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Applications Now Open for Kluge Fellowships

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Applications are now open for Kluge Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. Twelve Kluge Fellowships are awarded each year through a competitive selection process. Kluge Fellowships are offered for a period of four to eleven months. Since the inception of the Kluge Center, dozens of Kluge Fellows have gone …

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Applications Now Open for New Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Applications are now open for the Library of Congress Fellowship in Congressional Policymaking. Negotiation is vital to public policymaking in the U.S. Congress. In fact, legislative productivity is dependent on effective legislative negotiations, given the complexities of our system of separated branches with a bicameral legislature. In an effort to support scholarship in this area, …

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Ivan Krastev Wins Two Prestigious Prizes

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

The John W. Kluge Center congratulates recent Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations Ivan Krastev on winning the prestigious 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize for his book The Light That Failed: Why the West Is Losing the Fight for Democracy, co-authored with Stephen Holmes. The Gelber Prize is awarded for the year’s best …

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The Assyrians, Between the State and the Opposition

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

Alda Benjamen is a Kluge Fellow, and was most recently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. She studies the Modern Middle East and Iraqi history, focusing on minoritization and pluralism in bilingual communities, as well as identity, memory and cultural heritage, and women and gender issues. Her current project is titled Negotiating …

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Highlighting Kluge Scholars: An Interview With Armando Chávez-Rivera

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

This is another post in our series “Highlighting Kluge Scholars.” Armando Chávez-Rivera is Associate Professor and Director of the Spanish Program at the University of Houston-Victoria, Texas, and a Scholar in Residence at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He earned a master’s degree in Hispanic Lexicography at the Royal Spanish Academy and …

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Can social media save UK politics from Brexit?

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

This is a guest post by Helen Margetts, John W. Kluge Center Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress. Margetts is a Professor of Internet and Society at the University of Oxford, and served as Director of the Oxford Internet Institute from 2011 to 2018. Her most recent book, “Political Turbulence: How …

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From the Director’s Desk

Posted by: John Haskell

I became director here at the Kluge Center about six months ago, and have been impressed by the dedication to mission on the part of everyone on the staff. It is an exciting place to be, especially with new initiatives we are pursuing under the leadership of Dr. Carla Hayden. This post is the first …

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New Arrivals for the New Year

Posted by: Emily Coccia

It’s been a busy start to the year at the Kluge Center, but not even the dreaded bomb cyclone could stop our new fellows! In the past month we’ve welcomed five new scholars into residence. Here are a few of the projects they’ll be working on: Jacob Fairless Nicholson is a newly arrived British Research …

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Ted Widmer Appointed Director of The John W. Kluge Center

Posted by: Jason Steinhauer

Today the Library of Congress announced that Edward L. (Ted) Widmer will be the next director of The John W. Kluge Center. Widmer is a historian, author, and former presidential speechwriter who most recently has served as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs and as a senior fellow and …