Faculty & staff
Maxim Khomyakov
Professor at the department of Philosophical Anthropology, PhD in History of Philosophy, director of the Ural Center for Advanced Studies and Education. Academic interests include history of medieval and Russian philosophy, political philosophy, issues of toleration, and criticism of contemporary liberalism. In the Program teaches courses “History of Political Philosophy” and “Contemporary Political Philosophy.” Prof. Khomyakov authored a number of books and publications, including those in European Journal of Political Theory.
Natalia Chernyaeva
Docent at the department of Philosophical Anthropology, PhD in Women Studies (University of Iowa). Her academic interests include philosophy and anthropology of gender, biopolitics, modernity, anthropology of childhood. She teaches courses “Philosophy of Corporeality and Biopolitics,” “Political Philosophy and Gender.” Dr. Chernyaeva has written and published over 30 articles in Russian and international academic journals.
Elena Trubina
Professor at the department of Social Philosophy, doctor of Philosophy (Ural State University). As part of the Program she teaches a course “Subjects of Modernity”. Her academic interests revolve around contemporary western philosophy and social theory; post-Soviet culture, space and subjectivity; mobility and cosmopolitism.
Andrey Menshikov
Docent at the department of Philosophical Anthropology, MA in Medieval Studies (Central European University), PhD in History of Philosophy (Ural State University). Academic interests include political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, methodologies of social sciences and humanities. Dr. Menshikov teaches courses “History of Political Philosophy,” “Theory of Modernity.” Dr. Menshikov lectured at the international ReSET school “Open Future: Concepts of Political Modernity.” Dr. Menshikov participated in research projects supported by NCEER, INTAS, RGNF, etc., and authored over 20 scientific publications.
Sergey Nikitin
Docent at the department of Social Philosophy, PhD in Philosophy (Moscow State University). In the program teaches “Theory of Action” and “Micropolitics.” Research interests focus on current issues of phenomenology, political philosophy of the Austrian School, philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment, contemporary marginal philosophy. Author of numerous publications, including translations of H.Bloom, P. de Man and K. Paglia.
Bert van den Brink
Professor at the department of Philosophy and Religious Studies (Utrecht University), vice-dean of education at Utrecht University. Author of books and numerous articles on issues of political ethics, theory of justice, autonomy, intersubjectivity, social recognition. In the fall semester of 2013 Bert van den Brink has read the course “Recognition and Agonistic Democracy” for the students of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences.
Don Kalb
Professor at the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology (Central European University). Author of a book “Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities, The Netherlands, 1850-1950” and numerous publications on social and political movements, the effects of globalization, and socioeconomic transformations in post-socialist states. Prof. Kalb has been consulting the Program’s curriculum in 2011-2012.
Mark Lipovetsky (Leiderman)
Professor at the department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literature (University of Colorado, Boulder). Prof. Lipovetsky is a renowned expert in Russian cultural studies who wrote extensively on various phenomena in post-socialist societies: “Paralogies: Transformation of (Post)modernist Discourse in Russian Culture of the 1920s-2000s” (2008), “Performing Violence: Literary and Theatrical Experiments of New Russian Drama” (2009), “Charms of the Cynical Reason: The Trickster’s Transformation in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture” (2011).
Created / Updated: 15 May 2015 / 19 December 2019