Bio


Courtney Hodrick is a Lecturer in Civic, Global, and Liberal Education (COLLEGE). She received her BA in Humanities, in the Intellectual History track, from Yale University in 2016. In the 2016-2017 academic year, she worked as an English Language Teaching Assistant through Fulbright Austria at the Pädagogoische Hochschule Vorarlberg. She completed her PhD in German Studies at Stanford University in 2023, and during the 2023-2024 academic year held the Eli Reinhard Stanford Alumni Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish Studies at Stanford's Taube Center for Jewish Studies. Courtney works on German-Jewish thought in the mid-20th century. Her dissertation focused on the role that hope plays in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt.

Academic Appointments


  • Lecturer, Stanford Introductory Studies - Civic, Liberal, and Global Education

2024-25 Courses


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