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Advisors

The Institute’s advisors.

Antique celestial chart mapping the constellations

María del Rosario Acosta López

Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies in University of California, Riverside

Carlos Antonio Aguirre Rojas

Researcher, Institute for Social Research, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Maurice Aymard

Historian, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, former director Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme

Aslı Ü. Bâli

Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Etienne Balibar

Professor emeritus, université Paris-Nanterre, Anniversary Chair, Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London (2012–2025)

Ali Behdad

John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature, University of California, Los Angeles

Hind Benfares

Chargée de mission, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris

Manuela Bojadžijev

Professor, Berlin Institute for Empirical Integration and Migration Research

Wendy Brown

UC Berkeley Professor of Political Science, Emeritus and Institute for Advanced Study Professor of Social Science, Emeritus

Sebastian Budgen

Senior Editor, Verso Books

Bram Büscher

Professor and Chair, Sociology of Development and Change group, Wageningen University, the Netherlands; Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Judith Butler

Distinguished Professor, Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley

João Caraça

Senior Advisor and former Director, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

Jack Chen

Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of Virginia

Charmaine Chua

Acting Associate Professor of Geography, University of California, Berkeley

Mary Churchill

Associate Dean, Higher Education Administration, Boston University

Andrés Claro

Consejero, Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios en Filosofía, Artes y Humanidades, Universidad de Chile

Antonin Cohen

Président, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris

Olivia Custer

Independent Scholar, Paris

Leyla Dakhli

Historian. Researcher at the CNRS

Georgi Derluguian

Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University, Abu Dhabi

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Professor Emeritus of French and Philosophy, Columbia University

Nika Dubrovsky

Artist and Director, David Graeber Institute

Hamza Esmili

Maître-assistant Ambizione, UNIL, Université de Lausanne

Michel Feher

Direction du projet et du programme résistances, DIAGRAMMES

Veronica Gago

Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Zeynep Gambetti

Independent Scholar, Istanbul

Stefanos Geroulanos

Director, Remarque Institute; Professor of History, New York University

Nilüfer Göle

Directrice d’études, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Public Space Democracy project

Frank Guridy

Dr. Kenneth and Kareitha Forde Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University

Serge Halimi

Rédaction, Le Monde Diplomatique

Michael Hardt

Political theorist and professor of Literature, Duke University

Kevan Harris

Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Charles Heller

Professor, Social Anthropology, University of Bern

Beatrice Hibou

Directrice de recherche at CNRS (affiliated with CERI – SciencesPo)

Hou Hanru

Independent Curator and Art Critic, Rome

Yves David Hugot

Sociologist, Chercheur associé at Sophiapol, Paris

Wang Hui

Professor & Director, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University

Rahmane Idrissa

Senior Researcher, African Studies Centre, Leiden University

Thomas Keenan

Professor of Comparative Literature; Director, Human Rights Program, Bard College

Çağlar Keyder

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Boğaziçi University

Rainer Maria Kiesow

Professor of law and Vice President of Research at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales

Premesh Lalu

Research Professor, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape

Lau Kin Chi

Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong and Global University for Sustainability

Charles Lemert

Andrus Professor of Social Theory, Emeritus, Wesleyan University

Françoise Lionnet

Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University

Chowra Makaremi

Anthropologist, Researcher at CNRS

Reinhold Martin

Professor of Architecture, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University

Sandro Mezzadra

Professor of political theory, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna

Anna-Louise Milne

Academic Director and Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of London, Paris

Svetlana Mintcheva

Director of Programs, National Coalition Against Censorship

Fiamma Montezemolo

Artist and professor of Cinema and Digital Media, UC Davis

Ramona Naddaff

Associate Professor, Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

Pablo Oyarzun

Professor of Philosophy, University of Chile, Santiago

Ravi Arvind Palat

Emeritus Professor, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University

Margherita Pascucci

Independent Scholar, Florence

Lorenzo Pezzani

Associate Professor, University of Bologna; director of LIMINAL

Jean-Luc Racine

Senior Research Director, emeritus at CNRS and Senior Researcher at Asia Centre

Raqs Media Collective

Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, New Delhi

Bruce Robbins

Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

Felwine Sarr

Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Professor of African and African American Studies, Duke University

Joan W. Scott

Emerita Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey

Adam Shatz

US Editor, London Review of Books

Nedjib Sidi Moussa

Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne

Ari Sitas

University of Cape Town; National Research Foundation

Bassem Snaije

Partner at Cosmos Advisors, Associate Professor, Institut d’études politiques de Paris, Sciences Po

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

University Professor, Columbia University

Adam Tooze

Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History and Director of the European Institute, Columbia University

Esteban Torres

Permanent Fellow, Institut für Sozialforschung (IfS), Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt; Professor of sociology, National University of Cordoba, Argentina

Enzo Traverso

Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Cornell University

Françoise Vergès

Senior Fellow Researcher Sarah Parker Centre, UCL, London

Eyal Weizman

Founder and director, Forensic Architecture

Juliet Williams

Professor of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Research assistants

Nathan Sommer

BA in History and in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Binghamton University

Marie Melody Vidal

PhD in Cultural Anthropology, EHESS Center for North American Studies