New School for Social Research philosophy professor Dmitri Nikulin has been selected as a Fellow at the Forschungskolleg, Research College of Human Sciences in Bad Homburg, Germany, for the fall 2009 semester.

Nikulin will be working on a new book that focuses on the philosophy of comedy. “Philosophers dedicated many great books to tragedy, but only very few to comedy. Why this is the case, is itself an interesting philosophical problem,” said Nikulin.

The Forschungskolleg (Research College of Human Sciences), one of the leading German research institutions, was created with the cooperation of the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and the Werner Reimers Foundation in Bad Homburg. The Reimers Foundation is an international humanities and social science institution. The Goethe University Frankfurt am Main is one of the largest universities in Germany.

The goal of the college is to generate ideas and produce consistent research in the field of human sciences. The college offers renowned scholars and scientists in Germany and abroad the opportunity to focus on critical issues and address their own research.