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The Berlin Prize is a residential fellowship at the Hans Arnhold Center, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin
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American Academy in Berlin
The American Academy in Berlin is a research and cultural institution in Berlin whose stated mission is to foster a greater understanding and dialogue between the people of the United States and the people of Germany.The American Academy was founded in September 1994 by a group of prominent...
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Fellows of the American Academy in Berlin
| Year | Winner | Work | Location |
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| Spring 2012 | Karen Alter | Professor of Political Science and Law, Northwestern University | |
| Spring 2012 | Jay Bernstein Jay Bernstein (professor) Jay Bernstein is an American philosopher, and University Distinguished Professor at The New School. He is a 2012 Berlin Prize fellow.He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a PhD in 1975.-External links:... |
University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research | |
| Spring 2012 | Charles Bright | Arthur J. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan | |
| Spring 2012 | Leland de la Durantaye Leland de la Durantaye Leland de la Durantaye is an American writer, and Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, at Harvard University.He won a 2011 Berlin Prize fellowship.-Life:... |
Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University | |
| Spring 2012 | Martin Dimitrov Martin Dimitrov Martin Dimitrov is a Bulgarian politician and former Member of the European Parliament. He is the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.-Career:... |
Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University | |
| Spring 2012 | Michael Geyer Michael Geyer Michael Geyer is a German historian, and Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, at University of Chicago. He won a 2012 Berlin Prize fellowship.He graduated from Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg with a D.Phil.-Works:... |
Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, and Faculty Director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago | |
| Spring 2012 | Annie Gosfield Annie Gosfield Annie Gosfield is a New York composer who specializes in using detuned or out of tune samples and industrial noises. Her work often contains improvisation and frequently uses extended techniques and/or altered musical instruments... |
Composer | New York |
| Spring 2012 | Avery Gordon | Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
| Spring 2012 | Leslie Hewitt Leslie Hewitt Leslie Hewitt is a contemporary visual artist. She currently lives and works in New York City and Houston, Texas.... |
Artist | New York |
| Spring 2012 | Peter Lindseth Peter Lindseth Peter Lindseth is Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law, at University of Connecticut.He is a 2012 Berlin Prize fellow.-Life:He graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. and J.D., and from Columbia University with a Ph.D.... |
Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of Connecticut School of Law | |
| Spring 2012 | Inga Markovits Inga Markovits Inga Markovits is an American lawyer, and The Friends of Joe Jamail Regents Chair, at the University of Texas.She is a 2012 Berlin Prize Fellow.-Works:... |
Friends of Jamail Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law | |
| Spring 2012 | Karen Russell Karen Russell Karen Russell is a Seattle attorney, television pundit, and political strategist, and a graduate of Mercer Island High School, Georgetown University and Harvard Law School... |
Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr College | |
| Spring 2012 | M. Norton Wise M. Norton Wise Matthew Norton Wise is a professor in the history of science at UCLA. He is also the co-director of the UCLA Center for Society and Genetics. He has famously attacked Gross and Levitt's book in which they perceive the obstruction of science by the Academic Left.In the fourth term of the academical... |
Distinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Fall 2011 | Jennifer Culbert | Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University The Jurisprudence of Hannah Arendt |
Maryland |
| Fall 2011 | Leland de la Durantaye Leland de la Durantaye Leland de la Durantaye is an American writer, and Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, at Harvard University.He won a 2011 Berlin Prize fellowship.-Life:... |
Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University Wörterstürmerei im Namen der Schönheit, or World and Work in Samuel Beckett |
Massachusetts |
| Fall 2011 | James Der Derian James Der Derian James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program... |
Professor of International Studies (Research), Brown University Human Terrain: When War Becomes Academic |
Rhode Island |
| Fall 2011 | Alice Eagly | Professor of Psychology, James Padilla Chair of Arts and Sciences, and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University The Evolutionary Origins of the Psychology of Women and Men |
Illinois |
| Fall 2011 | Adam Haslett Adam Haslett Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer. He was born in Kingston, Massachusetts and grew up in Oxfordshire, England, and Wellesley, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College , the University of Iowa , and Yale Law School . He has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers'... |
Writer Kindness: A Novel |
New York |
