Willa Wang

Willa Wang - GLL at Ohio State

Willa Wang

Master's Student / GTA
she/her

wang.19946@buckeyemail.osu.edu

Hagerty Hall, 4th floor

Education

2021-2025
Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Bates College, Lewiston ME

Majors: 
Philosophy, History(honors), German

Theses:
Inventing Eichmann: Contextualizing Hannah Arendt’s Gedankenlosigkeit
Jujubes on the Margin: Trauma, Community, and Memories of a Village in Central Shanxi  

Research Interests

Holocaust and post-Holocaust memories
Witchcraft in post-war west Germany
“Modernity” around the world
Turkish German studies


Experiences

Spring 2024: IES Abroad Berlin: Language & Area Studies (with Courseworks at HU Berlin) Berlin, Germany
Summer 2022: German Immersion Program, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT


Recent Awards

Bates College: College Key, Gilbert Townsend Language Fellowship
Ernest P. Muller Prize in History
John R. Cole Prize for Outstanding Achievement in History
Albion Morse Stevens Award in Foreign Language