Brandon Bloch is a PhD candidate in Modern European History. Specializing in twentieth-century intellectual history, his research interests encompass political, legal, and religious thought, as well as the role of intellectuals in democratic breakdown and reconstruction. His dissertation examines the contributions of Protestant intellectuals, both theologians and lay political and social theorists, to debates in Nazi and postwar Germany surrounding the sources and foundations of law and individual rights. He is especially interested in the efforts of Protestant church leaders, jurists, and politicians to shape the constitutional structure of the post-1945 West German state in light of the ethical vocabulary and political ideas developed within the religious opposition to Nazism. In 2015-16, Bloch was a fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. Before beginning graduate studies, he served as a research fellow in contemporary Holocaust education at the American Jewish Committee Berlin. He holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an AM from Harvard.

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