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Dr. Tom Allen

Academic Career January 2023 – August 2023 : Temporary Teacher and Researcher. The University of Paris, Nanterre. August 2021 – January 2023: Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Film. The American…

Dr. Tim Altenhof

CV 2020 - University Assistant, Department for Architectural Theory, University of Innsbruck 2018 Bruno Zevi Prize 2018 Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Dissertation Award, Yale University 2012-2018 M.Phil, PhD, Yale University;…

Dr. Martin Babička

Academic career – since 01/2023: postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague – 04-06/2024: visiting fellow, Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam – 04/2024: D.Phil., University…

Dr. Bojan Baća

Dr. Niklas Barth

Academic Career Apr.2021 – Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat a.Z.) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Department of Sociology Apr. 2023 – Oct.2023 Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI), Essen Aug.2022 – Nov.2022 Visiting Fellow,…

Dr. Justin Begley

PD Dr. Christian Berger

ACADEMIC CAREER since April 2023 Thyssen Foundation Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut | Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Thyssen@KWI Fellow) 11/2022 Habilitation in Art History at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Thesis: Worldly Matter: Materialität…

Dr. Paul Buckermann

Academic Career 2024 Research fellow at Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen. 2023-2024 Interim professor of political sociology at Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology at Heidelberg University. 2020-2023 Postdoc…

Dr. Spiros Chairetis

Academic Career 06/2024-09/2024 Visiting Research Fellow, Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH), Greece 02/2024-06/2024 Marilena-Laskaridis Visiting Scholar, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands 02/2022-present Postdoctoral Researcher in Media, Panteion University of Social…

Dr. des. Kris Decker

Dr. Emily Doucet

ACADEMIC CAREER Since May 2021 - International Fellow, Institute for Cultural Studies Essen 11/2020 - PhD, University of Toronto, Department of Art History  9/2013 - MA with Distinction, University College…

Dr. Sophie Duvernoy

Academic Career 2023-2024 Translation Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts 2022-2023 Doctoral Research Fellow, Berlin Program, Freie Universität Berlin 2021-2022 Leo Baeck Doctoral Fellow, Leo Baeck Fellowship Programme/Studienstiftung des deutschen…

Azadeh Fatehrad

Academic Career PhD Practice- based, Photography Department, Royal College of Art. (Thesis Unconditional Pass) MRes Art practice, University of the Arts London Master of Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art…

Dr. Veronica Ferreri

Academic Career 01/10/2022- 30/09/2025 Global Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University, Venice. Postdoctoral Visiting Researcher at the Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo (01/06/23 –…

Dr. Carl Fischer

Academic career – since 2023: Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, Fordham University (Associate Professor 2018-2023, Assistant Professor 2012-2018) – 2022-2024: Chair, Department of Languages…

Dr. Andrew Fisher

Academic Career 2019 - 2024 Research Fellow, FAMU, Photgraphy Department of the Academy of Performing Arts, Prague 2008 - 2018 Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Visual Cultures Department, Goldsmiths, University of…

Dr. Petr Gibas

Academic Career Since 2021 Management Committee member, COST Action TRACTS (CA20134): Traces as Research Agenda for Climate Change, Technology Studies, and Social Justice 2018 – 2020 Leader of the research…

Dr. Olivia Glaze

Olivia Glaze is a Medical Humanities scholar whose research explores how experiences of illness, trauma, and disability are narrated in contemporary Portuguese literature, film, and visual culture. While grounded in…

Dr. L. Sasha Gora

CV 2022 – present KWI International Fellow, Essen, Germany 2022 Politics of Food Resident, Delfina Foundation, London, England 2021 – 2022 Editorial Director & Lecturer, Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich,…

Dr. des. Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier

Academic career – 2020-2024: Research Associate, Amerika-Institut, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – 2020-2024: Doctoral Candidate, ERC Starting Grant The Arts of Autonomy – 2022: Post-Graduate Research Fellow, Harvard University –…

