International scientific board

The International Scientific Advisory Board of the IPST was established in March 2021 with the aim of strengthening the Institute’s cooperation with the leading names in global theoretical thought in the fields of philosophy and social theory. Since the Institute has often faced political pressures during its history (turbulent for a scientific institution), influential world thinkers have repeatedly supported the efforts in protecting institutional autonomy and freedom of the IPST through petitions, appeals and open letters. The international scientific board has an advisory function and through its activities secures global relevance and visibility of the Institute, and additionally positions the IPST as an internationally recognized and influential institution in the field of social theory and engaged thought. The work of the International Advisory Scientific Committee is coordinated by Petar Bojanić in the capacity of a delegated representative of the Scientific Board of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

Étienne Balibar is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X–Nanterre and a Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York, as well as at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University London. He is the author of more than forty books and is active in the field of social and political philosophy.

Manuela Bojadžiev is Professor of “Cultures and Lifestyles in an Immigration Society” at the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM), Humboldt University. She is Secretary for International Cooperation at the same institute. She has published numerous articles on racism and migration research, the history of European migration, and postcolonial studies.

Former Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade, and Director of the Center for Advanced Studies of the University of Rijeka. He is the author of several books of political and social philosophy.

Professor at The University of Berkeley and Head of Department Hannah Arendt, European Graduate School. They have won a number of prestigious awards (Andrew Mellon for academic excellence, Adorno Prize, Guggenheim Award…) for their contribution to the development of engaged thought. They authored of over fifty works translated into the same number of world languages.

Barbara Cassin is Emerita Director of Research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), a member of the Académie française, and a philologist and philosopher specializing in Greek philosophy. She was awarded the CNRS Gold Medal in 2018. Since 2025, a prize for the translation of French research into English in the social sciences and humanities, under the patronage of the Alsatian Interuniversity House of Social Sciences and Humanities (MISHA) and the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), is named after her.

Noam Chomsky is Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has received honorary degrees from more than 20 universities worldwide, including the University of London, the University of Cambridge, Columbia University, and Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.

Chancellor of New York University Shanghai (NYU Shanghai) since 2020. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a long-serving Professor of Philosophy at East China Normal University (ECNU) and received his PhD from the University of Bergen. He has also held a number of leadership positions in academic institutions in Shanghai, including the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and ECNU.

Jonathan Wolff is Professor of Values and Public Policy and a member of the Governing Body of Wolfson College, University of Oxford. He has served as Chair of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and as Professor of Philosophy and Dean at University College London. He is the author of a large number of influential books on democratic theory and a columnist for The Guardian.

Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois, and also Professor Emerita at the Center for Advanced Study at the same university. She is the author of many influential works on the history of Southeast Europe, including Imagining the Balkans (1997) and Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern (1993), and more recently The Balkan Family in the 20th Century (2003).

Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at the Department of Political Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was also an associate fellow at the Oxford Centre for Environment, Ethics and Society between 1995 and 2004. His fields of research and teaching are equality, democracy and human rights, environmental politics, and environmental political theory.

Professor of philosophy at The University of Turin, where he heads the Center for Theoretical and Applied Ontology and the Laboratory of Ontology. Awarded many literary and research prizes, he is the author of 30 books and more than 1,000 scientific articles.

Professor of philosophy at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, at the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, and Research Associate at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris. She focuses on the tools for democratic regulation. She is the author of several best-sellers of philosophy.

Nancy Fraser is Professor Emerita of Philosophy and Politics at The New School for Social Research in New York and a member of the Editorial Board of New Left Review. She has received honorary doctorates from four universities in three countries, and in 2010 she was awarded the Alfred Schutz Prize for Social Philosophy by the American Philosophical Association. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages.

Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Mosbacher Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and Director of Stanford’s Master’s Program in International Policy.

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2001). He is a professor at Columbia University and co-founder and co-chair of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at the same university. He is also the Chief Economist at the Roosevelt Institute, as well as a lead author of the 1995 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report.

Professor of Political Science and International Relations at The American University of Paris (AUP). He previously taught at The Institute of European Studies of the University of Paris 8 and at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (IEP). He regularly lectures in numerous research centres and universities, including the University of Bologna and the University of Lausanne. Anchored in the historical sociology of international relations, his research focuses on the state, globalisation and contemporary international history.

Axel Honneth is Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in New York. He previously served as Director of the Institute for Social Research at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the author of influential books in social and political philosophy.

Andreas Kaminski is a researcher in the Department of Philosophy of Computer Science at the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) and Professor of Philosophy of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He is co-editor of the journal Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie and served as spokesperson of the DFG network “Geschichte der Prüfungstechniken 1900–2000.” He is a member of the AIEI group that developed a new method aimed at making ethical principles effective in intelligent systems.

Ivan Krastev is Chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He is a member of the founding board of the European Council on Foreign Relations, as well as the Global Board of the Open Society Foundations in New York, and serves on the advisory boards of the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) and the European Cultural Foundation (ECF).

Achille Mbebme is Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, the University of California, Irvine, Duke University, and Harvard University. He holds an A1 rating from the National Research Foundation.

Emeritus researcher at the long-term project “Democracy and Democratization” at the Social Research Centre Berlin, which he directed, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Humboldt University Berlin. He has also worked as a consultant to several German governments.

Professor at The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and the Paris School of Economics. He has done major historical and theoretical work on the interplay between economic development, the distribution of income and wealth, and political conflict. He is also the author of the international best-seller Capital in the 21st Century.

Associate Professor at the School of History, Faculty of Humanities, at the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, where he also serves as Chief Editor for Logos journal. He is the academic supervisor of the Master’s programme “History of Artistic Culture and the Art Market,” and has been affiliated with HSE since 2004.

Full Professor in the School of Sociology at University College Dublin. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea. He is also affiliated with the UCD Centre for War Studies. He is the author of books in historical sociology of violence, war and nationalism, including Grounded Nationalisms (2019) and The Rise of Organised Brutality (2017). He is the recipient of the Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching and Service from the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Professor Emeritus of The Princeton Institute for Advanced Study and one of the world’s leading intellectuals and political theorists. For a very long time, he has been the editor-in-chief of Dissent magazine.