The Fellows 2005/2006

Author, Cairo
Cairo

West-Östlicher Divan

M. D., Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Contrary to Nature: Breast Cancer, Risk, and American Society

Dr., Ecclesiastical History
Bucharest
Patristics and Theology in the 20th Century

Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Postcolonial Empires: Imperialism and the Politics of Identity in a World of Nation-States

Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
New School for Social Research, New York
Internal and External Dynamics of Secularization within Western Christianity and Islam

Religion and Contingency

Ph.D., Professor of Economics
University of California, Davis
The Conquest of Nature: A Brief Economic History of the World

Ph.D., Associate Professor of History of Science, Director
Tel Aviv University
Harry Schutz Vandiver and the Computational Approach to Fermat's Last Theorem

Dr. Dr. h. c., Professor of Systematic Theology
University of Zurich
Inescapable Evil and the Christian Hope in God

Chief Curator
National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume Paris
Contemporary Arab Representations

Bundeskulturstifftung-Fellow

Dr. iur., Professor of Legal Philosophy
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Christianity and Liberal Democracy

Ph.D., Rose Isaacs Professor (emer.) of Sociology
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Multiple Modernities, Public Spheres and Social Movements in the Contemporary Era

HDR, Law and Political Science
Université de Nantes
Albert Schweitzer: Regards Gabonais sur le grand Docteur

Dr., Directeur d'études
École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Attributing Artworks: The Display of Evidence in Art History

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Musicology
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan
The Sound of Prayer: The Music of the Traditional Eastern European Jewish Prayer

Dr. phil., Professor of Classical Archaeology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
The Limits of Painting in the Eikones of Philostratos

Dr. phil., Professor of History of Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
The Cultural History of the Database in the Late 20th Century

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Harvard University
Music, Madness, and the Opening of Language

Ph.D., Professor of History
University of California, Berkeley
The Spirit of Revolutionary Law: Foundational Justice and the Politics of Legitimation in the French Terror of 1792-95

Dr. phil., Professor of Sociology and Dean
Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt
Religion in the Age of Contingency

Religion and Contingency

Ph.D., Art History
University of Warsaw
Medieval Cult Images in Early Modern Europe

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr.,
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Jerusalem
Logical Form and the Nature of Philosophical Activity

Kulturstiftung des Bundes-Fellow

Dr. med., Professor (emer.) of Neuropathology
University Hospital Zurich
Why me? The Causes of Human Cancer

Dr. phil., Art History
University of Warwick
Mounting Vision: A History of the Changing Display of Art, 1800-2000

Dr., Ivan C. Rand Professor of Law
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Comparing Anglo-American and German Law: Criminal and Constitutional Aspects

Dr. phil., Anthropology
University College London
The Material Mind: a Social History of the Prototype

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Media Theory
University of Amsterdam
Critical Issues in Global Internet Culture

Ph.D., Professor of Political Psychology
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Memories and Anti-Memories of Genocide

Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
Zentrum für Europäische Rechtspolitik an der Universität Bremen (ZERP)
Democratization of Global Governance? Participation and Representation in International Politics

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of California, Los Angeles
Determinacy and Large Cardinals

Inner Model Theory

Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor of Medicine (emer.), former Director
University Clinic for Pediatrics and Youth Medicine, Tübingen
How Do Children and Adolescents Deal With Dying?

History of Science and Ideas, Director
Romanian Cultural Foundation, Bucharest
Dante and the Medieval Cosmology

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of History
Columbia University, New York
Reconsidering the League of Nations

Dr. phil., Professor of Greek Philology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
History of Philosophy Between Systematic Reconstruction and Literature: pre-Socratic Didactic Poem and Platonic Dialogue

Dr. phil.,
Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt
Religion in Public Dispute: Controversies about Religion in Germany and France since 1980

Religion and Contingency

D.Sc., Professor of Musicology
University of Tartu
A Textbook on Music Psychology for Estonian Students

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr., Professor of Economics
École normale supérieure, Cachan
Five Lessons on Social Justice and the Politics of Capabilities

Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor (emer.) of Art History, Art Critic
Central Institute for Art History, Munich
Essays on Art and Physiognomy

Ph.D., Literary Studies
IREMAM
"The People's Entertainments": Popular Fiction and the Politics of Translation in Egypt (1904-1911)

Bundeskulturstifftung-Fellow

Ph.D., Philosophy, Islamic Studies
Academy for Philosophy, Teheran
Reinventing Mo'tazelites' Experience

Ph.D., William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Art History
University of Chicago
Neuro-Aesthetics: Constructing Human Interiority

Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley
Canonical Inner Models for Strong Large Cardinal Hypotheses

Inner Model Theory

Dr. rer. soc., Professor of Sociology
University of Lucerne
Theory of World Society

D.Phil., Professor (emer.) of Philosophy
McGill University, Montreal
Living in a Secular Age

M. D. Ph.D.,
Technische Universität Dresden
Hello Dolly! Representations of Biotechnology and the Production of the Future

Ph.D., Professor of Sociology
European University at St. Petersburg
Economic Governance and State Formation: Russia's Early Capitalism in a Comparative Perspective

Marie Curie-Fellow

Dr. phil., Professor of Art History
University of Hamburg
Urban Spaces as Social Surfaces

Dr. rer. pol., Professor of Sociology
University of Trier
The Emergence of Corporate Networks 1896-1938: Germany, the United States, and France in Comparison

Composer and Conductor, Professor (emer.) of Composition
Freiburg/Breisgau
Composition of a Work for Orchestra and Voices