Fellowships 2012-2013
The Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College announces two post-doctoral fellowships for the 2012-2013 academic year. The fellows should have a Ph.D. in political theory, philosophy, or a related field in the humanities, and his or her work should intersect meaningfully with Hannah Arendt’s thinking. For more information, click
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Current Fellows
2011-2012
Congratulations to Jennie Han & Jeffrey Champlin the Arendt Center's 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellows!
Hannah Arendt Center 2011-2012 Senior Fellow
Wyatt Mason is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. His writing also appears in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the 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 a National Magazine Award in 2006. He teaches non-fiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars and will be Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College for 2010-2011
Hannah Arendt Center 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Fellows
Jeffrey Champlin completed his Ph.D. from NYU in 2011 in German Languages and Literature. His work focuses on German literature, political theory, and aesthetics. In his dissertation, Jeff draws on the theoretical writings of Arendt and literary texts by Goethe, Schiller, and Kleist to examine questions of violence and political representation. He has a book Manuscript Violence and Representation: Terror in the Making, which is currently under contract with Northwestern University Press and editor of the forthcoming volume Terror and the Roots of Poetics.He will be teaching in the FYSEM program. Email Jeff at jchampli@bard.edu. 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.
Hannah Arendt Center 2011-2012 Associate Fellow
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.
Hannah Arendt Center 2011-2012 Visiting Fellows
Kieran Bonner 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. Solveig Botnen Eide 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. 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.
Hannah Arendt Center 2011-2012 Visiting Scholar in Residence
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.
Past Fellows
2009-2010, 2010-2011
In 2010-2011 Arendt Center Fellows and Visiting Scholars included: Wyatt Mason (Senior Arendt Center Fellow) is a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. His writing also appears in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. Modern Library publishes his translations of the 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 a National Magazine Award in 2006. He teaches non-fiction in the Bennington Writing Seminars and will be Senior Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College for 2010-2011. Charles (Bill) Dixon (Post-Doctoral Fellow) 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. Laura Ephraim (Post-Doctoral Fellow) 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. Ursula Ludz (Visiting Scholar) 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.
In 2009-2010 Arendt Center Fellows and Visiting Scholars included: 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.
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.
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. Hiroshi Murai (Visiting scholar) 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).
