Fellows

The Center for Post-Kantian Philosophy hosts a group of international fellows in Potsdam each year. The fellows pursue individual or collaborative research projects in post-Kantian philosophy and have the chance for extensive exchange with other fellows and the team of researchers permanently affiliated with the center. The Potsdam Center hosts fellows on the professorial, post-doctoral, and doctoral level.

Current fellows

Senior Fellows

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. 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

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. 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. Terry Pinkard

Distinguished Senior Fellow

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

Research Project: Hegelian Theory and Pragmatism

Postdoctoral Fellows

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. Amir Yaretzky

Postdoctoral Minerva Fellow

Period at the center: October 23 – October 25

Research Project: Foundations for an Analytic Schellingianism

Dr. Andrew Werner

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Research Project: Hegel's Analogies

Dr. Emmanuel Chaput

Period at the center: October 2025 – December 2025; April 2026 - June 2027

Research Project: From Political Organicism to Social Metabolism: The Genesis of a Dialectical Theory of Society from Hegel to Marx

Doctoral Fellows

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 2025

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

Andrea Bianchi

Doctoral Sapienza Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025 – August 2025

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

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

Mattia Fiorilli

Doctoral Sapienza Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025-August 2025

Research Project: Butler’s Double Kantian Inheritance

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

Jan-Paul Sandmann

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: April 2025 – August 2025

Research Project: A Crisis in Art

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

Former Fellows

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

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. 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

Haley Brennan

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: April - July 2024

Research Project: Kant’s Invisible Self

Hugo Havranek

Doctoral Fellow

Period at the center: May - August 2022

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

Sarah Ratzlaff

Doctoral DAAD Fellow

Period at the center: October 2023—July 2024

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

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