reading Arendt since earning her B.A. in Philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and is also a writer of essays, poems, and indie pop songs.
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Jacob Rivers: Program CoordinatorJake Rivers serves as the program manager of the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. As the program manager, Jake works with various OSUN institutions across the globe to develop and implement humanities programming for the network’s students, staff, and scholars. Prior to Bard, Jake tended to Robert Frost’s former homestead in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, where he coordinated poetry conferences and managed the property’s museum. He earned a BA from Suffolk University in Hispanic Literature and an MFA in Poetry from New England College. You can find his book, writings, and criticisms in various venues on and off the internet. -
Philip Lindsay: Communications Coordinator[email protected]
As Communications Coordinator, Philip manages our newsletters, supervises HAC Citizens' Assemblies fellows, coordinates outreach for HAC events and maintains our website. 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. -
Thomas Wild: Research DirectorResearch Director and Associate Professor of German and Director of the German Studies Program M.A., Free University of Berlin; Ph.D., University of Munich. -
Bard College Student FellowsEvery year, the Center hires a team of Bard College students to organize events, assist in video production, and support the senior staff at the office. Learn more about this year's fellows. -
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.
