Celia is a Ph.D. candidate in Harvard’s Department of Government studying political theory and contemporary American politics. Her research examines the intersections between urban design, institutional change, democracy, and protest. Drawing from critical theory, sociology and urban studies, her dissertation examines how urban spaces shape social paradigms and how participants in these spaces work within and against them to craft political change. Before coming to Harvard, Celia was an English-language educator in France. She received her B.A. in Political Science with Honors from the University of Chicago, where she was an Odyssey Scholar. At Harvard, she worked as a curriculum lead at the Democratic Knowledge Project at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, developing a civics education curriculum for 8th graders. During the 2022-2023 academic year, Celia is a Media and Design Fellow at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.
Contact
celiaeckert@g.harvard.edu
My Website
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Political Thought and its History | Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Civil Society and Social Movements | Democracy | Ethics | Institutions | Modern and Contemporary Political Thought | Political Geography | State & Local Politics
Research Methods
Historical Methods | Normative Political Thought | Qualitative Methods
Geographic Regions of Study
United States