Former Fellows

1998-1999

Pertti Ahonen (Doctoral Fellow), Department of History, Yale University.Area of research: 20th century Europe, especially international relations and Germany.

Ulrich Baer (NYU Faculty Fellow), Department of Germanic Languages and Literature. Area of research: representation of traumatic experience in modern European poetry.

Yanni Kotsonis (NYU Faculty Fellow), Department of History. Area of research: taxing Russians in the early 20th century.

Marco Martiniello (Senior Visiting Fellow), Senior Research Fellow of the National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium, and Lecturer at the University of Liège, Faculty of Law and Political Science. Area of research: ethnicity, migration, citizenship, nationalism in the EuropeanUnion and North America.

Jan-Werner Müller (Senior Visiting Fellow), Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. Area of research: European, particularly German, intellectual history; nationalism; memory and power; self-determination and the United Nations, particularly in Eastern Europe.

Avner Offer (Senior Visiting Fellow), Nuffield College, Oxford. Area of research: economic and social history, in particular the effect of American consumption, norms and expectations on Britain since 1945.

Thomas Wilson (Senior Visiting Fellow), Institute of European Studies, the Queen's University of Belfast. Area of research: social anthropology, European Union, national identities, international borders.

1999-2000

William Gray (Post-Doctoral Fellow), Ph.D. July 1999. Department of History, Yale University. Area of research: Modern Germany history, in particular the "Hallstein Doctrine"; ethnic politics and Cold War history.

Jan Gross (NYU Faculty Fellow), Professor, Department of Politics. Area of research: post 1944 European history; communism; Jewish-Polish relations.

Lynne Haney (NYU Faculty Fellow), Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology. Area of research: Hungarian welfare development and comparative welfare states; feminist theory; globalization.

Jan Willem Honig (Senior Visiting Fellow), Senior Lecturer in War Studies, Department of War Studies, King's College, London. Area of research: strategic thought, with particular reference to humanitarian intervention.

Berel Lang (Senior Visiting Fellow), Professor of Humanities, Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. Area of research: Social Theory/Ethics, Holocaust Studies, Aesthetics.

Sophia Rosenfeld (Post-Doctoral Fellow), Ph.D. 1996, Harvard University.Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia. Area of research: European history, especially France, 17th - 20th centuries.

2000-2001

Gabriela Basterra (NYU Faculty Fellow, Fall semester 2000), Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Area of research: Contemporary Spanish literature, ethical and social philosophy, urban culture.

Ian Buruma (Senior Visiting Fellow, Fall semester 2000), Author and Journalist. Area of interest: National identities in Europe and East Asia.

Katherine Fleming (NYU Faculty Fellow, Spring semester 2001), Assistant Professor, Departments of History/Hellenic Studies. Area of research: Modern Greece, late Ottoman Empire, Balkans.

Darrin M. McMahon (Post-Doctoral Fellow, academic year 2000/2001), Ph.D.1997, Yale University. Area of research: Modern European history, the counter-Enlightenment.

Randall A. Poole (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Spring semester 2001), Ph.D.,1996, University of Notre Dame. Assistant Professor of Social Science, College of General Studies, Boston University. Area of research: European and Russian intellectual history.

Laura Silber (Senior Associate Fellow, academic year 2000/2001), Journalist. Area of interest: Former Yugoslavia, Balkans.

2001-2002

Katherine Fleming (NYU Faculty Fellow, Fall semester 2001) Assistant Professor, History/Hellenic Studies. Area of research: Modern Greece, late Ottoman Empire, Balkans.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU Faculty Fellow, Spring semester 2002) Associate Professor, Italian Studies/History. Area of research: 20^th century Italian history and culture, film, fascism and its memory.

Jeffrey Marcus (Senior Visiting Fellow, Spring semester 2002) Novelist and Journalist, Berlin. Area of research: Imaginative literature set in Central Europe.

John McCormick (Senior Visiting Fellow, Fall semester 2001) Assistant Professor, Political Science, Yale University. Area of interest: political theory, legal philosophy, European politics and society.

Sean McMeekin (Post-Doctoral Fellow, academic year 2001/2002) Ph.D. 2001, University of California, Berkeley. Area of research: 20^th century European Communism, in particular the Comintern 1920s-30s.

Jerrold Seigel (NYU Faculty Fellow, Spring semester 2002) William J. Kenan, Jr., Professor of History. Area of research: European intellectual history.

R. Jeffrey Smith (Senior Associate Fellow, Fall semester 2001) Journalist. The Washington Post. Area of interest: US foreign policy, Balkans.

2002 - 2003

Sheri Berman (Senior Visiting Fellow, Fall semester 2002), Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University. Interests: political science, European and comparative politics.

Amos Elon (Senior Visiting Fellow, Fall semester 2002), Independent writer and journalist. Interests: modern Jewish history and Israeli politics.

Francesco Erspammer (NYU Faculty Fellow, Spring semester 2003), Associate Professor, Italian studies. Interest: contemporary Italian culture.

