Gili Kliger
I am a Lecturer in the Department of History at Stanford and a historian of modern Europe, with a focus on the history of European empires in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I received my Ph.D. in History from Harvard in May of 2022 and was previously a College Fellow at Harvard. I am also a recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Institute for Citizens & Scholars (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), the Bowdoin Prize for Graduate Essay in the English Language, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowship, and the Barrington Moore Prize for Excellence in Advising for my work teaching and advising undergraduates.
Publications
"Fetish, translation, and method in intellectual history," History of European Ideas, 2023.
"Translating God on the Borders of Sovereignty," American Historical Review, 2022 127(3): 1102-1130.
- Walter D. Love Prize for best article in the field of British history, North American Conference on British Studies
- Dorothy Ross Prize for best article in U.S. intellectual history, Society for U.S. Intellectual History
- Arrington-Prucha Prize for best essay on the religious history of the West, Western History Association
- Bowdoin Prize for best graduate essay in the English language, Harvard University
- Nineteenth Century Studies Association Article Prize, Honorable Mention
"Humanism and the Ends of Empire, 1945-1960," Modern Intellectual History, 2018 15(3): 773-800.
"The Infinite Task: Being-in-Common in Robert Antelme's L'Espèce humaine," Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2015 51 (1): 27-39.
Art and Emancipation: Habermas' Die Moderne—ein unvollendetes Projekt Reconsidered," New German Critique, 2015 42 (1 124): 203-221.
"Keeping the Score," essay on Marcel Mauss, Aeon, November 10, 2022.
"Desire Can Pierce Politics," Interview with Amia Srinivasan on The Right to Sex, Public Books, September 22, 2021.
"The Pain Just Stays in Your Head," Review of Laurence Ralph's Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, Boston Review, June 9, 2020.
"The Critical Bite of Cultural Relativism," Review of Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, Boston Review, October 10, 2019.
"A Hidden Order of Reality," Review of Emmanuelle Loyer's Lévi-Strauss: A Biography, Boston Review, April 17, 2019.
Contact
I can be reached at gkliger@stanford.edu.