Fellows

Dr. Mathew Abbott

Senior Fellow

Period at the center: October 2025 – December 2025

Research Project: Self-Conscious Life in the Disrupted Earth System

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Crissiuma

Senior Fellow

Period at the center: April 25-Februar 26

Research Project: From the ‘enlightenment of the common man’ until the ‘need of philosophy’: the Young Hegel’s Formation.

Prof. Eli Friedlander

Meitner Prize Humboldt Fellow

Period at the center: April-July 2024; June-August 2025; June-August 2026

Research Project: The Idea of Natural History in Kant, Benjamin and Wittgenstein

Prof. Terry Pinkard

Distinguished Senior Fellow

Period at the center: April-July 2025, April-July 2026, April-July 2027

Research Project: Hegelian Theory and Pragmatism

Prof. Matthew Boyle

Period at the center: 1. Januar 2026 bis 10. Juli 2026

Research Project: Another Self: Studies in Intersubjectivity

Assist. Prof. Sabina Bremner

Humboldt Fellow

Period at the center: May 2023 - November 2024, November 2025 - March 2026

Research Project: “The Revisable A Priori”

Dr. Jelscha Schmid

SNF Post-Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: August 2025 – January 2026

Research Project: Fichte on Self-Constitution and other Minds

Dr. Markus Gante

Period at the center: October 25 – March 26

Research Project: The Sociality of Imagination

Dr. des. Mihnea Chiujdea

Period at the center: November 2025 – April 2026

Research Project: The Uncanny – Finitude and Renewal

Dr. Agustín Lucas Prestifilippo

Period at the center: May 2026

Research Project: “The Eternal Irony of the Common. Inner Nature, Sociality, and Normative Violence in Hegel”

Attay Kremer

Period at the center: December 2025 – October 26

Research Project: Intellect and Information: A Genealogy of Logic

Dr. Paula García Cherep

Period at the center: June 2026

Research Project: Aesthetic Subjectivity and Spontaneity in the Critique of Freedom as Autonomy

Álvaro Arroyo

Doctoral DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025 - September 2026

Research Project: Dialectics and negativity in Theodor W. Adorno’s aesthetic theory

Bernardo Bárzana

Doctoral DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: August 2024 - September 2026

Research Project: Hegel and Marx on Nature, Labor and the Human Being

Andrea Bianchi

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025 – November 2026

Research Project: Freiheit, Normativität, Verfassung. Zu einer kritischen Theorie der Normativitätsformen nach Hegel

Alexander Drusda

JIGES Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: April - July 2026

Research Project: Logic and Freedom in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Mattia Fiorilli

Doctoral Sapienza Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025 – November 2025

Research Project: Butler’s Double Kantian Inheritance

Gian Marco Galasso

Period at the center: September – February 2026

Research Project: Drives: The Rational Determination of the Will in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Joseph Hamilton

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: October 2025–August 2026

Research Project: Kant and Hegel on Evil

Alexander R. Hufford

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: October 2025 – June 2026

Research Project: Philosophy Rejuvenated: Hegel, Philosophy, Revolution and the End of History

Seán McStravick

Period at the center: May 26 – June 26

Research Project: The Anthropological Difference in Hegel’s philosophy : Animal Habits and Human Habits

Majid S. Roshan

Doctoral DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: October 2024 – October 2028

Research Project: Having Myself and the Other in View: The Sociality of Self-Consciousness and the Reality of Freedom

Valentin Weÿ

Doctoral JIGES-DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: October 2025—July 2026

Research Project: Tragic Metaphysics in Hegel and Hölderlin

Andrew Rao

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: January 2026 – September 2026

Research Project: Reading Nietzsche's "On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense" Anew

Klint Shim

Period at the center: June – July 2026

Research Project: Hegel, Spinoza, and the Logic of History and Social Structure

Prof. Dr. Luiz Fernando Barrére Martin

Senior DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: September - November 2024

