Visiting Speakers

Andrew Jewett

Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies
Harvard University

Andrew Jewett works at the intersection of political and intellectual history, with a particular focus on American debates about the cultural and intellectual conditions for democratic governance.

Jonathon Kahn

Associate Professor and Chair of Religion
Vassar College

Jonathon S. Kahn (A.B. Princeton University; Ph.D., Columbia University 2003) is Associate Professor of Religion and teaches in the areas of religion and modern philosophy (with special interest in American pragmatism and religious naturalism, and the emergence of secularism); theories of religion and nationalism; and race, religion and democratic theory. His research has focused on illumining the place of religious moods and virtues in the writings of W. E. B. Du Bois.

John Kelly

Professor
University of Chicago

John Kelly (Ph.D., University of Chicago 1988) is a Professor of Anthropology, does research in Fiji and in India, on topics including ritual in history, knowledge and power, semiotic and military technologies, colonialism and capitalism, decolonization and diasporas.

Osamah Khalil

Assistant Professor, History
Syracuse University

Osamah Khalil is Assistant Professor of History of the U.S. in the World at Syracuse University. He is also a co-founder and former co-director of Al-Shabaka the Palestinian Policy Network.

Hagar Kotef

Assistant Professor, Gender Studies
Bar Ilan University

Hagar Kotef is Assistant Professor, Gender Studies at  Bar Ilan University and an affiliate of the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. She works on political theory, specializing in feminist theory, early liberal philosophy, women’s activism and contemporary continental philosophy.

Robert Koulish

Joel J. Feller Research Professor of Government and Politics
University of Maryland

Robert Koulish is a political scientist at the University of Maryland, where he serves as Director of MLAW Programs, the University's undergraduate law and society programming in collaboration with the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He is also Joel J. Feller Research Professor of Government and Politics. His current research is about risk and immigration detention.

Greta Krippner

Associate Professor
University of Michigan

Greta Krippner is a historical sociologist with substantive research interests in the areas of economic sociology and political sociology.

Bruce Kuklick

Professor
University of Pennsylvania

Bruce Kuklick is Professor of History. His historical interests are broadly in the political, diplomatic, and intellectual history of the United States; and in the philosophy of history.