Die Fellows 2026/2027

PhD, Associate Professor of Music Technology
New York University
An AfroDiasporic Opera: Vocal Works as Creative Research through Critical Sonic Practice

PhD, Research Fellow
Universität Oxford
Papers across Borders: Regulating and Documenting Mobility in Late Medieval Italy

PhD, Scientia Professor of History, Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Lands Before Time: Atlantis, Lemuria, Gondwanaland

Ph.D., Laird Bell Professor of History
Harvard University
Tourism as a Commodity Frontier: A Global History

Dr. iur., Professor für Staats-, Verwaltungs- und Europarecht
Universität Zürich
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
Universität Toronto
International Law in Precarious Times

Dr. jur., Chefredakteurin
Table.Media, Berlin
Helene Wessel – Katholikin, Feministin, Eugenikerin. Politische Biografie einer unbequemen Mutter des Grundgesetzes

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

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Spanish
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
The Politics of Secrecy and Revelation: Foundlings, Intergenerational Alliances, and the Invention of Identity in the Early Modern Colonial World

Ph.D., Political Science
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Pandemic, Protest, and Political Stability in China

Artist, Senior Critic in Photography
Yale School of Art
Phases

PhD, Professor of History
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
A Cultural History of Parks and Gardens in Ukraine (Late Eighteenth–Nineteenth Centuries)

VUIAS Fellowship abroad

Dr., Professor
University of Buenos Aires
Basic and Applied Knowledge for Understanding Complex Biological Systems: Social Bees as a Model in Integrative Biology

PhD, Professor of Theatre and Performance
Universität Kapstadt
Approaches to Tragedy in (Post)Apartheid South Africa: Ruins, Caves, and the Aftermaths of Colonialism

Dr. iur., Professorin für öffentliches Recht
Université Toulouse Capitole
Die Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit angesichts pluralisierter Gesellschaften – ausgehend von der Rolle des Bundesverfassungsgerichts im Wiedervereinigungsprozess

PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the Research Documentation Centre
ELTE Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest
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

Schriftstellerin
Berlin
Berlin-Roman „Menzingers Dinge“ (Arbeitstitel)
„Drei ostdeutsche Frauen essen Bratwurst in der Provinz und retten Europa“ (Arbeitstitel), Buchprojekt mit Wenke Seemann und Peggy Mädler

PhD, Human Geography
Universität Nottingham
Breathless Lives of Global Fashion: Respiratory Struggles of South Asian Workers in Jordan’s Dormitory Migrant Labour Regime

Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
The Symbolic Politics of Blumenberg, Habermas, and Schmitt

Dr. rer. nat., Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut Curie, Paris
From Signals to Structure: How Cells Learn to Be a Tissue

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology
The New School for Social Research, New York
Is There a Place for Psychedelics in Late Modern Societies?

Dr., Permanent Researcher in Philosophy of Science
Institute of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Rethinking Cancer Treatment

Ph.D., Edna K. Papazian Distinguished Service Professor of Ecology and Evolution
Universität Chicago
The Origin of Genes

PhD, Professor of History
Universidad de San Martín, Buenos Aires
The Last Snapshots of the Latin American Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Nostalgia, 1979–1991

PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Auburn University
The Sound Engine: A New Comparative Tool for Perceiving Complexity

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Professor of Social Anthropology
Universität Bielefeld
Fictitious Commodities Revisited: Enquiries into the Great Transformations of Market-Socialist Asia

Ph.D., Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Yorùbá Thought and Culture: Insights from Ifá Divination Poetry

Dr. rer. nat., Senior Research Fellow
Universität Osnabrück
Stability in Microbial Cross-feeding: Interaction Patterns and Evolving Life Cycle

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Research Scientist
INIBIOMA (CONICET–National University of Comahue), San Carlos de Bariloche
GenoMov: Toward a Conceptual Framework Linking Avian Movement, Genomics, and Disease Ecology

College for Life Sciences

Dr., Professor of Sociology
Universität Belgrad
Digital Authoritarianism and Infrastructural Power in Hybrid Regimes

Yehudit und Yehuda Elkana-Fellow

PhD, Professor of History
Miami University, Oxford, O.
Steppe Horizons of Indo-European Myth

DPhil, Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art
Universität Aarhus
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

PhD, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Profits in Structural Transformation

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Sociology
The University of Texas at Austin
An Economy of Violence: Diversity and Death at an American Gun Store

Ph.D., Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
Our Hometowns: Jewish Return and German Memory after the Holocaust

Ph.D., Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow
Max-Planck-Institut für Verhaltensbiologie, Konstanz
Rethinking Animal Culture Using Elephants as the Model Organism

College for Life Sciences

Ph.D., Research Scientist
CSIR–Institute of Industrial Research, Accra
Establishing Criteria and Organizing Guidelines for Advancing Standards in Biochar Production and Consumption Using Renewable and Innovative Clean Alternatives

Iso Lomso-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of Film and Digital Media
University of California, Santa Cruz
Apocalyptic Education and Its Environmental Unconscious: Trans-Socialist Science Education Films and Campaign Media

Ph.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Essential: An Economics of What We Cannot Live Without

Dr. phil., Geschichte
Bonn
Das Königliche Lagerhaus Berlin 1713–1815: Ein Textilunternehmen und seine Angestellten in einer sich globalisierenden Welt

Stipendium der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung

Dr. rer. nat., Postdoctoral Scholar
Oregon State University, Corvallis
Impact of Delayed Research-Ethics Investigations and Retractions on Manifestation of Erroneous Findings in the Scientific Literature

College for Life Sciences