Core Faculty
- Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Comparative philosophy, social and political theory, the Frankfurt School, media studies, religious studies, and post-colonial studies
- Lygia Sabbag Fares
Political economy, macroeconomics, development economics, labor economics, and feminist economics
- Rebecca Ariel Porte
Poetry and poetics, literature and literary theory, aesthetics, early analytic philosophy
- Suzanne Schneider
Jewish and Islamic modernism, religious politics in the Middle East, history of modern Palestine/Israel, secularism and post-colonialism
Associate Faculty
- Adriana Garriga-López
Caribbean and Latin America; Decoloniality; Sovereignty and State Formations; Critical Medical Anthropology; Critical Theory; Health; Feminism, Sexuality Studies, and Queer Epistemologies
- Sami Al-Daghistani
Islamic intellectual history, Islamic ethics, economic thought in Islam, Islamic law
- Anthony Alessandrini
postcolonial literature and film, Middle East culture and politics, critical theory
- Theodra Bane
decolonization and decolonial theory, philosophy of social justice, feminisms, philosophy of race, critical theory
- K. Soraya Batmanghelichi
Feminist Theory, Gender Studies, Middle-Eastern Studies, Gender and Politics of Iran
- Alyssa Battistoni
Political theory, political economy, environmental studies, feminist theory
- Patrick Blanchfield
psychoanalysis, trauma studies, politics of violence, masculinity, gun studies
- Raphaële Chappe
Finance and risk management, law and economics, political economy, and social theory
- George Ciccariello-Maher
political theory, decolonization and abolition, communism, Latin American politics, social movements, the Black Radical Tradition, policing and mass incarceration
- Zach Fruit
Nineteenth-century literature, critical theory, aesthetics, post-colonial studies, art history
- Danya Glabau
Medical anthropology, science and technology studies, social theory, feminist science studies
- Samantha Hill
critical theory, the Frankfurt School, aesthetic theory, poetic thinking, and German literature
- Alírio Karina
African social thought, Black social thought, feminist studies, museum studies, anthropology, political economy, and postcolonial philosophy
- Shimrit Lee
Visual and cultural studies, critical security studies, surveillance studies, visual arts, performance
- Yitzhak Lewis
comparative literature; literary theory; literature and religion; Hasidic literature; Borges studies; and modern Jewish literatures
- Jenny Logan
Sexual violence, racialization, and the law; critical psychology; mental health and the law; race, gender, and property
- Olena Lyubchenko
political economy, social reproduction feminism, Soviet Union, post-Soviet transitions, primitive accumulation, history from below
- Elizabeth Marcus
French and post-colonial literature, multilingualism, migration and cosmopolitanism.
- Holly McGee
U.S. history, African-American history, intellectual history, comparative politics
- Rotem Rozental
Art history, photography theory, early Zionist photography and visual culture, history of Jewish art histories, contemporary art and curatorial approaches
- David Sugarman
Postwar American literature, postwar American intellectual history, urban theory, literary theory
- Joseph Earl Thomas
Contemporary literature, media studies, Black studies, critical theory, fantasy literature
At Large
- Szu-Yun Hsu
International political economy, state theory, neoliberalism, nationalism, critical geopolitics
- Anjuli Raza Kolb
Colonial and postcolonial literature and theory, comparative literature, gender and sexuality, literary and critical theory, globalization and sovereignty