Faculty and Instructional Staff

While ECLA faculty represented significant strengths in disciplines like philosophy, literature, political theory and art history, faculty members were selected not only on the basis of excellent academic credentials, but - just as importantly - for their ability to engage in joint work on value problems that defy departmental comfort zones.

permanent faculty

EWA ATANASSOW - Bulgaria
PhD from the Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago

TRACY COLONY - USA
PhD in Philosophy
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

PETER HAJNAL - Hungary
PhD in Philosophy
Columbia University

DAVID HAYES - USA
ABD at the Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago

MATTHIAS HURST - Germany
Habilitation in Literature and Film Studies
Universität Heidelberg

GEOFF LEHMAN - USA
PhD in Art History
Columbia University

KATALIN MAKKAI - Canada
PhD in Philosophy
Harvard University

DAVID LEVINE - USA
MA in English Literature
Harvard University

BRUNO MACAES - Portugal
PhD in Political Theory
Harvard University

THOMAS NORGAARD - Denmark
DPhil in Philosophy
University of Oxford

LAURA SCURIATTI - Italy
PhD in English Literature
University of Reading

AYA SOIKA - Germany
PhD in Art History
University of Cambridge

CATHERINE TOAL - Ireland
PhD in English and American Literature
Harvard University

Postdoctoral Fellows

SARAH BURGES WATSON - UK
PhD in Classical Philology
Harvard University

JAMES HARKER- USA
PhD in Rhetoric
University of California, Berkeley

MARCELA PERETT - CZECH REPUBLIC/USA
PhD in Medieval History
The University of Notre Dame

CECELIA A. WATSON - USA
PhD in Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science
University of Chicago

Recent and current visiting academics

MICHAEL WEINMAN - USA
PhD in Philosophy
The New School for Social Research

MARTIN GAK - ARGENTINA
PhD in Philosophy
The New School for Social Research

BRENDAN BOYLE - USA
PhD in Classics
University of Chicago

RYAN PLUMLEY - USA
PhD in History
Cornell University

STEPHEN MAURER - USA
PhD in Mathematics
Princeton

IRIT DEKEL - ISRAEL
PhD in Sociology
The New School for Social Research

NAOMI SUSSMANN - ISRAEL
PhD in Philosophy
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

JENS REICH - GERMANY
Professor Emeritus Doctor of Medicine

BARTHOLOMEW RYAN - Ireland
PhD in Philosophy
Århus University

Language Teachers

DIRK DEICHFUSS - Germany
Dipl. Dolm, Dipl. Übess, Romance and English languages and Literatures
Humboldt University

EDIT GERELYES - Hungary
MA, Lettres Modernes
Paris III Sorbonne

DAVID MARTINEZ - Spain
MA, Philosophy and Arts
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

Director of Music Programme