Academic Advisory Board

Homi Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.

His fields of expertise are postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, cultural change and power, contemporary art, and cosmopolitanism

Ruth Fine is Salomon and Victoria Cohen Professor in Iberian and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and President of the International Association of Cervantistas. 

She is specialized in semiotics and literary theory, the Spanish Golden Age literature, and the literature of the Conversos.

Karsten Fischer holds the chair of Political Theory at the University of Munich (LMU).

His main areas of research include the History of Political Thought, Democratic Theory, Political Psychology, and the relationship between politics and religion.

Mechthild Dreyer holds degrees in Catholic theology and philosophy. She is a Professor of Medieval Philosophy and its Reception History.

Her research focuses on the origins and development of medieval philosophy, metaphysics from Antiquity to the early modern period, the role of rationality in theories of knowledge and science from Antiquity to the early modern period, and the critical edition of manuscript texts in Latin medieval philosophy and theology.

Jonathan Fox is the Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics, director of the Religion and State project, and a senior research fellow at Bar-Ilan's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.

He specializes in the influence of religion on politics which he examines using both quantitative and qualitative methodology.