Isi Litke teaches at the intersection of politics and aesthetics, with particular interests in 20th century avant-garde movements, critical theory, visual studies, and the politics of memory. She is currently working on several writing and curatorial projects related to the sculptor Jacques Jarrige and the architect and filmmaker László Rajk Jr. She holds an MA […]

Nara Roberta Silva is Core Faculty and Praxis Program Head at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, where she also earned her B.A. and M.A. Her research and teaching center on the intersections of social and political theory, racial capitalism, social […]

Audrey Nicolaides is a political theorist specializing in the history and theory of left internationalism. She serves as Core Faculty and Chicago Coordinator for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University, an MA in the Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a BFA in […]

Michael Stevenson received his BA in philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania and his PhD in philosophy from Columbia University, having begun his post-graduate study at Cornell University. He has taught at Columbia University as a Core Lecturer, and at Barnard College and Hunter College, City University of New York. He specializes in the German […]

Suzanne Schneider is Executive Director and Core Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, specializing in political theory and history of the modern Middle East. She is the author of Mandatory Separation: Religion, Education, and Mass Politics in Palestine and The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism. Her writing […]

Rebecca Ariel Porte is a member of the Core Faculty specializing in literature and aesthetic philosophy and theory. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her scholarly interests include comparative poetry and poetics, critical theory, and dream houses of the collective (paradise, Arcadia, the Golden Age, utopia, and the given […]