Berlin Prize


The Berlin Prize is a residential fellowship at the Hans Arnhold Center, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin.

Fellows of the American Academy in Berlin

YearWinnerWorkLocation
Fall 2016-Spring 2017Tom FranklinNovelist, Assoc. Professor, Department of English, University of Mississippi, OxfordMississippi
Fall 2016-Spring 2017Michael WattsProfessor Emeritus, Department of Geography, University of California, BerkeleyCalifornia
Spring 2015Mary Jo BangProfessor of English, Washington University in St. LouisMissouri
Spring 2013Sinan AntoonAssistant Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York UniversityNew York
Spring 2013J.M. BernsteinUniversity Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social ResearchNew York
Spring 2013Gene ColemanComposer, musician and directorNew Jersey
Spring 2013William CordovaInterdisciplinary cultural practitionerNew York
Spring 2013Charles HirschkindAssociate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at BerkeleyCalifornia
Spring 2013Donald L. HorowitzJames B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke UniversityNorth Carolina
Spring 2013Thomas DaCosta KaufmannFrederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton UniversityNew Jersey
Spring 2013Susie LinfieldAssociate professor of journalism; director, Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program, New York UniversityNew York
Spring 2013Béatrice LonguenesseSilver Professor of Philosophy, New York UniversityNew York
Spring 2013Saba MahmoodAssociate professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California at BerkeleyCalifornia
Spring 2013Lance OlsenProfessor of Literature and Creative Writing, University of UtahUtah
Spring 2013Ronald SunyCharles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Social and Political History, University of MichiganMichigan
Spring 2013Francesca TrivellatoFrederick W. Hilles Professor of History, Yale UniversityConnecticut
Fall 2012Joan AcocellaStaff writer, The New Yorker
Fall 2012Daniel AlbrightErnest Bernbaum Professor of Literature, Harvard UniversityMassachusetts
Fall 2012David BollierAuthor, activist and co-founder Commons Strategies Group
Fall 2012Peter ConstantineLiterary translator, New YorkNew York
Fall 2012Richard HawkinsVisual Artist, Los AngelesCalifornia
Fall 2012Jonathan LaurenceAssociate professor of Political Science, Boston CollegeMassachusetts
Fall 2012Béatrice LonguenesseSilver Professor of Philosophy, New York UniversityNew York
Fall 2012Heather McGowanWriter, BrooklynNew York
Fall 2012Dean MoyarAssociate professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland
Fall 2012Celina SuAssociate professor of Political Science, City University of New YorkNew York
Fall 2012Daniel N. TiffanyProfessor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern CaliforniaCalifornia
Fall 2012Hans R. VagetHelen & Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus of German Studies, Smith CollegeMassachusetts
Fall 2012Michael A. WachtelChair and Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton UniversityNew Jersey
Spring 2012Karen AlterProfessor of Political Science and Law, Northwestern University
Spring 2012Jay BernsteinUniversity Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
Spring 2012Charles BrightArthur J. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan
Spring 2012Leland de la DurantayeGardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University
Spring 2012Martin DimitrovAssociate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University
Spring 2012Michael GeyerSamuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, and Faculty Director, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
Spring 2012Annie GosfieldComposerNew York
Spring 2012Avery GordonProfessor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Spring 2012Leslie HewittArtistNew York
Spring 2012Peter LindsethOlimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Spring 2012Inga MarkovitsFriends of Jamail Regents Chair in Law, University of Texas School of Law
Spring 2012Karen RussellVisiting Professor of Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr College
Spring 2012M. Norton WiseDistinguished Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Fall 2011Jennifer CulbertAssociate professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
The Jurisprudence of Hannah Arendt		Maryland
Fall 2011Leland de la DurantayeGardner Cowles Associate Professor of English, Harvard University
Wörterstürmerei im Namen der Schönheit, or World and Work in Samuel Beckett		Massachusetts
Fall 2011James Der DerianProfessor of International Studies, Brown University
Human Terrain: When War Becomes Academic 		Rhode Island
Fall 2011Alice EaglyProfessor 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 2011Adam HaslettWriter
Kindness: A Novel		New York
Fall 2011Daniel HobbinsAssociate professor of History, Ohio State University
Origins of Print: How Medieval Culture Ushered in the First Media Revolution		Ohio
Fall 2011Susan McCabeProfessor of English, University of Southern California
Bryher: Female Husband of Modernism 		California
Fall 2011Geoffrey O'BrienEditor-in-Chief, Library of America
America Before the Code		New York
Fall 2011Paul PfeifferArtistNew York
Fall 2011Elizabeth PovinelliProfessor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University
Geontologies: Indigenous Worlds in the New Media and Late Liberalism		New York
Fall 2011Tom SleighPoet and Distinguished Professor, Hunter College
New Poems 		New York
Fall 2011John Van EngenAndrew V. Tackes Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Europe's Twelfth-Century "Turn", Narrative of Medieval History		Indiana
