Guest fellows at HLCES

The HLCEES is committed to academic collaboration with foreign scholars and universities. Every year a number of academics have been welcomed in Hamburg as Visiting Scholars under several Fellowship schemes. Foreign scholars can use the library facilities, carry on their own research and support the ongoing projects of the Centre.

The following guest scholars visited the Centre in the last years:

Fellows and scholarship holders

• Fazit Stiftung: Nicola Camilleri (Freie Universität Berlin, 2016)
• Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Gianfrancesco Lusini (2001/02); Anais Wion (2005/06); Jonathan Miran (2007/08, 2014); Alessandro Gori (2009-11); Mersha Alehegne (2018-2021); Aaron Butts (2020-2021)
• Gerda Henkel Stiftung: Mersha Alehegne (2021-2023)
• German Academic Exchange Service: Tsega Endalew (2003-07); Maria Bulakh (2004/05); Mersha Alehegne (2006-10); Maxim Zabolotskih (2007/08); Alessandro Gori (2008); Abbebe Kifleyesus (2009); Lucia Raggetti (2012); Solomon Gebreyes (2012-14)
• Swiss National Science Foundation: Charlotte Touati (2013-15)
• Academy of Sciences in Hamburg: Jacopo Gnisci (2017)
• CSMC Graduiertenkolleg: Gidena Mesfin (2015-2017); Nafisa Valieva (2016-2018); Lea Mascia (2017-); Jonas Karlsson (2017-, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service)
• Regione Lazio: Eliana Dal Sasso (2017-2018)

Guest scholars

• 2017/18: Iosif Fridman, Moscow; Steven Delamarter, Portland, OR; Michele Petrone, Copenhagen; Anais Wion, Paris
• 2016/17: Michele Petrone, Copenhagen; Hagos Abrha, Mekelle; Amsalu Teferra Alemu, Addis Ababa/Munich; Zdeněk Poláček, Prague
• 2015/16: Elie Dannaoui, Lebanon; Ivo Strecker, Germany; Hewan Marye, Ethiopia/UK; Bastien Kindt, Belgium; Ted Erho, Munich; Carolin Odebrecht, Germany; Maria Bulakh, Moscow; Agostino Soldati, Pavia
• 2014/15: Alessandro Gori, Denmark; Echi Christina Gabbert, Germany; Eloi Ficquet, France; Ted Erho, Munich; Luisa Sernicola, Italy; Verena Krebs, Konstanz; Meseret Haile Sellassie, Mekelle; Orin Gensler, Addis Ababa; Maria Bulakh, Moscow
• 2013/14: Hagos Tefera, Ethiopia; Ekaterina Gusarova, Russia; Itsushi Kawase, Japan; Luisa Sernicola, Italy; Veronika Roth, Germany; Massimo Villa, Italy
• 2012/13: Stefan Brüne, Germany; Tsehai Berhane-Selassie, Ireland; Charlotte Touati, Switzerland; Luisa Sernicola, Italy; Verena Krebs, Germany
• 2011/12: Abbebe Kifleyesus; James McCann, USA; Alessandro Gori, Italy; Yemataw Wondies, Gondar
• 2010/11: Maria Bulakh, Russia; Gianfranco Fiaccadori, Italy; Awet Weldemichael, USA; Hanna Rubinkowska, Poland
• 2009/10: Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Sweden; Witold Witakowski, Sweden; Gianfranco Fiaccadori, Italy
• 2008/09: Steven Kaplan, Israel; Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Sweden
• 2007/08: Gianfranco Fiaccadori, Italy; Steven Kaplan, Israel; Alessandro Gori, Italy
• 2006/07: Emeri van Donzel, the Netherlands; Haggai Erlich, Israel; Ewa Balicka-Witakowska, Sweden; Emmanuel Fritsch, Ethiopia
• 2005/06: Gianfrancesco Lusini, Italy; Giorgio Banti, Italy; Ewa Wolk, Poland
• 2004/05: Shiferaw Bekele, Ethiopia; Steven Kaplan, Israel; Giorgio Banti, Italy

A number of scholars have been invited to lecture within the framework of Hiob Ludolf Guest Professorship.

More guests have visited the center with the framework of the projects Ethio-SPaRe (2009-2015), TraCES (2014-2019), Beta Masaheft (2016-), etc.