Andrea Bernstein, Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Council and Ferris Professor of Journalism in Spring 2027, has received a Berlin Prize Fellowship.
The fellowship, awarded by the American Academy in Berlin, honors U.S.-based scholars, writers, artists, and composers “who represent the highest standard of excellence in their fields,” according to the award announcement.
During her fellowship in Fall 2026, Bernstein will work on a new book, “The Uses of Memory: Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, My Parents, and Me.” Part memoir, part investigative journalism, and part intellectual history, the book will examine her own work covering US politics as it converged with the work of her parents, Richard J. and Carol L. Bernstein, scholars of Arendt and Benjamin, respectively.
Bernstein is an investigative journalist, author, podcaster, and longtime public radio reporter and editor. She is the author of the bestselling book “American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power.”
She also served as a visiting professor in the Program in Journalism in Spring 2024, where she taught the course “Investigative Journalism: Uncovering Corruption in the 2020s.” Next year, she will teach a spring course on the power of investigative podcasting.
Read the full award announcement on the American Academy in Berlin website.
