Gili Kliger

Gili Kliger

College Fellow in Social Studies
On Leave Fall 2023
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Gili Kliger studies the history of modern Europe from the late eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century, with particular interests in the history of the British empire, the formation of the liberal state, and the ways in which colonial and settler colonial histories have shaped Europe and the modern world. She received her PhD in History from Harvard in May 2022 and is currently completing her first book manuscript, tentatively titled Found in Translation: Empire and the Invention of the Social Sciences. She is also the recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowship, and Harvard’s Bowdoin Prize. 
 

2023-24 Courses
Social Studies 10b: Introduction to Social Studies (Spring)
Social Studies 98vh: Reparations in Law and History (Spring)

Contact Information

William James Hall 332