Research Project: Belief, Common Sense and Objectivity: Hegel and Jacobi

Prof. Anton Ford

Senior Humboldt Fellow

Period at the center: August 2022 - August 2023, June - August 2024, June - August 2025

Research Project: The Objectification of Agency

Dr. David James

Senior Fellow

Period at the center: Octobre 2023 – April 2024

Research Project: German Philosophy and the ‘Dialectic’ of Enlightenment

Prof. Dr. Iain Macdonald

Short Term Senior Fellow

Period at the center: June 2024

Research Project: Adorno’s Material Doctrine of Categories

Prof. Karen Ng

Senior Humboldt Fellow

Period at the center: March 2023 – August 2023, June 2024 - August 2024, June 2025 - August 2025

Research Project: Species-Being: Ethical Life and Social Critique

Prof. Andrew Norris

Senior Fellow

Period at the center: August 2023 - August 2024, July 2025 - September 2025

Research Project: Critique of Desire

Prof. Zhang Shuangli

Senior Short Term Fellow

Period at the center: June 2023

Research Project: Hegelian Marxism or Marxist Hegelianism? Rethinking the Relationship Between Marx and Hegel

Dr. Alec Hinshelwood

Postdoctoral Leverhulme Fellow and UP Fellow

Period at the center: October 2021 - March 2024

Research Project: The Work of Human Hands: Marx on Humanity as Solidarity

Dr. Susan Morrow

Postdoctoral Fellow

Period at the center: September 2021 - July 2022

Research Project: Politics of Movement: From Expressionism to Carl Schmitt

Dr. Emmanuel Nakamura

Postdoctoral DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: October 2023 - December 2023

Research Project: The Negativity of Second Nature and Market Dynamics

Dr. Gilad Nir

Postdoctoral Minerva Fellow

Period at the center: October 2021 - September 2023

Research Project: The Riddle of Transformation

Dr. Eric-John Russell

Postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow

Period at the center: July 2022 - June 2024

Research Project: Certainty in an Uncertain World: A Critical Theory of Opinion

Dr. Jonathan Soen

Postdoctoral UP Fellow

Period at the center: October 2022 - October 2023

Research Project: The Life of Thinking

Dr. Tuomo Tiisala

Postdoctoral UP Fellow

Period at the center: January 2023 - March 2024

Research Project: The Concept of Invisible Power

Dr. Andrew Werner

Postdoctoral Fellow

Period at the center: June - July 2022, June - July 2025

Research Project: Hegel's Analogies

Dr. Amir Yaretzky

Postdoctoral Minerva Fellow

Period at the center: October 23 – October 25

Research Project: Foundations for an Analytic Schellingianism

Haley Brennan

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: April - July 2024

Research Project: Kant’s Invisible Self

Erika Cipolla

Doctoral Capes PDSE Fellow

Period at the center: November 2024 – April 2025

Research Project: Hegel and pantheism: an analysis from the finite and the absolute in The Science of Logic.

SJ Cowan

American Society of Aesthetics Dissertation Fellow

Period at the center: October 2024 – September 2025

Research Project: The Play of Appearances: Aesthetic Semblance and the Reflective Conception of Art

Hugo Havranek

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: May - August 2022

Research Project: Atemporal Dynamism in Hegel's Philosophy of Life

Jan-Paul Sandmann

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025 – August 2025

Research Project: A Crisis in Art

Sarah Ratzlaff

Doctoral DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: October 2023—July 2024

Research Project: Infinite Abundance: Schiller on the Question of Aesthetic Freedom

Sarahlou Wagner-Lapierre

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025-Juli 2025

Research Project: « Rien faire comme une bête ». Adorno on the Teleology of Labour

Connie Wang

Doctoral DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: October 2023 – August 2024

Research Project: Being Too at Home in the Other: Seelenkrankheiten as Pathologies of Immediacy in Hegel’s Anthropology