The Fellows 2024/2025
Name
Year
Location

Bashir, Bashir
Bashir, Bashir
2024/2025Israel
Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of Political Theory
The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana
Egalitarian Bi-nationalism for Israel/Palestine
Israel

Clarke, Julia A.
Clarke, Julia A.
2024/2025USA
Ph.D.,
Professor and John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Geobiology
The University of Texas at Austin
Biological Innovation and the Evolution of Birds
USA

Dakhli, Leyla
Dakhli, Leyla
2024/2025France
Dr.,
Chargée de recherche
Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains, Aubervilliers
Les révoltes postcoloniales en Méditerranée du sud, une histoire de la dignité
France

Darabi, Hannah
Darabi, Hannah
2024/2025France
Artiste, chercheuse
Paris
Weltanschauung d’Iranshahr
France

Djorwé, Philippe
Djorwé, Philippe
2024/2025Cameroon
PhD,
Senior Lecturer on quantum computing and quantum optics
The University of Ngaoundéré
Toward Exceptional Point Quantum Sensors
Iso Lomso-Fellow
Cameroon

Dungan, Ashley M.
Dungan, Ashley M.
2024/2025Australia
Ph.D.,
Microbial Ecology
University of Melbourne
Microbial Rewilding to Enhance Threatened Species Conservation
College for Life Sciences
Australia

Edgerton, David
Edgerton, David
2024/2025United Kingdom
PhD,
Hans Rausing Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Professor of Modern British History
King’s College London
A Global History of Production
United Kingdom

Egry, Gábor
Egry, Gábor
2024/2025Hungary
Dr.,
Director General
Institute of Political History, Budapest
An Invisible Empire? The Austro-Hungarian Economic Space in Southeast Europe 1890–1940: Actors, Structures, Embeddedness, Factors of Resilience
Hungary

Énard, Mathias
Énard, Mathias
2024/2025Spain
Écrivain
Barcelone
« Une épopée arabe », projet de roman
Spain

Gómez-Schiavon, Mariana
Gómez-Schiavon, Mariana
2024/2025Mexico
Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Campus Juriquilla, Queretaro
Mathematical Modeling to Reshape Our Understanding of Biological Systems
College for Life Sciences
Mexico

Gregor, Rachel
Gregor, Rachel
2024/2025USA
Ph.D.,
Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Finding Organizing Principles for the Chemical Diversity of Marine Microbes
College for Life Sciences
USA

Gueye, Omar
Gueye, Omar
2024/2025Senegal
PhD,
Professor of History
Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
Women of 1968: Africans in the Global Context
Senegal

Johnson, Ian
Johnson, Ian
2024/2025USA
Senior Fellow for China Studies
Council on Foreign Relations, New York
China’s New Civil Religion: A New Pillar or a New Challenge for Neo-Authoritarian Rule?
USA

Kampfner, John
Kampfner, John
2024/2025United Kingdom
Author, commentator, and broadcaster
London / Berlin
“Why the World Does It Better”
United Kingdom

Kirakosian, Racha
Kirakosian, Racha
2024/2025Germany
D.Phil.,
Professor of Medieval Studies (Medieval German)
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Scientific Discourse in Medieval Vernacular Texts
Germany

Leo, Per
Leo, Per
2024/2025Germany
Dr. phil.,
Schriftsteller
Berlin
Konfliktstoff. Israel und Palästina für deutsche Schulen
Germany

Leppin, Hartmut
Leppin, Hartmut
2024/2025Germany
Dr. phil.,
Professor für Alte Geschichte
Goethe University Frankfurt
Auf dem Weg zu einer polyzentrischen Geschichte der Spätantike: Grenzüberschreitende Zentren in der Spätantike
Germany

Magalhães, Sara
Magalhães, Sara
2024/2025Portugal
Ph.D.,
Professor of Evolutionary Biology
Universidade de Lisboa
The Role of the History of Exposure in Adaptation to Multiple Stressors
Portugal

McFall-Ngai, Margaret
McFall-Ngai, Margaret
2024/2025USA
Ph.D.,
Senior Researcher
Carnegie Science, Washington, D.C.
Reshaping Education in the Biological Sciences
USA

Meinel, Florian
Meinel, Florian
2024/2025Germany
Dr. jur.,
Professor für Staatstheorie, Vergleichendes Staatsrecht und Politische Wissenschaften
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Personen und Sachen: Die Verfassung des Eigentums im koordinierten Kapitalismus
Germany

Misak, Cheryl
Misak, Cheryl
2024/2025Canada
DPhil,
Professor of Philosophy
University of Toronto
Progress and Regress in Morals and Politics
Canada

Mochizuki, Misato
Mochizuki, Misato
2024/2025Japan
Compositrice, professeur de l’art
Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo
Scientifique, empathique et culturel : Trois représentations du cœur dans la création musicale
Japan

