Aron Brouwer

Aron Brouwer MA is a PhD student focusing on the history and practices of transnational fascism and anti-fascist activism. He received his B.A. and Research M.A. in History from the University of Amsterdam. Aron's research interests include Interwar Europe, East Asian history, economic history, book history and translation studies. At the University of Amsterdam, he published articles and chapters on the Armenian genocide (2014), new approaches in Digital Humanities (2014), Adolf Hitler (2014) and French Intellectual History (2016). His B.A. thesis on the ideological foundations of Hitler's worldview received the National Bachelor Thesis Award as the best historical B.A. thesis in the Netherlands in 2015. Aron co-authored a popular historical biography on William of Orange (2017) and his  M.A. thesis, entitled Translating Hitler. Towards a Global Translation History of Mein Kampf, 1925-1945 (2019), compared all Chinese, Dutch, English, French and Italian translations of Hitler's book and argued that all these texts were ideologically repacked and rhetorically reframed by the decision-makers involved.

At Penn, Aron published on transnational fascism and anti-fascist activism in Interwar France (2019) and a new conceptual framework to understand fascist transnationalism (2022). His dissertation project examines what happens when politically sensitive texts become the subject of translation and the focus of ideological control.

Advisors: Prof. Warren Breckman & Prof. Roger Chartier