Jan Gross (NYU Faculty Fellow, Fall semester 2002), Professor, Department of Politics. Interests: post-1944 European history; Communism; Jewish-Polish relations.

Atina Grossmann (Senior Visiting Fellow, Fall semester 2002), Associate Professor, History, The Cooper Union. Interests: modern Germany, postwar Europe, Holocaust and genocide studies, displacement and migration in the global context.

Cynthia Hooper (Post-Doctoral Fellow, academic year 2002/2003), Ph.D. 2002, Princeton University. Interests: Soviet history, Russian Literature.

Habbo Knoch (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Spring semester 2003), Assistant Professor, University of G?ttingen, Germany. Interests: Modern German and European cultural and social history, especially political culture and the remembrance of war and violence.

Tomaz Mastnak (Senior Associate Fellow, academic year 2002/2003), Director of Research, Institute of Philosophy, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. Interests: history of political thought, political theory.

Peter Romijn (Senior Visiting Fellow, Spring semester 2003), Professor, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation, Amsterdam. Interests: History of war and occupation, history of the Shoah.

2003 - 2004

Eve M. Duffy (Post-Doctoral Fellow, academic year 2003/2004), Ph.D. 2002, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Assistant Professor, Department of History, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Interests: modern European and German history, cultural history, memory, visual culture, museums.

Katherine Fleming (NYU Faculty Fellow, Spring semester 2004), Assistant Professor, Departments of History/Hellenic Studies. Interests: modern Greece, late Ottoman Empire, Balkans.

Bernard Haykel (NYU Faculty Fellow, Fall semester 2003), Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern Studies. Interest: Islamic political movements.

James Rule (Senior Visiting Fellow, Spring semester 2004), Professor, Sociology, Stony Brook, State University of New York. Interests: sociology of information.

James E. Young (Senior Visiting Fellow, academic year 2003/2004), Professor and Chair, Judaic  and Near Eastern Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Interests: Jewish culture and civilization.

2004 - 2005

Edward Berenson (NYU Faculty Fellow, Spring semester 2005): Director, Institute of French studies. Interests: 19th-20th century French history.

Eva Bremner (Post-Doctoral Fellow, academic year 2004/2005): Ph.D. 2000, Princeton University. Lecturer, Department of History, Princeton University. Interests: modern European history, German political culture and political myth.

Seyla Benhabib (Senior Fellow, Spring semester 2005): Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University. Interests: Political philosophy; citizenship theory.

Stephane Gerson (NYU Faculty Fellow, Fall semester 2004): Assistant Professor, Department of French and Institute of French studies. Interests: cultural history; modern France.

Geoffrey Hartman (Senior Fellow, Fall semester 2004): Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, Yale University. Interests: comparative literature and literary theory; the Holocaust.

Wendy Lesser (Senior Fellow, Fall semester 2004): Editor and Publisher, The Threepenny Review. Interests: literature and the performing arts.

Zeev Sternhell (Senior Fellow, Spring semester 2005): Leon Blum Professor of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Interests: Modern political ideas. Fascist ideology.

2005 - 2006

Zvi Ben-Dor (Spring semester 2006), NYU Department of History. Interests: Islam in global perspective, diasporas, death penalty in world history.

Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt (Spring semester 2006), NYU Institute of Fine Arts. Interests: Italian Renaissance art and culture.

Herrick Chapman (Spring semester 2006), NYU Institute of French Studies. Interests: 20th-century French history, social and economic reconstruction of post-war France.

Annelien De Dijn (Fall semester 2005), Research Assistant, Modern and Contemporary History, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Interests: Western European conservatism, 19thc intellectual history.

Peo Hansen (Spring semester 2006), Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Department of Ethnic Studies, Linkoping University, Sweden. Interests: European identity and the legacy of European colonialism.

Clara Oberle (Fall semester 2005), Ph.D. 2005, Princeton University. Interests: modern European history, Berlin's postwar spatial reorganization.

Renee Poznanski (Fall semester 2005), Chair, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. Interests: France and the Holocaust.

Martin Schain (Fall semester 2005), NYU Department of Politics. Interests: Comparative politics; American politics; European politics; immigration and party politics in France.

2006 - 2007

Anne Lounsbery (Fall semester 2006), Department of Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU. Interests: Russian literature, comparative literature, serfdom and slavery (Russia/USA.

Molly Nolan (Spring semester 2007), NYU Department of History. Interests: Europe-American relations.

Dominique Reill (Fall semester 2006), Ph.D. 2006, Columbia University. Interests: modern European history specializing in the 19th century, Italian history, history of the Balkans, the Habsburg Empire, regionalism and nationalism.

John Shovlin (Spring semester 2007), NYU Department of History. Interests: cultural history of international politics in 18th century Europe.

Marina Warner (Fall semester 2006), Author and Professor of Literature, Film & Theatre Studies, University of Essex. Interests: critical history of mythology, symbolism, belief, folk tale, contemporary definition of magic.

Yfaat Weiss (Spring semester 2007), Director, Bucerius Institute for research on contemporary German history and society, Haifa. Interests: modern European history, Israeli history, migration, citizenship, ethno-nationalism.