The Fellows 2007/2008

Dr., Professor of Art History
Masarykova Univerzita Brno
Medieval Image: From Icon to Virtual Reality

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Ph.D., Islamic Studies, Philosophy
University of Haifa
History of Arabic Philosophy: Ibn Tufayl, Ibn al-'Arabi, and Others on the Limit Between Naturalism and Traditionalism

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology
University of Washington, Seattle
Immune System Evolution and the Information War Between Host and Pathogen

Evolutionary Medicine

Dr. med., Professor of Nutrition
University of Hohenheim
Systematic Description of the Development and Effect of Carotinoids and Retinoids

Ph.D., University Professor (em.)
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
A Cultural, Personal and Political Memoir: "From the Bronx to Oxford - and Not Quite Back"

Dr. phil., Professor of German
Yale University
Lichtenberg's "Waste Books" and the End of the Age of Evidence

Dr. rer. pol., Political Science
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Competing for the Political: On the Constitutionability of the Partners, Rivals, Enemies, and Inheritors of the State

Constitution Beyond the Nation State

Ph.D., Molecular Biology
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Monterotondo
Behavioural Neuroscience, Psychotropic Drugs and Enhancement

Ph.D., J. R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
The Moment of Caravaggio

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
University of Sydney
George Eliot: Literature as Experimental Philosophy

Professor of Applied Theatre Studies, Composer and Director
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Composition of a Piece of Music Theatre for the Hilliard Quartet

Dr. phil., Ferdinand Schevill Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities
University of Chicago
Cinema as Vernacular Modernism

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., Law
University of Bucharest
Governance and Government: The Scope and Limits of Politically Autonomous Administration

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr. phil., Professor of Philosophy, with special focus on cultural issues
University of Zurich
Masked: Literary Strategies of Clandestine Philosophy Between 1720 and 1770

PH.D., Senior Researcher of Sociology
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina
Family, Photography, and Memory in the Public Sphere and in Private Life

Dr. phil., Author, Professor of Theatre Studies
University of Sarajevo
"The Age of Great Liberty", Novel

J. D., Frank Carano Professor of Law
University of Pennsylvania
1. Why the Law Is so Perverse

Dr., Art History
Masarykova Univerzita Brno
The Culture of Ambiguity

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Mark van Doren Professor of Humanities
Columbia University, New York
Kant's Moral Subject

Extraordinary Professor in the Arts Faculty
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
"With Words as if With Candles": Poetry from the Indigenous Languages of Southern Africa

Dr. phil., Professor of Modern History and Non-European History
University of Zurich
1. Images of Reading: Iconography of Reading in the Colonial Situation

Ph.D., Berman Family Professor of Jewish Studies and Hebrew Bible
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Revelation and Redaction: Rethinking Biblical Studies and Its Intellectual Models

Ph.D., Professor of History and Humanities, Director of the Humanities Center
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
The Science of Emotion: History of Research from 1960 to the Present

LL.M., Professor of Public Law
London School of Economics and Political Science
Globalization and the Grammar of Public Law

Constitution Beyond the Nation State

Ph.D., Senior Editor at PLoS Biology
Public Library of Science, Cambridge
Evolution for the Younger Community

Evolutionary Medicine

Ph.D., Professor of English (ret.)
Secunderabad, Indien
A Biography of Romesh Chandra Dutt, 1848-1909

Dr. phil. habil., Classical Archaeology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Forum Romanum: The History of a City Center

Ph.D., Professor of Art History
University of Toronto
Art Before and After Modernity

Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Psychology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Evolution and Mental Disorders

Evolutionary Medicine

Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor of Medicine (emer.), former Director
University Clinic for Pediatrics and Youth Medicine, Tübingen
Evolution and Cancer in Childhood and Yound Age

Evolutionary Medicine

Ph.D., Senior Fellow
Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore
A History of the Voice: How the Early 20th Century Speaks to Us

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
University of California, Berkeley
Understanding Experience

Professor (emer.) of Pediatrics and of Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Physiology
University of Chicago
Integrating Evolutionary Biology with Medicine

Evolutionary Medicine

Dr. Drs. h.c., Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Rector,
New Europe College, Bucharest
Old Testament Cosmology from an Inter-Religious Perspective

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy of Science
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
French Savants and British Indologists: Diverging Representations of India's Mathematical Past

Ph.D., Professor of Political Science
University of California, Los Angeles
Institutional Foundations of Social Inequality

Dr. phil., Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
The Beholding of Paintings and Eye-Movements: Historic and Systematic Studies in the Psychophysiology of Aesthetic Experience

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

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Islamic Theology
University of Teheran
Islamic Hermeneutics

Dr. Drs. h.c., Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion
Princeton University
The Emergence of Judaism and Christianity in the First Centuries C.E.

Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor (emer.) of Political Science, Director (emer.)
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
Legitimacy Beyond the Nation State

Constitution Beyond the Nation State

Dr. phil., Historian, Author
Munich
Goethe und Napoleon

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

Dr. jur., Professor of Law and Charles E. Floete Chair in Law
The University of Iowa
The Age of Constitutional Law

Constitution Beyond the Nation State

Dräger-Stiftung-Fellow

Ph.D., Senior Lecturer in Entomology
University of the West Indies, Trinidad & Tobago
Insect Sociobiology: Its History Since Classical Antiquity

Ph.D., Associate Professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies
University of Pannonia, Veszprém, Hungary
Revista Atlântida [1915-1920] and the Ibero-Atlantic Orientation in Portuguese and Brazilian Thinking

Andrew W. Mellon-Fellow

Dr. Dr. h.c., Professor of Law
Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Civil Constitutions in the World Society

Verfassung jenseits des Nationalstaats

Ph.D., Senior Lecturer
University College London
Evolutionary Bioinformatic

Evolutionary Medicine

Dr., Professor of Philosophy, Directeur de recherche au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Université Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3
la pensée et la lettre. recherches sur la philologie dans la philosophie

Dr., Associate Professor of History
Lebanese American University, Beirut
Economic and Political Power in Lebanon

Dr. phil., Professor of East Asian Art History
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
The Political and Visual Manipulation of Myths in Japanese Pictorial Narratives)

Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy
University of Chicago
Reading Intention

Dr. iur., Professor of Public Law and Constitutional History
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Constitutionalization Beyond the State

Constitution Beyond the Nation State