| Fall 2011 | Daniel Hobbins Daniel Hobbins Daniel Hobbins is a Professor of History at The Ohio State University and an American historian specializing in Medieval France. He has also written in the American Historical Review. In this article, Hobbins writes on Jean Gerson.... |
Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University Origins of Print: How Medieval Culture Ushered in the First Media Revolution |
Ohio |
| Fall 2011 | Susan McCabe | Professor of English, University of Southern California Bryher: Female Husband of Modernism |
Calfornia |
| Fall 2011 | Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien Geoffrey O'Brien is an American poet, editor, book and film critic, translator, and cultural historian. In 1992, he joined the staff of the Library of America as Executive Editor, becoming Editor-in-Chief in 1998.-Biography:... |
Editor-in-Chief, Library of America America Before the Code |
New York |
| Fall 2011 | Paul Pfeiffer Paul Pfeiffer Paul Pfeiffer is an American video artist whose work incorporates the use of found footage. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and Hunter College, New York , and has lived and worked in New York since 1990... |
Artist | New York |
| Fall 2011 | Elizabeth Povinelli Elizabeth Povinelli Elizabeth A. Povinelli is Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies at Columbia University where she has also been the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture... |
Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University Geontologies: Indigenous Worlds in the New Media and Late Liberalism |
New York |
| Fall 2011 | Tom Sleigh Tom Sleigh Tom Sleigh is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who currently lives in New York City. He has published seven books of original poetry, one full-length translation of Euripides' Herakles and a book of essays. At least five of his plays have been produced... |
Poet and Distinguished Professor, Hunter College New Poems |
New York |
| Fall 2011 | John Van Engen John Van Engen John H. Van Engen is an American historian, and Andrew V. Tackes Professor of Medieval History, at Notre Dame University.He is a 1984 Guggenheim Fellow, and 2011 Berlin Prize Fellow.He won the 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize, and John Gilmary Shea Prize.-Life:... |
Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History, University of Notre Dame Europe's Twelfth-Century "Turn," Narrative of Medieval History |
Indiana |
| Spring 2011 | James Der Derian James Der Derian James Der Derian is a Watson Institute research professor of international studies and professor of political science at Brown University. In July 2004, he became the director of the Institute’s Global Security Program... |
Professor of International Studies (Research), Brown University Brown University Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,... |
Rhode Island |
| Spring 2011 | Astrid M. Eckert | Assistant Professor of Modern German History, Emory University, | Georgia |
| Spring 2011 | Hal Foster Hal Foster (art critic) Harold Foss "Hal" Foster is an American art critic and historian. He was educated at Princeton University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York. He taught at Cornell University from 1991 to 1997 and has been on the faculty at Princeton since 1997... |
Townsend Martin 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, | New Jersey |
| Spring 2011 | Rivka Galchen Rivka Galchen Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer. Her first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was published in 2008, has been translated into over 20 languages, and was awarded the William J. Saroyan International Prize for Fiction.... |
Writer, | New York |
| Spring 2011 | Todd Gitlin Todd Gitlin Todd Gitlin is an American sociologist, political writer, novelist, and cultural commentator. He has written widely on the mass media, politics, intellectual life and the arts, for both popular and scholarly publications.-New Left activist:... |
Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University, | New York |
| Spring 2011 | Pieter M. Judson | Professor of History, Swarthmore College, | Pennsylvania |
| Spring 2011 | Ellen Kennedy | Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania, | Pennsylvania |
| Spring 2011 | Dave McKenzie Dave McKenzie David Closs McKenzie is a former long-distance runner from New Zealand, who represented his native country in the men's marathon at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in Mexico City . He also won the Boston Marathon in 1967.-Achievements:*All results regarding marathon, unless stated... |
Artist, | New York |
| Spring 2011 | H. C. Erik Midelfort H. C. Erik Midelfort H.C. Erik Midelfort , is C. Julian Bishko Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He is a specialist of the German Reformation and the history of Christianity in Early Modern Europe .He was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and attended Yale University where... |
Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies, University of Virginia, | Virginia |
| Spring 2011 | Norman M. Naimark | Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University, | California |
| Spring 2011 | David B. Ruderman | Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania, | Pennsylvania |
| Spring 2011 | P. Adams Sitney P. Adams Sitney P. Adams Sitney , is a historian of American avant-garde cinema.-Life:He was educated in his hometown, at Yale University... |
Professor of Visual Arts, Princeton University, | New Jersey |
| Spring 2011 | Ken Ueno Ken Ueno Ken Ueno is an American composer.He studied at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.M... |
