Werz, Michael

Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund in Washington, DC, and Visiting Researcher at the Institute for International Migration Research of Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Born 1964. He studied philosophy, politics and American studies at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, where he did his doctorate degree in 1998 after spending time doing research at the University of California in Berkeley. In 2004, he did his post-doctorate degree (Habilitation) at Leibniz University in Hanover; there he taught as a research associate at the Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology from 1999 to 2004. During this period, he was offered fellowships as a Public Policy Scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC, and as John F. Kennedy Fellow at Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. From 2005 to 2007, he was the director of the Hessen Universities Consortium in New York.

His research work focuses on the Frankfurt School, migration and integration, anti-Americanism, race and ethnicity in the 20th century as well as the future of the West.

To be published soon: Vorgestellte Gemeinschaften: Race und Ethnicity in den USA 1890-1990.

Other important publications by Michael Werz:

• "Modernity, Resentment and Anti-Americanism", Anti-Americanism: History, Causes, and Themes, Vol. 1, Brendon O’Connor (Hrsg.), Oxford/Westport, Connecticut 2007, pp. 263-386 (http://www.gmfus.org/publications/article.cfm?id=374)
• "Diversity as Foreign Policy Asset: A Report of the German Marshall Fund of the United States", Washington DC, June 2006 (http://www.gmfus.org/publications/article.cfm?id=193)
• Veränderte Weltbilder, Frankfurt/M. 2005 (editor with Detlev Claussen, Oskar Negt)
• Kritik des Ethnonationalismus, Frankfurt/M. 2000 (editor with Detlev Claussen, Oskar Negt)
• Grenzen der Säkularisierung: Zur Entstehung der Ideologiekritik, Frankfurt/M. 2000