Herr Amir Theilhaber

Amir Theilhaber completed his BA in International Affairs at Vesalius College – Vrije Universiteit Brussel (2006), his MA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University Jerusalem (2009), and his PhD in History at the Technical University Berlin, where he defended his dissertation on the Orientalist and German foreign minister Friedrich Rosen in 2018. Subsequently, he taught a course on the Aryan myth in global contexts at the Center for Antisemitism Studies at the TU Berlin, and took up a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC (2019/2020).

His studies were supported by a Rothberg Family Scholarship, a Leo-Baeck Fellowship, a PhD scholarship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volks, a DAAD Promoting German Studies grant for a fellowship at Birkbeck College (2015), and a DAAD travel grant for a conference/resarch trip to Delhi and Lucknow (2018). He was awarded the Gold Meir Prize, and the conversion of his PhD dissertation was supported by the LWL, the Landesverband Lippe, and the Open Access fund of the TU Berlin.

Theilhaber has worked as a bartender in Belgium and in a laundromat on a kibbutz in the Galilee. He managed a legal aid clinic for refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia and Sudan in Cairo (2010-2011), and built up admissions and student services at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin (2014-2016). He's been an interviewer for the Archiv der Flucht at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and worked on the Antisemitism module at the Jewish Museum Berlin.