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

• Samuel Carter | Assistant Director
• Assistant Director | Institute for Public Knowledge
• Evan Ray | Administrator

IPK Senior Advisors hold professorships at New York University in various departments including Sociology and Media Culture and Communications. They provide an advisory direction for new programming and research at the Institute for Public Knowledge.

• Arjun Appadurai
• Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University
• Faisal Devji
• Reader in Modern South Asian History | Oxford University
• Michael Likosky
• Law Professor | School of Oriental and African Studies
• 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
• Charles Taylor
• Professor Emeritus | McGill
• Peter van der Veer
• Professor | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity

IPK Scholars are graduate students invited from within New York University as well as scholars from other institutions of higher education and non-governmental organizations. They maintain affiliation with their home institutions and departments while participating in research and programming at IPK.

• Ruth Braunstein
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | New York University
• Nandi Dill
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | New York University
• Ingrid Erickson
• Research Fellow/Program Officer | Social Science Research Council
• Hannah Jones
• Doctoral Student | Goldsmiths, University of London
• Andreas Koller
• Research Fellow | Social Science Research Council
• Ted Magder
• Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication | NYU
• Manjari Mahajan
• Program Officer | Social Science Research Council
• Laura Norén
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | New York University
• Martha Poon
• Doctoral Candidate | University of California, San Diego
• Amrita Shah
• Journalist and Nonfiction Writer |
• Raluca Soreanu
• Doctoral Candidate in International Relations | University College London, United Kingdom
• Jennifer Telesca
• PhD Candidate Law & Society | New York University
• Jonathan VanAntwerpen
• PhD Candidate in Sociology | University of California Berkeley
• Siovahn Walker
• Program Officer | Social Science Research Council
• Robert Wosnitzer
• PhD Candidate in Media, Culture, and Communication | New York University

Previous visiting scholars and research assistants.

• Nicolas Guilhot
• Joel Kahn
• Monika Krause
• Řjvind Larsen
• Tey Meadow
• George J.A. Murray
• Matthew Noah Smith
• Xuan Zuo