SCRIPTS welcomes Genia Kostka (professor of Chinese Studies and head of the Institute of Chinese Studies at Freie Universität (FU) Berlin), Alexander Libman (professor of Russian and East European Politics at FU Berlin) and Lora Anne Viola (professor for North American Foreign Policy at the FU Berlin) as new Principal Investigators. Likewise, SCRIPTS welcomes Kathrin Zippel (professor of sociology and gender studies at Northeastern University), who has joined the Cluster as Einstein Professor in the Department of Sociology at FU Berlin.