Hannah Kunzman is a Ph.D. candidate studying political theory in Harvard’s Government Department. She is interested in the nature of childhood, growing up, and the development of agency. Her dissertation develops an intrinsically world-involving...
Tsiona Lida is a PhD Candidate in History at Harvard University. Through an intellectual history of Zionism, her dissertation investigates the role of emotions in structuring a sense of what belonged to Jews and where Jews belonged in the twentieth...
Justin Hauver is a PhD candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he studies how teachers come to embody unruly love. His project follows the experiences of novice teachers across a year using interviews, photovoice inquiries, and...
Jing Hwan Khoo is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard University. His work explores how various human practices—such as rituals, dwelling, presence, and love—orient us in time and shape our relations to other humans and non-humans. His dissertation...
Madeline Levy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard. She studies the intersections of religion and national narratives of history and identity in modern Europe, particularly in Nazi Germany. Her dissertation focuses on...
Ignacio Orellana Garcia is a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) candidate at Harvard Law School. His research combines legal history and doctrine, political theory, and economic analysis to explore the constitutional foundations of financial systems...
Jan-Paul Sandmann is a Ph.D. candidate in political theory at Harvard's Department of Government. By drawing on the thought of Thomas Mann—and placing his ideas in conversation with alternatives developed by Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Richard Rorty...
Hwei Ru Ong is a PhD candidate in East Asian Languages & Civilizations. He is writing a dissertation on the legal history and political philosophy of the first Chinese empires. Using excavated materials and transmitted texts, this project traces the...
Malcolm Morano is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Harvard University. His dissertation attempts to develop a theory of what the question of "the meaning of life" is a question about, why we ask it, and how answers to it (or the lack thereof) are related...
Abbie LeBlanc is a PhD candidate studying political theory in Harvard's Department of Government. Her dissertation considers the relationship between voyages to the moon, real and imagined, and the history of political thought. Such voyages probe the...