Donors

• Manfred & Wiltrud Bischoff
• David Boyum
• Gahl Hodges Burt
• Margrit & Steven Disman
• John B. Emerson & Kimberly Marteau Emerson
• Markus Hauptmann
• Brigitte & Bernd Hellthaler
• Manuel Hertweck
• John C. Kornblum
• Patrick Quay
• Wolgang Spoerr
• Klaus & Gesa Vogt
• Andrew Wylie

• Stephen & Ellen Burbank
• Alexandra & Ariel Cukierman
• Carla Eudy
• Bart Friedman
• Jeffrey Mark Goldberg & Pamela Ress Reeves
• Ann Korologos
• Regine Leibinger
• Sascha Leske
• James Edward McGoldrick
• Julie Mehretu
• Richard & Ronay Menschel
• Daniel Schmitz

• William Benjamin
• Sonja & Martin J. Brand
• Charles Haimoff Foundation
• Werner Gegenbauer
• Joe Kaeser
• Martin Indyk
• Nader A. Mousavizadeh
• Joe Sherman
• Peter Y. Solmssen

• Anonymous (2)
• Charina Endowment Fund
• C. Boyden Gray
• Stefan von Holtzbrinck
• Dirk & Marlene Ippen
• Max Kade Foundation
• William A. von Mueffling
• Sandra E. Peterson
• Carol Kahn Strauss
• Maureen White & Steven Rattner
• Leah Joy Zell

• Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA
• Berthold Leibinger Stiftung
• The Brunswick Group
• Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
• GÖRG Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten mbB
• Heinz und Heide Dürr Stiftung
• Landseer Advisors LLC
  
• Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

• American Express
• BASF SE
• Bayer AG
• Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung
• Deutsche Bank
• Deutsche Post DHL Group
• Fresenius Kabi
• Legerwall Partnerschaft mbB
• Microsoft
• Porsche
• PwC
• White & Case LLP

• Bloomberg Philanthropies
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• CVC Capital Partners (Deutschland) GmbH
• Daimler-Fonds im Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
• Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
• Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
• Linde plc
• Mercedes-Benz Group AG
• Morrison & Foerster LLP
• Robert Bosch GmbH
• Robert Bosch Stiftung
• Schmidt Futures

The Mercedes-Benz Berlin Prize was founded in 1998 and endowed in perpetuity by Daimler-Benz AG. Daimler-Benz, now Mercedes-Benz Group AG, supports the work of the American Academy via the Mercedes-Benz Fellowship in deepening the economic, cultural, and social bonds between Germany and the United States. The fellowship is granted to at least one person annually who has achieved distinction in a particular manner in one of the aforementioned fields. The following individuals are the recipients of the Mercedes-Benz Fellowship:

• Bruce Ackerman
  

  Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science

• Nora M. Alter
  

  Professor of Film and Media Arts

• Emily Apter
  

  Silver Professor of French and Comparative Literature

• Benjamin H. D. Buchloh
  

  Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art

• Mark Butler
  

  Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition

• Edward Dimendberg
  

  Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies

• Lawrence Douglas
  

  James J. Grosfeld Professor of Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought

• Leslie Dunton-Downer
  

  Writer

• Astrid M. Eckert
  

  Assistant Professor of Modern German History

• Paul Guyer
  

  Jonathan Nelson Professor of Humanities and Philosophy

• Philip Kitcher
  

  John Dewey Professor of Philosophy

• Steven Klein
  

  Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science

• Jonathan Laurence
  

  Nonresident Senior Fellow, Center on the US and Europe, Brookings Institution; Associate Professor of Political Science

• Peter Lindseth
  

  Olimpiad S. Ioffe Professor of International and Comparative Law

• Sylvester Ogbechie
  

  Associate Professor of Art History

The Dirk Ippen Fellowship has been generously endowed by Dirk Ippen since 2012. A newspaper publisher in Munich, Dirk Ippen is a Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin. The following individuals are the recipients of the Dirk Ippen Fellowship:

• Marco Abel
  

  Professor and Chair, Department of English

• Jeffrey Goldberg
  

  Journalist, Author, and Editor

• Tung-Hui Hu
  

  Associate Professor of English

• Amy Kurzweil
  

  Writer and Cartoonist

• Michèle Lowrie
  

  Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classics and the College

• Kristen Renwick Monroe
  

  Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science

• Dean Moyar
  

  Associate Professor of Philosophy

• Dominique Nabokov
  

  Photographer

• Claudia Rankine
  

  Professor of Creative Writing

• Ioana Uricaru
  

  Filmmaker; and Barksdale Jr. Assistant Professor of Film and Media Culture

The Holtzbrinck Fellowship was established in 1999 with the generous support of the Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. The fellowship is intended to promote German-American dialogue in the fields of journalism, nonfiction, and fiction. The Holtzbrinck Fellow is selected annually from the Academy’s pool of accepted fellows and may have a background in academia, journalism, or other related media. The following individuals are the recipients of the Holtzbrinck Fellowship:

