Anne Pollok hates flying but spends a lot of her free time on planes anyway, commuting between Bad Salzuflen (no, there isn't a good one), Germany, where her family lives; Columbia, South Carolina, where she and her husband have a house, her husband a job and both of them an interesting time getting to know the American South; Passau, Germany, where his family lives, and Stanford, where she loves to stay as a visiting scholar. First during her PhD studies on Moses Mendelssohn's Anthropology, then as a Leo Baeck Postdoctoral Fellow, doing research on the philosophical linkage between Mendelssohn's and Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Culture.
When not on planes, reading books or swearing at her computer, Anne loves hiking (www.bahiker.com is it!), the desert (nowhere else thoughts are so loud), and cooking indian and italian food. Or at least trying to.