The Berlin Prize is a residential fellowship at the Hans Arnhold Center, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin to scholars and artists. Each year, about 20 fellows are selected.
The stated mission of the program is to improve the transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and public policy through the development and communication of projects of the highest scholarly merit.[1]
The program is privately funded through donations, with the Kellen-Arnhold family as Academy's primary source of financial support.[2]
History
[edit]The creation of the Academy and the program was driven by Richard C. Holbrooke, an American diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Germany towards the waning days of the Cold War. As the last of the American troops were leaving Berlin, Holbrooke proposed the academy as a way of maintaining U.S-German ties. The academy was created in 1994 and the first class of fellows were brought in September 1998.[2]
Recipients come from a wide range of academic fields and have included anthropologists, art historians, historians, philosophers, musicologists, sociologists, legal scholars, and economists, among others.[1]
Eligibility
[edit]Fellows must based permanently in the United States, though are not required to be U.S. citizens. American expatriates are explicitly stated to not be eligible.[1]
Academic candidates are expected to have completed a doctorate at the time of application, whereas applicants working in fields such as journalism, filmmaking, or public policy must have equivalent professional degrees or experience. Writers must have published at least one book.[1]
Previous Berlin Prize Fellows
[edit]Year | Winner | Work | Location |
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Fall 2016-Spring 2017 | Tom Franklin | Novelist, Assoc. Professor, Department of English, University of Mississippi, Oxford | Mississippi |
Fall 2016-Spring 2017 | Michael Watts | Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley | California |
Spring 2015 | Mary Jo Bang | Professor of English, Washington University in St. Louis | Missouri |
Fall 2015 | Jason Pine | Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Media Studies, Purchase College, State University of New York | |
Fall 2015 | Anthony Marra | Writer and Jones Lecturer in Fiction, Stanford University | |
Spring 2013 | Sinan Antoon | Assistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University | New York |
Spring 2013 | J.M. Bernstein | University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research | New York |
Spring 2013 | Gene Coleman | Composer, musician and director | New Jersey |
Spring 2013 | William Cordova | Interdisciplinary cultural practitioner | New York |
Spring 2013 | Charles Hirschkind | Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley | California |
Spring 2013 | Donald L. Horowitz | James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University | North Carolina |
Spring 2013 | Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann | Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University | New Jersey |
Spring 2013 | Susie Linfield | Associate professor of journalism; director, Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program, New York University | New York |
Spring 2013 | Béatrice Longuenesse | Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University | New York |
Spring 2013 | Saba Mahmood | Associate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley | California |
Spring 2013 | Lance Olsen | Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, University of Utah | Utah |
Spring 2013 | Ronald Suny | Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, University of Michigan | Michigan |
Spring 2013 | Francesca Trivellato | Frederick W. Hilles Professor of History, Yale University | Connecticut |
Fall 2012 | Joan Acocella | Staff writer, The New Yorker | |
Fall 2012 | Daniel Albright | Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard University | Massachusetts |
Fall 2012 | David Bollier | Author, activist and co-founder Commons Strategies Group | |
Fall 2012 | Peter Constantine | Literary translator, New York | New York |
Fall 2012 | Richard Hawkins | Visual Artist, Los Angeles | California |
Fall 2012 | Jonathan Laurence | Associate professor of political science, Boston College | Massachusetts |
Fall 2012 | Béatrice Longuenesse | Silver Professor of Philosophy, New York University | New York |
Fall 2012 | Heather McGowan | Writer, Brooklyn | New York |
Fall 2012 | Dean Moyar | Associate professor of philosophy, Johns Hopkins University | Maryland |
Fall 2012 | Celina Su | Associate professor of political science, City University of New York | New York |
Fall 2012 | Daniel N. Tiffany | Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California | California |
Fall 2012 | Hans R. Vaget | Helen & Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus of German Studies, Smith College | Massachusetts |
Fall 2012 | Michael A. Wachtel | Chair and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University | New Jersey |
Spring 2012 | Karen Alter | Professor of Political Science and Law, Northwestern University | |
Spring 2012 | Jay Bernstein | 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 | Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University | |
Spring 2012 | Martin Dimitrov | Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University | |
Spring 2012 | Michael Geyer | Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, and Faculty Director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago | |
Spring 2012 | Annie Gosfield | Composer | New York |
Spring 2012 | Avery Gordon | Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
Spring 2012 | Leslie Hewitt | Artist | New York |
Spring 2012 | Peter Lindseth | Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of Connecticut School of Law | |
Spring 2012 | Inga Markovits | Friends of Jamail Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law | |
Spring 2012 | Karen Russell | Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr College | |
Spring 2012 | M. Norton Wise | 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 | 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 | 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 | Writer
Kindness: A Novel |
New York |
Fall 2011 | Daniel Hobbins | 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 |