• Joan Acocella
  

  Author and Journalist; Critic and Staff Writer

• Joel Agee
  

  Writer and Translator

• Hilton Als
  

  Staff Writer

• Nina Bernstein
  

  Reporter

• Mary Cappello
  

  Writer and Professor of English and Creative Writing

• P. Carl
  

  Writer; and Distinguished Artist-in-Residence

• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
  

  Research Chair in New Media

• Leland de la Durantaye
  

  Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of English

• Kiran Desai
  

  Writer

• Anne Finger
  

  Writer

• Jonathan Safran Foer
  

  Writer

• Thomas Geoghegan
  

  Writer; and Lawyer

• Joyce Hackett
  

  Novelist

• Steven Hill
  

  Journalist; and Senior Fellow

• Anne Hull
  

  Journalist

• Adam Johnson
  

  Writer; and Phil and Penny Knight Professor in Creative Writing

• Channing Joseph
  

  Writer; and Lecturer of Journalism

• Suki Kim
  

  Writer; Contributing Editor

• Nicole Krauss
  

  Writer

• Paul LaFarge (1970-2023)
  

  Writer

• Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
  

  Writer, New York University School of Journalism

• Wendy Lesser
  

  Editor

• Susie Linfield
  

  Associate Professor of Journalism; Director, Cultural Reporting and Criticism Program

• Alec MacGillis
  

  Senior Reporter

• Norman Manea
  

  Francis Flournoy Professor of European Culture & Writer-in-Residence

• Diane McWhorter
  

  Journalist

• Sylvia Nasar
  

  James S. and John L. Knight Professor of Business Journalism

• Sigrid Nunez
  

  Writer

• Han Ong
  

  Novelist and Playwright

• George Packer
  

  Staff Writer

• Cristina Rivera Garza
  

  M.D. Anderson Distinguished Professor and Director, Ph.D. Program in Creative Writing in Spanish

• Alex Ross
  

  Music Critic

• Özge Samanci
  

  Associate Professor, School of Communication

• Hillel Schwartz
  

  Cultural Historian and Translator, Encitas

• Mosi Secret
  

  Writer; Investigative and Literary Journalist

• Naghmeh Sohrabi
  

  Charles (Corky) Goodman Chair in Middle East History and Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies

• David Treuer
  

  Professor of English

• William Uricchio
  

  Professor of Comparative Media Studies

• Thomas Chatterton Williams
  

  Writer

• Peter Wortsman
  

  Translator-Writer

The John P. Birkelund Fellowship was endowed in February of 2011 after a generous donation by John P. Birkelund. It was initiated with the intention of fostering German-American dialogue in the field of the humanities. The fellowship funds two fellows annually, the first took up residence in the 2011/2012 academic year. The following individuals are the recipients of the John P. Birkelund Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin:

• Amanda Anderson
  

  Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English; Director, Cogut Institute for the Humanities

• Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
  

  Professor of Modern Culture and Media and of Comparative Literature

• J.M. Bernstein
  

  University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

• Monica Black
  

  Associate Professor of History

• John Connelly
  

  Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of European History

• Robyn Creswell
  

  Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

• Jennifer Davis
  

  Associate Professor of History

• Richard Deming
  

  Lecturer in English

• Siyen Fei
  

  Associate Professor of History

• James N. Green
  

  Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Professor of Latin American History

• Béatrice M. Longuenesse
  

  Silver Professor of Philosophy

• Susan McCabe
  

  Professor of English

• Jackie Murray
  

  Associate Professor of Classics, University of Kentucky; Associate Professor of Classics, SUNY at Buffalo

• Barbara Nagel
  

  Assistant Professor of German

• Jane O. Newman
  

  Professor of Comparative Literature and European Languages and Studies

The Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship in Fiction was established in 2007 and endowed in perpetuity in 2009, with the purpose of bringing outstanding novelists and fiction writers to Berlin as part of the American Academy’s residential fellowship program. Karl von der Heyden, a native Berliner, is a founding trustee of the American Academy in Berlin, served as its treasurer for more than a decade, and was the Academy’s co-chairman from 2009 to 2011. The fellowship recognizes his wife Mary Ellen’s lifelong passion for fiction writing, we are grateful to them both for endowing this outstanding initiative. The following individuals are the recipients of the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin:

• Molly Antopol
  

  Writer; and Jones Lecturer of Creative Writing

• Donald Antrim
  

  Writer

• Jesse Ball
  

  Writer; and Professor, Creative Writing Program

• Lan Samantha Chang
  

  Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor of the Arts, Program in Creative
  Writing

• Alexandra Chreiteh
  

  Author; Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies and International Visual Studies

