News & Media

Daniela Müller (FRIAS Fellow 2021-25) has published the monography Katharer des Nordens at Herder Verlag. The study offers a historical investigation into the presence and influence of the Cathar movement in Northern Europe during the 12th and 13th centuries, tracing their impact along the Rhine, Meuse, and Seine.

Manuela Boatcă (Rector’s Fellow 2021/22) has been appointed Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School for Social Research in New York. The sociologist, whose expertise lies in decoloniality, global inequalities, and transnational entanglements, will hold the professorship for one year.

Marlene Bartos (FRIAS Direktorin 2015/17) und Johanna Pink (FRIAS Steuerungsgremium) erhalten vom Europäischen Forschungsrat zwei ERC Advanced Grants. Sie forschen zur Gedächtnisbildung im Gehirn sowie zur Entstehung der islamischen Moderne anhand von Traditionen der Koranauslegung im 19. Jahrhundert.

Sabine Döring (Guest Researcher 2026/27) is currently examining the relationship between individual freedom, solidarity and the common good as part of her Volkswagen Foundation Fellowship. In line with this research, she recently published an article on the current challenges facing liberal democracy. Earlier this year, she introduced a monograph focusing on the relationship between politics and academic freedom (both publications in German).

Evie Malaia (FRIAS Fellow 2017/18) has published a study in PLoS One that builds on her FRIAS project on the role of visual and linguistic complexity in language development. The article investigates how age and language experience shape visual perception.