#  Madeline Levy 

 

 



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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 the discourse of "the sacred" in Hitler Youth training materials, asking: how did Nazi leadership mobilize concepts of sacrality in service of shaping young people's understanding of themselves in relation to others and the world around them? This question rests at the nexus of Madeline's research interests: nationalism, political theology, secularization, subject formation, pedagogy, and propaganda.

Madeline holds an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Whitman College, where she wrote her thesis on Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology of freedom, ethics of responsibility, and resistance to the Nazi regime.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Current Role
    
     [Graduate Fellow](/current-role/graduate-fellow)