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Hannah Arendt Center 2020–2021 Senior Fellows

Kenyon Victor Adams

Senior Fellow
Kenyon Victor Adams is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. His recent work explores the notion of fractured epistemologies, and seeks to reclaim or expand various ways of knowing through integrative artistic practices. Kenyon has contributed art and thought leadership at Yale School of Drama, Yale ISM Poetry Conference, Live IdeasFestival, the Langston Hughes Project, the National Arts Policy Roundtable, and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He studied Religion & Literature at Yale Divinity School, and Theology of Contemporary Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

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Peter Baehr

Senior Fellow
Peter Baehr is Research Professor in Social Theory at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He currently writes on Hong Kong’s slide into dictatorship, the concept of unmasking, and the political liberalism of Rebecca West. His books include The Unmasking Style in Social Theory (Routledge, 2019), Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences (Stanford University Press, 2010), and Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World (Transaction, 1997). Peter is also the editor of The Portable Hannah Arendt (Penguin, 2000) and, with Philip Walsh, the co-editor of The Anthem Companion to Hannah Arendt (Anthem, 2007, and published in Chinese translation by Peking University Press).  He can be contacted at: peterbaehr20@gmail.com.

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Thomas Bartscherer

Senior Fellow
Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. He writes on the intersection of literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. He also writes on contemporary art, new media technology, and the history and practice of liberal education. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press, and he is currently editing, with Wout Cornelissen, The Life of the Mind for the critical edition of the works of Hannah Arendt. He is a research associate with the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes in Paris and has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Heidelberg. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and PhD from the University of Chicago. https://thomasbartscherer.wordpress.com

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Jacob Burda

Senior Fellow
Jacob Burda wrote his doctoral thesis on the conception of infinity in early German Romanticism at Oxford University. His thesis was translated into German and published with Metzler, here. He has lectured on German literature and philosophy at UCLA, and is particularly interested in cultural history, phenomenology (especially Heidegger) and the philosophy of physics. He is the co-founder of the Alpine Fellowship, an annual symposium centered around aesthetics and ideas. 

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Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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John Pang

Senior Fellow
John Pang has worked on policy and strategy in government, business and civil society across East Asia. He has held senior fellowships at Columbia University, NYU Stern and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, where he was a lead member of the Center for Multilateralism Studies. As director of a leading investment bank in Southeast Asia, he founded a research institute and later a council of business leaders to support regional economic integration. As a strategy consultant, and later as a senior member of an intelligence-led risk and strategy advisory firm, he advised decision makers in telecommunications and aviation, energy, infrastructure, tourism and financial services. He has also helped advance reform and regional integration by working directly with cabinet-level government leaders in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Myanmar, including as special policy advisor to the Minister of Education, Malaysia, where he led key projects on schools reform, and in the Prime Minister's Office, where he assisted with communications and track II diplomacy. He has supported private/public sector coordination in major connectivity and investment projects such as China’s Belt and Road project and worked on the design of special economic zones in Malaysia and Indonesia. He chaired the Global Agenda Council for Southeast Asia of the World Economic Forum and served on the global board of Open Society Foundations. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy and economics from the London School of Economics, and did research in philosophy and religion at Stanford University. He is interested in framing the political theology of international relations discourse, especially as it applies to China, East Asia and the question of global order.

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Ann Seaton

Senior Fellow
Director of Difference and Media Project; Director of Multicultural Affairs; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities. B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Harvard University. Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; Faculty Publishing Fellow, City University of New York; Du Bois Fellow, Harvard. Assistant professor, English, CUNY. Has lectured at Harvard, Brown University, New York University, SUNY Binghamton, Amherst College. At Bard since 2009.

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Allison Stanger

Senior Fellow
Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Technology and Human Values Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, New America Cybersecurity Fellow, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, both with Yale University Press. She is working on a new book tentatively titled Consumers vs. Citizens: Social Inequality and Democracy’s Public Square in a Big Data World. Stanger’s writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post, and she has testified before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Oversight Panel, the Senate HELP Committee, and the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. In 2021, Stanger was named Senior Advisor of the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. 

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Zephyr Teachout

Senior Fellow
Zephyr Teachout is one of America's leading anti-corruption scholars and activists. She is an Associate Law Professor at Fordham Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. She received her BA from Yale, and a JD and MA in political science from Duke University. She has published two books, the edited volume Mousepads, Shoeleather & Hope, about internet organizing, and the award-winning Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United. Her articles and essays have been cited in courts around the country, including the Supreme Court, and she has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Prospect, The Nation, Politico, The Daily Beast, and other newspapers. 

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Micah White

Senior Fellow
MICAH WHITE, PhD is a lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street, a global social movement that spread to 82 countries, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. White has been profiled by NPR's Morning Edition, The New Yorker, The Guardian and Esquire has named him one of the most influential young thinkers alive today. Micah's book, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, was published by Knopf Canada and has been translated into Greek and German. A sought after activist speaker and educator, Micah has delivered numerous lectures at prestigious universities, cultural festivals and private events in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Indonesia, the Netherlands and beyond. Micah is the co-founder of Activist Graduate School, an online school for activists. The first Activist Graduate School course was taught and filmed at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard. Learn more about Micah at micahmwhite.com

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Hannah Arendt Center 2020–2021 National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow

David van Reybrouck

National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
David Van Reybrouck is considered 'one of the leading intellectuals in Europe' (Der Tagesspiegel) and is a pioneering advocate of participatory democracy. He founded the G1000 Citizens' Summit, and his work has led to trials in deliberative democracy throughout Europe. His book Against Elections: The Case for Democracy was translated in over twenty languages and received endorsements from Kofi Annan, J.M. Coetzee and Karen Armstrong. He is also one of the most highly regarded literary and political writers of his generation, whose most recent book, Congo: The Epic History of a People, won 19 prizes, sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. It was described as a 'masterpiece' by the Independent and 'magnificent' by The New York Times. David studied at the Universities of Leuven and Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Leiden and an honorary doctorate from the Université St Louis in Brussels.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2020–2021 Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

Chiara Ricciardone

Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow
Raised in Egypt and Turkey, educated at Swarthmore (BA 2005) and Berkeley (PhD 2017), Chiara Ricciardone’s research interests range widely. Most of her work to date has focused on the ancient Greeks and critical theory; she is particularly fascinated by the political and formal problem that difference poses for human beings, and how it might be possible to think of difference without hierarchy. Sometimes she despairs of knowing anything whatsoever, and then she turns to activism and art. Ricciardone is at work on a book of auto-fiction that suggests the self itself is a fiction, and perhaps no longer a useful one. She currently serves as Provost for the Activist Graduate School. Learn more about Chiara at chiararicciardone.net

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Hannah Arendt Center 2020–2021 Associate Fellows

Libby Barringer

Associate Fellow
Libby Barringer received her doctorate in Political Science from UCLA in 2016. Her work brings ancient and modern political thought and literature into conversation for the sake of rethinking, and recovering, democratic ideas and practices. In particular, she is concerned with democratic politics as they emerge in extreme conditions of power and powerlessness. Her current manuscript project reflects this interest, centering on different political accounts of death as they are a part of political life, ancient and modern, and the capacities for these distinct accounts to enable or suppress democratic practices. She is also working on a second project, analyzing the politics of contemporary accounts of (super) heroism in dialogue with the political thought of Greek tragedy. In addition to her doctorate, she also holds an MSc in Political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from The College of William and Mary in Government and Fine Arts.

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Aliza Becker

Associate Fellow
Aliza Becker is the Director of the American Jewish Peace Archive and Meanings of October 27th, oral history projects affiliated with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The American Jewish Peace Archive is an oral history archive of interviews with American Jewish peace activists who had been involved in Jewishly identified organizations from 1967 through 2017. The Meanings of October 27th documents the life histories and reflections on the 2018 deadly synagogue shooting of diverse Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers. Becker has degrees in History and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Nelly Ben Hayoun

Associate Fellow
Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is a designer of extreme experiences that aims to bring the sublime to life. Dubbed the "Willy Wonka of Design," Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is an award-winning French designer and filmmaker who creates multi-dimensional experiential projects at the intersection of science, theater, politics and Design. Wired awarded her their inaugural Innovation Fellowship in 2014, and Icon magazine recognized Dr. Ben Hayoun as one of the top 50 designers 'shaping the future' for her pioneering "total bombardment" design philosophy. 

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Hans Kern

Associate Fellow
Hans, an American German also from Munich, came to learn about sortition through Jonas and found that it in many ways satisfies his demand for more inclusive decision-making. Hans is a writer, illustrator and self-publisher of environmental manuals, including the [Re]cyclopaedia: global swarming toolbox of all the known strategies for [re]versing global warming and [re]pairing the planet. He believes deliberative sortition is the key to bringing ecologically prudent policy to the political sphere, from the local to the global scale. Hans graduated from Bard College in 2014. 

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Jonas Kunz

Associate Fellow
After finishing his primary education at a Steiner School close to Munich, Germany, Jonas attended Bard College, where he took classes in Ancient Greek, Economics, Philosophy and Politics. Jonas first heard about sortition from his good friend Luke Harrington, who in turn had heard about it from another trusted friend. Searching for a more meaningful democratic process, he quickly recognised: sortition warrants deeper investigation. Upon finishing his thesis for his B.A. in Political Studies on sortition, Jonas invited Hans to co-found B.I.R.D.S. in the Spring of 2018. 
 

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Artemy Magun

Associate Fellow
Artemy Magun is a Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor in Political Studies at Bard College for fall 2017. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College) where he teaches political theory and philosophy. Magun received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan and also holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Strasbourg. In English, he is the author of Negative Revolution (2013), editor of Politics of the One (2013), and currently editor of the international journal Stasis. Magun has also written extensively for Telos, History of Political Thought, Continental Philosophy Review, and Theory and Event. At Bard, he will be teaching a course on “Russian Politics”. 

