Current Class of Fellows - American Academy in Berlin

Karen Feldman

Professor of German, University of California, Berkeley

Jacob S. Hacker

Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, Yale University

Oona Hathaway

Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale University School of Law

William Hitchcock

James Madison Professor of History, University of Virginia

Jamaica Kincaid

Novelist; Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies, Harvard University

Alexandra Kleeman

Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University

Elizabeth Kolbert

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Nora Krug

Writer; Illustrator; Associate Professor of Illustration, Parsons School of Design / The New School

Candice Lin

Interdisciplinary Artist; Associate Professor of Art, University of California, Los Angeles

Ross Perlin

Co-Director, Endangered Language Alliance; Lecturer in Linguistics, Columbia University

Chloe Thurston

Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Justin Torres

Novelist; Professor of English, University of California, Los Angeles

Saul Noam Zaritt

Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language and Ashkenazic Culture, The Ohio State University

Please check back in mid-August for the Fall 2025 Class of Fellows.