Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Cambridge, MA 02138

Brandon J. Bloch, Page 1

Brandon J. Bloch (781) 690-0374 · [email protected] http://scholar.harvard.edu/bbloch Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Cambridge, MA 02138

EDUCATION

Harvard University Cambridge, MA Ph.D., History Expected May 2018 Dissertation: "Faith for This World: Protestantism and the Reconstruction of Constitutional Democracy in Germany, 1933-1968" Committee: Peter E. Gordon (adviser); Samuel Moyn; Alison Frank Johnson; Charles S. Maier A.M., History May 2014 Examination Fields: Modern European Intellectual History; Germany and Central Europe since 1740; Russia and the Soviet Union since 1861; Early Modern European Intellectual History, 1500-1800 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA B.A., summa cum laude, History May 2011 Thesis: "Carl Schmitt and the Critique of Romanticism: The Making of a Political Thinker" James V. Saporito Memorial Prize for the Best Undergraduate Essay in Intellectual or Cultural History

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Graduate Fellowship 2016-17 Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin 2015-16 Krupp Foundation/Center for European Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship 2015-16 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Grant (declined) 2015-16 German Historical Institute, Archival Summer Seminar 2015 Harvard Department of History Summer Travel and Research Grant 2014 Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Graduate Affiliate 2014-present Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Graduate Associate 2013-present Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Grant for Russian 2013 American Jewish Committee Berlin, Richard W. Sonnenfeldt Fellowship 2011-12 Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship, Berlin 2011-12 Phi Beta Kappa 2010

PUBLICATIONS "The Origins of Adorno's Psycho-Social Dialectic: Psychoanalysis and Neo-Kantianism in the Young Adorno," revise and resubmit.

INVITED TALKS "Beyond Natural Law and Positivism: Protestant Legal Thought and the Renewal of Constitutional Democracy in West Germany, 1945-1968," Colloquium for Contemporary History, Freie Universität Berlin, June 23, 2016 (in German) Brandon J. Bloch, Page 2

"Between Human Law and God's Justice: Protestantism and the Renewal of Constitutional Democracy in Germany, 1933-1968," Institute for Protestant Ecclesiastical Law, Georg-August- Universität Göttingen, June 22, 2016 (in German) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS "'The Limits of Human Jurisdiction': Protestant Theologies of Law, War Crimes Trials, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany, 1945-1950," Symposium on Religion and Ethno-Nationalism in the Era of the World Wars, University of Toronto, May 21-23, 2017 (paper accepted) "Conscientious Objection and the Legacy of the Protestant Church Struggle in Postwar West Germany," German Studies Association Fortieth Annual Conference, San Diego, September 30, 2016 (gave paper and organized panel) "Poverty as an Economic Question: Josiah Child and Dudley North on the English Settlement Act," Economic History of Poverty Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 29, 2012 "Mechanics contra Soul? Carl Schmitt in the 'Mechanistic Age,'" Phi Alpha Theta Pennsylvania East Regional Conference, Villanova University, April 9, 2011

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS "Natural Law and the Ethics of Protestant Opposition in Nazi Germany," Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Seminar, September 22, 2016 and Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, May 10, 2016 "Technocracy and Decisionism in Habermas' Political Thought, 1963-1973," Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History Graduate Workshop, March 5, 2014 "Contesting the Rechtsstaat: Constitutional Rights and Environmental Litigation in West Germany, 1969-1980," Harvard Center for History and Economics Graduate Workshop, February 27, 2014

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Teaching Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA "French Social Thought, Durkheim to Foucault" (Prof. Peter E. Gordon) Spring 2015  Taught three weekly discussion sections and graded essays  Lectured on "The Philosophy of May 1968," April 9, 2015 "History of the Soviet Union, 1917-1991" (Prof. Terry Martin) Fall 2014  Taught two weekly discussion sections and graded essays and exams  Lectured on "The Postwar Intelligentsia," November 13, 2014 Tutor, Signet Education, Cambridge, MA 2012-2015  Tutored students ranging from middle school to post-college in SAT and GRE preparation, mathematics, language arts, and history English Teaching Assistant, Askanisches Gymnasium, Berlin, Germany 2011-2012  Provided in-class assistance and small group tutoring in English language and literature to German students in grades seven through twelve and organized afterschool clubs on American politics and culture

ACADEMIC SERVICE Harvard University, Cambridge, MA  Co-coordinator, Center for European Studies Dissertation Workshop, 2016-2017 Brandon J. Bloch, Page 3

 Graduate student representative to the search committee for the William Lee Frost Chair in Modern Jewish History, Fall 2014  Co-coordinator, Colloquium for Intellectual History Graduate Workshop, 2013-2014 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Historical Association German Studies Association

LANGUAGES German (Advanced); Spanish (Proficient); Russian (Intermediate); French (Reading Knowledge)