Ross Jacobs

Bowdoin College

Track 3: Seminar Leader Alan Mittleman

Ross Jacobs (Bowdoin College). Bowdoin Class of 2010, Ross studied political philosophy and German. From 2008-2010, he served as President for Bowdoin's oldest literary society, the Peucinian Society. He recently received high honors for his study focusing on the relation between philosophy and theology in Weimar political thought and on conceptions of human freedom in Baruch Spinoza, Franz Rosenzweig, and Moses Maimonides. In 2009, Jacobs worked in Jerusalem as an intern for Hebraic Political Studies, a journal that aims to evaluate the place of the Jewish textual tradition, along-side the traditions of Greece and Rome, in the history of political thought. At Bowdoin, Ross ran cross-country and steeplechase, worked as a columnist for the Bowdoin Orient, and participated in backpacking trips with the outing club.