• IPK Senior Fellows
• Poiesis Fellows
• IPK Scholars
• IPK Alumni

• Craig Calhoun | Director
• University Professor of Social Science | New York University

• Samuel Carter | Assistant Director
• Assistant Director | Institute for Public Knowledge
• Jessica Coffey | Administrator
• MA Candidate in International Education | New York University

IPK Senior Fellows serve as advisors to the Institute for Public Knowledge, offering direction for new and ongoing programming and research. Frequently, Senior Fellows direct specific research activities at the Institute.

• Arjun Appadurai
• Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University
• Richard Burdett
• IPK POIESIS Senior Fellow | Director, Urban Age Programme | The London School of Economics and Political Science
• Faisal Devji
• Reader in Modern South Asian History | Oxford University
• Simon Head
• Fellow | Rothermere American Institute, Oxford
• Eric Klinenberg
• Professor of Sociology at NYU | Editor of Public Culture | New York University
• Michael Likosky
• Director | Center on Law and Public Finance
• David Ludden
• Professor of History | NYU
• Peter Alexander Meyers
• Professor of American Studies | Université Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle
• Harvey Molotch
• Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, Sociology | NYU
• Richard Sennett
• University Professor, NYU | Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
• Judith Stacey
• Professor | Social and Cultural Analysis and Sociology
• Charles Taylor
• Professor Emeritus | McGill
• Peter van der Veer
• Professor | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

POIESIS Fellows have been selected to participate in the POIESIS Fellowship, an interdisciplinary, international collaborative research project based at the IPK.

• Ash Amin
• Professor of Geography | Durham University
• Nerea Calvillo
• Principal | C+arquitectos
• Peter Claussen
• Academic Consultant and Eco-Farmer | Former Director BMW Plant Leipzig
• Manthia Diawara
• University Professor | New York University
• Naresh Fernandes
• Editor in Chief | Time Out India
• Evelyn Fox Keller
• Professor, History and Philosophy of Science | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Gerald Frug
• Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law | Harvard University
• Nilufer Gole
• Professor of Sociology | Ecole des Hautes Etudes
• Orit Halpern
• Assistant Professor, Committee for Historical Studies | The New School for Social Research
• Haiyan Huang
• Professor, School of Art and Design | Xi'an University of Technology
• Lou Kauffman
• Professor, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science | University of Illinois - Chicago
• Monika Krause
• Lecturer in Sociology | University of Kent
• Jesse LeCavalier
• Doctoral Candidate, Retail Logistics and Urbanism | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
• Klaus Mainzer
• Director of the Carl von Linde-Academy | Technical University of Munich
• Clapperton Mavhunga
• Assistant Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Michael McQuarrie
• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology | University of California, Davis
• Birgit Meyer
• Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology | VU University Amsterdam
• Wolfgang Pietsch
• Research Assistant in Philosophy of Science | Technische Universität München, Germany
• Saskia Sassen
• Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology | Columbia University
• Harel Shapira
• Postdoctoral Fellow | Institute for Public Knowledge
• Cassim Shepard
• Director, Urban Omnibus | The Architectural League of New York
• Alejandro Zaera-Polo
• Founding Partner | Foreign Office Architects

IPK Scholars are graduate students invited from within New York University to coordinate various research activities of the Institute, as well as Visiting Scholars from other institutions of higher education and non-governmental organizations.

• Hillary Angelo
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | New York University
• Natalia Besedovsky
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | Humboldt Universität
• Ruth Braunstein
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | New York University
• Nandi Dill
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | New York University
• Kaisa Ketokivi
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Lecturer | University of Helsinki, Finland
• Andreas Koller
• Research Fellow | Social Science Research Council
• Pierluigi Musarò
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science | Bologna University
• Laura Norén
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | New York University
• Martha Poon
• Besnik Pula
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology | Binghamton University
• Sasha Roseneil
• Professor of Sociology and Social Theory and Director of the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research | University of London
• Jennifer Telesca
• PhD Candidate | Media, Culture & Communication | | New York University
• Jonathan VanAntwerpen
• Program Director, Religion and the Public Sphere | Social Science Research Council
• Robert Wosnitzer
• PhD Candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University

Alumni of the IPK have worked at the Institute in some capacity at some point, but are no longer actively affiliated.

• Esther Hio-Tong Castillo
• Masters Candidate in the Draper Interdisciplinary Program | New York University
• Ingrid Erickson
• Research Fellow/Program Officer | Social Science Research Council
• Nicolas Guilhot
• Program Officer | Social Science Research Council
• Hannah Jones
• Doctoral Student | Goldsmiths, University of London
• Joel Kahn
• Emeritus Professor, Sociology & Anthropology Program | La Trobe University
• Øjvind Larsen
• Professor of Philosophy and Sociology | Copenhagen Business School
• Ted Magder
• Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication | NYU
• Manjari Mahajan
• Program Officer | Social Science Research Council
• Tey Meadow
• Doctoral Candidate | Department of Sociology, New York University
• George J.A. Murray
• Visiting Assistant Professor | Davidson College
• Willem Schinkel
• Associate Professor of Theoretical Sociology | Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• Amrita Shah
• Journalist and Nonfiction Writer
• Matthew Noah Smith
• Assistant Professor of Philosophy | Yale University
• Raluca Soreanu
• Research Associate | SOAS, University of London, UK
• Siovahn Walker
• Program Officer | Social Science Research Council
• Xuan Zuo
• Graduate Student | Beijing Foreign Studies University