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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

Akademischer Werdegang 2020 - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Institut für Architekturtheorie und Baugeschichte, Universität Innsbruck 2018 Bruno Zevi Prize 2018 Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Dissertationspreis, 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

Akademischer Werdegang Seit April 2021 Akademischer Rat a.Z. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Institut für Soziologie Apr. 2023 – Oct. 2023 Fellow am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut (KWI), Essen Aug.2022 – Nov.2022 Visiting Fellow…

Dr. Justin Begley

Academic Career Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Fellow Universität Basel 2023- Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2021-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities University of Helsinki 2017-2020 DPhil in English Literature University…

PD Dr. Christian Berger

AKADEMISCHER WERDEGANG seit April 2023 Fellow der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung am KWI (Thyssen@KWI Fellow) 11/2022 Habilitation im Fach Kunstgeschichte an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz mit der Habilitationsschrift Worldly Matter: Materialität und Wirklichkeitsbezug…

Dr. Paul Buckermann

Akademischer Werdegang Seit 2026 Reseacher/co-project leader at Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen. 2024-2026 Research fellow at Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen. 2023-2024…

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

Akademischer Werdegang 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

Akademischer Werdegang 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 of Musicology/Hungary 2018…

Dr. Kasey Henricks

ACADEMIC CAREER Since 2017  Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Tennessee at Knoxville 2017 Visiting Academic, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University 2016-2017 Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for…

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

Akademischer Werdegang WS 2022/23 Thyssen@KWI-Fellow, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen WS 2021/22 Gastprofessorin am Institut für Germanistik der Universität Wien Seit 3/2021 Annemarie-Schimmel-Stipendiatin, Universität Erfurt 2017-2020 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Karlsruher Institut für…

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

Akademischer Werdegang seit 10/2019 Assistant Professor für Europäische Kultur und Literatur mit Schwerpunkt auf Deutscher Literatur an der Universität Groningen 04–09/2023 Fellow am KWI Essen 03/2022 Gründung der Forschungsgruppe Re/Präsentation…

Dr. Weronika Kobylińska

Academic career since March 2022 – a member of the research team focusing on the problem of visualization of knowledge (program of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education), project…

Dr. Nisha Kommattam

Academic Career Employment: Associate Instructional Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago, USA Education: Ph.D.  South Asian Studies (summa cum laude), University of Cologne, Germany Research Interests: Gender and…

Dr. Irit Kornblit

Academic Career Higher Education 2011 – 2018    Bar Ilan University, Department of French Culture, PhD. Dissertation: “A Discursive and Rhetorical Analysis of the Keyword Cultural Diversity in Institutional Discourses” (French).…

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

Akademischer Werdegang 03/2023 & 09/2024 Visting Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT seit 10/2020 Juniorprofessorin für Sozialphilosophie/Kritische Theorie mit Tenure-Track, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 09/2018-02/2019 Visiting…

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

Academic Career Since 2020 Co-Host of New Books Network and New Books Network-Español Since 2018 Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Spanish at the Milwaukee School of Engineering; Co-Director…

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

AKADEMISCHER WERDEGANG Seit Oktober 2020 KWI International Fellow at the KWI in Essen, Germany Seit Juli 2019 Unabhängiger Forscher Oktober 2018 bis Juli 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

Akademischer Werdegang 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

Academic Career Since 2021 Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies, York St John University, UK 2018-2021 Lecturer in Critical Studies, York St John University, UK 2017 PhD in Art Theory and…

Dr. Hannah Richter

Akademischer Werdegang Seit 2023 Dozentin (Vollzeit, feste Stelle) in Politikwissenschaft an der University of Sussex, Groβbritannien; 2022 – 2023 Principal Lecturer (äquivalent zu Reader) in Politikwissenschaft und Internationale Beziehungen an…

Dr. Morgan Robinson

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

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Dr. Sanam Roohi

Academic Career 04/2023-09/2023 Incoming International Fellow Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KWI), Essen, Germany 01/2022-06/2022 AvH funded Visiting Research Fellowship Anthropology department, University of Sussex, UK 10/2021-09/2025 COST ACTION…

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

Akademischer Werdegang 2023/2024 Fellow am KWI Seit April 2020 Principal Investigator, Forschungsprojekte zum digitalen Bild (DFG SPP 2172 „Das digitale Bild“) 2022/2023 VII Masterclass in Arles: Fotografie (Reportage, dokumentarisch, konzeptionell-künstlerisch)…

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

AKADEMISCHER WERDEGANG seit Oktober 2020 Thyssen-Fellow am KWI 9/2019 – 08/2020 Columbia University, New York Fulbright Schuman Postdoctoral Scholar, European Institute 09/2018 – 08/2019 European University Institute, Florenz Max Weber…

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

AKADEMISCHER WERDEGANG 2015-2022 Promotionsstudium zum PhD in German Studies, Yale University, mit einer Dissertation zum Thema: "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

Akademischer Werdegang 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

Academic Career 2022- Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature/SELMA Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, University of Turku, Finland 2019-2021 Postdoctoral Researcher, Turku School of Advanced Studies, University…

Dr. Philipp Weber

AKADEMISCHER WERDEGANG 2023: Fellow am KWI Essen Seit 2015: Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2020-2022: Feodor-Lynen-Fellow an der Indiana University Bloomington 2016: Promotion an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 2014-2015: Wissenschaftlicher…

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…