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Affiliate Faculty

Dan Ben-Amos,
Fairy tale, Grimm brothers, Yiddish folk tales, Nazi-era Volkskunde

Warren Breckman, University of California, Berkeley Hegel, Marx, 19th and 20th century German and European intellectual history, and contemporary theory.

Thomas Childers, Ph.D., Harvard University
Modern German history (Weimar, Nazi period) 

Steven Feierman, Ph.D., Northwestern, D. of Phil., Oxford
history of medicine in East Africa formerly colonized by Germany

Paul Guyer, Ph.D., Harvard University 
Kant, modern philosophy, aesthetics

Ulrike Heuer, Ph.D., Free University
Kant, philosophy, ethics, action theory
 

Jeffrey Kallberg, Ph.D., University of Chicago 
19th & 20th century music, Scandinavian studies 

Ellen Kennedy, Ph.D., London School of Economics
Carl Schmitt, Hugo Ball, Frankfurt School, political philosophy, Bundesbank

Klaus Krippendorf,
Media and communications, metaphor, semiotics

Benjamin Nathans,
Habermas, East European Jews, Yiddish culture 

Ellen Prince, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania 
Linguistics; Yiddish 

Jean-Michel Rabaté,
Thomas Bernhard, Broch, Hegel, psychoanalysis, Vienna, and literary theory

Donald Ringe
Indo-European linguistics 

Larry Silver, Ph.D., Harvard University 
German and Dutch art, Reformation, film 

Jonathan Steinberg,
Holocaust, Third Reich, Deutsche Bank, Switzerland

Thomas Max Safley, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Early modern economic, social and cultural history; Reformation history