Our Directors

Paul Apostolidis is Professorial Lecturer and Department Tutor at The London School of Economics and Political Science.

Albena Azmanova is Professor of Political and Social Science at the Brussels School of International Studies at the University of Kent.

Jodi Dean is the Donald R. Harter ’39 Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.


Andreas Kalyvas is an Associate Professor of Politics and Chair at The New School for Social Research in New York.


Regina Kreide is a professor of Political and Social Theory and the History of Ideas at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.


Artemy Magun is Professor of Deocratic Theory and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Sociology at the European University at Saint-Petersburg, Russia.


Banu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz)

David Strecker (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Massimiliano Tomba (UC Santa Cruz)