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I first read Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism as a master’s student in 2001 as part of an independent study in Holocaust literature. This book, like no other, altered the course of my professional life journey. In the summer of 2008, I was awarded a stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to attend a six-week seminar for schoolteachers on “The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt: The Problem of Evil and the Origins of Totalitarianism.” It was during and because of this seminar that I made the decision to go back to school to earn my doctorate. During and after my doctoral studies, the political theory of Hannah Arendt has been central to my thinking, teaching, research, and publications. Arendt’s theory of totalitarianism is of great prescience today as it will undoubtedly be well into the future.