The stated mission of the program is to improve the transatlantic dialogue in the arts, humanities, and public policy through the development and communication of projects of the highest scholarly merit.
[1] The program is privately funded through donations, with the Kellen-Arnhold family as Academy's primary source of financial support.
[2] The creation of the Academy and the program was driven by Richard C. Holbrooke, an American diplomat who served as U.S.
As the last of the American troops were leaving Berlin, Holbrooke proposed the academy as a way of maintaining U.S-German ties.
[1] The Jurisprudence of Hannah Arendt Wörterstürmerei im Namen der Schönheit, or World and Work in Samuel Beckett Human Terrain: When War Becomes Academic The Evolutionary Origins of the Psychology of Women and Men Kindness: A Novel Origins of Print: How Medieval Culture Ushered in the First Media Revolution Bryher: Female Husband of Modernism America Before the Code Geontologies: Indigenous Worlds in the New Media and Late Liberalism New Poems Europe's Twelfth-Century "Turn", Narrative of Medieval History