• Tom Drury
  

  Writer

• Nathan Englander
  

  Writer

• Angela Flournoy
  

  Writer

• Tom Franklin
  

  Writer; and Associate Professor of English

• Rivka Galchen
  

  Writer

• V.V. Ganeshananthan
  

  Writer, and Assistant Professor of English

• Francisco Goldman
  

  Allen K. Smith Professor of Literature and Creative Writing

• Yaa Gyasi
  

  Writer

• Adam Haslett
  

  Writer, New York

• Ladee Hubbard
  

  Writer

We are grateful to Baroness Nina von Maltzahn for endowing this fellowship, which concentrates on German history after the Second World War. The prize was founded in 2010 and endowed in 2012. Nina von Maltzahn was a founding member of our Board of Trustees (until 2020), one of the Academy’s most active benefactors, and is a granddaughter of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold. The Nina Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize is granted to two outstanding scholars per academic year; the first prize recipient was in spring 2011. The following individuals are the recipients of the Nina Maria Gorrissen Fellowship:

• Daniel Albright (1945-2015)
  

  Ernst Bernbaum Professor of Literature

• James Brophy
  

  Francis H. Squire Professor of History

• Tom Conley
  

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures

• Fred M. Donner
  

  Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Near Eastern History,The Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

• Johan Elverskog
  

  Dedman Family Distinguished Professor, Professor of History

• Damián Fernández
  

  Associate Professor of History

• Tatyana Gershkovich
  

  Assistant Professor of Russian Studies, Department of Modern Languages

• Alice Goff
  

  Assistant Professor of German History and the College

• Andrew Hicks
  

  Associate Professor of Music and Medieval Studies

• Daniel Hobbins
  

  Associate Professor of History

• Carina L. Johnson
  

  Professor of History

• Christopher D. Johnson
  

  Research Associate, Bilderfahrzeuge: Aby Warburg and the Future of Iconology

• Pieter M. Judson
  

  Professor of History

• Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
  

  Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archeology

• Suzanne L. Marchand
  

  Boyd Professor of History

Starting in 2018 / 2019 the American Academy in Berlin will award the Richard C. Holbrooke Fellowship to one residential fellow per academic year. The Richard C. Holbrooke Fellowship was created as a programmatic addition to the Richard C. Holbrooke Forum, which honors the American Academy’s founder. Its objective is to provide opportunities for dialogue on questions of special importance to both the United States and Germany. The program will include a workshop with practitioners from the United States and Europe which is convened by the Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow. Workshop findings will be published by the Richard C. Holbrooke Fellow through the American Academy in Berlin.

The American Academy in Berlin awards the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities to two residential fellows per academic year. The projects of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellows focus on key themes the American Academy has identified for in-depth transatlantic exploration: migration and integration, race in comparative perspective, and “exile and return.” The program also includes a biannual workshop for scholars based in both the US and Europe which is convened at the American Academy by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the conclusion of his or her fellowship.

The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities was established with the generous support of the New York-based Mellon Foundation.

The Anna-Maria Kellen Berlin Prize is annually funded by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, who provided the American Academy with the founding gift and who continue their magnanimous support. The Anna-Maria Kellen Fellowship is named after one of Hans H. Arnhold’s daughters. The following individuals are the recipients of the Anna-Maria Kellen Fellowship:

• Sinan Antoon
  

  Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study

• Lois Banner
  

  Professor Emerita of History

• Mason Bates
  

  Composer

• Lauren Benton
  

  Barton M. Biggs Professor of History and Professor of Law

• Benjamin S. Binstock
  

  Assistant Professor

• Joy Calico
  

  Professor of Musicology, Blair School of Music

• Anne Carson
  

  Professor of Classics

• Thomas Christensen
  

  Professor of Music and the Humanities

• Mary Ann Doane
  

  Class of 1937 Professor of Film and Media

• Jared Farmer
  

  Professor of History

• Tiffany N. Florvil
  

  Associate Professor of History

• Devin Fore
  

  Assistant Professor for German Studies

• Veronika Fuechtner
  

  Chair and Associate Professor of German, Department of German Studies

• Catherine Gallagher
  

  Eggers Professor of English Literature

• Christopher H. Gibbs
  

  Co-Artistic Director, Bard Music Festival; James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music

The Axel Springer Fellowship was established in 2003 with the generous support of Axel Springer SE. It aims to promote German-American dialogue in the fields of media, public policy, and other areas of contemporary concern. The Axel Springer Fellow is selected annually from the Academy’s pool of accepted fellows, and may be from a journalistic, academic, or public policy background. The following individuals are the recipients of the Axel Springer Fellowship:

• Matthieu Aikins
  

  Contributing Writer

• Deborah Amos
  

  International Correspondent, NPR; and Ferris Professor of Journalism in Residence

• Rick Atkinson
  

  Author; Historian; Columnist

• Javiera Barandiarán
  

  Associate Professor of Global Studies

• Dominic Boyer
  

  Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences (CENHS)

• Martin Dimitrov
  

  Associate Professor of Political Science

• Alexander Galloway
  

  Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

• Michael E. Geyer
  

  Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History, and Faculty Director, Human Rights Program

