Gerald Echterhoff: Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York
- Prof. Dr. Gerald Echterhoff
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- January 22, 2025
Gerald Echterhoff has been appointed Theodor Heuss Professor at the New School for Social Research in New York for the upcoming academic year (September 2025 to May 2026).
The New School for Social Research is one of the most renowned social science universities in the USA. Each year, a leading German sociologist, historian, economist, political scientist, philosopher or psychologist assumes the role of Heuss Professor. The German Federal Government permanently endowed the Heuss Professorship in the 1970s. Heuss Professors from all social science fields have strengthened the intellectual transatlantic ties between The New School for Social Research and Germany each year since.
Previous holders of the Heuss Professorship include Jürgen Habermas, Niklas Luhmann, Reinhart Koselleck, and the psychologists Anne Maass, Klaus Fiedler, Fritz Strack and Dieter Frey.
During his stay there, Gerald Echterhoff will teach and conduct research on social memory, the formation of shared reality in interpersonal interaction as well as psychological approaches to forced migration and refugee integration.
Further information can be found at https://heussprofessor.newschool.org/
The research unit FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The research unit studies the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms underlying scenario construction in episodic memory. We employ and integrate approaches from Philosophy, Psychology, and Experimental and Computational Neuroscience.
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