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

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

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

Year Winner Work Location
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 2008Joel AgeeWriterNew York New York
Fall 2008Leora AuslanderProfessor of European Social History, University of ChicagoIllinois
Fall 2008Patty ChangArtistNew York New York
Fall 2008Heide FehrenbachPresidential Research Professor, Northern Illinois UniversityIllinois
Fall 2008Juliet FloydProfessor of Philosophy, Boston UniversityMassachusetts
Fall 2008Thomas HoltJames Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History, University of ChicagoIllinois
Fall 2008Ha JinProfessor of English, Boston UniversityMassachusetts
Fall 2008David SabeanProfessor of History, University of California, Los AngelesCalifornia
Fall 2008Angela StentProfessor at the School of Foreign Service and Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC
Fall 2008Daniel ViscontiComposerVirginia
Spring 2008Anne ApplebaumColumnist and editorial board member, The Washington PostWashington, DC
Spring 2008Nicholas EberstadtHenry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy, American Enterprise InstituteWashington, DC
Spring 2008Mitch EpsteinPhotographerNew York
Spring 2008Claire FinkelsteinProfessor of Law and Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania Law SchoolPennsylvania
Spring 2008Kenneth GrossProfessor of English, University of RochesterNew York
Spring 2008Gregg HorowitzAssociate professor of philosophy, Vanderbilt UniversityTennessee
Spring 2008David L. LewisJulius Silver University Professor and Professor of History, New York UniversityNew York
Spring 2008David MayersProfessor and Chair of Political Science, Boston UniversityMassachusetts
Spring 2008Collier SchorrPhotographerNew York
Spring 2008Elizabeth SearsProfessor of Art History, University of MichiganMichigan
Spring 2008Sean ShepherdComposerNew York
Spring 2008Steven SimonHasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign RelationsNew York

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Berlin Prize — Fellowships to Study in Berlin, Germany | Research Funding". Research Funding at Duke. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  2. 1 2 "The History of the Hans Arnhold Center". American Academy. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
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