California |
Fall 2011 | Geoffrey O'Brien | Editor-in-Chief, Library of America
America Before the Code |
New York |
Fall 2011 | Paul Pfeiffer | Artist | New York |
Fall 2011 | Elizabeth Povinelli | Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University
Geontologies: Indigenous Worlds in the New Media and Late Liberalism |
New York |
Fall 2011 | Tom Sleigh | Poet and Distinguished Professor, Hunter College
New Poems |
New York |
Fall 2011 | John Van Engen | 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 | Professor of International Studies (Research), Brown University | Rhode Island |
Spring 2011 | Astrid M. Eckert | Assistant professor of Modern German History, Emory University, | Georgia |
Spring 2011 | Hal Foster | Townsend Martin 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, | New Jersey |
Spring 2011 | Rivka Galchen | Writer, | New York |
Spring 2011 | Todd Gitlin | 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 | Artist, | New York |
Spring 2011 | H. C. Erik Midelfort | 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 | Professor of Visual Arts, Princeton University, | New Jersey |
Spring 2011 | Ken Ueno | 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 | Sculptor, | California |
Fall 2010 | Laura Engelstein | Henry S. McNeil Professor of History, Yale University, | Connecticut |
Fall 2010 | Catherine Gallagher | Eggers Professor of English Literature, University of California at Berkeley, | California |
Fall 2010 | Anne Hull | Journalist, The Washington Post | Washington, DC |
Fall 2010 | Tamar Jacoby | President and CEO, Immigration Works USA, | New York |
Fall 2010 | Martin Jay | 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 | Novelist, New York, | New York |
Fall 2010 | Ken Ueno | Assistant professor of music, University of California at Berkeley, | California |
Fall 2010 | James Wood | Staff writer, The New Yorker, and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University, | Massachusetts |
Fall 2010 | John Wray | 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 | Class of 1943 University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University | New Jersey |
Spring 2010 | Janet Gezari | Lucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English, Connecticut College | Connecticut |
Spring 2010 | Francisco Goldman | Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College, Hartford | Connecticut |
Spring 2010 | Sunil Khilnani | Starr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins University | Washington, DC |
Spring 2010 | Charles Marsh | 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 | 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 | Author and historian | Washington, DC |
Fall 2009 | Leonard Barkan | Class of 1943 University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University | New Jersey |
Fall 2009 | Benjamin H. D. Buchloh | Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University | Massachusetts |
Fall 2009 | Nathan Englander | 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 | Poet | Connecticut |
Fall 2009 | Peter Maass | Contributing writer, New York Times magazine | New York |
Fall 2009 | Andrew J. Norman | Composer | New York |
Fall 2009 | George Packer | 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 | 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 | 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 | Journalist, The Washington Post | Washington, DC |
Spring 2009 | Adrian Nicole | LeBlanc Writer, New York University School of Journalism | New York |
Spring 2009 | Mitchell Merback | Associate professor of Art History, Johns Hopkins University | Maryland |
Spring 2009 | Susan Pedersen | Professor of History, Columbia University | New York |
Spring 2009 | Jed Rasula | Professor of English, University of Georgia | Georgia |
Spring 2009 | Amy Sillman | Artist | New York |
Spring 2009 | Daniel Visconti | Composer | Virginia |
Fall 2008 | Joel Agee | Writer | New York New York |
Fall 2008 | Leora Auslander | Professor of European Social History, University of Chicago | Illinois |
Fall 2008 | Patty Chang | Artist | New York New York |
Fall 2008 | Heide Fehrenbach | Presidential Research Professor, Northern Illinois University | Illinois |
Fall 2008 | Juliet Floyd | Professor of Philosophy, Boston University | Massachusetts |
Fall 2008 | Thomas Holt | James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History, University of Chicago | Illinois |
Fall 2008 | Ha Jin | Professor of English, Boston University | Massachusetts |
Fall 2008 | David Sabean | Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles | California |
Fall 2008 | Angela Stent | Professor at the School of Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University | Washington, DC |
Fall 2008 | Daniel Visconti | Composer | Virginia |
Spring 2008 | Anne Applebaum | Columnist and editorial board member, The Washington Post | Washington, DC |
Spring 2008 | Nicholas Eberstadt | Henry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute | Washington, DC |
Spring 2008 | Mitch Epstein | Photographer | New York |
Spring 2008 | Claire Finkelstein | Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law School | Pennsylvania |
Spring 2008 | Kenneth Gross | Professor of English, University of Rochester | New York |
Spring 2008 | Gregg Horowitz | Associate professor of philosophy, Vanderbilt University | Tennessee |
Spring 2008 | David L. Lewis | Julius Silver University Professor and Professor of History, New York University | New York |
Spring 2008 | David Mayers | Professor and Chair of Political Science, Boston University | Massachusetts |
Spring 2008 | Collier Schorr | Photographer | New York |
Spring 2008 | Elizabeth Sears | Professor of Art History, University of Michigan | Michigan |
Spring 2008 | Sean Shepherd | Composer | New York |
Spring 2008 | Steven Simon | Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations | New York |
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Berlin Prize — Fellowships to Study in Berlin, Germany | Research Funding". Research Funding at Duke. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- ^ a b "The History of the Hans Arnhold Center". American Academy. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110113151627/http://www.americanacademy.de/home/about-us/hans-arnhold-center/
- http://www.americanacademy.de/fellows-distinguished-visitors/alumni/fellows/