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Nikita Nelin

Associate Fellow
Nikita Nelin (BA, Bard College; MFA, Brooklyn College) is a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and immersive journalism. His writing experiments with voice driven narrative in the intersection of memory and imagination, while often referencing the themes of his own emigration experience. His journalism subverts the objective-witness myth and explores ritual, ceremony, alternative community models, and the contemporary culture-at-large through “a perspective from the cultural fringe.” He has written about Standing Rock, Burning Man, education towards individual agency, and socio-cultural sustainability in consumerist and branding practices. His early research focused on the “silenced generations;” Soviet writers and artists rejected by the communist party. He received the 2010 Sean O’Faolain Prize for short fiction, the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars Prize for nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2017 Restless Books Immigrant Prize as well as at 2018 Dzanc Books Prize. He has taught independently and at Brooklyn College with special concentration in the Close-Reading Method. An expanded CV, work samples, as well as projects in development can be found at nikitanelin.com

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Todd Pittinsky

Associate Fellow
Todd L. Pittinsky is a Professor in Stony Brook University’s Department of Technology & Society (SUNY), and the Faculty Director of its Undergraduate College of Leadership and Service.  Before that, he was on the faculty of Harvard University, as an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served as the Director of Research for the Harvard Center for Public Leadership (CPL), where he was principal investigator of the multi-year National Leadership Index (a collaborative project with U.S. News and World Report), led the taskforce which developed the Harvard CPL Leadership Development Model and codeveloped the Center’s social entrepreneurship programs. Later, Todd also served on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Jana Schmidt

Associate Fellow
Jana V. Schmidt (MA English, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo) began reading Hannah Arendt while writing on the question of political community in postwar Germany and its re-imagination through literature and visual art. Her research interests include 20th century American and German literature, poststructuralism and the question of the communal vis-a-vis the aesthetic, Bildwissenschaften (image studies), and theories of memory. She has recently published a book on Arendt’s legacy as a thinker, Hannah Arendt und die Folgen (2018, Metzler Verlag), as well as an essay on reconciliation in Arendt and Ingeborg Bachmann (Philosophy Today). At present, she is a lecturer of literary theory at California State University, Los Angeles while working on her next manuscript, a book of encounters between German-Jewish exiles to America and African American artists and political activists from the 1940s to Black Power. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arendt Center in 2016/7 and taught at Bard as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities in 2017.

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Alexander Soros

Associate Fellow
Alexander Soros is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports human rights, social justice, and educational causes. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2020–2021 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Katy Fulfer

Visiting Scholar
Katy Fulfer is a feminist philosopher. Her research is animated by questions relating to what Hannah Arendt identified as the “rise of the social,” in which private interests replace the public good and undermine freedom. Her current project, “From Rootlessness to Belonging: An Arendtian Critique of the Family as a Structure of Refugee Assimilation,” reinterprets Arendt’s conceptions of rootlessness and assimilation to shed light on how refugees to Canada may face barriers to political inclusion. It is financially supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada. An American expatriate who calls Ontario home, Katy is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Gender & Social Justice at the University of Waterloo. She lives on the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. You can follow her work at katyfulfer.com.

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Jana Marlene Mader

Visiting Scholar
Jana Mader joined the Hannah Arendt Center in 2019 as a Visiting Scholar and is a lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. With a background in German studies/comparative literature, her research and teaching interests lie in 19th + 20th century German and European literature and philosophy, German romanticism, nature writing, landscape art, environmental humanities, and creative writing. At the Hannah Arendt Center, she is particularly interested in Arendt's "language of poetry" and her connection to the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Jana's essay "Arendt, Hölderlin, and their perception of Schicksal. Hölderlinian elements in Arendt's thinking and the messianic notion of revolution" was published in the Hannah Arendt Journal in 2020. Jana’s most recent book, an anthology on spaces of thinking was published by Rowohlt, also in 2020. Jana is currently pursuing a PhD in German and American literature at the University of Munich.
 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2019–2020 Senior Fellows

Kenyon Victor Adams

Senior Fellow
Kenyon Victor Adams is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. His recent work explores the notion of fractured epistemologies, and seeks to reclaim or expand various ways of knowing through integrative artistic practices. Kenyon has contributed art and thought leadership at Yale School of Drama, Yale ISM Poetry Conference, Live IdeasFestival, the Langston Hughes Project, the National Arts Policy Roundtable, and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He studied Religion & Literature at Yale Divinity School, and Theology of Contemporary Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

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Thomas Bartscherer

Senior Fellow
Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. He writes on the intersection of literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. He also writes on contemporary art, new media technology, and the history and practice of liberal education. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press, and he is currently editing, with Wout Cornelissen, The Life of the Mind for the critical edition of the works of Hannah Arendt. He is a research associate with the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes in Paris and has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Heidelberg. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and PhD from the University of Chicago. https://thomasbartscherer.wordpress.com

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Jacob Burda

Senior Fellow
Jacob Burda wrote his doctoral thesis on the conception of infinity in early German Romanticism at Oxford University. His thesis was translated into German and published with Metzler, here. He has lectured on German literature and philosophy at UCLA, and is particularly interested in cultural history, phenomenology (especially Heidegger) and the philosophy of physics. He is the co-founder of the Alpine Fellowship, an annual symposium centered around aesthetics and ideas. 

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Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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John Pang

Senior Fellow
John Pang has worked on policy and strategy in government, business and civil society across East Asia. He has held senior fellowships at Columbia University, NYU Stern and the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, where he was a lead member of the Center for Multilateralism Studies. As director of a leading investment bank in Southeast Asia, he founded a research institute and later a council of business leaders to support regional economic integration. As a strategy consultant, and later as a senior member of an intelligence-led risk and strategy advisory firm, he advised decision makers in telecommunications and aviation, energy, infrastructure, tourism and financial services. He has also helped advance reform and regional integration by working directly with cabinet-level government leaders in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan and Myanmar, including as special policy advisor to the Minister of Education, Malaysia, where he led key projects on schools reform, and in the Prime Minister's Office, where he assisted with communications and track II diplomacy. He has supported private/public sector coordination in major connectivity and investment projects such as China’s Belt and Road project and worked on the design of special economic zones in Malaysia and Indonesia. He chaired the Global Agenda Council for Southeast Asia of the World Economic Forum and served on the global board of Open Society Foundations. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in philosophy and economics from the London School of Economics, and did research in philosophy and religion at Stanford University. He is interested in framing the political theology of international relations discourse, especially as it applies to China, East Asia and the question of global order.

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Ann Seaton

Senior Fellow
Director of Difference and Media Project; Director of Multicultural Affairs; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities. B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Harvard University. Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; Faculty Publishing Fellow, City University of New York; Du Bois Fellow, Harvard. Assistant professor, English, CUNY. Has lectured at Harvard, Brown University, New York University, SUNY Binghamton, Amherst College. At Bard since 2009.

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Allison Stanger

Senior Fellow
Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Technology and Human Values Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, New America Cybersecurity Fellow, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, both with Yale University Press. She is working on a new book tentatively titled Consumers vs. Citizens: Social Inequality and Democracy’s Public Square in a Big Data World. Stanger’s writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post, and she has testified before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Oversight Panel, the Senate HELP Committee, and the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. In 2021, Stanger was named Senior Advisor of the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. 

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Zephyr Teachout

Senior Fellow
Zephyr Teachout is one of America's leading anti-corruption scholars and activists. She is an Associate Law Professor at Fordham Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. She received her BA from Yale, and a JD and MA in political science from Duke University. She has published two books, the edited volume Mousepads, Shoeleather & Hope, about internet organizing, and the award-winning Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United. Her articles and essays have been cited in courts around the country, including the Supreme Court, and she has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Prospect, The Nation, Politico, The Daily Beast, and other newspapers. 

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Micah White

Senior Fellow
MICAH WHITE, PhD is a lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street, a global social movement that spread to 82 countries, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. White has been profiled by NPR's Morning Edition, The New Yorker, The Guardian and Esquire has named him one of the most influential young thinkers alive today. Micah's book, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, was published by Knopf Canada and has been translated into Greek and German. A sought after activist speaker and educator, Micah has delivered numerous lectures at prestigious universities, cultural festivals and private events in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Indonesia, the Netherlands and beyond. Micah is the co-founder of Activist Graduate School, an online school for activists. The first Activist Graduate School course was taught and filmed at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard. Learn more about Micah at micahmwhite.com

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Hannah Arendt Center 2019–2020 National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellows

Thomas Chatterton Williams

National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool (2010, Penguin Press) and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The London Review of Books and many other places. He is the recipient of a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin and is a 2019 New America Fellow. He is currently at work on a book, rooted in his experience as the black father of two white-looking children in Paris, that will reckon with the ways in which we construct race in America. 

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David van Reybrouck

National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
David Van Reybrouck is considered 'one of the leading intellectuals in Europe' (Der Tagesspiegel) and is a pioneering advocate of participatory democracy. He founded the G1000 Citizens' Summit, and his work has led to trials in deliberative democracy throughout Europe. His book Against Elections: The Case for Democracy was translated in over twenty languages and received endorsements from Kofi Annan, J.M. Coetzee and Karen Armstrong. He is also one of the most highly regarded literary and political writers of his generation, whose most recent book, Congo: The Epic History of a People, won 19 prizes, sold over 500,000 copies and has been translated into a dozen languages. It was described as a 'masterpiece' by the Independent and 'magnificent' by The New York Times. David studied at the Universities of Leuven and Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D from the University of Leiden and an honorary doctorate from the Université St Louis in Brussels.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2019–2020 Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

Chiara Ricciardone

Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow
Raised in Egypt and Turkey, educated at Swarthmore (BA 2005) and Berkeley (PhD 2017), Chiara Ricciardone’s research interests range widely. Most of her work to date has focused on the ancient Greeks and critical theory; she is particularly fascinated by the political and formal problem that difference poses for human beings, and how it might be possible to think of difference without hierarchy. Sometimes she despairs of knowing anything whatsoever, and then she turns to activism and art. Ricciardone is at work on a book of auto-fiction that suggests the self itself is a fiction, and perhaps no longer a useful one. She currently serves as Provost for the Activist Graduate School. Learn more about Chiara at chiararicciardone.net

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Hannah Arendt Center 2019–2020 Associate Fellows

Libby Barringer

Associate Fellow
Libby Barringer received her doctorate in Political Science from UCLA in 2016. Her work brings ancient and modern political thought and literature into conversation for the sake of rethinking, and recovering, democratic ideas and practices. In particular, she is concerned with democratic politics as they emerge in extreme conditions of power and powerlessness. Her current manuscript project reflects this interest, centering on different political accounts of death as they are a part of political life, ancient and modern, and the capacities for these distinct accounts to enable or suppress democratic practices. She is also working on a second project, analyzing the politics of contemporary accounts of (super) heroism in dialogue with the political thought of Greek tragedy. In addition to her doctorate, she also holds an MSc in Political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from The College of William and Mary in Government and Fine Arts.

