Klemens von Klemperer Post-Doctoral Fellowship
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College offers the Klemens von Klemperer Post-Doctoral Fellowship, a residential program designed to support outstanding early-career scholars whose work engages meaningfully with the thought of Hannah Arendt and contributes to contemporary debates in political theory, philosophy, and the humanities.
The fellowship provides a year of supported research in residence at the Center. Fellows pursue independent scholarship while participating fully in the Center’s intellectual community, including seminars, conferences, lectures, colloquia, and workshops. They have access to the Center’s research resources, including Arendt’s personal library and the Arendt Digital Archive in New York City.
In addition to research, fellows contribute to academic life at Bard College through teaching. Each fellow teaches at Bard’s Annandale-on-Hudson campus and also teaches in the Bard Prison Initiative, bringing rigorous liberal arts education to students enrolled in Bard degree programs within New York State correctional facilities.
Each year, the postdoctoral fellow also organizes the De Gruyter–Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking, which promotes and fosters the legacy of Arendt’s thought. Presented in partnership with De Gruyter Brill, the lecture is delivered annually by a prominent scholar and forms a central part of the Center’s public programming.
The fellowship reflects the Center’s commitment to fostering serious scholarship, public engagement, and the ongoing relevance of Arendt’s work to questions of politics, freedom, responsibility, and the life of the mind.