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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. -
Jana Schmidt
Director of Academic ProgramsJana Schmidt holds an M.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and a PhD in Comparative Literature from SUNY Buffalo. She has taught at the Free University Berlin, Buffalo, Bard, the Bard Prison Initiative, and California State University, Los Angeles. Her essays have appeared in The Journal of Narrative Theory, The German Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Philosophy Today, and the Journal of Arendt Studies. -
Jacob Rivers
HAHN Program ManagerJake 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. -
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. -
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. 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. -
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Nicholas Dunn
Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral FellowNicholas Dunn (PhD, McGill University, 2020) is the Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, where he will also teach courses in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Studies and for the Bard Prison Initiative. His primary research is on Immanuel Kant, with a focus on metaphysics of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. -
Bard College Student FellowsEvery year, the Center hires a team of Bard College students to organize events, assist in video production, manage social media, and support the senior staff at the office. Learn more about this year's fellows.
If you are interested in being a Courage To Be or Thoughtful Talk student fellow, email Director of Academic Programs, Jana Schmidt [email protected]
If you are interested in learning more about working at the center to help with business operations, email Executive Director, Tina Stanton [email protected]
For those interested in Media student fellow positions, email Communications Coordinator, Phil Lindsay [email protected] -
Arendt Center FellowsBard College is pleased to announce the appointment of Thomas Chatterton Williams as Hannah Arendt Center Senior Fellow and Visiting Professor of Humanities. Williams will begin teaching at the College in Spring 2023.
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.
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