Hannah Duane
Hannah Duane
Hannah Duane is a senior at Harvard College, where she concentrates in Social Studies and Philosophy and is a fellow of the Safra Center for Ethics. At Harvard, she has helped re-establish the student advisory board for the Arts and Humanities, been a member of the Intellectual Vitality innovative, and worked as a research assistant for the Task Force on Combatting Antisemitism. Her thesis, Love, Loneliness, and Hannah Arendt, explores Arendt’s theory of alienation through three concepts of time.
She grew up in San Francisco, where she attended the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts with a focus in creative writing. She spent the first two years of her undergraduate degree at Deep Springs College, where she studied literature and philosophy, served on the applications committee, and spent two summers as the student cowboy, taking care of the College’s cows, horses, and federal rangeland allotment.