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Aliza Becker

Associate Fellow
Aliza Becker is the Director of the American Jewish Peace Archive and Meanings of October 27th, oral history projects affiliated with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The American Jewish Peace Archive is an oral history archive of interviews with American Jewish peace activists who had been involved in Jewishly identified organizations from 1967 through 2017. The Meanings of October 27th documents the life histories and reflections on the 2018 deadly synagogue shooting of diverse Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers. Becker has degrees in History and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Nelly Ben Hayoun

Associate Fellow
Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is a designer of extreme experiences that aims to bring the sublime to life. Dubbed the "Willy Wonka of Design," Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is an award-winning French designer and filmmaker who creates multi-dimensional experiential projects at the intersection of science, theater, politics and Design. Wired awarded her their inaugural Innovation Fellowship in 2014, and Icon magazine recognized Dr. Ben Hayoun as one of the top 50 designers 'shaping the future' for her pioneering "total bombardment" design philosophy. 

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Hans Kern

Associate Fellow
Hans, an American German also from Munich, came to learn about sortition through Jonas and found that it in many ways satisfies his demand for more inclusive decision-making. Hans is a writer, illustrator and self-publisher of environmental manuals, including the [Re]cyclopaedia: global swarming toolbox of all the known strategies for [re]versing global warming and [re]pairing the planet. He believes deliberative sortition is the key to bringing ecologically prudent policy to the political sphere, from the local to the global scale. Hans graduated from Bard College in 2014. 

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Jonas Kunz

Associate Fellow
After finishing his primary education at a Steiner School close to Munich, Germany, Jonas attended Bard College, where he took classes in Ancient Greek, Economics, Philosophy and Politics. Jonas first heard about sortition from his good friend Luke Harrington, who in turn had heard about it from another trusted friend. Searching for a more meaningful democratic process, he quickly recognised: sortition warrants deeper investigation. Upon finishing his thesis for his B.A. in Political Studies on sortition, Jonas invited Hans to co-found B.I.R.D.S. in the Spring of 2018. 
 

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Artemy Magun

Associate Fellow
Artemy Magun is a Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor in Political Studies at Bard College for fall 2017. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College) where he teaches political theory and philosophy. Magun received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan and also holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Strasbourg. In English, he is the author of Negative Revolution (2013), editor of Politics of the One (2013), and currently editor of the international journal Stasis. Magun has also written extensively for Telos, History of Political Thought, Continental Philosophy Review, and Theory and Event. At Bard, he will be teaching a course on “Russian Politics”. 

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Shany Mor

Associate Fellow
Shany Mor received a DPhil from Oxford University.  His research focuses on democracy and representation.  He has taught political theory at Oxford and Brown.  He writes and speaks frequently on Israeli and European politics, as well as on the future of parliamentary democracy.  He is currently writing a book on representation in political theory as well as beginning a new research project on reviving and modernizing parliamentarism.

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Nikita Nelin

Associate Fellow
Nikita Nelin (BA, Bard College; MFA, Brooklyn College) is a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and immersive journalism. His writing experiments with voice driven narrative in the intersection of memory and imagination, while often referencing the themes of his own emigration experience. His journalism subverts the objective-witness myth and explores ritual, ceremony, alternative community models, and the contemporary culture-at-large through “a perspective from the cultural fringe.” He has written about Standing Rock, Burning Man, education towards individual agency, and socio-cultural sustainability in consumerist and branding practices. His early research focused on the “silenced generations;” Soviet writers and artists rejected by the communist party. He received the 2010 Sean O’Faolain Prize for short fiction, the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars Prize for nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2017 Restless Books Immigrant Prize as well as at 2018 Dzanc Books Prize. He has taught independently and at Brooklyn College with special concentration in the Close-Reading Method. An expanded CV, work samples, as well as projects in development can be found at nikitanelin.com

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Todd Pittinsky

Associate Fellow
Todd L. Pittinsky is a Professor in Stony Brook University’s Department of Technology & Society (SUNY), and the Faculty Director of its Undergraduate College of Leadership and Service.  Before that, he was on the faculty of Harvard University, as an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. He served as the Director of Research for the Harvard Center for Public Leadership (CPL), where he was principal investigator of the multi-year National Leadership Index (a collaborative project with U.S. News and World Report), led the taskforce which developed the Harvard CPL Leadership Development Model and codeveloped the Center’s social entrepreneurship programs. Later, Todd also served on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Jana Schmidt

Associate Fellow
Jana V. Schmidt (MA English, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo) began reading Hannah Arendt while writing on the question of political community in postwar Germany and its re-imagination through literature and visual art. Her research interests include 20th century American and German literature, poststructuralism and the question of the communal vis-a-vis the aesthetic, Bildwissenschaften (image studies), and theories of memory. She has recently published a book on Arendt’s legacy as a thinker, Hannah Arendt und die Folgen (2018, Metzler Verlag), as well as an essay on reconciliation in Arendt and Ingeborg Bachmann (Philosophy Today). At present, she is a lecturer of literary theory at California State University, Los Angeles while working on her next manuscript, a book of encounters between German-Jewish exiles to America and African American artists and political activists from the 1940s to Black Power. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arendt Center in 2016/7 and taught at Bard as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities in 2017.

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Alexander Soros

Associate Fellow
Alexander Soros is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports human rights, social justice, and educational causes. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2019–2020 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Katy Fulfer

Visiting Scholar
Katy Fulfer is a feminist philosopher. Her research is animated by questions relating to what Hannah Arendt identified as the “rise of the social,” in which private interests replace the public good and undermine freedom. Her current project, “From Rootlessness to Belonging: An Arendtian Critique of the Family as a Structure of Refugee Assimilation,” reinterprets Arendt’s conceptions of rootlessness and assimilation to shed light on how refugees to Canada may face barriers to political inclusion. It is financially supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada. An American expatriate who calls Ontario home, Katy is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Gender & Social Justice at the University of Waterloo. She lives on the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. You can follow her work at katyfulfer.com.

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Jana Marlene Mader

Visiting Scholar
Jana Mader joined the Hannah Arendt Center in 2019 as a Visiting Scholar and is a lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. With a background in German studies/comparative literature, her research and teaching interests lie in 19th + 20th century German and European literature and philosophy, German romanticism, nature writing, landscape art, environmental humanities, and creative writing. At the Hannah Arendt Center, she is particularly interested in Arendt's "language of poetry" and her connection to the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Jana's essay "Arendt, Hölderlin, and their perception of Schicksal. Hölderlinian elements in Arendt's thinking and the messianic notion of revolution" was published in the Hannah Arendt Journal in 2020. Jana’s most recent book, an anthology on spaces of thinking was published by Rowohlt, also in 2020. Jana is currently pursuing a PhD in German and American literature at the University of Munich.
 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2018–2019 Senior Fellows

Kenyon Victor Adams

Senior Fellow
Kenyon Victor Adams is a multidisciplinary artist and curator. His recent work explores the notion of fractured epistemologies, and seeks to reclaim or expand various ways of knowing through integrative artistic practices. Kenyon has contributed art and thought leadership at Yale School of Drama, Yale ISM Poetry Conference, Live IdeasFestival, the Langston Hughes Project, the National Arts Policy Roundtable, and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. He studied Religion & Literature at Yale Divinity School, and Theology of Contemporary Performance at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

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Thomas Bartscherer

Senior Fellow
Thomas Bartscherer is the Peter Sourian Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. He writes on the intersection of literature and philosophy, with a particular focus on tragic drama, aesthetics, and performance. He also writes on contemporary art, new media technology, and the history and practice of liberal education. He is co-editor of Erotikon: Essays on Eros Ancient and Modern and Switching Codes: Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts, both from the University of Chicago Press, and he is currently editing, with Wout Cornelissen, The Life of the Mind for the critical edition of the works of Hannah Arendt. He is a research associate with the Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes in Paris and has held research fellowships at the École Normale Supérieure and the University of Heidelberg. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and PhD from the University of Chicago. https://thomasbartscherer.wordpress.com

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Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Ann Seaton

Senior Fellow
Director of Difference and Media Project; Director of Multicultural Affairs; Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities. B.A., Wellesley College; Ph.D., Harvard University. Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; Faculty Publishing Fellow, City University of New York; Du Bois Fellow, Harvard. Assistant professor, English, CUNY. Has lectured at Harvard, Brown University, New York University, SUNY Binghamton, Amherst College. At Bard since 2009.

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Allison Stanger

Senior Fellow
Allison Stanger is the Russell Leng ’60 Professor of International Politics and Economics at Middlebury College, Technology and Human Values Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Edmund J. Safra Center for Ethics, New America Cybersecurity Fellow, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the author of Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump and One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy, both with Yale University Press. She is working on a new book tentatively titled Consumers vs. Citizens: Social Inequality and Democracy’s Public Square in a Big Data World. Stanger’s writing has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post, and she has testified before the Commission on Wartime Contracting, the Senate Budget Committee, the Congressional Oversight Panel, the Senate HELP Committee, and the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. In 2021, Stanger was named Senior Advisor of the Hannah Arendt Humanities Network. 

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Zephyr Teachout

Senior Fellow
Zephyr Teachout is one of America's leading anti-corruption scholars and activists. She is an Associate Law Professor at Fordham Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. She received her BA from Yale, and a JD and MA in political science from Duke University. She has published two books, the edited volume Mousepads, Shoeleather & Hope, about internet organizing, and the award-winning Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United. Her articles and essays have been cited in courts around the country, including the Supreme Court, and she has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Prospect, The Nation, Politico, The Daily Beast, and other newspapers. 