• Aglaya Glebova
  

  Assistant Professor of Art History and Film and Media Studies

• Peter Holquist
  

  Ronald S. Lauder Endowed Term Associate Professor of History

• Cymene Howe
  

  Professor of Anthropology

• Ellen Kennedy
  

  Professor of Political Science

• Vladimir Kulić
  

  Associate Professor of Architectural History

• Erik Linstrum
  

  Associate Professor of History

• Saba Mahmood (1962-2018)
  

  Associate Professor

The Bayer Berlin Prize in Health & Biotech was established in 2021 and is generously supported on an annual basis by Bayer AG. The fellowship will allow individuals working at the forefront of public health, biotechnology, and adjacent fields to advance expert networks and promote cross-border dialogue. The inaugural Bayer Fellow in Health & Biotech is Howard K. Koh, the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership at Harvard University’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

• Harvey V. Fineberg
  

  President

• Howard Kyongju Koh
  

  Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health Leadership

• Mary E. Wilson
  

  Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine

The Berthold Leibinger Berlin Prize was founded in 2006 and is supported annually by the Berthold Leibinger Stiftung. The fellowship aims at highlighting the bonds between the United States and Germany as well as to encourage dialogue beyond Berlin, namely in Baden-Württemberg. Leibinger Fellows, one of which is chosen annually, come from the liberal arts and the humanities. The following individuals are the recipients of the Berthold Leibinger Fellowship:

• Jennifer Allen
  

  Assistant Professor of History

• Leora Auslander
  

  Professor of European Social History

• Rebecca Boehling
  

  Professor of History

• Beatriz Colomina
  

  Professor of Architecture; Director, Program in Media and Modernity

• Nancy Foner
  

  Distinguished Professor of Sociology

• Gregg Horowitz
  

  Professor of Philosophy; Chair of Social Science and Cultural Studies

• Spyros Papapetros
  

  Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture

• Nathalie Peutz
  

  Associate Professor of Anthropology

• Bertrall Ross
  

  Justice Thurgood Marshall Distinguished Professor of Law

• Alma Steingart
  

  Assistant Professor of History

• George Steinmetz
  

  Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor, Department of Sociology

• Hans R. Vaget
  

  Helen & Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus of German Studies

• Judith Wechsler
  

  National Endowment for the Humanities Professor, Art and Art History Department

• M. Norton Wise
  

  Distinguished Professor of History

• Geoffrey Wolff
  

  Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director of Fiction MFA

The annually funded Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize was founded in 2001 by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, who also provided the founding gift for the American Academy in Berlin and remain the Academy’s largest benefactor. The Ellen Maria Gorrissen Berlin Prize is named after one of Hans H. Arnhold’s daughters. The following individuals are the recipients of the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellowship:

• Esra Akcan
  

  Associate Professor of Architecture

• Mary Jo Bang
  

  Poet and Professor of English

• Leonard Barkan
  

  Class of 1943 University Professor, Department of Comparative Literature

• Susan Bernofsky
  

  Associate Professor of Writing

• Charles Bright
  

  Arthur J. Thurnau Professor of History

• Caroline Walker Bynum
  

  Professor emerita of Western Medieval History

• Tony Cokes
  

  Professor of Modern Culture and Media

• Peter Constantine
  

  Literary translator

• Nicholas Dawidoff
  

  Writer

• Yemane Demissie
  

  Associate Professor of Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts

• Daniel Eisenberg
  

  Filmmaker and Professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation

• Susanna Elm
  

  Professor of History

• Kevin Jerome Everson
  

  Visual Artist; Professor of Art, McIntire Department of Art

• Gyula Gazdag
  

  Film, Television, and Theater Director; and Distinguished Research Professor

• Ela Gezen
  

  Associate Professor of German

• Allison Blakely
  

  Professor Emeritus of European and Comparative History

• Yanni Kotsonis
  

  Professor of History, Russian, and Slavic Studies

• Paul W. Werth
  

  Professor of History

The Deutsche Bank Berlin Prize in Music Composition will be inaugurated in spring 2022. Every year, the fellowship will invite a talented composer to spend a semester at the American Academy in Berlin, interact with professionals in fields of music and performance, and present his or her work to German audiences in an annual Deutsche Bank Concert. The inaugural Deutsche Bank Fellow in Music Composition will be the Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist and performance artist Du Yun.

The Airbus Distinguished Visitorship, inaugurated in 2010 as the EADS Distinguished Visitorship, was endowed in 2011 after three generous donations from EADS to support the American Academy’s mission of cross-cultural exchange between the United States and Germany. To this end, EADS enables an expert in a field related to its business and activities to reside at the American Academy for a period of one week. During this time, the Airbus Distinguished Visitor engages in meetings, roundtable conferences, and lectures related to his or her professional field. The Visitor also visits the EADS offices in Munich or Paris. The following individuals are recipients of the Airbus Distinguished Visitorship:

• Kelly Gallagher
  

  Associate Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School

• Michael Greenstone
  

  3M Professor of Environmental Economics

• Robert Lempert
  

  Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition

• Vaclav Smil
  

  Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Department of Environment and Geography

