NEW COLLABORATION BETWEEN ACADEMY IN EXILE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN TO SUPPORT SCHOLARS IN EXILE

Academy in Exile (AiE) at TU Dortmund University is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Institute for the Humanities (IH) at the University of Michigan. The newly established cooperation program “Scholars in Exile” (SiE) will provide a one-year residency with the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to a scholar focused on humanities research who is living in exile due to war or persecution as the result of their academic work and/or civic engagement. This stay at the University of Michigan is designed to complement an AiE fellowship at TU Dortmund University funded by the Mellon Foundation and VolkswagenStiftung.

“In partnering with the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, AiE affirms its commitment to academic freedom, excellence in research, global justice, and to fostering the work of its fellows,” said Vanessa Agnew, associate director of AiE, echoing a statement by Jason Young, director of the Institute for the Humanities. The collaboration will allow participating fellows to expand their academic networks and directly engage university communities in Germany and the United States in some of the most pressing social and intellectual challenges facing us today.

On February 6, 2025, the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institute's Global Justice and Humanities Practices Initiative awarded the AiE/SiE collaboration a grant in support of the program. The Initiative was created to bring humanistic research into urgent dialogue with contemporary struggles for justice, equity, and collective memory.