The Fellows 2008/2009

Dr. phil., Journalist, Film Publisher, Islamic Studies
Freiburg/Breisgau
What's Right? Qur'an: The Most Important Answers

Author
Ivano-Frankivsk
A Little Geopoetic Encyclopaedia

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Occupational Science and Cognitive Neuroscience
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Embodied Cognition

Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Ph.D., Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
Yale University
On the Historical Origins and Philosophical Foundation of Cosmopolitan Norms

Dr. iur., Professor of Private Law and Comparative Law
University of Zurich
Family Law and the Immigration Society - Investigations of the Relationship Between Cultural Plurality and Law in Europe - the Example of Islamic Communities

Ph.D., Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Studies
University of Chicago
The Decline and Prospect of Universal History

Ph.D., Associate Professor of German
Indiana University Bloomington
Touch and Taste: Embodied Cognition and the Emergence of Aesthetics

Ph.D., Professor of History
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
The Political Mobilization of German Agriculture in the Modern Era

Gerda Henkel Stiftung-Fellow

Ph.D., Chester D. Tripp Professor of Humanities
University of Chicago
Varieties of Philosophical Skepticism

Dr.,
University of Bucharest
The Image of "Folk" and National Spaces in fin de siècle and Interwar Romania: the "Geopolitization" of Scientific Discourses

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Biology
University of Bielefeld
The Talking Stick Project

Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Investigations into the Cause of Out-of-Phase Dynamics in Simple Coupled Systems

Dr. iur., LL.M. (Cambridge), Professor of Civil Law, German, European and International Corporate Law
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Regulatory Competition in Company Law and Insolvency Law in Europe

Ph.D., Professor of Biology
University of Notre Dame, Indiana
The Origins of New Species Without Geographic Isolation

Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Ph.D. (Oxon.), Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor in Modern Russian History
University of Chicago
Displaced Persons from the East in the British and American Occupation Zones in Germany After the Second World War

D.Phil. (Oxon.), Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art
Columbia University, New York
Art, Empathy and the Brain

Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Ph.D., Professor of Social Psychology
University of Queensland, Brisbane
The Psychology of Self-Deception

Permanent Visiting Professor
Tokyo College of Music
Various Compositions, Including an Oratorio for Dresden's Frauenkirche

Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Why Love Hurts: Passion and the Experience of Modernity

Dr., Professor of Philosophy, Sociology and Philosophy of the Middle Ages
Université Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne
A Monograph on Dante's Philosophy

Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
University of Toronto
Pictures as Tactile and Visual

Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Dr. phil., Professor of Contemporary German Literature
University of Osnabrück
"How to Create Nations With Words": Towards a Critical History of Philological Scholarship in Europe

Fine Arts
Warszawa & Dobrodzien
"One Day - A Whole Life. Irene's Story", working title for a video installation

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Composer
Schwaz, Austria
San Francisco Symphony

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
The Computational Principles of Natural Perception

Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis

Ph.D., Professor of History
Florida International University
Gendered Transmissions: Women, Christianity and Culture in the Early Middle Ages

Ph.D., Professor of Biological Diversity
University College London
Evolution of Biological Diversity

Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Dr. iur., Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law
University of Hamburg
Juridico-Ethical Foundations of Modern Criminal Law: Prerequisites for the Prohibition of Human Behavior - Principles of Justification - Requirements und Limits of Personal Culpability

Dr. phil., Professor of Philosophy
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Levels of Embodiment and the Conscious Self

Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Ph.D., Professor of Zoology und Evolutionary Biology
University of Constance
Speciation and Diversification in the Adaptive Radiations of Cichlid Fishes

Sympatric speciation: theoretical and empirical considerations

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Medical Virology
University of Zurich
1. Viruses: Enemies or Friends, Alive or Dead, and What Can We Learn from Them. 2. Signal Transduction: Models Based on 25 Years of Raf-Kinase Research. 3. Design of Projects in Basic Research

Ph.D., Professor of Psychology
University of Maryland, College Park
Auditory Scene Analysis by Echolocation

Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis

Dr. phil., Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Munich and Berlin
In the Shadow of Classical Statues: The Metamorphosis of European Classicism in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Ph.D., Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Simulation Semantics: a Computational Framework to Study the Link Between Perception, Action, and Cognition

Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Colorado, Boulder
How Common is Speciation in the Face of Gene Flow?

Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cognitive Science
University of California, San Diego
The Biological Nature of Human Abstraction and Conceptual Systems: the Cases of Mathematics and Spatial Construals of Time

Was ist Sprache, Denken und Bewegung gemein? Ein holistischer Ansatz

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Optometry
University of California, Berkeley
Computational Theories of Perception and Scene Analysis

Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis

Dr. phil., Professor of Art History
Uniwersytet Gdanski
National and Regional Identification Problems in the Example of Architecture in 19th-Century Gdansk

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr. phil., Professor of German and European Studies
Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg
The Notion of Europe Among German Intellectuals After 1945

Dr., Professor (emer.) of History
Universidad de Costa Rica, San José
Culture and Power: The Politics of Nation-Building in Latin American History

Dr. Drs. h.c., Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Rector,
New Europe College, Bucharest

Dr. phil., History
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Trading Knowledge: Learned Merchants and Descriptions of the Globe in the 17th-Century Dutch Republic)

Dr. phil., Professor of History
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Trust in Systems, Distrust of Experts: the Economy of Knowledge in the Later Middle Ages)

Ph.D., Associate Professor of English
University of California, Davis
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem)

D.Phil., Lecturer of Chinese Art
University of Edinburgh
Relic, Text, and Image: Presence of the Buddha in the Visual Culture of Medieval East Asia)

Dr., Professor of Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Origins of Language and Meaning@@@

Understanding the Brain - An Attempt to Unify Language Production, Reasoning and Motor Control

Associate Professor of Biology
University of Southern Denmark, Odense
How Do Bats Recognize Prey by Echolocation in Noise and Background Clutter?@

Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis

Dr., Professeur
Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Slavery in Daily Life of Saint-Louis, Senegal: 18th-19th centuries

Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology and Biological Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The Evolution of Deceit and Self-Deception

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Theoretical Evolutionary Biology
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Genetic Conflict@@

Sympatric Speciation: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

Ph.D., Professor of History
Tel Aviv University
1. Walther Rathenau - a Biographical Essay; 2. An Essay on the Historiography of National Socialism

Dr. phil., Professor (emer.) of Philosophy
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Phenomenology of Place and Space