• Hal Harvey
  

  Chief Executive Officer

• Adam Hochschild
  

  Author, Journalist

• Elizabeth Kolbert
  

  Staff Writer

• Jamie Metzl
  

  Senior Fellow, Asia Society; Principal

• David Miliband
  

  President and CEO

• Michael Sandel
  

  Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government

• Nicholas Schmidle
  

  Staff Writer

• Helen F. Siu
  

  Professor of Anthropology

The John W. Kluge Dinstinguished Visitorship was established in 2004 and is endowed by the John W. Kluge Foundation. The following individuals are recipients of the John W. Kluge Distinguished Visitorship:

• Roger Cohen
  

  Author, and Op-Ed Columnist

• Masha Gessen
  

  Staff Writer

• Susan B. Glasser
  

  Staff Writer

• Anthony Lewis (1927-2013)
  

  Journalist and Former Columnist

• Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr.
  

  William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government

• Suzanne McConnell
  

  Writer

• Eileen Myles
  

  Poet and Writer

• Martin Puchner
  

  Byron and Anita Wien Professor of English and Comparative Literature

• Claudia Rankine
  

  Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry

• Michael I. Sovern
  

  President Emeritus, Columbia University; Chancellor Kent Professor of Law

The Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitorship was established in 2008 with the collective support of 44 distinguished individuals in the fields of banking, law, and publishing. It was founded in honor of Kurt Viermetz, the retired Vice Chairman of JPMorgan, in recognition of his career in international finance. Each year, the Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitorship brings a prominent expert in finance or economics from the United States to Berlin, where they spend a period ranging from a few days to an entire month at the Hans Arnhold Center. During the visit, each guest receives a richly diverse itinerary that allows them to engage with German counterparts as well as targeted audiences through a series of meetings, roundtable discussions, lectures, and other programs. The purpose of these many activities is to encourage dialogue and the exchange of ideas on the subject of international finance and economics between high-ranking decision-makers in Germany and the United States.

We are grateful to the following donors for supporting this outstanding initiative: Karl-Georg Altenburg, Bank of America, N.A., Dr. Georg Friedrich Baur, Citibank, Citigroup Global Markets Deutschland AG, Robert Bierich, Detlef Bindert, Frank Böhnke, Pilar Conde, Ernst Cramer, Rudolf Delius, Deutsche Börse AG, Astrid & Klaus Diederichs, Peter & Monika von Elten, Jan von Haeften, Fabian K. vom Hofe, Hypo Real Estate Holding AG, John Jetter, JP Morgan Germany, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Stephanie & Martin Korbmacher, Hannelore & Claus Löwe, Doris & Kurt Mühlbauer, Sybille & Steffen Naumann, Heinz-Joachim Neubürger, Werner Pfaffenberger, Friedrich von Pfeil, Klaus Pohle, Gerhard Roggemann, Pia & Peter Scherkamp, Henrik Schliemann, Renate & Hannes Schneider, Peter Schwicht, Magdalene Götz-Seifert & Helmut Seifert, Günther Peter Skrzypek, Axel Springer Stiftung, Jean Villechaise, Paul P. Werhahn, Philipp Zenz-Spitzweg and Christian Zügel.

The following individuals are the recipients of the Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitorship:

• Adam S. Posen
  

  President

• Barry Eichengreen
  

  George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Chair and Distinguished Professor of Economics and Political Science

• C. Fred Bergsten
  

  Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus

• David Lipton
  

  First Deputy Managing Director

• Eric P. Schwartz
  

  Former President, Refugees International and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State; and Professor, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

• Eswar S. Prasad
  

  Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics

• Jeremy Rifkin
  

  Author; Founder, Third Industrial Revolution; Founder and President

• John B. Taylor
  

  Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics & Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow

• John E. Smith
  

  Former Director, US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); Partner and Co-Head of National Security Practice

• John Lipsky
  

  Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School of Advanced International Studies

• Lawrence H. Summers
  

  71st United States Secretary of Treasury; Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus

• Neil Shubin
  

  Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Anatomy

• Nicholas Eberstadt
  

  Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy

• Todd Stern
  

  Senior Fellow

With the Lloyd Cutler Distinguished Visitorship the American Academy in Berlin honors one of its founding trustees, the legendary attorney Lloyd N. Cutler. In 1962 Lloyd Cutler cofounded Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, which included over 500 lawyers representing corporate and industrial clients. Aside from his expertise and authority in the private sector, Lloyd Cutler became deeply involved in some of the most pressing issues facing the federal government during the past century. Working for six presidential administrations, he advised on matters ranging from the Iranian hostage crisis to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to the Whitewater investigation. Still other facets of Cutler’s curiosity and intellect led him to other pursuits: teaching at the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies and serving as a director of the Metropolitan Opera.

This endowed program in his name brings the best of the American legal world to Berlin to interact with German colleagues, counterparts, and the interested public on mutually relevant issues of domestic and international law. The Academy has in recent years hosted exceptional guests in the field of law and aims to address the need for more intense dialogue about and public discussion of current and strategic legal aspects. On December 15, 2008, Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer delivered the inaugural Lloyd Cutler Lecture, entitled “The Court and the Constitution: The Counter Example of Dred Scott.”

