Daniel Bessner
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| Office Location: | Wilson Weight Room |
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| Email Address: | db63@duke.edu |
Education
- BA Columbia University, 2006
Research Interests
I study European History and am particularly interested in examining the international flows of ideas and people, specifically exile intellectuals, from Europe to America in the twentieth century.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Andrew W. Mellon SICAR Seminar Fellowship for Archival Research, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Summer 2009
- Anne Firor Scott Award in Women's Studies, Duke University, Summer 2009
- Shore Fellowship in European Studies, Duke University, Summer 2009
- Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Arabic, Summer 2008
- German Language School Grant, Middlebury College, Summer 2007
Recent Publications
- D. Bessner. "Necessary but Insufficient: A Historical Critique of Abdullahi an-Na'im's Model of the Secular State." International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 4:1 (2010).
- D. Bessner. "Karl Heinzen and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Terror." Terrorism and Political Violence (accepted) (2010).
- D. Bessner, "Book Review: Rachel E. Utley, ed. Major Powers and Peacekeeping: Perspectives, Priorities, and the Challenges of Military Intervention". Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 8:2 (September, 2008): 371-373.