The Advisory Board supports the work of the Research Training Group on matters related to academic direction, equal opportunity, and the academic and professional development programs. The Advisory Board currently consists of the following persons:

Prof. Dr. Jason Frank (Cornell University)
Prof. Dr. Patricia Hayes (University of the Western Cape)
Jürgen Kaube (Publisher, Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung)
Prof. Franziska Nori (Director, Kunstverein Frankfurt)
Prof. Dr. Anindya Purakayastha (ILSR Kolkata and Kazi Nazrul University)
Prof. Dr. Juliane Rebentisch (HFBK Hamburg)
Dr. Deborah Schnabel (Director, Bildungsstätte Anne Frank)

In addition to the applicant Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Darmstadt, which is involved through its co-spokesperson, the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule are also integrated as regional academic partners with expertise in aesthetics and society. Eighteen international partner institutes spanning five continents (Africa, South America, North America, South and East Asia, and Europe) further expand on-site expertise and strengthen perspectives that recontextualize, question, or complement established Euro-Atlantic approaches to democracy. The approach of the Graduate Research Training Group is programmatically committed to the guiding principle of Public Humanities. The RTG has established thirteen partnerships with non-university civil society organizations and public institutions—ranging from the municipal to the federal level. Together with these partners, the doctoral fellows develop transfer projects that make it possible to reflect on preliminary research outcomes in collaboration with societal actors, and to feed the resulting insights and experiences back into the research projects. In this way, the doctoral students contribute to intensifying the exchange between the humanities and society, and they provide new impulses for the innovative advancement of interdisciplinary research on democracy.

Academic Partner Institutions

• Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, Department of Government
• EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Frankreich,
• Centre d’études des mouvements sociaux (CEMS) und Centre d’études John Dewey
• EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Frankreich,
• Centre d’études sociologiques et politiques Raymond-Aron (CESPRA)
• Fordham University, New York, USA, Department of English
• Kolkata und Kazi Nazrul University, Indien, Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR)
• Jawaharlal Nehru University, Neu-Delhi, Indien, Centre for Political Studies
• Malmö University, Schweden, School of Arts and Communication
• National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, Department of Chinese
• New School for Social Research, NYC, USA, Department of Philosophy
• New York University, USA, Department of Comparative Literature
• Princeton University, USA, German Department
• Universidad de Valparaiso, Chile, Escuela De Administracion Publica Department
• Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasilien, Programa de Pós-Graduacao em Filosofia
• Université de Montréal, Kanada, Département de littératures et de langues du monde
• Université Félix Houphpuët Abidjan-Cocody, Elfenbeinküste, German Seminar
• University of Glasgow, Schottland, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences
• University of the Western Cape, Südafrika, The Centre for Humanities Research
• University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, English Department

Civil Society Partners

• Auswärtiges Amt
• Bildungsstätte Anne Frank
• Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S)
• Crespo Foundation
• DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmueseum e.V.
• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH
• Frankfurter Kunstverein e.V.
• Hessisches Literaturforum im Mousonturm e.V.
• Magistrat Bad Homburg, Kulturamt
• Literaturhaus Frankfurt am Main e.V.
• mehr als wählen e.V.
• Museum Angewandte Kunst
• Stiftung Orte der deutschen Demokratiegeschichte