2013 - 2014

Mirjam Brusius holds a Masters in Art History from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge. Her main research areas include the history of museums, collecting, and visual...

Claire Edington received a Ph.D. in the History and Ethics of Public Health from Columbia University in 2013. Her dissertation, a social history of psychiatry and mental illness in French Indochina, examines how ideas about what it meant to be abnormal...

Malte Griesse received a Ph.D. from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris in 2008. In his book, Communiquer, juger et agir sous Staline. La personne prise entre ses liens avec les proches et son rapport au système politico...

Daniela Hahn received a Ph.D. from Freie Universität Berlin with a dissertation on movement experiments in art and science around 1900. From 2005 to 2010, she was a Research Associate at the Collaborative Research Center “Performing Cultures” and at the...

Kyrill Kunakhovich received a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University in 2013. His book manuscript examines the development of a distinctive socialist culture in two major cities of the Soviet Bloc: Kraków in Poland and Leipzig in East Germany. In the...

Amit Shilo has a Ph.D. in Classics from NYU (2012), where he worked as a Language Lecturer (2012-13). His research engages the mixtures of politics and theology in ancient Greek tragedy and Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and the modern world. His dissertation...

Stephen Tardif is a Ph.D. Candidate in English at Harvard University. His research centers on the relation between literary form and self-formation in nineteenth-century British literature. Arguing that artistic creation has the performative character of...

Bernardo Zacka is a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Theory in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on questions of moral personality, ethical decision-making, and individual responsibility in bureaucratic organizations...