Karol Berger (Ph.D. Yale 1975) is the Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts at the Department of Music, as well as an affiliated faculty at the Department of German Studies, and an affiliated researcher at the Europe Center.  A native of Poland, he has lived in the U.S. since 1968 and taught at Stanford since 1982.  He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center, and Stanford Humanities Center.  In 2005-2006, he has been the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.  He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.  His Musica Fictareceived the 1988 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, and hisBach's Cycle, Mozart's Arrow the 2008 Marjorie Weston Emerson Award of the Mozart Society of America.