Assistant Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley, | California |
| Fall 2010 | Brigid Cohen | Assistant Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, | ?North Carolina |
| Fall 2010 | Stanley Corngold | Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, | New Jersey |
| Fall 2010 | Aaron Curry Aaron Curry Aaron Charlton Curry was a Liberal Party, and sometimes National Liberal, politician in the United Kingdom.... |
Sculptor, | California |
| Fall 2010 | Laura Engelstein | Henry S. McNeil Professor of History, Yale University, | Connecticut |
| Fall 2010 | Catherine Gallagher Catherine Gallagher Catherine Gallagher is a historicist literary critic and Victorianist and is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her most recent book is The Body Economic : Life, Death, and Sensation in Political Economy and the Victorian Novel... |
Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California at Berkeley, | California |
| Fall 2010 | Anne Hull Anne Hull Anne Hull is an American journalist, on the national staff of the Washington Post.She won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.-Life:... |
Journalist, The Washington Post, | Washington, DC |
| Fall 2010 | Tamar Jacoby Tamar Jacoby Tamar Jacoby is known primarily for her writing on immigration-related issues. She is also president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, an organization self-described as "a national federation of small business owners working to advance better immigration law." Jacoby was named a 2012 Bernard L.... |
President and CEO, Immigration Works USA, | New York |
| Fall 2010 | Martin Jay Martin Jay Martin Jay is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research interests have been groundbreaking in connecting history with other academic and intellectual activities, such as the Critical Theory of... |
Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley, | California |
| Fall 2010 | Kirk Johnson | Executive Director, The List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, | New York |
| Fall 2010 | Han Ong Han Ong Playwright and novelist Han Ong is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States at 16... |
Novelist, New York, | New York |
| Fall 2010 | Ken Ueno Ken Ueno Ken Ueno is an American composer.He studied at the United States Military Academy. He graduated from Berklee College of Music with a B.M... |
Assistant Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley, | California |
| Fall 2010 | James Wood James Wood (critic) James Wood is a literary critic, essayist and novelist. he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine.-Background and education:... |
Staff Writer, The New Yorker; and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University, | Massachusetts |
| Fall 2010 | John Wray John Wray John Wray may refer to:*Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politician* John Wray , appeared in films such as All Quiet on the Western Front and The Cat and the Canary... |
Writer, | New York City |
| Spring 2010 | David Abraham (law professor) | Professor of Immigration and Citizenship Law, University of Miami School of Law | Florida |
| Spring 2010 | Leonard Barkan Leonard Barkan Leonard Barkan is Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University. He was Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.He won the 2011 Harry Levin Prize.-Life:... |
Class of 1943 University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University | New Jersey |
| Spring 2010 | Janet Gezari Janet Gezari Janet Gezari is Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of Literatures in English, at Connecticut College.She was a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, in 2010. -Life:... |
Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English, Connecticut College | Connecticut |
| Spring 2010 | Francisco Goldman Francisco Goldman Francisco Goldman is an American novelist, journalist, and Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College. He is workshop director at , the journalism school for Latin-America created by Gabriel García Márquez... |
Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College, Hartford | Connecticut |
| Spring 2010 | Sunil Khilnani Sunil Khilnani Sunil Khilnani is a Professor of Politics, and Director of the King's College, London India Institute.He was a 2010 Berlin Prize Fellow.-Life:He earned a first at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and PhD at King’s College, Cambridge.... |
Starr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins University | Washington, DC |
| Spring 2010 | Charles Marsh Charles Marsh Charles Marsh was a Vermont politician who served in the United States House of Representatives.He was born in Lebanon, Connecticut. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he was appointed by George Washington to be U.S... |
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia | Virginia |
| Spring 2010 | Andrew J. Norman | Composer | New York |
| Spring 2010 | Michael Queenland | Artist | New York |
| Spring 2010 | Jeffrey Chipps | Smith Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, University of Texas | Austin Texas |
| Spring 2010 | Alexander Star | Deputy Editor, New York Times Magazine | New York |
| Spring 2010 | Camilo Jose Vergara Camilo José Vergara Camilo José Vergara is a Chilean-born, New York-based writer, photographer and documentarian. He was born in Santiago, Chile.Vergara has been compared to Jacob Riis for his photographic documentation of American slums and decaying urban environments... |
Writer, Photographer, Documentarian | New York |
| Spring 2010 | Amy Waldman | Writer and Journalist | New York |