Dr. habil. Ferenc Hammer

Associate Professor the Media and Communications Department at ELTE University in Budapest since 1997. His teaching areas, research fields and project topics comprise disinformation, media representations of inequalities and conflict, cultural…

Dr. Ádám Havas

Academic Career 03/2022-05/2022 Module Leader, Central European University (CEU)/Budapest-Vienna 01/2019-05/2022 Head of Social Sciences/Milestone Institute/Hungary 09/2018-08/2022 Module leader/Milestone Institute/Hungary 09/2017-12/2018 Research assistant, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: Institute ofMusicology/Hungary 2018 PhD,…

Dr. Kasey Henricks

Dr. Matthew Holmes

Matthew Holmes is a historian of science and the environment. He received his PhD from the University of Leeds and has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cambridge and…

Dr. Alexandra Irimia

Dr. Sandra Janßen

CV Currently Thyssen@KWI-Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen Winter 2021-22 Visiting Professor, University of Vienna, German Department Since 3/2021 Annemarie Schimmel Fellow at the Chair for History of Science, University of Erfurt…

Dr. Gregory Jones-Katz

Academic career 2016-   Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Ph.D. American History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Graduation Date: August 2016 Research Interest American…

Dr. Minwoo Jung

2024 International Fellow, The Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen 2021 – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Loyola University Chicago 2021 Ph.D., Sociology, University of Southern California, 2021…

Dr. Regina Karl

Dr. Ciarán Kavanagh

Ciarán Kavanagh completed his PhD at University College Cork, Ireland, in 2019. This research forms the basis of his forthcoming book, Refiguring Reader-Response: Experience and Interpretation in Contemporary Fiction (University…

Dr. Verena Kick

CV 2019 - Assistant Professor of German Department of German, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.                                                2019 Ph.D., German Studies University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2015 Graduate Certificate: Cinema & Media Studies…

Dr. Christian Kirchmeier

Academic Career since 10/2019 Assistant Professor for European Culture and Literature with a focus on German Literature at the University of Groningen 04–09/2023 Fellow at the KWI Essen 03/2022 Research…

Dr. Weronika Kobylińska

Dr. Nisha Kommattam

Dr. Irit Kornblit

Dr. Stefan Laffin

Academic Career – 2025: Ludwig and Margarethe Quidde Fellow at the German Historical Institute Rome – 2022-2024: Research Associate (Postdoc) at the Leibniz University Hannover – 2021: Fellow at the…

Prof. Dr. Kristina Lepold

Academic Career 03/2023 & 09/2024 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT since 10/2020 Junior Professor of Social Philosophy/Critical Theory, with tenure-track (equivalent to an assistant professorship) Department…

Dr. Péter Kristóf Makai

ACADEMIC CAREER April - September 2021  KWI International Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen Project: Theme Parks in an Intermedial Context 2018-2020   Crafoord Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Linnaeus University’ Centre for Intermedial…

Dr. Anca Mandru

Academic Career 2021- 2023 Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Researcher in the project “The Liminality of Failing Democracy: East Central Europe during the Interwar Slump,” University of Birmingham, UK 2019- 2020 Teaching…

Dr. Candela Marini

Dr. Alice Morin

Academic Career 2020-2023 Postdoctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliches Mitarbeiterin) – Philipps-Universität Marburg, Institut für Medienwissenschaft FOR Journalliteratur. Project "A Media-Based Comparison of Fragment Migration: Photographs in Periodicals and Books in the…

Dr. Ryan Nutting

ACADEMIC CAREER Since October 2020 KWI International Fellow at the KWI in Essen, Germany Since July 2019 Independent Researcher October 2018 through July 2019 Research Assistant in Travel Writing- Nottingham…

Dr. Opolot Okia

Academic Career Since 2009 Professor, Wright State University 2012-2016 Director, African African American Studies Program, Wright State University 2007 to 2009 Visiting Lecturer, Fulbright Scholar, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, Department…

