The Fellows 2026/2027

PhD, Scientia Professor of History
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Lands Before Time: Atlantis, Lemuria, Gondwanaland

Harvard University
Tourism as a Commodity Frontier: A Global History

Professor für Staats-, Verwaltungs- und Europarecht
University of Zurich
Verfassungen unter zivilgesellschaftlichem Anpassungsdruck – Eine Untersuchung zum Wandel des Verfassungsverständnisses und zur Rolle der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit

Ph.D., Thomas Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
The Future of Food Is Urban

Dr. jur., Professor of Law and University Professor
University of Toronto
International Law in Precarious Times

Universidad de Buenos Aires
Things that Happened in the Meantime. Argentine History from a Microhistorical Perspective (1966–1983)

The Politics of Secrecy and Revelation: Foundlings, Intergenerational Alliances, and the Invention of Identity in the Early Modern Colonial World

Pandemic, Protest, and Political Stability in China

A Cultural History of Parks and Gardens in Ukraine (Late Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)

Basic and Applied Knowledge for Understanding Complex Biological Systems: Social Bees as a Model in Integrative Biology

Approaches to Tragedy in (Post)Apartheid South Africa: Ruins, Caves, and the Aftermaths of Colonialism

Die Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit angesichts pluralisierter Gesellschaften – ausgehend von der Rolle des Bundesverfassungsgerichts im Wiedervereinigungsprozess

Social Scientific Knowledge-Making and Its Actors in Hungary. The Analysis and Action Plan of the Hungarian Academy Staff Forum

Yehudit und Yehuda Elkana-Fellow

Breathless Lives of Global Fashion: Respiratory Struggles of South Asian Workers in Jordan’s Dormitory Migrant Labour Regime

The Symbolic Politics of Blumenberg, Habermas, and Schmitt

College for Life Sciences

Rethinking Cancer Treatment

The Origin of Genes

The Sound Engine: A New Comparative Tool for Perceiving Complexity

College for Life Sciences

Fictitious Commodities Revisited: Enquiries into the Great Transformations of Market-Socialist Asia

Yorùbá Thought and Culture: Insights from Ifá Divination Poetry

Stability in microbial cross-feeding: interaction patterns and evolving life cycle

College for Life Sciences

GenoMov: Toward a Conceptual Framework Linking Avian Movement, Genomics, and Disease Ecology

College for Life Sciences

Serbia
Digital Authoritarianism and Infrastructural Power in Hybrid Regimes

John Maynard Smith Preis-Fellow

Steppe Horizons of Indo-European Myth

Religion and Urbanity in Ancient Palmyra (Syria)

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History
London School of Economics and Political Science
Refuge in Africa: Abeokuta and the Unmaking of Empire

An Economy of Violence: Diversity and Death at an American Gun Store

Our Hometowns: Jewish Return and German Memory after the Holocaust

Ph.D., Evolutionary and Organismal Biology
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz
Rethinking Animal Culture Using Elephants as the Model Organism

College for Life Sciences

Establishing Criteria and Organizing Guidelines for Advancing Standards in Biochar Production and Consumption Using Renewable and Innovative Clean Alternatives (ECO-AFRICA)

Iso Lomso-Fellow

Apocalyptic Education and Its Environmental Unconscious: Trans-Socialist Science Education Films and Campaign Media

Das Königliche Lagerhaus Berlin 1713–1815: Ein Textilunternehmen und seine Angestellten in einer sich globalisierenden Welt

Stipendium der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung