Kazi Jones has worked in non-profit operations for more than 15 years. She has held various responsibilities including bookkeeping, human resources and benefits management, contract management, risk management, IT coordination, and many others as needed. She specializes in developing systems to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of operations processes. Kazi is also a professional actress […]

Seth has an M.A. in Liberal Studies and an Advanced Certificate in Film Studies from the CUNY Graduate Center, and a BA from UNC-Chapel Hill. His writing engages the post-industrial Southern city on film, and the disruptive force of chronic illness. An occasional short-film maker, he has previously worked as a college advisor and anti-death […]

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 […]

Mark DeLucas has worked variously in magazine publishing, museum administration and corporate finance. He was the co-founder and -manager of Big Irv’s, an art collective and event space located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Interests include literature and political and cultural history.

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 […]

Bruce M. King’s teaching and research focuses on the ancient Greek and Roman world. He is especially engaged by anthropological, psychoanalytic, queer, comparative, and materialist approaches to the ancient world. He has published articles on Homer, the pre-Socratics, Sophocles, and Plato, as well as on reception history. He recently co-authored an article on the queer […]

Kali Handelman is an editor and writing coach based in London, where she moved after sixteen years working in academia and the arts in New York City. She has an MA in religious studies from Columbia University, and a BA in cultural and media studies from Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, […]

Abby Kluchin holds a Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.A. in philosophy of religion from Columbia University and a B.A. with High Honors from Swarthmore College. Abby specializes in Continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory. She is a co-founder of the Brooklyn Institute, and has taught at the Cooper Union, Columbia University, and Ursinus College. Abby co-hosts the Ordinary Unhappiness podcast […]

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 […]