board

An international board provides support, advice, and a pool of possible networking opportunities for the institute and its members. Individual board members may be called on to act as referees. The board is purely advisory, and has no decision-making function. It watches over, contributes to, and assures the institute’s academic excellence; and inspires it by connecting to a wide range of topics and debates.

board members

  • Tomasz Basiuk, Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw, with research interests in contemporary American fiction and life writing, critical theory, and queer studies, and founding co-editor of InterAlia. A Journal of Queer Studies
  • Judith Butler, Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and former Maxine Elliot Professor at the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley
  • María do Mar Castro Varela, Political Scientist and Professor of Social Work and General Pedagogy at Alice Salomon University Berlin as well as co-founder of bildungsLab* and Berlin Institute of Contrapuntal Social Analysis BI:KA.
  • Lisa Duggan, queer feminist leftist journalist, activist and Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at the department of American Studies, New York University
  • Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English, Columbia University New York
  • Sabine Hark, Professor and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Women’s and Gender Studies (ZIFG), Technical University Berlin
  • Cornelia Klinger, Prof. emeritus, former Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Tübingen
  • Renate Lorenz, Visual Artist of the duo Boudry/Lorenz and Professor of the program PhD in Practice, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  • Gundula Ludwig, Professor of Social Theory of Gender Relations, Director of the research platform Center für Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung, and co-editor of the journal Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft
  • Andrea Maihofer, Prof. emiritus of Gender Studies and former Director of the Center for Gender Studies, University of Basel
  • Yv Nay, Professor of European Ethnology and Gender Studies, Humboldt University Berlin and PI of „Education in Trans*formation. Institutional innovation towards intersectional trans* pedagogies“.
  • Tuija Pulkkinen, Prof. emeritus of Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki, professor of the Academy of Finland (2011-2015), and (since 2025) researcher of Anti-Gender Trouble – concepts of democracy in conflict
  • Patricia Purtschert is a philosopher, professor of gender studies and co-director of the Interdisciplinary Center for gender studies (ICFG) at the University of Bern. She conducts the project The many futures of gender: Oral histories of feminist theories.
  • Eva von Redecker, Philosopher (Dr. phil., Institute of Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin), non-fiction writer, and organizer of public events in the fields of critical and feminist theory.
  • Ferdiansyah Thajib is a social cultural anthropologist at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, with research interests in queer worldmaking affects and practices. He is also member of KUNCI Study Forum & Collective in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.