Former "Foreign Affairs" editor Gideon Rose is working on a project about the future of European security.

Agnes Mueller explores new literature by young German-based Jewish writers and their relationships to migration and the Holocaust.

Pamela Z is creating a sound and performance work incorporating the voices and sounds of people working in Berlin.

Former CDC director Rochelle Walensky is finishing a book about her her experiences at the intersection of medicine and public health.

Cartoonist Ken Krimstein is at work on a semi-autobiographical graphic novel set in his hometown of Deerfield, Illinois.

Historian Jefferson Cowie traces American history through the elusive and divisive concept of freedom.

Adam Shatz is at work on a sweeping chronicle of the postwar Black music avant-garde.

Cultural theorist Sianne Ngai is writing a book of essays that explores the risks of recreating and lingering in “wrong” ways of thinking.

Writer Brian Evenson is continuing work on a novel about the collision of Mormon ideas and ideals with European culture -- and schizophrenia.

Mona El-Naggar’s Academy project, “Behind the Byline,” offers an authoritative account of modern women in the Arab world.

Historian Abhishek Kaicker is at work on a biography of Anand Ran “Mukhlis” (1699-1751), the most important Hindu intellectual of the Mughal Empire.

Historian Daniel Jütte is working on a new book on the history of locomotion in early modern Europe.