We are grateful to the following donors for supporting this outstanding initiative: WilmerHale, C.H. Beck Stiftung (Wolfgang Beck), Georg Graf zu Castell-Castell, Reuben Clark, Christian Crones, Stephen Cutler, Paul P. Eckert, Jutta von Falkenhausen, Dennis Flannery, Gabriel Resources Ltd. (Joel Bell), C. Boyden Gray, Jan Heithecker, Dieter G. Lange, Carol F. Lee, William F. Lee, Daniel & Maeva Marcus, Stefan Ohlhoff, William J. Perlstein, Joseph Pillman, Lisa J. Pirozzolo, Ulrich Quack, Martin Seyfarth, Daniel H. Squire, Roland Steinmeyer, Verband der Deutschen Automobilindustrie (VDA) / Matthias Wissmann, Villa Grisebach (Berlin) / Bernd Schultz, and Micaela Kapitzky, John B. Watkins, David Westin, Jill J. and Roger M. Witten.

The following individuals are recipients of the Lloyd Cutler Distinguished Visitorship:

• Stephen Breyer
  

  Associate Justice

• Roberta Cooper Ramo
  

  Attorney, Modrall Sperling; Former President

• Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
  

  Justice, Supreme Court of California; Affiliated Scholar, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; and former Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

• Gráinne de Búrca
  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen Professor of Law

• Linda Greenhouse
  

  Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law

• Richard Haass
  

  President, Council on Foreign Relations

• David Kennedy
  

  Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Director, Institute for Global Law and Policy

• Harold Hongju Koh
  

  Former Legal Adviser, US Department of State; Sterling Professor of International Law

• Robert C. Post
  

  Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law

• Antonin Scalia (1936-2016)
  

  Associate Justice

• Sonia Sotomayor
  

  Associate Justice

• Jeffrey S. Sutton
  

  Judge

The American Academy in Berlin established the Marcus Bierich Distinguished Visitorship in the Humanities in order to facilitate access to important scholarship and academic debate for professionals from the worlds of business and politics. Particularly outstanding scholars who excel at communicating difficult ideas with clarity and vividness are invited to the Hans Arnhold Center for an exchange of ideas with peers from other sectors of civil society. During his or her stay, the Marcus Bierich Distinguished Visitor in the Humanities holds a formal lecture to an invited audience at the Academy’s Hans Arnhold villa, in cooperation with the Königswinter Stiftung, and is encouraged to participate in a series of meetings, discussions, and interviews with individuals from the business, academic, governmental, and media worlds.

The following individuals are the recipients of the Kurt Viermetz Distinguished Visitorship:

• Adam Tooze
  

  Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History & Director of the European Institute

• Alec MacGillis
  

  Senior Reporter

• Francis Fukuyama
  

  Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Research Affiliate at the Europe Center;
  Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

• Judith Wechsler
  

  Art Historian and Filmmaker; Professor Emerita

• Katharina Galor
  

  Hirschfeld Visiting Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and Visiting Associate Professor of Urban Studies

• Linda Gordon
  

  Florence Kelley Professor of History and University Professor of the Humanities

• Myles W. Jackson
  

  Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science

• Pieter M. Judson
  

  Professor of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century History

• Stephen Greenblatt
  

  Professor of English and American Literature

• Tricia Rose
  

  Chancellor’s Professor of Africana Studies and Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America

The Marina Kellen French Distinguished Visitorship for Persons with Outstanding Accomplishment in the Cultural World is generously endowed by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the Marina Kellen French Foundation. The following individuals are recipients of theMarina Kellen French Distinguished Visitorship:

• Adam Weinberg
  

  Director

• Ai Weiwei
  

  Artist

• Daniel H. Weiss
  

  President and CEO

• David Chipperfield
  

  Architect

• Derek Gillman
  

  Executive Director and President

• Dominique Nabokov
  

  Photographer

• Earl A. Powell III
  

  Director

• Jeff Koons
  

  Artist

• Julie Taymor
  

  Theater and Film Director

• Kent Nagano
  

  Music Director, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal; General Music Director

• Olafur Eliasson
  

  Artist

• Roberta Smith
  

  Senior Art Critic

• Thomas Campbell
  

  Director

• Wolfram Koeppe
  

  Marina Kellen French Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

We are grateful to the following donors for supporting this outstanding initiative. Please note that the list below documents the contributions made in 2014: Gahl Hodges Burt, Betsy Z. & Edward E. Cohen, A. Michael & Mercedes Hoffman, Dirk & Marlene Ippen, Michael Klein, Renate Küchler, Nina von Maltzahn, Achim Moeller, Hartley & Virginia Neel, Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Mary Ellen von Schacky-Schultz & Bernd Schultz, Victoria & Aurel Scheibler, Clemens Vedder.

