2012 - 2013

Cesare Birignani received a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University in 2012, with a dissertation on the planning of early modern Paris. His main research bears on the practices developed by the Paris police to control...

Daniel Loick received his Doctorate from Goethe University in Frankfurt, where he is now a junior faculty member in the Philosophy Department. His main research interests are in the areas of ethics, social and political philosophy (especially modern...

Damien Mahiet received a Ph.D. in Music at Cornell University in 2011 and holds an M.A. in Political Thought from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po Paris). Since 2010, he has been Assistant Professor of Music and Orchestra Director at...

Julia Ng received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University in 2012 with a dissertation on Walter Benjamin's mathematical revision of the formal possibility of Kant's perpetual peace project. Her research, which centers on the...

Alvaro Santana-Acuña is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. His dissertation investigates the making of the cadastre in France between 1763 and 1833. The cadastre, an administrative tool that registers a country’s real estate property to...

Michaela Schäuble is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), where she also received a Ph.D. in 2010. She studied comparative literature and social anthropology at Tübingen University and Yale...

Benjamin Woodring is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Harvard University. His dissertation examines spaces of refuge as they are imagined and represented in Shakespearean England. He investigates what a place of last resort meant to an early modern...