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Micah White

Senior Fellow
MICAH WHITE, PhD is a lifelong activist who co-created Occupy Wall Street, a global social movement that spread to 82 countries, while an editor of Adbusters magazine. White has been profiled by NPR's Morning Edition, The New Yorker, The Guardian and Esquire has named him one of the most influential young thinkers alive today. Micah's book, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, was published by Knopf Canada and has been translated into Greek and German. A sought after activist speaker and educator, Micah has delivered numerous lectures at prestigious universities, cultural festivals and private events in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Indonesia, the Netherlands and beyond. Micah is the co-founder of Activist Graduate School, an online school for activists. The first Activist Graduate School course was taught and filmed at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard. Learn more about Micah at micahmwhite.com

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Hannah Arendt Center 2018–2019 National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Thomas Chatterton Williams

National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Thomas Chatterton Williams is the author of a memoir, Losing My Cool (2010, Penguin Press) and a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, The London Review of Books and many other places. He is the recipient of a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin and is a 2019 New America Fellow. He is currently at work on a book, rooted in his experience as the black father of two white-looking children in Paris, that will reckon with the ways in which we construct race in America. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2018–2019 Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

Chiara Ricciardone

Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow
Raised in Egypt and Turkey, educated at Swarthmore (BA 2005) and Berkeley (PhD 2017), Chiara Ricciardone’s research interests range widely. Most of her work to date has focused on the ancient Greeks and critical theory; she is particularly fascinated by the political and formal problem that difference poses for human beings, and how it might be possible to think of difference without hierarchy. Sometimes she despairs of knowing anything whatsoever, and then she turns to activism and art. Ricciardone is at work on a book of auto-fiction that suggests the self itself is a fiction, and perhaps no longer a useful one. She currently serves as Provost for the Activist Graduate School. Learn more about Chiara at chiararicciardone.net

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Hannah Arendt Center 2018–2019 Associate Fellows

Libby Barringer

Associate Fellow
Libby Barringer received her doctorate in Political Science from UCLA in 2016. Her work brings ancient and modern political thought and literature into conversation for the sake of rethinking, and recovering, democratic ideas and practices. In particular, she is concerned with democratic politics as they emerge in extreme conditions of power and powerlessness. Her current manuscript project reflects this interest, centering on different political accounts of death as they are a part of political life, ancient and modern, and the capacities for these distinct accounts to enable or suppress democratic practices. She is also working on a second project, analyzing the politics of contemporary accounts of (super) heroism in dialogue with the political thought of Greek tragedy. In addition to her doctorate, she also holds an MSc in Political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from The College of William and Mary in Government and Fine Arts.

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Aliza Becker

Associate Fellow
Aliza Becker is the Director of the American Jewish Peace Archive and Meanings of October 27th, oral history projects affiliated with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The American Jewish Peace Archive is an oral history archive of interviews with American Jewish peace activists who had been involved in Jewishly identified organizations from 1967 through 2017. The Meanings of October 27th documents the life histories and reflections on the 2018 deadly synagogue shooting of diverse Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers. Becker has degrees in History and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Nelly Ben Hayoun

Associate Fellow
Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is a designer of extreme experiences that aims to bring the sublime to life. Dubbed the "Willy Wonka of Design," Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun is an award-winning French designer and filmmaker who creates multi-dimensional experiential projects at the intersection of science, theater, politics and Design. Wired awarded her their inaugural Innovation Fellowship in 2014, and Icon magazine recognized Dr. Ben Hayoun as one of the top 50 designers 'shaping the future' for her pioneering "total bombardment" design philosophy. 

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Hans Kern

Associate Fellow
Hans, an American German also from Munich, came to learn about sortition through Jonas and found that it in many ways satisfies his demand for more inclusive decision-making. Hans is a writer, illustrator and self-publisher of environmental manuals, including the [Re]cyclopaedia: global swarming toolbox of all the known strategies for [re]versing global warming and [re]pairing the planet. He believes deliberative sortition is the key to bringing ecologically prudent policy to the political sphere, from the local to the global scale. Hans graduated from Bard College in 2014. 

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Jonas Kunz

Associate Fellow
After finishing his primary education at a Steiner School close to Munich, Germany, Jonas attended Bard College, where he took classes in Ancient Greek, Economics, Philosophy and Politics. Jonas first heard about sortition from his good friend Luke Harrington, who in turn had heard about it from another trusted friend. Searching for a more meaningful democratic process, he quickly recognised: sortition warrants deeper investigation. Upon finishing his thesis for his B.A. in Political Studies on sortition, Jonas invited Hans to co-found B.I.R.D.S. in the Spring of 2018. 
 

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Artemy Magun

Associate Fellow
Artemy Magun is a Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor in Political Studies at Bard College for fall 2017. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College) where he teaches political theory and philosophy. Magun received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan and also holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Strasbourg. In English, he is the author of Negative Revolution (2013), editor of Politics of the One (2013), and currently editor of the international journal Stasis. Magun has also written extensively for Telos, History of Political Thought, Continental Philosophy Review, and Theory and Event. At Bard, he will be teaching a course on “Russian Politics”. 

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Shany Mor

Associate Fellow
Shany Mor received a DPhil from Oxford University.  His research focuses on democracy and representation.  He has taught political theory at Oxford and Brown.  He writes and speaks frequently on Israeli and European politics, as well as on the future of parliamentary democracy.  He is currently writing a book on representation in political theory as well as beginning a new research project on reviving and modernizing parliamentarism.

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Nikita Nelin

Associate Fellow
Nikita Nelin (BA, Bard College; MFA, Brooklyn College) is a writer of fiction, creative nonfiction, and immersive journalism. His writing experiments with voice driven narrative in the intersection of memory and imagination, while often referencing the themes of his own emigration experience. His journalism subverts the objective-witness myth and explores ritual, ceremony, alternative community models, and the contemporary culture-at-large through “a perspective from the cultural fringe.” He has written about Standing Rock, Burning Man, education towards individual agency, and socio-cultural sustainability in consumerist and branding practices. His early research focused on the “silenced generations;” Soviet writers and artists rejected by the communist party. He received the 2010 Sean O’Faolain Prize for short fiction, the 2011 Summer Literary Seminars Prize for nonfiction, and was a finalist for the 2017 Restless Books Immigrant Prize as well as at 2018 Dzanc Books Prize. He has taught independently and at Brooklyn College with special concentration in the Close-Reading Method. An expanded CV, work samples, as well as projects in development can be found at nikitanelin.com

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Jana Schmidt

Associate Fellow
Jana V. Schmidt (MA English, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo) began reading Hannah Arendt while writing on the question of political community in postwar Germany and its re-imagination through literature and visual art. Her research interests include 20th century American and German literature, poststructuralism and the question of the communal vis-a-vis the aesthetic, Bildwissenschaften (image studies), and theories of memory. She has recently published a book on Arendt’s legacy as a thinker, Hannah Arendt und die Folgen (2018, Metzler Verlag), as well as an essay on reconciliation in Arendt and Ingeborg Bachmann (Philosophy Today). At present, she is a lecturer of literary theory at California State University, Los Angeles while working on her next manuscript, a book of encounters between German-Jewish exiles to America and African American artists and political activists from the 1940s to Black Power. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arendt Center in 2016/7 and taught at Bard as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities in 2017.

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Charles Snyder

Associate Fellow
Charles Snyder studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research (PhD, 2014). His current writing addresses the relation between philosophy and political life in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with particular interest in the philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period.

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Alexander Soros

Associate Fellow
Alexander Soros is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports human rights, social justice, and educational causes. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2018–2019 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Katy Fulfer

Visiting Scholar
Katy Fulfer is a feminist philosopher. Her research is animated by questions relating to what Hannah Arendt identified as the “rise of the social,” in which private interests replace the public good and undermine freedom. Her current project, “From Rootlessness to Belonging: An Arendtian Critique of the Family as a Structure of Refugee Assimilation,” reinterprets Arendt’s conceptions of rootlessness and assimilation to shed light on how refugees to Canada may face barriers to political inclusion. It is financially supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research of Canada. An American expatriate who calls Ontario home, Katy is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Gender & Social Justice at the University of Waterloo. She lives on the traditional territories of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. You can follow her work at katyfulfer.com.

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Jana Marlene Mader

Visiting Scholar
Jana Mader joined the Hannah Arendt Center in 2019 as a Visiting Scholar and is a lecturer in the Humanities at Bard College. With a background in German studies/comparative literature, her research and teaching interests lie in 19th + 20th century German and European literature and philosophy, German romanticism, nature writing, landscape art, environmental humanities, and creative writing. At the Hannah Arendt Center, she is particularly interested in Arendt's "language of poetry" and her connection to the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin. Jana's essay "Arendt, Hölderlin, and their perception of Schicksal. Hölderlinian elements in Arendt's thinking and the messianic notion of revolution" was published in the Hannah Arendt Journal in 2020. Jana’s most recent book, an anthology on spaces of thinking was published by Rowohlt, also in 2020. Jana is currently pursuing a PhD in German and American literature at the University of Munich.
 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2017–2018 Senior Fellows

Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Zephyr Teachout

Senior Fellow
Zephyr Teachout is one of America's leading anti-corruption scholars and activists. She is an Associate Law Professor at Fordham Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College. She received her BA from Yale, and a JD and MA in political science from Duke University. She has published two books, the edited volume Mousepads, Shoeleather & Hope, about internet organizing, and the award-winning Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United. Her articles and essays have been cited in courts around the country, including the Supreme Court, and she has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, The American Prospect, The Nation, Politico, The Daily Beast, and other newspapers. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2017–2018 National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Tania Bruguera

National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Tania Bruguera was born in 1968 in Havana, Cuba. Bruguera, a politically motivated performance artist, explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change in works that examine the social effects of political and economic power. By creating proposals and aesthetic models for others to use and adapt, she defines herself as an initiator rather than an author, and often collaborates with multiple institutions as well as many individuals so that the full realization of her artwork occurs when others adopt and perpetuate it. She expands the definition and range of performance art, sometimes performing solo but more often staging participatory events and interactions that build on her own observations, experiences, and interpretations of the politics of repression and control. Bruguera has explored both the promise and failings of the Cuban Revolution in performances that provoke viewers to consider the political realities masked by government propaganda and mass-media interpretation. Advancing the concept of arte útil (literally, useful art; art as a benefit and a tool), she proposes solutions to sociopolitical problems through the implementation of art, and has developed long-term projects that include a community center and a political party for immigrants, and a school for behavior art. (art21.org)

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Hannah Arendt Center 2017–2018 Associate Fellows

Libby Barringer

Associate Fellow
Libby Barringer received her doctorate in Political Science from UCLA in 2016. Her work brings ancient and modern political thought and literature into conversation for the sake of rethinking, and recovering, democratic ideas and practices. In particular, she is concerned with democratic politics as they emerge in extreme conditions of power and powerlessness. Her current manuscript project reflects this interest, centering on different political accounts of death as they are a part of political life, ancient and modern, and the capacities for these distinct accounts to enable or suppress democratic practices. She is also working on a second project, analyzing the politics of contemporary accounts of (super) heroism in dialogue with the political thought of Greek tragedy. In addition to her doctorate, she also holds an MSc in Political theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA from The College of William and Mary in Government and Fine Arts.