The following individuals are the recipients of the Max Beckmann Distinguished Visitorship:

• Arthur Jafa
  

  Artist, Filmmaker, Cinematographer

• Gary Kuehn
  

  Artist

• Kerry James Marshall
  

  Artist

• Julie Mehretu
  

  Artist

• Haley Mellin
  

  Artist and Conservationist

• Sean Scully
  

  Artist

The Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitorship was founded in honor of the former German Federal President and American Academy founding member, whose personality and life’s work enjoy the highest esteem on both sides of the Atlantic. Consistent with the political achievements of its name bearer, this Distinguished Visitorship is awarded to outstanding US dignitaries in academia or public service committed to and working to strengthen the transatlantic cause. The Richard von Weizsäcker Visitorship was inaugurated by former president of the World Bank James Wolfensohn in 2007. Subsequent Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitors have been Senator Thomas Daschle, former US Senate majority leader; the eminent American foreign policy analyst and president of the Brookings Institute, Strobe Talbott; Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve; and Peter Seligmann, chairman and CEO of Conservation International.

The Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitorship is endowed by ACS Airport Commercial Services, Bank of America, N.A., Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH, Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”, Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld GmbH, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, GSW Gemeinnützige Siedlungs- und Wohnungsbaugesellschaft Berlin, Richard C. Holbrooke, Hotel InterContinental Berlin, Körber-Stiftung, Nina Gorrissen von Maltzahn, Christopher von Oppenheim, Mary Ellen von Schacky-Schultz and Bernd Schultz, René Scharf, and Villa Grisebach (Berlin).

The following individuals are recipients of the Richard von Weizsäcker Distinguished Visitorship:

• Alex Ross
  

  Music Critic

• Avishai Margalit
  

  George F. Kennan Professor (2006-2011), Institute for Advanced Study; Professor Emeritus of Philosophy

• Frances FitzGerald
  

  Journalist and Historian

• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  

  University Professor

• Gina McCarthy
  

  Former U.S. National Climate Advisor; Former Administrator

• Jagdish Bhagwati
  

  University Professor of Economics and Law

• James D. Wolfensohn
  

  Former President, World Bank Group; Chairman

• Javier Solana
  

  Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy; Secretary General of NATO; Distinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution; President

• Jeffrey D. Sachs
  

  University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development

• Keith David Watenpaugh
  

  Professor and Director, Human Rights Studies, University of California, Davis; and Director, Article 26 Backpack (TM) – The Human Rights Tool for Universal Academic Mobility

• Padma Desai
  

  Gladys and Roland Harriman Professor of Comparative Economic Systems, and Director, Center for Transition Economies

• Paul Volcker (1927-2019)
  

  Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board; former Chairman

• Peter Seligmann
  

  Chairman of the Board and CEO

• Shira Brisman
  

  Professor in Early Modern Art

• Strobe Talbott
  

  Former US Deputy Secretary of State; President

The Stephen M. Kellen Distinguished Visitorship was established in 2004 and is endowed in perpetuity by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, who provided the founding gift for the Academy and continue their generous support. The Stephen M. Kellen Distinguished Visitorship was established in honor of founding benefactor Stephen M. Kellen, husband of Anna-Maria Kellen, subsequent his passing, in 2004. Stephen M. Kellen was an ardent supporter of the American Academy in Berlin since its inception, and he remained so financially, intellectually, and diplomatically for the remainder of his life. This Distinguished Visitorship aims to honor an accomplished man who cultivated broad intellectual interests alongside his professional life by bringing high-level financial experts and leading cultural figures to the Academy each year. The following individuals are recipients of the Stephen M. Kellen Distinguished Visitorship:

• Jared Cohen
  

  Founder and Director, Google Ideas

• Michael W. Doyle
  

  University Professor, School of International and Public Affairs

• Niall Ferguson
  

  Professor of History, Professor of Business Administration

• Thomas Friedman
  

  Author and Columnist

• Peter Gelb
  

  General Manager

• Philip H. Gordon
  

  Mary and David Boies Senior Fellow in US Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

• Annette Gordon-Reed
  

  Carl M. Loeb University Professor

• Martin S. Indyk
  

  Distinguished Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Special Envoy for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations

• Mervyn Allister King
  

  Member of the House of Lords; Former Governor and Former Chairman, Monetary Policy Committee

• George Packer
  

  Staff Writer

• Kenneth Rogoff
  

  Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy

• Richard Sloan
  

  Nathaniel Wharton Professor of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