Dr. Marissa Petrou

Dr. Karel Pletinck

Karel Pletinck is a postdoctoral researcher interested in the interconnections between history, philosophy and the arts, with a focus on post-war Europe. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from…

Dr. Floramente SJ Ponce

Floramente SJ Ponce is a social anthropologist with extensive experience in development-induced displacement, actual and spiritual forms of energy, and Chinese infrastructure in Southeast Asia, particularly Laos. Most of his…

Assoc. Prof. Elizabeth Ramírez-Soto

Academic Career Since 2024 Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts, Columbia University 2023 - 2024 Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University…

Dr. Tilo Reifenstein

Dr Hannah Richter

Academic Career 2023 – present Lecturer (full-time, permanent) in Politics at the University of Sussex, UK; 2022 – 2023 Principal Lecturer (Reader equivalent) in Politics and International Relations at the…

Dr. Morgan Robinson Flow

Academic Career Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, Assistant Professor, Fall 2018 – Present Institute of Asian and African Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers January 2021-July…

Dr. Carla Rodrigues Almeida

Dr. Sanam Roohi

Academic Career 04/2023-09/2023 Incoming International Fellow Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI), Essen, Germany 09/2020-01/2023 Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Postdoctoral Fellow Centre for Modern Indian Studies, University of…

Dr. Alexandria N. Ruble

Alexandria N. Ruble is an assistant professor of European history at the University of Idaho. She earned her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017.…

Dr. Evelyn Runge

Academic Career 2023/2024 KWI Fellow Since April 2020 Principal Investigator, research projects about the digital image (funded by the German Research Council DFG SPP 2172 „The Digital Image “) 2022/2023…

Dr. Chiara Salari

Academic Career - Since April 2021: Thyssen KWI International Fellow, Institut for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen - 2020-2021: researcher at the LARCA (Center for the Studies of the…

Dr. Christoph Schaub

Christoph Schaub holds a PhD in Germanic Languages from Columbia University and completed his Habilitation (postdoctoral dissertation) at the University of Vechta in 2025. He has taught German literature and…

Dr. Danilo Scholz

ACADEMIC CAREER October 2020 - present Thyssen Fellow at KWI Essen (Institut for Advanced Study in the Humanities) 9/2019 – 08/2020 Columbia University, New York Fulbright Schuman Postdoctoral Scholar, European…

Dr. Katia Schwerzmann

Academic Career 11.2022 – 10.2024 Research Associate, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Research Project Interact! New Forms of Social Interaction with Intelligent Systems 05.2020 – 09.2022 Postdoc Research Associate and Instructor, Bauhaus…

Dr. Cecilia Sebastian

ACADEMIC CAREER 2015-2022 Graduate studies towards PhD in German Studies, Yale University, with a dissertation titled: "Critical Theory in Revolt: Angela Davis, Rudi Dutschke, Hans-Jürgen Krahl and the Frankfurt School,…

Dr. Bécquer Seguín

Academic Career 2021–        International Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen 2017–        Assistant Professor of Iberian Studies, Johns Hopkins University 2016–17   Assistant Professor of Spanish, Lawrence…

Dr. Jörg Später

Academic Career Dezember 2021 - November 2023 Stipendiat der Gerda Henkel-Stiftung für das Buch über die Frankfurter Schule nach Adornos Tod Januar 2014 - Oktober 2016 Stipendiat der Gerda Henkel-Stiftung…

Dr. Avril Tynan

Dr. Philipp Weber

ACADEMIC CAREER 2023: Fellow at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut / Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Essen 2015–present: Research Assistant at Ruhr University Bochum 2020-2022: Feodor-Lynen-Fellow at Indiana University Bloomington 2016: PhD…

Dr. Kathrin Yacavone

Academic Career since April 2022 – Thyssen@KWI International Fellow at the KWI Essen 2019 – 2022 – Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universities of Constance and Cologne 2011…