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Aliza Becker

Associate Fellow
Aliza Becker is the Director of the American Jewish Peace Archive and Meanings of October 27th, oral history projects affiliated with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The American Jewish Peace Archive is an oral history archive of interviews with American Jewish peace activists who had been involved in Jewishly identified organizations from 1967 through 2017. The Meanings of October 27th documents the life histories and reflections on the 2018 deadly synagogue shooting of diverse Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers. Becker has degrees in History and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Artemy Magun

Associate Fellow
Artemy Magun is a Hannah Arendt Center Teaching Fellow and Visiting Professor in Political Studies at Bard College for fall 2017. He is a Professor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College) where he teaches political theory and philosophy. Magun received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan and also holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Strasbourg. In English, he is the author of Negative Revolution (2013), editor of Politics of the One (2013), and currently editor of the international journal Stasis. Magun has also written extensively for Telos, History of Political Thought, Continental Philosophy Review, and Theory and Event. At Bard, he will be teaching a course on “Russian Politics”. 

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Jana Schmidt

Associate Fellow
Jana V. Schmidt (MA English, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo) began reading Hannah Arendt while writing on the question of political community in postwar Germany and its re-imagination through literature and visual art. Her research interests include 20th century American and German literature, poststructuralism and the question of the communal vis-a-vis the aesthetic, Bildwissenschaften (image studies), and theories of memory. She has recently published a book on Arendt’s legacy as a thinker, Hannah Arendt und die Folgen (2018, Metzler Verlag), as well as an essay on reconciliation in Arendt and Ingeborg Bachmann (Philosophy Today). At present, she is a lecturer of literary theory at California State University, Los Angeles while working on her next manuscript, a book of encounters between German-Jewish exiles to America and African American artists and political activists from the 1940s to Black Power. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arendt Center in 2016/7 and taught at Bard as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities in 2017.

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Charles Snyder

Associate Fellow
Charles Snyder studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research (PhD, 2014). His current writing addresses the relation between philosophy and political life in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with particular interest in the philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period.

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Alexander Soros

Associate Fellow
Alexander Soros is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports human rights, social justice, and educational causes. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2017–2018 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Ned Curthoys

Visiting Scholar
Ned Curthoys is a senior lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, in Perth, Australia. His book The Legacy of Liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt’s Hidden Conversation (2013) explores Hannah Arendt’s complex affinities with German Jewish philosophical idealism and conceptions of diaspora. He is currently exploring Hannah Arendt’s contribution to ethical practices of care of the self and writing a book on the creative legacy of Hannah Arendt’s theory of the banality of evil.

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Katharine Holt

Visiting Scholar
Katharine Holt is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Currently on research leave, she is at work on a book about Russian representations of, and environmental interventions in, the Karakum Desert of Central Asia. While at the Center, Holt will be exploring how Arendt’s thought can illuminate the obfuscation of environmental degradation by official representatives of various nations. At the same time, she will be considering the relationship between humanities scholarship and activism. Holt holds a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Columbia University (2013) and an A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard University (2002). She has published articles on the writers Andrei Platonov, Dzhambul Dzhabaev, Abulqasim Lahuti, and others.

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Manu Samnotra

Visiting Scholar
Manu Samnotra is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Florida. His areas of interest include the political thought of Hannah Arendt, affect theory, and post-colonial theory. He is currently working on a book-length manuscript that uses an Arendtian reading of the affect of shame, and its role in fostering a sense of dignity, responsibility, and openness to dialogue. He is also concurrently working on projects that incorporate Gandhian political thought into discourses on human rights and dignity.
 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2016–2017 Senior Fellow

Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2016–2017 National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow

William Deresiewicz

National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life (Free Press, 2014). A frequent speaker on college campuses, Bill taught English at Yale from 1998-2008. He is a Contributing Writer for The Nation and a Contributing Editor for The American Scholar. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper's, and elsewhere. He was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing of the National Book Critics Circle (2012), and the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture's Hiett Prize in the Humanities (2013). 

Website: http://hac.bard.edu/fellows/neh/

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Hannah Arendt Center 2016–2017 Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

Samantha Hill

Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

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Hannah Arendt Center 2016–2017 Postdoctoral Fellow

Stephen Haswell Todd

Postdoctoral Fellow
Stephen Haswell Todd’s dissertation, “The Turn to the Self” (Chicago, 2015), sets out an account of how the concept “autism” functioned in a broad, philosophical context in German-speaking Europe in the early twentieth century, and was then gradually translated and narrowed into the clinical category we know today. In doing so it proposes major revisions to our understanding of the history of autism and also opens up the archive of early autism discourse as a field of inquiries into the nature of private, inner experience. At the Arendt Center he has plans to investigate the transformations of Goethe’s science of morphology into twentieth-century figurations of aesthetics, personality, psychology, and race. In addition to a PhD in Germanic Studies from the University of Chicago, he holds a BA in literature from Bard College.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2016–2017 Associate Fellows

Aliza Becker

Associate Fellow
Aliza Becker is the Director of the American Jewish Peace Archive and Meanings of October 27th, oral history projects affiliated with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The American Jewish Peace Archive is an oral history archive of interviews with American Jewish peace activists who had been involved in Jewishly identified organizations from 1967 through 2017. The Meanings of October 27th documents the life histories and reflections on the 2018 deadly synagogue shooting of diverse Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers. Becker has degrees in History and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Jeffery Champlin

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Champlin received his BA from Middlebury College and Ph. D. from New York University. His teaching and research focuses on connections between literature, philosophy, and political theory. Recent publications examine questions of power and aesthetics in Kleist, Goethe, Hegel, Rilke, and Arendt. He can be reached at jchampli@bard.edu.

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Jennifer M. Hudson

Associate Fellow
Jennifer M. Hudson holds a PhD in political science (political theory) from Columbia University. Her dissertation, “Bureaucratic Mentality: The Technocratization of Democratic Theory” addresses affinities and tensions between bureaucracy and democracy. She critically engages with a current trend within democratic theory that aims to reconcile these two logics. In her postdoctoral research, she will focus on the future of democratic legitimacy beyond the nation state, especially within Europe, with the goal of elaborating a post-national theory of democracy in opposition to technocratic governance projects. Hudson has taught at Columbia College, Barnard College, Long Island University, the Columbia Summer High School Program, and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She will be teaching in the BPI Program.

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Jana Schmidt

Associate Fellow
Jana V. Schmidt (MA English, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo) began reading Hannah Arendt while writing on the question of political community in postwar Germany and its re-imagination through literature and visual art. Her research interests include 20th century American and German literature, poststructuralism and the question of the communal vis-a-vis the aesthetic, Bildwissenschaften (image studies), and theories of memory. She has recently published a book on Arendt’s legacy as a thinker, Hannah Arendt und die Folgen (2018, Metzler Verlag), as well as an essay on reconciliation in Arendt and Ingeborg Bachmann (Philosophy Today). At present, she is a lecturer of literary theory at California State University, Los Angeles while working on her next manuscript, a book of encounters between German-Jewish exiles to America and African American artists and political activists from the 1940s to Black Power. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arendt Center in 2016/7 and taught at Bard as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities in 2017.

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Charles Snyder

Associate Fellow
Charles Snyder studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research (PhD, 2014). His current writing addresses the relation between philosophy and political life in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with particular interest in the philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period.

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Alexander Soros

Associate Fellow
Alexander Soros is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports human rights, social justice, and educational causes. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2016–2017 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Davide Brugnaro

Visiting Scholar

Ph.D. student from the University of Padua, Italy (Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Educational Science and Applied Psychology). I graduated (Master’s Degree) in 2013 in Philosophical Sciences at University of Padua with a dissertation on the moral question in Hannah Arendt. Between 2014 and 2015 I worked in a Municipality (in social work) thanks to “Servizio Civile Nazionale” and this is the reason why I started my Ph.D. period six months later than my colleagues. My research interests concern Hannah Arendt and, in particular, my research project intends to investigate the relationship between action and thought, politics and philosophy (but also ethics), plurality and singularity as it is sketched by Hannah Arendt, primarily through the examination of the faculty of judgment. The main interpretative hypothesis, that the research proposes, is that the faculty of judgment seems to be a special key of reading in order to recompose the tension between the vita activa and the ‘life of the mind’: its particular feature, indeed, is to hold together different dimensions of human life.

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Joy Harris

Visiting Scholar
Joy Harris completed her MscR in the history of art at the University of Edinburgh College of Art where her research focused on the intersection between performance art and politics. Her thesis investigated the way contemporary theatre directors are using performance to imagine new legal spaces for the rendering of justice for crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This case study is considered in light of Hannah Arendt’s reporting in Eichmann in Jerusalem. Her research also includes ways in which performance artists, like Adrian Piper and Regina Jose Galindo, are redefining how artists contribute to political discourse. Joy is also an artist and her work has been recently shown in The Netherlands, Venice, Miami, and Los Angeles. “Vanishing Discotecas,” a photography and video installation, focused on gentrification in East Downtown Houston, was shown as a solo-exhibition at Lawndale Art Center in Houston, in conjunction with the FotoFest biennial.  It was also presented at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Science and Humanities at University of Cambridge. Joy also regularly publishes for art publications.

