
Past Fellows
A full list of fellows is available upon request.
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Ms. Sabine Horlitz

Ms. Sabine Horlitz will be a DAAD/AICGS fellow in May and June 2012. Her research compares U.S. and German housing politics with a focus on their role in the recent financial and real estate crisis. Starting from the working assumption that neither the market nor the state are able or willing to… Read more >
Mr. Alexander Wolf
| Programs: Foreign & Domestic Policy
Mr. Alexander Wolf will be a DAAD/AICGS Fellow in March and April 2012. His research project explores the implications China’s rise has for the transatlantic relationship. From 2005 to 2009 Mr. Wolf studied Political Sciences, Public Law, and Political Economy at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where he earned the degree of Dipl. Sc. Pol. Univ. in… Read more >
Dr. Dorothee Heisenberg
| Programs: Business & Economics
Dr. Dorothee Heisenberg will be a DAAD/AICGS Fellow in February and March 2012. Her project explores the idea of automatic stabilizers in the EU context by comparing the fiscal transfers between the states in the U.S. and the Länder in Germany. In both cases, the rich states of the federation send money… Read more >
Mr. Friedrich Paulsen
| Programs: Society, Culture & Politics
Friedrich Paulsen will be an AICGS Visiting Fellow researching innovative practices in public governance involving the cooperation of public, private-commercial, and private non-profit actors in Germany and the United States. From 2003 to 2007, he studied Administrative Modernization, European Studies, and Sustainable Development in a North-South Perspective at the universities of Münster… Read more >
Ms. Tonia Bieber
| Programs: Society, Culture & Politics
Ms. Tonia Bieber is a research fellow at DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center 597 “Transformations of the State” at the University of Bremen, and a PhD candidate at the Bremen International School of Social Sciences promoted by the German Excellence Initiative. Ms. Bieber holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Management from… Read more >
Ms. Melanie Diermann
| Programs: Foreign & Domestic Policy
NRW School of Governace, 2009.
Topic: “Governmental Communication Strategies: Comparing the U.S. and Germany”
Mr. Philipp Offergeld
| Programs: Society, Culture & Politics
NRW School of Governace, 2009.
Topic: “Comparing Structural Changes in North Rhine-Westphalia and Pennsylvania”
Ms. Sophia Schönborn
| Programs: Society, Culture & Politics
NRW School of Governance, 2010.
Topic: “Concepts and Communications Strategies for Adapting to the Negative Effects of Climate Change at the Local Level”
Mr. Marcel Solar
| Programs: Foreign & Domestic Policy
NRW School of Governance, 2010.
Topic: “Direct Democracy at the State Level in the U.S. – Lessons for the Debate in North Rhine-Westphalia”
Mr. Andreas Jueschke
| Programs: Business & Economics
NRW School of Governance, 2011.
Topic: “Escaping Paralysis – the American Way of Insolvency at the Local Level. A Model for NRW?”
Ms. Marion Steinkamp
| Programs: Business & Economics
NRW School of Governance, 2011.
Topic: “Escaping Paralysis – the American Way of Insolvency at the Local Level. A Model for NRW?”

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