The Fellows 1996/1997

The Islamization of Knowledge Debate: Texts, Biographies, Networks and the Critiques of a Discourse

Ph.D., Professor of Islamic Studies
University of Exeter
Modernity and Text Criticism

Dr. juris., Vice Chancellor ret.
Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Vienna
Central and Eastern Europe - Culture and Change; Education in Europe

Dr. sc. pol., Professor of Sociology
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
The Origin of Disasters

Dr. phil., Professeur de langue et littérature francaises
Université Paris 10 Nanterre
Spectators of Life: the Age of the Moralists

Islamic Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Islam and Political Culture in Morocco. The Reform of the Moroccan Civil Status Law

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
The Encounter between the Surrealists and the Indians of North America

Dr. phil., Associate Professor, Department of History
University of California, Berkeley
Heresy, Mutilation and the Imperial Body of Christ in Late Antiquity

Author
Budapest
Harmonia Coelestis

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr. phil., Professor emeritus of Russian Literature
Université Paris 10 Nanterre
The Origins of Russian Lyric Poetry in the 18th Century: Frederick II, Voltaire, Moses Mendelsohn et al

Ph.D., Professor of Science Studies
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
A History of the Royal Society 1660-1800

Dr. phil., Professor of Dramatic Art
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Gustav Mahler. His Time, Life, and Works

Ph.D., Professor of English
Harvard University
Cultural History of the Passions

Ph.D., Professor of Biological Science
University of California, Irvine
Theoretische Grundlagen der sozialen Evolution

Sex and Evolutionary Conflicts

Dr., Professor of Ancient Greek and Latin Languages
Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Heinrich Schliemann in Russia: The Origin of the Dream of Troy

Conductor
Freiburg/Breisgau
Alban Berg's "Lulu" at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin

Ph.D., Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies and Professor of Modern History
University of California, Los Angeles
Enstrangement and the Rhetoric of the Enlightenment in the Work of Voltaire

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology
Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
The Formation of Islamist Elites; Comparative Perspective in Turkey, Egypt and Iran

Dr. phil., Professor of History
Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Stadtgeschichte und Urbanisierung im Donauraum

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of English
University of California, Berkeley
Renaissance English Drama and the Conjuring of Spirits

Dr. phil.,
University of Basel
Gifts, Constributions, and Corruption in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Dr. phil., Professor of Islamic Studies
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Letters from the Desert. Studies on the History of the Central Sahara 1830-1916

Dr. rer. nat.,
Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
Head Movements and Gaze-Control in Insects

Ph.D., Professor of South Asian History
University of Chicago
Discourses about Ritual and Progress in India and the West

Ph.D., Professor of Theoretical Biology
Kyushu University, Fukuoka
Evolution of Sex and Intragenomic Conflict

Sex and Evolutionary Conflicts

Paris
Arnold Schoenberg in Berlin 1901, 1911, 1926

Ph.D., Vikram Sarabhai Foundation
New Delhi
The First Sexologist: Life and Work of Vatsyayana

Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Exercises in/on Status and Differences, and Anthropology of Indian

Dr. phil., Professor of Anthropology
Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg
Landscape, Ritual, and Esthetic Experience

Dr. phil., Professor of Slavic and Theories of Literature
University of Constance
Fiction and Counterfiction and the Provocation of the Mimetic in the Discourse on the Fantastic

Dr. phil., Professor of Political Science
University of Hamburg
The Political Role of the European Court of Justice

Ph.D., Professor of the History of the Muslim Peoples
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Structural Changes in Sufi Brotherhoods

Dr. rer. nat. habil.,
Max Planck Institute of Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
Information Processing in Visual Systems

Active Vision in Animals and Machines

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science
Comenius University in Bratislava
Konfliktpolitik und der Aufbau von staatlichen Strukturen in der Slowakischen Republik

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

CSIRO, Division of Wildlife and Ecology, Lyneham, Australia

Dr. phil., Professor emeritus of Medieval Latin Philology
Boissy aux Cailles, France
Interaction and Dialogical Literature from the Middle Age to the Early Modern Period

Dr. phil., Professor of Modern History
Fernuniversität Hagen
European Exceptionalism in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Ph.D.,
University of Oxford

Sex and Evolutionairy Conflicts

Ph.D., Professor of History of the Ancient Italian States (1450-1815)
Università di Firenze
The History of Reading and the Book Trade in Western Europe in Comparative Perspective

Dr. phil., Professor of Comparative Cultural Sociology
Euopean University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
Modernization and Secularization in the United States and some European Countries

Ph.D.,
University College London

Sex and Evolutionary Conflicts

Schering-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Affective Dimensions and Cultural Strategies of Japanese Colonial Policy in the 'South Seas', 1930-1940

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
McGill University, Montreal
History of Genetics

Ph.D., D.Sc., Professor
Australian National University, Canberra

Active Vision in Animals and Machines

DaimlerChrysler-Fellow

Dr. phil., Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Is 'Hinduism' an Invention of the West? The Testimony of Hindu Theologians

Dr. phil., Professor of Dramatic Art
Theater der Stadt Heidelberg
A Chronicle of the Berlin Schaubühne

Ph.D., Professor of Politics
Princeton University
Politics and Bureaucracy in Democratic Societies

Ph.D.,
Curtin University of Technology
Entwicklung von robutesten Algorithmen für das maschinelle Sehen auf der Basis des biologischen Sehens

Active Vision in Animals and Machines

Ph.D., Monroe Deutsch Professor of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
Philosophical Foundations of the Virtues of Truth and Truthfulness