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Kei Hiruta

Visiting Scholar
Kei Hiruta is Research Fellow in philosophy at the University of Oxford, and non-residential Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City. Trained in both analytic and continental traditions of political philosophy, he received his D.Phil. from Oxford and has held visiting research positions at Columbia University and the University of Tokyo. He served as the Chair of the Hannah Arendt Circle in 2014–15 and is one of the founding Associate Editors of Arendt Studies and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Practical Ethics. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Berlin’s Bête Noire: Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin on Freedom, Politics and Humanity, and working on an edited volume on Arendt for Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Philosophers in Depth’ series.

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Agustina Varela Manograsso

Visiting Scholar
Agustina Varela Manograsso is currently a PhD student and research assistant in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, Spain. Her doctoral research focuses on Hannah Arendt`s concepts of violence, power and individual/collective identity, and her scholarly interests revolve around social inclusion, disposable life, identity, intersectionality, symbolic and physical violence, body, memory and solidarity. 
Her current work builds on a previous research project, which was concentrated on contemporary interpretations of totalitarianism. Within the framework of this project she had the opportunity to delve into Horkheimer´s, Adorno´s and Arendt´s political and philosophical thoughts. This was followed by a MA in Contemporary Philosophy and its Historical Postulates, which was finished with a dissertation on “The concept of ‘Mass’ in Hannah Arendt`s thought”. She also worked as a research assistant in a European Union funded project called MISEAL, which aimed to improve social inclusion and equal opportunities in the participant higher education institutions in Latin-America.
 

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Dana Mills

Visiting Scholar

Dana Mills wrote her DPhil thesis, focusing on the relationship between dance and politics at Oxford, where she teaches political theory and feminist political theory. Her first book Dance and Politics: Moving beyond Boundaries: is out in May with Manchester University Press. She has held research fellowships in Northwestern and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival. She will be a Visiting Fellow at NYU Center for Ballet and Related Arts in the fall of 2016. Dana also campaigns widely on human rights and feminist issues. 

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Julian Robert Shaw

Visiting Scholar

I am an ESRC Funded PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. I am currently exploring everyday politics and community tensions inhabiting public spaces in the UK context of Luton, Bedfordshire. Much of my work is grounded in the theoretical insights of Hannah Arendt and Henri Lefebvre, with more than the occasional dose of Marx. Some broad themes of my interest include: public space, ‘communities’, everyday life, action, plurality, disruption, violence, and political economy. In 2011 I received a distinction for my MSc. in ‘Disasters, Adaptation, and Development’ from King’s College London. In 2008 I graduated from Durham University with a BSc. (Hons) in Natural Sciences (Human Geography and Anthropology). My range of academic interests can be seen on my website: espressobookworm.wordpress.com. I can also be followed on Twitter: @BookwormShaw

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Hannah Arendt Center 2016–2017 Student Fellow

Courage to Be Fellowships

Student Fellow
Student Fellowships for Bard scholars working in philosophy, theology, and psychology are offered through the Courage To Be Program at the Hannah Arendt Center. The call for applications is sent annually in August/September. We love hearing from students who are interested in being part of the Hannah Arendt Center. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you would like to learn more about fellowships, or, if you would like to become a HAC student volunteer, email: cstanton@bard.edu
Website: http://hac.bard.edu/ctb/

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Hannah Arendt Center 2015–2016 Senior Fellow

Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2015–2016 National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow

David Brin

National Endowment for the Humanities/Hannah Arendt Center Distinguished Visiting Fellow
American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has served as visiting scholar at NASA in Exobiology. Brin is the winner of the Obeler Freedom of Speech award, McGannon Communication Policy Research Award. His science fiction books include but are not limited to Earth and The Postman. 
Website: http://hac.bard.edu/fellows/neh/

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Hannah Arendt Center 2015–2016 Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

Jana Schmidt

Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow
Jana V. Schmidt (MA English, University of Pennsylvania; PhD Comparative Literature, SUNY Buffalo) began reading Hannah Arendt while writing on the question of political community in postwar Germany and its re-imagination through literature and visual art. Her research interests include 20th century American and German literature, poststructuralism and the question of the communal vis-a-vis the aesthetic, Bildwissenschaften (image studies), and theories of memory. She has recently published a book on Arendt’s legacy as a thinker, Hannah Arendt und die Folgen (2018, Metzler Verlag), as well as an essay on reconciliation in Arendt and Ingeborg Bachmann (Philosophy Today). At present, she is a lecturer of literary theory at California State University, Los Angeles while working on her next manuscript, a book of encounters between German-Jewish exiles to America and African American artists and political activists from the 1940s to Black Power. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Arendt Center in 2016/7 and taught at Bard as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities in 2017.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2015–2016 Postdoctoral Fellows

Samantha Hill

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Natalia Mendoza Rockwell

Postdoctoral Fellow
Natalia Mendoza Rockwell received a PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University. Her research interests include the ethnography of the State and political institutions, democracy and its discontents, informality, organized crime, political mendacity, speech act theory, and pragmatism. She has conducted fieldwork in northern Mexico and southern Mali. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2015–2016 Associate Fellows

Aliza Becker

Associate Fellow
Aliza Becker is the Director of the American Jewish Peace Archive and Meanings of October 27th, oral history projects affiliated with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The American Jewish Peace Archive is an oral history archive of interviews with American Jewish peace activists who had been involved in Jewishly identified organizations from 1967 through 2017. The Meanings of October 27th documents the life histories and reflections on the 2018 deadly synagogue shooting of diverse Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers. Becker has degrees in History and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Jeffery Champlin

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Champlin received his BA from Middlebury College and Ph. D. from New York University. His teaching and research focuses on connections between literature, philosophy, and political theory. Recent publications examine questions of power and aesthetics in Kleist, Goethe, Hegel, Rilke, and Arendt. He can be reached at jchampli@bard.edu.

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Jennifer M. Hudson

Associate Fellow
Jennifer M. Hudson holds a PhD in political science (political theory) from Columbia University. Her dissertation, “Bureaucratic Mentality: The Technocratization of Democratic Theory” addresses affinities and tensions between bureaucracy and democracy. She critically engages with a current trend within democratic theory that aims to reconcile these two logics. In her postdoctoral research, she will focus on the future of democratic legitimacy beyond the nation state, especially within Europe, with the goal of elaborating a post-national theory of democracy in opposition to technocratic governance projects. Hudson has taught at Columbia College, Barnard College, Long Island University, the Columbia Summer High School Program, and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She will be teaching in the BPI Program.

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Angela Maione

Associate Fellow
Angela Maione holds a Ph.D. in Political Science/Political Theory from Northwestern University. Her research draws on resources from the history of political thought in order to answer, unsettle and deepen debates in democratic theory. She explores questions raised by liberalism, human rights, and language politics. 

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Charles Snyder

Associate Fellow
Charles Snyder studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research (PhD, 2014). His current writing addresses the relation between philosophy and political life in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with particular interest in the philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period.

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Alexander Soros

Associate Fellow
Alexander Soros is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports human rights, social justice, and educational causes. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2015–2016 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Geir Aaserud

Visiting Scholar
Ph.D. student from Bergen University College. Aaserud's has many years experience from teaching kindergarten. He has a Master Degree in Early childhood education and studies the relationship between different terms of kindergarten teachers’ culture formation. His research project seeks to answer the following research question: How could kindergarten teachers’ cultural formation processes and conditions be described and understood?

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Ulrich v. Bülow

Visiting Scholar
Dr. Ulrich von Bülow is head of the archival department at the German Literary Archive in Marbach/Germany, one of the most significant literary archives in Europe. Important papers of Hannah Arendt’s estate are located in the Marbach archive. Among them are, “Thinking Notebooks,” which Dr. Bülow will be editing for an upcoming Critical Edition of Hannah Arendt Complete Works.  During his stay at Bard College, he’ll be conducting research in the special collection of Hannah Arendt’s personal library, located in Stevenson Library. 

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Irene Haslund

Visiting Scholar
Irene Haslund is a PhD candidate in educational philosophy at NTNU, Norway. In her masters program, she wrote about Heidegger 's view on self-awareness and understanding of time. For the past four years she has been working at the Teacher Education at Sør-Trøndelag University College. At the Department of Education, NTNU, she teaches Philosophy of Education, Practical Knowledge and Liberal Education. 

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Kei Hiruta

Visiting Scholar
Kei Hiruta is Research Fellow in philosophy at the University of Oxford, and non-residential Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York City. Trained in both analytic and continental traditions of political philosophy, he received his D.Phil. from Oxford and has held visiting research positions at Columbia University and the University of Tokyo. He served as the Chair of the Hannah Arendt Circle in 2014–15 and is one of the founding Associate Editors of Arendt Studies and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Practical Ethics. He is currently completing a monograph entitled Berlin’s Bête Noire: Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin on Freedom, Politics and Humanity, and working on an edited volume on Arendt for Palgrave Macmillan’s ‘Philosophers in Depth’ series.

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Rosanil Nava Lara

Visiting Scholar
Rosanil Nava Lara is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Sciences of King Juan Carlos University, at Madrid, Spain. Her dissertation, “The Concept of the Other in Hannah Arendt," main purpose is to understand the alterity or otherness from an Arendtian perspective. That is, the way social identities are constructed by a dichotomy of gender, class, ethnicity, nationality, religion, political ideology, etc. that could be summarize in an “Us vs Them dynamic” which is the breeding ground of the dehumanization process that allows the violation of human rights.

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Shmuel Lederman

Visiting Scholar
Shmuel Lederman holds a Ph.D from the University of Haifa in Israel. His research interests include Hannah Arendt's political thought; democratic theory; genocide; and the Israeli-Arab conflict.

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Jana Lozanoska

Visiting Scholar
Currently a PhD student at the University for Peace, San Jose Costa Rica. Her doctoral research focuses on the work Hannah Arendt and her “politics on human dignity” in relation to human rights. The research pursues interdisciplinary approach in giving new perspectives in overall human dignity and human rights related discourse. 

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John Douglas Macready

Visiting Scholar
John Douglas Macready is a Ph.D. candidate and adjunct instructor in philosophy at the University of Dallas where he is writing his dissertation on the problem and meaning of human dignity in Hannah Arendt's political philosophy. 

