Weinberg College
of Arts & Sciences

Vivek Bhattacharya

Associate Professor

• PhD Institution: MIT
• Home Department: Economics
• Profile

Vivek Bhattacharya is an industrial organization economist whose research interests lie in auctions, financial regulation, and antitrust. His recent work has studied the design of procurement mechanisms, including onshore oil auctions and R&D contests run by the Department of Defense; the effect of fiduciary duty on the provision of financial advice; the impact of regulation on defined contribution plans; and the stringency of US antitrust enforcement. He was selected to present in the Review of Economic Studies Tour in 2017. He is currently an affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.

Doug Kiel

Associate Professor

• PhD Institution: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Home Department: History
• Profile 

Doug Kiel (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2012) is a citizen of the Oneida Nation and studies Native American history, with particular interests in the Great Lakes region and twentieth century Indigenous nation rebuilding. He is working on a book manuscript entitled Unsettling Territory: Oneida Indian Resurgence and Anti-Sovereignty Backlash. The Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, a community that had been dispossessed of their New York homelands in the early nineteenth century, yet again suffered devastating land losses as a result of the Dawes Act of 1887—a policy that President Theodore Roosevelt once called “a mighty pulverizing engine to break up the tribal mass.” Kiel’s book examines how the Oneida Nation’s leaders strengthened the community’s capacity to shape their own future by envisioning, deliberating, and enacting a dramatic reversal of fortune during the twentieth century. His book also examines the origins of recent litigation between the Oneida Nation and the Village of Hobart, a mostly non-Native municipality that is located within the boundaries of the Oneida Reservation and seeks to block the tribe from recovering land that was lost a century ago. 

Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, he taught at Williams College, Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Middlebury College. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Ford Foundation, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Newberry Library, and the School for Advanced Research (SAR) in Santa Fe, NM, among others.

Beyond the university, Kiel has worked in several museums, testified as an expert witness in regards to Indigenous land rights, and in 2008 was as an Indigenous Fellow at the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva, Switzerland. He currently serves on the advisory committee for the renovation of the Field Museum’s exhibition on Native North America.

His publications are available to download. 

Susannah Gottlieb

Professor

• PhD Institution: University of Chicago
• Home Department: English
• Profile

Susannah Gottlieb (B.A. Yale University, Ph.D. University of Chicago) teaches in the areas of twentieth-century literature and thought. Her interests include modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, continental philosophy and political theory, German-Jewish intellectual history, and Asian American literary traditions. She is the author of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden (Stanford University Press, 2003) and Auden and the Muse of History (Stanford University Press, 2022).  She is also editor of Hannah Arendt: Reflections on Literature and Culture (Stanford University Press, 2007). Some of her other articles and essays include “Two Versions of Voltaire: W. H. Auden and the Dialectic of Enlightenment” (PMLA); "‘Reflection on the Right to Will’: Auden’s ‘Canzone’ and Arendt’s Notes on Willing” (Comparative Literature); “‘Seit jener Zeit’:  Hannah Arendt und ihre Literaturkritik” (TEXT + KRITIK); “‘With Conscious Artifice’: Auden’s Defense of Marriage” (Diacritics); “‘Everyone Is Welcome’: Arendt and the Spirit of Non-pomposity” (GFPJ); “Beyond Tragedy: Arendt, Rogat, and the Judges in Jerusalem” (College Literature); “Reflections on Ruin” (New Formations); “Homing Pidgins: Another Version of Pastoral" (Babel in America, Harvard UP);  “Auden on History” (Auden in Context, Cambridge UP); “The Fallen Empire” (Auden at Work, Palgrave); “Autobiography and Arendt’s Defense of Poetry” (Bloomsbury Companion to Hannah Arendt).  She is the founding Editor of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Series at Northwestern University Press.  Her current book project is entitled Constraining Voices: Arendt, Speech, Silence.

Gottlieb has delivered the Christian Gauss Seminar in Criticism at Princeton University; the Hannah Arendt-Reiner Schürmann Memorial Lecture in Political Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; the Hannah Arendt Lecture at the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University; and the Joff Hanauer Lecture at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Seattle.  Some of her other recent activities include lectures at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at The University of Virginia; the British Academy at The University of Southampton; the Center for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths University of London; the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin; the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale; the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University; the Zentrum für Literature- und Kulturforschung in Berlin; the Center for Theoretical Inquiry at Indiana University; the Department of Germanic Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania; the Humanities Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; and a series of lectures at the Department of Literature and Theory at Beijing Normal University, Beijing.