Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Damien Mahiet is Director of Academic Programs at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities, where he partners with faculty stakeholders and staff team members to implement the institute’s academic mission and support key objectives. As a Lecturer in Humanities, his research and teaching foreground aesthetics in international relations, with a particular focus on musical ideas and practices in diplomacy. Ongoing projects include discourses and experiences of the Concert of Nations from the 17th century to the present, and the conception of White House state dinners in recent decades. His work has appeared in Eighteenth-Century Music, 19th-Century Music, Dance Research, History of European Ideas, and the Journal of International Political Theory. He coedited L’Institution musicale (Delatour, 2011) and Music and Diplomacy from the Early Modern Era to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). He serves as a review editor of the H-Diplo network. Trained in political thought (M.A. Sciences Po Paris) and music history (Ph.D. Cornell University), he was a fellow at Harvard University’s Mahindra Humanities Center in 2012–13.