Visiting Scholars:

Every year, Deutsches Haus at NYU invites DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) visiting scholars. All academic disciplines are taken into consideration, and the scholars are actively involved in Deutsches Haus programming through lectures, conferences, and workshops.

Please have a look at the interviews with our visiting scholars and fellows to learn more about their projects and careers.

2023
Ulrike Bergermann
Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier

2022
Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Professor of British Cultural and Literary Studies at the University of Vienna
Frank Kelleter, Head of the Department of Culture at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universitaet Berlin

2020
Claudia Wiesner - Professor of Political Science, Fulda University of Applied Sciences

2019
Andreas Bernard - Professor of Cultural Studies, Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Christiane Lemke - Professor of Political Science, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Susanne Rohr - Professor of American Studies, University of Hamburg
Angela Zumpe - Professor Emerita of Audio-Visual Media/Film, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences

2018
Hanjo Berressem - Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of Cologne
Boris Vormann - Professor of Political Science, Bard College Berlin
Christine Landfried - Professor Emerita of Political Science, University of Hamburg

2017
Laura Bieger - Professor of English and North American Studies, University of Groningen 
Monika Pietrzak-Franger - Professor of English Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Vienna

2016
Sabine Sielke - Director of the North American Studies Program, University of Bonn
Robin Curtis - Professor of Media Cultural Studies, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

2015
Uwe Wirth - Professor of New German Literature and Culture, Justus-Liebig-University, Giessen
Wolf Lepenies - Professor Emeritus of Cultural Sociology and Cultural Anthropology, Free University of Berlin
Susanne Rohr - Professor of American Studies, University of Hamburg

2014
Marc Ebers - Professor of Business Administration, Corporate Development and Organization, University of Cologne
Claudia Benthien - Professor of German Literature and Cultural Theory, University of Hamburg

2013
Heinrich Detering - Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
Wolfgang Kemp - Professor of Art History, Leuphana University, Lüneburg

2012
Peter Engelmann - Founder of Passagen Verlag
Ulrike Guerot - Professor of European Politics and the Study of Democracy, Danube University Krems

2011
Thomas Elsässer - Professor Emeritus of Film and Television Studies, University of Amsterdam
Ernst Osterkamp - Professor of German Literature, Humboldt University, Berlin

2010
Gisela Klann-Delius - Professor of Linguistics, Free University of Berlin
Axel Klawonn - Professor of Mathematics, University of Duisburg-Essen

2009
Karsten Voigt - German Foreign Office
Inka Muelder-Bach - Professor of German Literature, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich

Visiting Fellows:

Each year, Deutsches Haus at NYU also invites one DAAD visiting fellow, in cooperation with the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law.

2017
Paulina Starski - Senior Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

2016
Thomas Wischmeyer - Emile Noël Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Jean Monnet Center, Senior Research Fellow at University of Freiburg

2014
Dominik Steiger - Emile Noël Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Jean Monnet Center, Senior Fellow at Free University of Berlin

2013
Theresa Reinold - Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB)

2012
Niels Petersen - Research Affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

2011
Franz C. Mayer - Senior Emile Noël Fellow at New York University's School of Law, Professor of Law, University of Bielefeld

2010
Wolfgang Kerber - Senior Global Research Fellow at New York University Law School, Professor of Economics at the University of Marburg

2009
Tillmann Rudolf Braun - Fellow from Government at New York University School of Law, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, Berlin / Lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the Humboldt University, Berlin