Hannah Gais

Hannah is an alum, and she attended Hampshire College from 2007 to 2011. She focused on Eastern Christian theology, European Studies, and philosophy. She is currently the assistant editor at the Foreign Policy Association in New York City, a writer and a freelance communications and new media consultant.

Her academic interests lie in theology, international politics, immigration, policy and theory. She also enjoys photography, lurking on social media, hiking, post-rock, sarcasm and writing.

= Courses =

Fall 2007
CS-0114 1 Introduction to Philosophy HACU-0190 1 Rise of Secular Jewish Culture IA-0201 1 Intermediate Spanish I IA-199T 1 High Spirits: Reading/Writing

January 2008
Introduction to Biblical Hebrew (Williams College; audit)

Spring 2008
HACU-0161 1 The English Bible NS-0167 1 Structure of Randomness OPRA-0113 1 Aikido PHIL-34 A Normative Ethics REL-236 S Eastern Christianity

Fall 2008
GREE-01 A Intro Greek Language HACU-0148 1 Mysteries of Petersburg HACU-0256 1 Ancient Epic I HACU-0277 1 Will, Aristotle, Mediev Philosophy

January 2009
Law and the Politics of Genocide (Williams College; audit)

Spring 2009
COSC-11 A Intro Computer Science GREE-12 A Plato's Apology HACU-0281 1 Theories of Religion REL-215 S Introduction to the Bible II

Fall 2009
GREE-17 A Reading the New Testament HACU-0228 1 Decoding Zen Buddhism REL-301 S Seminar Topics in Philosophy of Religion: Catholic Philosophy RUSS-27 A Fyodor Dostoevsky

Spring 2010
Field Study at Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, UK

AG-130013D Life and Service in the Orthodox Tradition

430035S Texts and Practices in the Early Church (Master's Level course)

In-House Course (Master's Level course)

Fall 2010
ENGL-48 A Dangerous Reading RELIG-236 M Early Christianity Iraq &amp; Iran

Spring 2011
SS-0315 Arendt, Foucault, and Agamben: The Trajectory of the Human Condition (Audit)

= Division III Work =

Hannah's Division III is titled "Heirs According to Promise: The Rise of Nationalism and the Shift of Ecclesial Identity." It focuses on the rise of racialized ecclesiology in the Orthodox Church -- also known as "phyletism" in light of changes to the Ecumenical Patriarch's role in Constantinople -- and the effects of religious nationalism on the Greek community in Greece and abroad. She focuses on the rise of modern Greek nationalism in the 1800s and its connection to a changing perception of religion and society, and demonstrates that modern Greek irredentism and modern Greek Orthodox identity are a product of the centralization of power in the person of the Ecumenical Patriach.