| Spring 2010 | Judith Wechsler | National Endowment for the Humanities Professor, Art and Art History Department, Tufts University | Massachusetts |
| Spring 2010 | Peter Wortsman | Translator-Writer | New York |
| Fall 2009 | Rick Atkinson Rick Atkinson Rick Atkinson is an American journalist and author whose contributions led to four Pulitzer Prizes.-Life:Atkinson was born in Munich. His father was an United States Army officer and he grew up at military posts. He earned his bachelor degree from East Carolina University in 1974 and a master of... |
Author and Historian | Washington, DC |
| Fall 2009 | Leonard Barkan Leonard Barkan Leonard Barkan is Class of 1943 University Professor and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature, at Princeton University. He was Berlin Prize, Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow in Fall 2009.He won the 2011 Harry Levin Prize.-Life:... |
Class of 1943 University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University | New Jersey |
| Fall 2009 | Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Benjamin H. D. Buchloh is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University. His 2000 book, Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry, is a collection of eighteen essays on major figures of postwar art written since the late 1970s... |
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University | Massachusetts |
| Fall 2009 | Nathan Englander Nathan Englander Nathan Englander is a Jewish-American author born in Long Island, NY in 1970. He wrote the short story collection, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., in 1999... |
Writer | New York |
| Fall 2009 | Joel Harrington | Associate Provost for Global Strategy and Professor of History; Vanderbilt University | Tennessee |
| Fall 2009 | Jochen Hellbeck | Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University | New Jersey |
| Fall 2009 | Susan Howe Susan Howe Susan Howe is a American poet, scholar, essayist and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among others poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre... |
Poet | Connecticut |
| Fall 2009 | Peter Maass Peter Maass Peter Maass is an American journalist and author. He was born in 1960 in Los Angeles, California and graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Times Magazine. He has mainly covered... |
Contributing Writer, New York Times Magazine | New York |
| Fall 2009 | Andrew J. Norman | Composer | New York |
| Fall 2009 | George Packer George Packer George Packer is an American journalist, novelist and playwright.-Biography:Packer's parents, Nancy Packer and Herbert Packer, were both academics at Stanford University; his maternal grandfather was George Huddleston, a congressman from Alabama. His sister, Ann Packer, is also a writer... |
Journalist, The New Yorker | New York |
| Fall 2009 | Michael Queenland | Artist | New York |
| Fall 2009 | Mary Sarotte | Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California | California |
| Fall 2009 | Laura Secor | Journalist | New York |
| Fall 2009 | Philip Zelikow | White Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia, and former Counselor, US Department of State | Washington, DC |
| Spring 2009 | Donald Antrim Donald Antrim Donald Antrim is an American novelist. His first novel, Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World, was published in 1993... |
Writer | New York New York |
| Spring 2009 | Edward Dimendberg | Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine | California |
| Spring 2009 | Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs Michael Dobbs, Baron Dobbs is a British Conservative politician and best-selling author.-Background:Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the son of nurseryman Eric and Eileen Dobbs. He was educated at Hertford Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford University.... |
Former Foreign Correspondent, The Washington Post, and Cold-War historian | Washington, DC |
| Spring 2009 | Devin Fore | Assistant Professor for German Studies, Princeton University | New Jersey |
| Spring 2009 | Donald Kommers | Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law School | Indiana |
| Spring 2009 | Juliet Koss | Associate Professor of Art History, Scripps College | California |
| Spring 2009 | Charles Lane Charles Lane Charles Lane may refer to:*Charles Lane , U.S. character actor *Charles Lane , Washington Post reporter*Charles Lane , African-American actor/filmmaker... |
Journalist, he Washington Post | Washington, DC |
| Spring 2009 | Adrian Nicole | LeBlanc Writer, New York University New York University New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan... School of Journalism |
New York |
| Spring 2009 | Mitchell Merback | Associate Professor of Art History, Johns Hopkins University | Maryland |
| Spring 2009 | Susan Pedersen Susan Pedersen (historian) Susan Pedersen is a historian, and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University. Pedersen focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, women's history, settler colonialism, and the history of international institutions.-Life:... |
Professor of History, Columbia University | New York |
| Spring 2009 | Jed Rasula | Professor of English, University of Georgia | Georgia |
| Spring 2009 | Amy Sillman Amy Sillman Amy Sillman is an American painter living and working in New York.In a 2007 article in Artforum, Linda Norden wrote of Amy Sillman’s “fearless, tenacious pursuit of a painting that might accurately register the discomfort, incoherence, and absurdity that can characterize painterly experience—and... |
Artist | New York |
| Spring 2009 | Daniel Visconti | Composer | Virginia |