Klemens von Klemperer Post Doctoral Fellowship
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The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College announces one post-doctoral fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year. The fellowship runs from Aug. 1st, 2024 through May 30th, 2025 and includes a salary range of $45,000-$50,000, dependent on experience and qualifications.The fellowship is for one year; renewable for a second year.
The fellow should have a Ph.D. in political theory, philosophy, or a related field in the humanities, and their work should intersect meaningfully with Hannah Arendt’s thinking. The Arendt Center, the fellow will pursue their independent research at the Center, which includes Hannah Arendt’s personal library. The fellow will have access to Arendt’s Digital Archive through a relationship with the Arendt Center in New York City. The fellow will participate in seminars, conferences, and reading groups at the center. They will be responsible for organizing the annual De Gruyter-Arendt Center Lecture in Political Thinking, which takes place every Spring Semester in conjunction with a an academic Spring Conference. The fellow will hold the title of the Klemens von Klemperer Post-Doctoral Fellow and teach one (1) course each semester at Bard College’s Annandale campus.
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Nicholas Dunn
Nicholas Dunn (PhD, McGill University, 2020) is the Klemens von Klemperer Postdoctoral Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, where he will also teach courses in the Departments of Philosophy and Political Studies and for the Bard Prison Initiative. His primary research is on Immanuel Kant, with a focus on metaphysics of mind, ethics, and aesthetics. He also works in contemporary political theory, with an emphasis on Hannah Arendt and issues related to pluralism, democracy, and disagreement. The central theme of his work is the faculty of judgment: its nature as a mental activity and its practical potential. His current work deals with the role of feeling, imagination, and the Other in cultivating one’s judgment. To learn more, visit
http://nicholasdunn.me.
2023–2024
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