Ndjio, Basile
Ndjio, Basile
2024/2025Cameroon
PhD,
Professor of Anthropology
University of Douala
Inhospitable Medicine: Homosexuality, Medical Discrimination, and the Precarious Life in Cameroon
Cameroon

Nickelsen, Kärin
Nickelsen, Kärin
2024/2025Germany
Dr. phil. nat.,
Professor for History of Science
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Histories of Plants and Cultures, ca. 1840–1920
Germany

Ochola, Jerry
Ochola, Jerry
2024/2025Kenya
Dr,
Senior Lecturer of Industrial and Textile Engineering
Moi University, Eldoret
Computational Modelling of Tubular Fibrous Scaffold Structures for Cardiovascular Graft Applications
Iso Lomso-Fellow
Kenya

Ohene, Yolanda
Ohene, Yolanda
2024/2025United Kingdom
PhD,
Medical Imaging
The University of Manchester
How Can Medical Imaging Research Better Serve Historically Marginalised Groups?
College for Life Sciences
United Kingdom

Owens, David
Owens, David
2024/2025United Kingdom
DPhil,
Professor of Philosophy
King’s College London
Liberty, Authority, and Responsibility
United Kingdom

Pauer-Studer, Herlinde
Pauer-Studer, Herlinde
2024/2025Austria
Dr. phil.,
Professor Emerita for Practical Philosophy
University of Vienna
Why Groups Matter to You
Austria

Pufelska, Agnieszka
Pufelska, Agnieszka
2024/2025Germany
PD Dr.,
Kulturwissenschaften
Universität Hamburg
Postpreußen: Von der Unfähigkeit, Abschied zu nehmen (Buchprojekt mit Felix Ackermann)
Wissenschaftspreis der Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung - Fellow
Germany

Romik, Natalia
Romik, Natalia
2024/2025Poland
PhD,
Architect, artist, curator
Warsaw
The Architecture of Hiding
Poland

Rothberg, Michael
Rothberg, Michael
2024/2025USA
Ph.D.,
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Comparison Controversies: Conflicts in Cultural Memory
USA

Ryzhkovskyi, Volodymyr
Ryzhkovskyi, Volodymyr
2024/2025Croatia
Ph.D.,
History
Zagreb
A Ukrainian Universe: The Journal Vsesvit and the Pursuit of Universalism in 20th-Century Ukraine
VUIAS Fellowship abroad
Croatia

Sanga, Imani
Sanga, Imani
2024/2025Tanzania
PhD,
Professor of Music
University of Dar es Salaam
Sonic Letters, Decolonial Acts: Musical Figures, Swahili Literature, and Anti-imperialist Struggles in Tanzania
Tanzania

Schickore, Jutta
Schickore, Jutta
2024/2025USA
Dr. phil.,
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
Indiana University Bloomington
Causes, Hypotheses, and Empirical Checks: Working Philosophies of Science in the German Lands Around 1800
USA

Schleiter, Petra
Schleiter, Petra
2024/2025United Kingdom
DPhil,
Professor of Comparative Politics
University of Oxford
Elections and Democracy: Voter ID, Electoral Integrity, and Access to the Ballot Box
United Kingdom

Seikaly, Sherene
Seikaly, Sherene
2024/2025USA
Ph.D.,
Associate Professor of History
University of California at Santa Barbara
From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine
USA

Smith, Michael L.
Smith, Michael L.
2024/2025USA
Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor of Biology
Auburn University
Spatial Organization in the Superorganism Nest
College for Life Sciences
USA

Taharlev, Roni
Taharlev, Roni
2024/2025Israel
Artist
Jaffa
The Swing
Israel

Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna
Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna
2024/2025Poland
Dr. habil.,
Professor of Humanities
Institute of Slavic Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
Towards a Pogrom Model Kit. The Case of Brzesko 1918
Poland

Ukah, Asonzeh
Ukah, Asonzeh
2024/2025South Africa
Dr. phil.,
Professor and Chair of the Study of Religions, Director of the African Centre for Religions, Ethics, and Society
University of Cape Town
Infrasacred Formations: The Moral Economies of Sacred Space in Africa
South Africa

Wachsmann, Nikolaus
Wachsmann, Nikolaus
2024/2025United Kingdom
PhD,
Professor of History
Birkbeck College, University of London
Auschwitz. A New History
United Kingdom

Winitzer, Abraham
Winitzer, Abraham
2024/2025USA
Ph.D.,
Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Studies
University of Notre Dame
A Philosophical Reformation? Biblical Demythologization of Mesopotamian Myth and Its Implications
USA

Winter, Eyal
Winter, Eyal
2024/2025Israel
Ph.D.,
Silverzweig Professor of Economics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Game Theoretic Models of Social Media
Israel