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N.A.J. Taylor

Visiting Scholar
N.A.J. Taylor has taught at La Trobe University and the University of Queensland, and has held or will hold honorary or visiting appointments at Linkoping University, Roskilde University, Bard College, La Trobe University and The New School, where he was an Australia Awards fellow. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2014–2015 Senior Fellows

Wilmot James

Senior Fellow
Wilmot James is a noted South African academic-turned-politician who currently is an MP for the Democratic Alliance (DA). He serves as the country’s Shadow Minister of Basic Education and is the Federal Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance. James is an Honorary Professor of Sociology (University of Pretoria) and in the Division of Human Genetics (University of Cape Town). He is chairperson of the board of the Africa Genome Education Institute. James has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (1982) and a B.A. cum laude from the University of the Western Cape (1977). He has held visiting positions at Yale University, Indiana University, American Bar Foundation (Chicago), the California Institute of Technology, and Edinburgh University. And he has served as chairperson of the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra and the Immigration Advisory Board of South Africa. He is also a former trustee of the New York–based Ford Foundation. 

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Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2014–2015 Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow

Angela Maione

Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellow
Angela Maione holds a Ph.D. in Political Science/Political Theory from Northwestern University. Her research draws on resources from the history of political thought in order to answer, unsettle and deepen debates in democratic theory. She explores questions raised by liberalism, human rights, and language politics. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2014–2015 Postdoctoral Fellow

Charles Snyder

Postdoctoral Fellow
Charles Snyder studied philosophy at the New School for Social Research (PhD, 2014). His current writing addresses the relation between philosophy and political life in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, with particular interest in the philosophical schools of the Hellenistic period.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2014–2015 Associate Fellows

Aliza Becker

Associate Fellow
Aliza Becker is the Director of the American Jewish Peace Archive and Meanings of October 27th, oral history projects affiliated with the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College. The American Jewish Peace Archive is an oral history archive of interviews with American Jewish peace activists who had been involved in Jewishly identified organizations from 1967 through 2017. The Meanings of October 27th documents the life histories and reflections on the 2018 deadly synagogue shooting of diverse Jewish and non-Jewish Pittsburghers. Becker has degrees in History and Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Jeffery Champlin

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Champlin received his BA from Middlebury College and Ph. D. from New York University. His teaching and research focuses on connections between literature, philosophy, and political theory. Recent publications examine questions of power and aesthetics in Kleist, Goethe, Hegel, Rilke, and Arendt. He can be reached at jchampli@bard.edu.

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Jennifer M. Hudson

Associate Fellow
Jennifer M. Hudson holds a PhD in political science (political theory) from Columbia University. Her dissertation, “Bureaucratic Mentality: The Technocratization of Democratic Theory” addresses affinities and tensions between bureaucracy and democracy. She critically engages with a current trend within democratic theory that aims to reconcile these two logics. In her postdoctoral research, she will focus on the future of democratic legitimacy beyond the nation state, especially within Europe, with the goal of elaborating a post-national theory of democracy in opposition to technocratic governance projects. Hudson has taught at Columbia College, Barnard College, Long Island University, the Columbia Summer High School Program, and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She will be teaching in the BPI Program.

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Alexander Soros

Associate Fellow
Alexander Soros is a doctoral candidate in the history department of the University of California at Berkeley. In 2012, he established the Alexander Soros Foundation, which supports human rights, social justice, and educational causes. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2014–2015 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen

Visiting Scholar
Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen is a PhD candidate in Politics at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He received his Master of Social Sciences from the University of Tampere, Finland (2012). From 2012-2014, he worked as a visiting researcher at Tampere Peace Research Institute. His current research focuses on the worldly and temporal aspects of Arendt's thought as well as its relevance in the contemporary context-both political and theoretical.

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N.A.J. Taylor

Visiting Scholar
N.A.J. Taylor has taught at La Trobe University and the University of Queensland, and has held or will hold honorary or visiting appointments at Linkoping University, Roskilde University, Bard College, La Trobe University and The New School, where he was an Australia Awards fellow. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2013–2014 Senior Fellows

Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Robert Woodruff

Senior Fellow
Robert Woodruff is one of the leading theater directors in the United States. He has directed over 60 productions across the U.S. at theatres including Lincoln Center Theater, Public Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, American Conservatory Theater, Guthrie Theater and Mark Taper Forum, among others. He will be a Senior Fellow at the Center for the fall 2013 semester, teaching a course entitled "Performing Arendt."

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Hannah Arendt Center 2013–2014 Research Associate Fellow

Thomas Wild

Research Associate
Thomas Wild  a premiere Hannah Arendt scholar, is an Assistant Professor of German at Bard College. Dr. Wild studied German literature and culture as well as political science in Berlin, and Munich, where he received his Ph.D. He has taught at institutions of higher learning in Germany, at Vanderbilt University, and at Oberlin College. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2013–2014 Postdoctoral Fellows

Michiel Bot

Postdoctoral Fellow
Michiel Bot studied Law, Philosophy, and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam, and completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at New York University.

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Wout Cornelissen

Postdoctoral Fellow
Wout Cornelissen studied Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, after which he earned his PhD in Political Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy of Leiden University, the Netherlands. He spent the fall term of 2007 as a Visiting Scholar at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. From 2009 onwards, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Law at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the past few years, he taught, developed, and coordinated many different courses in the fields of Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law. In his dissertation, titled “Politics between Philosophy and Polemics”, he develops an account of the conditions for political thinking and thoughtful politics through a comparative reading of the work of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt. His research interests lie at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and literature. He is specifically interested in the relationship between philosophy and politics and between thinking and writing, as well as in the reception of ancient philosophy (especially Plato) in twentieth-century political thought. In June 2012, he participated in the conference on Arendt’s Denktagebuch organized by the Hannah Arendt Center. As a fellow of the Center, he plans to expand and deepen his research on Arendt’s political thinking by focusing especially on her last work, The Life of the Mind. He will be teaching in the Common Course program at Bard.
 

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Jennifer M. Hudson

Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennifer M. Hudson holds a PhD in political science (political theory) from Columbia University. Her dissertation, “Bureaucratic Mentality: The Technocratization of Democratic Theory” addresses affinities and tensions between bureaucracy and democracy. She critically engages with a current trend within democratic theory that aims to reconcile these two logics. In her postdoctoral research, she will focus on the future of democratic legitimacy beyond the nation state, especially within Europe, with the goal of elaborating a post-national theory of democracy in opposition to technocratic governance projects. Hudson has taught at Columbia College, Barnard College, Long Island University, the Columbia Summer High School Program, and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She will be teaching in the BPI Program.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2013–2014 Associate Fellows

Jeffery Champlin

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Champlin received his BA from Middlebury College and Ph. D. from New York University. His teaching and research focuses on connections between literature, philosophy, and political theory. Recent publications examine questions of power and aesthetics in Kleist, Goethe, Hegel, Rilke, and Arendt. He can be reached at jchampli@bard.edu.

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2013–2014 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Melanie Challenger

Visiting Scholar
Melanie Challenger is a writer of poetry and non-fiction prose from the UK. Her first collection of poems, “Galatea”, received the Society of Authors’ Eric Gregory Award and nomination for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. She was a Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Evolution of Cultural Diversity at University College London until 2009 and Arts Council International Fellow for the British Antarctic Survey from 2007-8, for which she researched and wrote her non-fiction book, “On Extinction”, a meditation on the loss of biological and cultural diversity, which was chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the best nonfiction books of 2012. Her research received a British Council Darwin Now Award. Previously, she co-authored “Stolen Voices” with Bosnian writer Zlata Filipovic, an epistolary history of twentieth-century conflict. Her current writing projects will explore questions of morality in a post-Darwinian world. 

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Carlos A. Garduño Comparán

Visiting Scholar
Carlos A. Garduño Comparán is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT), currently working on a project about different philosophical concepts of representation, from Hume and Kant, to Benjamin, Ricœur, Arendt, Foucault and Psychoanalysis. He received his Bachelor of Philosophy at the Iberoamerican University of Mexico City (UIA), graduating in 2004. He received his Master in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), graduating in 2009; and his Ph. D. in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), graduating in 2011. He has taught Philosophy of Communication, Ethics and Theory of Knowledge at Iberoamerican University, Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at Monterrey Institute of Technology and Sociopolitical Ideas and Institutions at Mexico Autonomous Institute of Technology. During the academic year 2012-2013, he visited the School of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) of Paris as a postdoctoral researcher.

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Cristiana Grigore

Visiting Scholar
Cristiana Grigore will be a visiting scholar at the Hannah Arendt Center in 2013. She is s a Fulbright scholar from Romania who recently finished her Masters in International Education Policies and Management at Vanderbilt University. During her Masters she used a multidisciplinary approach that included Business and Film Studies. Her thesis was about low status groups (such as minority ethnic groups, women, gay people and others) and what kind of contribution they can make to the globalized society of the 21st century. She herself belongs to such a group - the largest ethnic minority in Europe - the Roma people, commonly called Gypsies. She frequently writes or speaks about modern Roma. Her experiences has been featured in International Herald Tribune’s, CNN and Voice of America. Her latest article, “The Gypsy in Me” was published in the International Herald Tribune Global Agenda Magazine. Cristiana’s current work is exploring issues of modernity, the politics of identity, and the dynamics between low status groups and mainstream society. 

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Marc Holzenbecher

Visiting Scholar
Marc Holzenbecher is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Freie Universität Berlin and Fulbright visiting scholar at the Hannah Arendt Center in 2014. His research focuses the role of literature, particularly poetry, in Arendt’s political thought and examines the significance and function of the poetic element in regards to Arendt’s theory of political action. Marc Holzenbecher studied at Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and graduated in Political Science and Philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. He is co-founder and publisher of the biannual journal S T I L L, Magazine for New Literature & Photography. It features the work of established as well as up-and-coming authors and artists particularly from Germany and North America and promotes transatlantic exchange through readings and translation projects.  

