The Fellows 2006/2007

Dr. phil., Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
The Culture of Ambiguity

Ph.D., Professor of History
The University of Manchester
Church, Society and Religion in France 1580-1730: a Sonderweg?

Dr. rer. nat., Biology
University of Regensburg
Social Immune Systems

Evolutionary Immunology

Dr., Professor of Immunology and Zoology
University of Basel
Evolution of the Immune Systems of Metazoa

Evolutionary Immunology

Ph.D., Professor of Biology
University of California, Irvine
How Parasites Escape Host Defense

Evolutionary Immunology

Ph.D., Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale School of Public Health
Modelling and Behavioral Evaluation of Social Dynamics in Prevention Decisions

Evolutionary Immunology

Dr. theol., Professor for Systematic Theology and Ethics
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Milieu Gods: Struggles for Distinctiveness and Auratization Strategies Current Religious History

Religious Transformation Processes in the Present (Religious Mobility)

Professor of Social Anthropology
Princeton University
The Canonic Rituals of Islam: the Ritual Link as the Refiguration of Life Worlds

Religious Transformation Processes in the Present (Religious Mobility)

Dr. phil., Professor of Ethnology
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
"Clash of Civilizations": Mediterranean Geography on the Mircro-Level and Conflict Settlement by Regional Adaptation

Dr. phil., History
University of Basel
Conceptions of Monarchic Rule in the Muslim and Christian Middle Ages: The Ruler's Body in Egypt and the Roman-German Empire in the 11-13th Centuries

Composer
Tokyo College of Music
Compositions

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physiology and Pharmacology
State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Somatic Mutation and Its Role in the Evolving Immune System

Evolutionary Immunology

Ph.D., Senior Faculty Advisor, Bali-Indonesia Study Abroad Program
School for International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont
Moments of the Text: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the History of Language Use in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago

Dr., Musicology
Paris
Invisible Music

Dr. phil., Professor of Art History
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Masking the Presidency: The Illustrated Press and the Transformation of American Politics 1840-1940

ImageScience (Media and Politics)

Dr., Art History
Masarykova Univerzita Brno
Visual Hermeneutics in Scientific and Artistic Images

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Ph.D., Starr Foundation Professor of South Asia Studies
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Jawaharlal Nehru: a Life

Union of Polish Art Photographers, Warsaw
The Photographic Record of the Soviet Repression System

ImageScience (Media and Politics)

Dr. rer. nat., Professor of Zoology
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Evolutionary Ecology of Immune Defence

Evolutionary Immunology

Dr. h.c., Komponist und Professor (em.) für Komposition
Stuttgart
Music for Voice and Piano

Ph.D., Professor of History
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Exchanges of Gifts and Knowledge Between Europeans and non-Europeans since the Eighteenth Century

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
New York University
"I, Me, Mine": Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity in Kant and Post-Kantian Philosophy and Psychology

Ph.D.,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Interpreting the Evolutionary Process by Using Phylogenetic History

Phylogenetic Biology

Ph.D., Byzantine Literature
University of Silesia, Katowice
A Study of the Use of Ancient Literature in Byzantine Satire, 11th-15th Centuries

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr., Directeur d'etudes
École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
Creative Work and its Uncertain Completion: Contribution to a Socio-Analytical Theory of the Process of Artistic Creation

Dr. jur., LL.M., Professor of Public Law
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Norm and Fiction: Legal and Aesthetic Theory in Comparison

Dr., Professor of General and Comparative Literature
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand II
Anthropology of the Nocturnal

D. phil., Biodiversity
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby
Conserving the Tree of Life

Phylogenetic Biology

Dr. phil., Professor of Byzantine Studies and Balkan Studies
Central European University, Budapest
Narrating the Empire: Byzantine Historiography Between Hellenistic Tradition and Living Experience

Dr. iur., Professor of Public Law, International Law and European Law
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Legal Fundamentals and the Transatlantic Relationship Common Ground or Dividing Line

Ph.D., Professor of Multilingual Multicultural Studies
New York University
The Religion, Values, and Foreign Policy of the Country with the Biggest Guns

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mixed Signals: Media Technologies and Cultural Geographies

ImageScience (Media and Politics)

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy
National School of Political Studies and Administration, Bucharest
Time and Eternity in Plato's Timaeus

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Ph.D., Professor of History
City University of New York
Ex-centric Europe: Alternative Ideas and Practices of Progress in the 19th-Century Peripheries: Ireland, Norway, Poland and the Two Sicilies

Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva

Ph.D., Professor of Natural History
University of Edinburgh
Pathogen Evolution in Response to Vaccination

Evolutionary Immunology

Dr. phil., Author, Professor of Philosophy
Lebanese American University, Beirut
Translating an Anthology of Contemporary German Poetry into Arabic

Dr. phil., Professor of Art History
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Caravaggio and the Limits of Representation: Ambiguity, Irony and Perfomativity in Painting Around 1600

ImageScience (Media and Politics)

Dr. phil., Professor of Biological and General Psychology
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Executive Functions: Inherent Features of the Central Nervous System

Dr. phil., Professor of Experimental Ecology
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Evolutionary Ecology of Host-Parasite Interactions

Evolutionary Immunology

Dr., Professor of Archeology
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Toward a Comparative History of Ruins

Ph.D., Evolutionary Ecology of Animals
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
The Relationship Between Molecular Mechanisms of the Immune System and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Parasite-Host Interactions

Evolutionary Immunology

Ph.D., Literary Studies
Marseille

Dr. phil., Islamic Studies, Cinema Art
Cairo
1. Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation

ImageScience (Media and Politics)

Th.D., Professor of Systematic Theology
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Religious Transformation Processes in the Present: Christian Interpretive Cultures in South Africa After Apartheid

Religious Transformation Processes in the Present (Religious Mobility)

Dr. phil., Kunstgeschichte
London
Isis

Ph.D., Islamic Studies
The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Ibn 'Arabi and his Shrine Complex in Contemporary Damascus

Botschafter a.D., Author
Stockholm
"The solid years are over"

Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Statistics
North Carolina State University
Statistical Techniques for Studying DNA and Protein Sequence Evolution

Phylogenetic Biology

Ph.D., Professor of Islamic Studies
Arizona State University, Tempe
Islamic Public Discourses in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities

Religious Transformation Processes in the Present (Religious Mobility)

Dr. iur., Professor of Public Law
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
The Rational State