Tadek is the Alfred Landecker Lecturer at the Institute of Social Sciences, SWPS University in Warsaw and a Research Affiliate at King’s College London War Studies Department. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Uppsala University (Uppsala Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies). Tadek received his PhD in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent (UK).

Winston is a political scientist and Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University. He studies how political communities form and defend beliefs under conditions of uncertainty—especially when traditional sources of epistemic authority, like experts, institutions, and consensus, lose their grip.

Mazie is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at Purdue University. She studies international political economy and global economic governance.

Be Stone’s work examines the interplay between the symbolic and the material in political discourse, considering how the cultural resonances of key terms influence public policy outcomes.

Lauren Baker investigates the politics of garbage. She shows how authoritarian states seek to “sanitize” and depoliticize contentious issues like waste at sites of global environmental governance.

Ronay Balkan studies political violence, urban politics, and critical methodologies to explore spatialities of everyday warfare with a focus on the Kurdish politics within South West Asia and North Africa. 

Ethan Tupelo’s work draws connections between local waste practices and transnational environmental destruction, challenging dominant narratives about technological progress and sustainability.

Osman Balkan studies how migratory experiences shape racialized identities and is broadly interested in how societies grapple with diversity and difference.

Yuna Blajer de la Garza is a political theorist studying inequalities and oppression in democratic societies by focusing on the interactions between formal political institutions, the ideals that undergird them, and everyday practices and norms.

Kevin Funk is an interdisciplinary political economist and Latin Americanist whose research sheds light on how the region’s cultural geographies and built spaces are both shaped by, and give shape to, various kinds of global flows.