• Kiki Smith
  

  Artist

• Amy Wilkinson
  

  Founder & CEO

Alfred A. Knopf, The Altman-Kazickas Foundation, Anheuser-Busch, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, A. T. Kearney, Inc., Bank of America, Bayer AG, Blackstone Charitable Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Roland J. Bopp, Katherine and David Bradley, Sonja & Martin J. Brand, Stephen B. & Ellen C. Burbank, Gahl Hodges Burt, Gerhard Casper, Avna Cassinelli, Citi, Daimler AG, Michael Del Giudice, Antoinette Delruelle & Joshua L. Steiner, Dinyar & Aashish Devitre, Remmel T. Dickinson, Blair Effron, Marina Kellen French, Goldman Sachs, The Honorable C. Boyden Gray, Richard N. Haass, Mary Ellen & Karl von der Heyden, Elizabeth Jennings & Philip Tuinenburg, Jim & Heather Johnson, Mary Ellen Johnson & Richard Karl Goeltz, Michael M. Kellen, Stephen S. Lash, Christie’s, Pascal & Melanie Levensohn, Longaberger Family Foundation, Macmillan (a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing), Vincent A. & Anne Mai, Nina von Maltzahn, Catie & Donald Marron, Kati Marton, Joachim Mohn, Nader Mousavizadeh, Macro Advisory Partners, Noerr LLP / GWFF USA Inc., Norman Pearlstine, Peter G. Peterson, Steven Rattner & Maureen White, Raymond Roberge & George Barvinchak, Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey A. Rosen, Peter & Sarah Solmssen, Robert & Gillian Steel, Michael P. Steinberg, TimeWarner, Vintage and Anchor Books, Gesa B. and Klaus D. Vogt, White & Case, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Roger W. Witten—WilmerHale LLP, Elaine & James D. Wolfensohn, Andrew Wylie / President, the Wylie Agency, Leah Joy Zell, Joy Foundation

The Henry A. Kissinger Prize is generously endowed by Bloomberg Philanthropies and was supported each distinct year by the following donors:

2007: EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG; Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH; Mars Inc.; Die Zeit; in cooperation with Bayerische Staatsregierung

2008: Audi AG; C. Boyden Gray

2009: Porsche AG; David Rockefeller

2010: BMW AG; Robert Bosch GmbH; Cerberus Deutschland GmbH; Dr. Pia and Klaus Krone; Märkischer Golfclub Potsdam e.V.

2011: Audi AG; Robert Bosch GmbH; Cerberus Deutschland GmbH; Dr. Pia and Klaus Krone; Märkischer Golfclub Potsdam e.V.

2012: Audi AG; Robert Bosch GmbH; Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; Deutsche Lufthansa AG; In cooperation with German Federal Foreign Office

2013: BMW AG; Robert Bosch GmbH; Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH; EADS; Estrel Berlin; Golf- und Land-Club Berlin-Wannsee e.V.; Porsche AG; Waldorf Astoria Berlin

2014: The Honorable & Mrs. Hushang Ansary; The Honorable Edward P. & Mrs. Françoise Djerejian; Helga & Erivan Haub; Robert Bosch GmbH; Golf- und Land-Club Berlin-Wannsee e.V.; Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin; Nina von Maltzahn; Porsche AG; Unternehmensgruppe Tengelmann

2015: Audi AG; Georg Bauch – Food Concepts; Robert Bosch GmbH; Hotel Adlon Kempinski Berlin

2016: Robert Bosch GmbH; DaimlerAG; Werbegemeinschaft Württembergischer Weingärtnergenossenschaften e.G.

2017: BMW Group, Robert Bosch GmbH

2018: Robert Bosch GmbH

2019: Robert Bosch GmbH, Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH

2020: Robert Bosch GmbH, Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH

2021: Robert Bosch GmbH, Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung GmbH, Google Germany GmbH, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG

2022: Lead and Presenting Sponsors: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Deutsche Bank, Linde plc, Schmidt Futures; Supporting Sponsors: American Express, BASF, Bayer, Cerberus Deutschland Beteiligungsberatung, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Fresenius Kabi, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Microsoft, Porsche, PwC, Robert Bosch GmbH, The Brunswick Group, White & Case

Ellen Maria Gorrissen Stiftung and the descendants of Hans and Ludmilla Arnhold, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Arnhold, Manfred Bischoff, Stephen B. & Ellen C. Burbank, Gahl Hodges Burt, Hans-Michael & Almut Giesen, C. Boyden Gray, HDH Ingenieursgesellschaft für technische Gebäudeausrüstung mbH, A. Michael & Mercedes Hoffman, Dirk & Marlene Ippen, John C. Kornblum, Kati Marton, Volker Schlöndorff, Peter Y. Solmssen, Kurt F. Viermetz

The Stuttgart Head-to-Head series brings together an American Academy fellow with a German counterpart to discuss a topic germane to their shared expertise. Founded in 2011, the series is sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Dirk Ippen, and Berthold Leibinger Stiftung GmbH. Past participants include literary historian Leland de la Durantaye speaking with critic Ijoma Mangold of Die Zeit; the writers Adam Ross and Julia Franck; novelist Jonathan Lethem and historian Ronald Suny; and Egyptologists Janet Richards and Gerald Moers.

The American Academy’s twentieth anniversary celebration, on October 8, 2014, was generously sponsored by the Mercedes T. Bass Charitable Corporation, Holtzbrinck Family, and Jeane Freifrau von Oppenheim.

Download a newspaper supplement from Der Tagesspiegel, published on the occasion of the Academy’s twentieth anniversary. (German version)