In North America, DAAD currently sponsors two chairs:

• Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at New York University
• Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professorship for German and European Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Dr. Christian Martin
Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies at New York University

Christian Martin is a professor of political science and chair of comparative politics at the University of Kiel, Germany. Martin studied political science at the University of Konstanz and holds a doctorate from there (2002). Martin was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Konstanz and at the Max-Planck-Institute in Jena (2003-2004). He was an assistant professor at the University of Hamburg (2004-2008) and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University (2008-2011).

Prof. Dr. Andreas Rödder, Helmut Schmidt Distinguished Visiting Professor for German and European Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Andreas Rödder holds the chair for Modern and Contemporary History at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. He received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1995. Thereafter, he was Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Stuttgart, where he gained his Habilitation in 2001. Since 2005, Rödder has been Professor in Mainz with a research focus on international history of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Historisches Kolleg in Munich (2001/02 and 2017/18), Visiting Professor at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA (2004), and Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and the German Historical Institute London, UK (2012/13).