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Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Author and journalist Gregg Jones spent four months at the Kluge Center researching the American bombing campaign during World War II in an effort to better understand the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the “Jerk’s Natural” over Austria in October 1943. The Black Mountain Institute-Kluge Fellow for 2015-2016, Jones sat down with Jason Steinhauer to …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Legal historian Mary Dudziak is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University and 2015 Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Kluge Center. A scholar whose work touches upon war history, civil rights history, constitutional law and foreign policy, her research at the Kluge Center has centered on how the American …
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Eliana Hadjisavvas is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Birmingham and a current Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center. She sat down with Jason Steinhauer to discuss her research project, “Jewish Displaced Persons and the Case of the Cypriot Internment Camps: The Role of the United States 1945-1950.” …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
This year the nation commemorated the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. The war was a period of great transformation in America, in Washington, D.C., and in the lives of African Americans. Those changes continued into the second half of the 19th century. Jason Steinhauer sat down with historian Kate Masur, a …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Scholar Thomas Dodman once said, “All wars big and small are catastrophes of one sort or another for those who they affect.” For years scholars at the Kluge Center have reflected on and studied the effects of war on those who fight, the nations who engage in them, and on society as a whole, in …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Dan Turello
Historian Paul Hirsch was a Caroline and Erwin Swann Foundation Fellow for Caricature and Cartoon at The John W. Kluge Center in summer 2015. His research explored the intersection of visual culture, race, policymaking, and diplomacy from World War II through the post-Cold War period. Paul, your work investigates the convergence of comic book publishing …
Posted in: Culture & Society, History, Visual & Performing Arts
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
Earlier this year, Armenoui Kasparian Saraidari spent five months at the Kluge Center researching the photographs and memories of Armenians during the First World War. Currently in the third year of her Ph.D. at University of the Arts London, Saraidari’s project, titled “The Materiality of Photography and the Memory of the Armenian Genocide,” documents the …
Posted in: History
Posted by: Dan Turello
Members of the Library of Congress Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes distinguished scholars, writers, researchers, and scientists. “Insights” is featuring some of the work of this highly-accomplished …
Posted by: Jason Steinhauer
The following is a guest post by Lauren Sinclair, Program Assistant at The John W. Kluge Center. It is the eighth post in a series on past recipients of the Library of Congress Kluge Prize. The first-ever Kluge Prize was awarded to Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski in 2003. In conferring the Prize, Librarian of Congress …
Posted in: History, Philosophy