Die Mercator-Fellows
2. Projektphase
Professor Anthony Kauders
Modern History, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, UK
Anthony D. Kauders is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at Keele University. He has published widely on German-Jewish history, antisemitism, and the history of psychology (psychoanalysis, social psychology, hypnosis). He is currently co-editing a volume (together with Karl Figlio of Essex University) on History and Psychoanalysis: Interdisciplinary Dialogues and writing a book on the psychology of antisemitism. His most recent publications on the latter subject include: ‚Speculating About Society, Analyzing the Individual: Where Freudian Accounts of Antisemitism Go Wrong‘, in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 30 (2021); ‚From Particularism to Mass Murder: Nazi Morality, Antisemitism, and Cognitive Dissonance‘, in: Holocaust and Genocide Studies 36 (2022); ‚From Realistic Conflict to Relative Deprivation: Rethinking the Psychology of Modern Antisemitism, in: Antisemitism Studies 6 (2022); ‚Enmity Explained: The History of Emotions and the Psychology of Antisemitism‘, in: Jahrbuch für Antisemitismusforschung 33 (2024); and ‚The “Longest Hatred” Explained: Confirmation Bias and the Persistence of Antisemitism‘, in: Antisemitism Studies 9 (2025).
Dr. Dalya-Yafa Markovich
Her research fields include anthropology of visual and material culture; cultural heritage.
Dr. Markovich studied for her B.A at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the School of Education in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her doctoral thesis, submitted to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was in Sociology of Education. In addition, she completed a B.A and an M.A at the Department of Art History at Tel Aviv University. She did her post-doctorate at the Department of Education at Ben-Gurion University in the Negev, under the supervision of Prof’ Ismael Abu Saad. She was a fellow at the Heschel Center for Society, Environment and Education and at the Mandel School for Educational Leadership in Jerusalem. Concurrently, she took a significant part in activism in the field of education. In addition, she was involved in editing various journals in the field of culture in general and modern art in particular – HaKivun Mizrach, Noga, Block, Iton 77 – which sought to shed light on the cultures of the different groups that comprise the Israeli society.
Recently she developed the “Shared Heritage program” – a research lab with students from both the M.A program in Art Education at the Midrasha and the MA program in Arts Management – PH Pädagogische Hochschule, Ludwigsburg, Germany. The research was published in an edited book. She was a research fellow/lecturer in Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt Foundation, Germany; in GEI – Georg Eckert Institute, Germany; and Hochschule für Gestaltung – Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.
Im Rahmen des Schwerpunktprogramms werden die Projekte von internationalen Expert*innen (Mercator-Fellows) begleitet. Diese Wissenschaftler*innen sind zeitweise vor Ort und stehen den Teilprojekten mit ihrer Expertise in beratender Funktion zur Seite. Zusätzlich veranstalten sie im Rahmen des Forums verschiedene Workshops. Der Kontakt wird auch nach Ende des Aufenthalts bestehen bleiben, womit ein langfristiger Austausch mit Forschenden aus dem In- und Ausland angeregt werden soll.
1. Projektphase
Asst. Prof. Dr. Jessica Roda
Center for Jewish Civilization in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA
Prof. Dr. Gunnar Lehmann
Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
