The Fall 2017 Class of Fellows

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The Fall 2017 Class Of Fellows

The Fall 2017 Class of Fellows

On the evening of Thursday, September 21, 2017, the American Academy welcomed its thirty-ninth class of fellows to the Hans Arnhold Center. The fall 2017 class briefly presented each of their projects—ranging from new works of fiction and projects in alternative publishing to studies of Cold War musical exchange and undercover policing in the United States and Europe. The fellows were welcomed by Jutta Allmendinger, president of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, with opening remarks by American Academy president Michael Steinberg. (A video of the evening’s presentation is below.)

Download Michael Steinberg’s Opening Remarks.

Photo: Annette Hornischer

Artist A.L. Steiner speaks with guests. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Trustees Volker Schlöndorff and John Kornblum. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Hans-Ulrich Klose speaks with Lena Ringleb (R), of the American Academy's public and economic policy program, and Carolin Wattenberg, of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Members of the fall 2017 class on the terrace of the Hans Arnhold Center. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Trustee John Kornblum speaks with fall 2017 fellow Thomas Chatterton Williams. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Guests in the library of the Hans Arnhold Center. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Writer-in-Residence and trustee Kati Marton speaks with trustee Volker Schlöndorff. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Pianist Saleem Ashkar speaks with Bendetta Roux, of Bard College Berlin, at the fall 2017 Fellows Presentation. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Fall 2017 fellows Peter Schmelz and Jacqueline Ross. Photo: Annette Hornischer
American Academy president Michael P. Steinberg delivers opening remarks. Photo: Annette Hornischer
American Academy president Michael Steinberg welcomes president of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center Jutta Allmendinger to the stage. Photo: Annette Hornischer
President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center Jutta Allmendinger delivers the introduction at the fall 2017 Fellows Presentation. Photo: Annette Hornischer
President of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center Jutta Allmendinger. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Sociologist Nancy Foner, the fall 2017 Berthold Leibinger Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Historian Kira Thurman, a fall 2017 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Professor of Rhetoric and Public Culture Dilip Gaonkar, the fall 2017 Bosch Fellow in Public Policy. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Artist A.L. Steiner, the fall 2017 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Writer V.V. Ganeshananthan, the fall 2017 Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fellow in Fiction. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Cultural historian Peter Schmelz, a fall 2017 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Art historian Aglaya Glebova, the fall 2017 Axel Springer Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Criminologist and historian Jacqueline Ross, the fall 2017 Daimler Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Visual artist Özge Samanci, a fall 2017 Holtzbrinck Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams, a fall 2017 Holtzbrinck Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
American Academy president Michael Steinberg and fall 2017 Holtzbrinck Fellow Thomas Chatterton Williams. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Guests at the reception of the fall 2017 Fellows Presentation. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Guests speaking with cultural historian Peter Schmelz (middle), a fall 2017 Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Guests speaking with art historian Aglaya Glebova, the fall 2017 Axel Springer Fellow. Photo: Annette Hornischer
Guests at the reception of the fall 2017 Fellows Presentation. Photo: Annette Hornischer
The fall 2017 Class of Fellows at the Hans Arnhold Center. Photo: Annette Hornischer

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