Spring 2011James Der DerianProfessor of International Studies, Brown UniversityRhode Island
Spring 2011Astrid M. EckertAssistant professor of Modern German History, Emory University,Georgia
Spring 2011Hal FosterTownsend Martin 1917 Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University,New Jersey
Spring 2011Rivka GalchenWriter,New York
Spring 2011Todd GitlinProfessor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University,New York
Spring 2011Pieter M. JudsonProfessor of History, Swarthmore College,Pennsylvania
Spring 2011Ellen KennedyProfessor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania
Spring 2011Dave McKenzieArtist,New York
Spring 2011H. C. Erik MidelfortProfessor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies, University of Virginia,Virginia
Spring 2011Norman M. NaimarkRobert and Florence McDonnell Professor in East European Studies, Stanford University,California
Spring 2011David B. RudermanJoseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Pennsylvania,Pennsylvania
Spring 2011P. Adams SitneyProfessor of Visual Arts, Princeton University,New Jersey
Spring 2011Ken UenoAssistant Professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley,California
Fall 2010Brigid CohenAssistant Professor of Music, University of North Carolina,?North Carolina
Fall 2010Stanley CorngoldProfessor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University,New Jersey
Fall 2010Aaron CurrySculptor,California
Fall 2010Laura EngelsteinHenry S. McNeil Professor of History, Yale University,Connecticut
Fall 2010Catherine GallagherEggers Professor of English Literature, University of California at Berkeley,California
Fall 2010Anne HullJournalist, The Washington PostWashington, DC
Fall 2010Tamar JacobyPresident and CEO, Immigration Works USA,New York
Fall 2010Martin JaySidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley,California
Fall 2010Kirk JohnsonExecutive Director, The List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies,New York
Fall 2010Han OngNovelist, New York,New York
Fall 2010Ken UenoAssistant professor of Music, University of California at Berkeley,California
Fall 2010James WoodStaff writer, The New Yorker, and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism, Harvard University,Massachusetts
Fall 2010John WrayWriter,New York City
Spring 2010David Abraham Professor of Immigration and Citizenship Law, University of Miami School of LawFlorida
Spring 2010Leonard BarkanClass of 1943 University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton UniversityNew Jersey
Spring 2010Janet GezariLucy Marsh Haskell '19 Professor of English, Connecticut CollegeConnecticut
Spring 2010Francisco GoldmanAllen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing, Trinity College, HartfordConnecticut
Spring 2010Sunil KhilnaniStarr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Program, The Johns Hopkins UniversityWashington, DC
Spring 2010Charles MarshProfessor of Religious Studies, University of VirginiaVirginia
Spring 2010Andrew J. NormanComposerNew York
Spring 2010Michael QueenlandArtistNew York
Spring 2010Jeffrey ChippsSmith Kay Fortson Chair in European Art, University of TexasAustin Texas
Spring 2010Alexander StarDeputy editor, New York Times MagazineNew York
Spring 2010Camilo Jose VergaraWriter, photographer, documentarianNew York
Spring 2010Amy WaldmanWriter and journalistNew York
Spring 2010Judith WechslerNational Endowment for the Humanities Professor, Art and Art History Department, Tufts UniversityMassachusetts
Spring 2010Peter WortsmanTranslator-writerNew York
Fall 2009Rick AtkinsonAuthor and historianWashington, DC
Fall 2009Leonard BarkanClass of 1943 University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton UniversityNew Jersey
Fall 2009Benjamin H. D. BuchlohAndrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard UniversityMassachusetts
Fall 2009Nathan EnglanderWriterNew York
Fall 2009Joel HarringtonAssociate Provost for Global Strategy and Professor of History; Vanderbilt UniversityTennessee
Fall 2009Jochen HellbeckAssociate professor of History, Rutgers UniversityNew Jersey
Fall 2009Susan HowePoetConnecticut
Fall 2009Peter MaassContributing writer, New York Times magazineNew York
Fall 2009Andrew J. NormanComposerNew York
Fall 2009George PackerJournalist, The New YorkerNew York
Fall 2009Michael QueenlandArtistNew York
Fall 2009Mary SarotteProfessor of International Relations, University of Southern CaliforniaCalifornia
Fall 2009Laura SecorJournalistNew York
Fall 2009Philip ZelikowWhite Burkett Miller Professor of History, University of Virginia, and former Counselor, US Department of StateWashington, DC
Spring 2009Donald AntrimWriterNew York, New York
Spring 2009Edward DimendbergAssociate professor of Film and Media Studies, University of California, IrvineCalifornia
Spring 2009Michael DobbsFormer foreign correspondent, The Washington Post, and cold-war historianWashington, DC
Spring 2009Devin ForeAssistant professor for German Studies, Princeton UniversityNew Jersey
Spring 2009Donald KommersJoseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Law SchoolIndiana
Spring 2009Juliet KossAssociate professor of Art History, Scripps CollegeCalifornia
Spring 2009Charles LaneJournalist, The Washington PostWashington, DC
Spring 2009Adrian NicoleLeBlanc Writer, New York University School of JournalismNew York
Spring 2009Mitchell MerbackAssociate professor of Art History, Johns Hopkins UniversityMaryland
Spring 2009Susan PedersenProfessor of History, Columbia UniversityNew York
Spring 2009Jed RasulaProfessor of English, University of GeorgiaGeorgia
Spring 2009Amy SillmanArtistNew York
Spring 2009Daniel ViscontiComposerVirginia
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