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Stefania Maffeis

Visiting Scholar
Stefania Maffeis is a postdoctoral researcher currently working on the habilitation project "The Transnational Circulation of Knowledge in the Work and Reception of Hannah Arendt. USA/Germany 1951-2006" at the Department of Philosophy of the Freien Universitaet Berlin. In Parma, Italy, Stefania Maffeis studied Philosophy and the Humanities, graduating with a work on the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the social hermeneutics of Pierre Bourdieu. She moved to Berlin 2001 where she achieved a PhD in philosophy with a study on the history and the social conditions of philosophy in the former GDR, focusing the reception of Friedrich Nietzsche ("Zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik. Transformationen der DDR-Philosophie 1945-1993", Frankfurt a.M./New York: Campus, 2007). 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2012–2013 Senior Fellow

Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2012–2013 Research Associate Fellow

Thomas Wild

Research Associate
Thomas Wild  a premiere Hannah Arendt scholar, is an Assistant Professor of German at Bard College. Dr. Wild studied German literature and culture as well as political science in Berlin, and Munich, where he received his Ph.D. He has taught at institutions of higher learning in Germany, at Vanderbilt University, and at Oberlin College. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2012–2013 Postdoctoral Fellow

Grace Hunt

Postdoctoral Fellow
Grace Hunt completed her Ph.D in Philosophy from the New School of Social Research in New York in 2012. Her work focuses on Feminist Theory, 20th Century Continental Thought, Social and Political Philosophy. Her dissertation, "Affirmative Reactions: A Theory of Embodied Dignity" examines how the negative and reactive emotions so prevalent in testimonies of survivors can contribute to state-authorized reconciliation in a way that is morally empowering and politically productive for those survivors. Hunt is the author of an article entitled "Re-Enacting Dignity" published in the April, 2011 edition of Women in Philosophy Annual Journal of Papers. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2012–2013 Associate Fellows

Jeffery Champlin

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Champlin received his BA from Middlebury College and Ph. D. from New York University. His teaching and research focuses on connections between literature, philosophy, and political theory. Recent publications examine questions of power and aesthetics in Kleist, Goethe, Hegel, Rilke, and Arendt. He can be reached at jchampli@bard.edu.

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Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Ian Storey

Associate Fellow
Ian Storey is co-editor with Roger Berkowitz of Archives of Thinking, and author of the forthcoming Hungers on Sugar Hill: Hannah Arendt, the New York Poets, and the Remaking of Metropolis, which examines postwar changes in the urban politics of race, class, and representation through the lens of Arendt’s first experiences of the United States.  He also produces contemporary adaptations of German theater, including Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Antigone des Sophokles, and St. Joan of the Stockyards.  Having received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, Storey’s work centers on urban politics, the politics of aesthetics, and democratic theory.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2012–2013 Junior Fellow

John LeJeune

Junior Fellow
John LeJeune will complete his Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California-San Diego in 2012. His work focuses on Political Theory and Comparative Politics. His dissertation, "Rise and Fall of the Councils: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Revolution" looks at Arendt's ideas of the political in both a normative and a sociological perspective and applies those ideas to the concept of modern day revolution. LeJeune has two entries in the forthcoming 2012 Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Political Thought, and is the co-author of a 2009 article entitled, “Social Dynamics of Abandonment of Harmful Practices: A new look at the theory.”

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Hannah Arendt Center 2012–2013 Visiting Scholar Fellow

Cristiana Grigore

Visiting Scholar
Cristiana Grigore will be a visiting scholar at the Hannah Arendt Center in 2013. She is s a Fulbright scholar from Romania who recently finished her Masters in International Education Policies and Management at Vanderbilt University. During her Masters she used a multidisciplinary approach that included Business and Film Studies. Her thesis was about low status groups (such as minority ethnic groups, women, gay people and others) and what kind of contribution they can make to the globalized society of the 21st century. She herself belongs to such a group - the largest ethnic minority in Europe - the Roma people, commonly called Gypsies. She frequently writes or speaks about modern Roma. Her experiences has been featured in International Herald Tribune’s, CNN and Voice of America. Her latest article, “The Gypsy in Me” was published in the International Herald Tribune Global Agenda Magazine. Cristiana’s current work is exploring issues of modernity, the politics of identity, and the dynamics between low status groups and mainstream society. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2011–2012 Senior Fellow

Wyatt Mason

Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine. His work also appears in The New York Review of Books, GQ, The London Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud, Rimbaud Complete and I Promise to be Good. A 2003-2004 fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, he received the 2005 Nona Balakian Citation from the National Book Critics Circle and, in 2006, a National Magazine Award. He has served as a consulting editor at large for the Margellos World Republic of Letters of Yale University Press, an imprint devoted to world literature in translation, and has taught non-fiction writing in the MFA program of Bennington College. He was named a Senior Fellow of the Hannah Arendt Center in 2010. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2011–2012 Postdoctoral Fellows

Jeffery Champlin

Postdoctoral Fellow
Jeffrey Champlin received his BA from Middlebury College and Ph. D. from New York University. His teaching and research focuses on connections between literature, philosophy, and political theory. Recent publications examine questions of power and aesthetics in Kleist, Goethe, Hegel, Rilke, and Arendt. He can be reached at jchampli@bard.edu.

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Jennie Han

Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennie Han expects to complete her PhD. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago in July, 2011. Her dissertation—“The Phenomenology of Responsibility”—turns to Hannah Arendt to develop a language for individual moral responsibility in modern bureaucratic institutions. Jennie Han is a graduate of Yale University, Yale Law School, and Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She will be teaching in the Bard Prison Initiative.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2011–2012 Associate Fellow

Jeffery Jurgens

Associate Fellow
Jeffrey Jurgens received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Fellow for Anthropology and Social Theory at the Bard Prison Initiative as well as Academic Co-Director of the Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison. His scholarly interests revolve around themes of migration, citizenship, youth culture, public memory, and the cultural politics of incarceration. 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2011–2012 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Kieran Bonner

Visiting Scholar
Kieran Bonner is Professor of Sociology, Chair of Sociology and Legal Studies and Director of the Human Sciences minor at St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo, and Associate Chair Graduate Studies, Sociology at the University of Waterloo. He was a co-investigator on the Culture of Cities: Montreal Toronto Berlin Dublin SSHRC project and Chair of its Executive Committee from 2000 - 2005. He is currently a co-investigator on the interdisciplinary research project, City Life and Well-Being: the Grey Zone of Health and Illness, funded by the Canadian Institute of Health Research, 2006 – 2011. 

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Solvieg Botnen Eide

Visiting Scholar
Solveig Botnen Eide is a postdoctoral fellow in ethics at the University of Agder, Norway. Her education is in social work and theology, with a doctorate in ethics. As well as teaching and research, she is interested in ethics with special regards to professional ethics and ethical challenges in the welfare sectors. She is working with a phenomenological approach to moral philosophy, with a new and increased interest for the work of Hannah Arendt.

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Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

Visiting Scholar
Jacob Dahl Rendtorff (born 1965) is Associate Professor of Business Ethics at Roskilde University, Denmark. Rendtorff is Head of Studies and Head of Research for the research group on business, leadership and change of his department. Rendtorff has a background in ethics, business ethics, bioethics, political theory and philosophy of law. Rendtorff has written seven books on issues concerning existentialism and hermeneutics, French philosophy, ethics, bioethics and business ethics, philosophy of law and business, and he has been co-author and editor on more than ten other books.

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Laura Ephraim

Visiting Scholar
Laura Ephraim recently finished her PhD in Political Science at Northwestern University. Her research scrutinizes several iconic texts from the origins of modern science in order to reopen a question that Hannah Arendt posed in The Human Condition, among other works: namely, what is the role of science in a democratic society? While at the Arendt Center, Laura will begin work on a book manuscript to extend the themes of her dissertation and will teach in the Language & Thinking Program and the First Year Seminar.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2011–2012 In-Residence Visiting Scholar Fellow

Victor Granado Almena

In-Residence Visiting Scholar
Victor Granado Almena (born 1983) expects to complete his Ph.D in Political and contemporary Philosophy at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where he is teaching as Pre-doctoral Fellow. His dissertation, called Out of place: a philosophical reflection about displacement and the displaced people in the global age, turns to Hannah Arendt to develop a new perspective in order to understand better the notion of citizenship in a global age. He is the recipient of a research grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education. With the help of that grant he will  study in a few places other than the Arendt Center during his research: the first, at the Freie Universität Berlin under the direction of Dr. Wolfgang Heuer in 2009, and the second, at the Univertité Paris 7 – Denis Diderot under the direction of Dr. Etienne Tassin in 2010.
 

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Hannah Arendt Center 2010–2011 Visiting Scholar Fellows

Charles (Bill) Dixon

Visiting Scholar
Charles (Bill) Dixon is a political theorist and a PhD. candidate in Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. Dixon’s research interests include ancient and modern theories of democracy, political judgment and action, political economy, and ontological problems in social science. He is currently working on a project on the politics of capitalist globalization and global warming.

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Ursula Ludz

Visiting Scholar
Ursula Ludz is editor of Letters: 1925-1975 by Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger and Arendt’s Denktagebuch among other publications. She will be in residence at the Center in the Fall, 2010.

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Hannah Arendt Center 2009–2010 Visiting Scholar Fellow

Huroshi Murai

Visiting Scholar
Hiroshi Murai is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Shimane in Hamada, Japan. His specialization is political philosophy and the work of Hannah Arendt. He has published numerous books, most recently: Nishi Amane and Modernity in Japan (Pelican-sha 2005).

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Hannah Arendt Center 2009–2010 In-Residence Visiting Scholar Fellows

Eveline Cioflec

In-Residence Visiting Scholar
Eveline Cioflec recently completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Freiburg in Germany (“The Concept Zwischen (In-Between)”). She is currently teaching at the New Europe College Institute of Advanced Studies, Bucharest. She will visit the Arendt Center as a Fulbright scholar. She will be in residence at the Arendt Center during the academic year 2009-2010.

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Hans Teerds

In-Residence Visiting Scholar
Hans Teerds is an architect, urban designer, and writer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  He is editor of the peer-reviewed bilingual Dutch/English architectural journal OASE.    He is also a research fellow of the department of ‘Public Building’ of the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. And he is editor (with Tom Avermaete and Klaske Havik) of Architectural Positions: Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere, Amsterdam 2009, SUN Publishers.

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Silvia Zappulla

In-Residence Visiting Scholar
Silvia Zappulla is a doctoral student from the classics department at the University of Siena. She will be working on her doctoral dissertation on the relationship between greek tragedy and the development of the political thought of Hannah Arendt. She will be in residence at the Center in Fall, 2009.

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