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Director

Dr. Amirhosein Khandizaji

Dr. Amirhosein Khandizaji is a sociologist and critical theorist whose work focuses on the tradition of the Frankfurt School, with particular attention to domination, instrumental rationality, the culture industry, and the social and psychological consequences of modern technologies. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Communications & Publishing Manager

Wolfgang Sohst

Wolfgang Sohst oversees CASC’s communications and publishing activities, including editorial coordination and the dissemination of research outputs. He brings extensive experience in academic publishing in philosophy and the social sciences. He studied law at the Free University of Berlin and worked as a legal advisor in various companies before becoming an independent management consultant.

Senior Research Fellows

David Hesmondhalgh

David Hesmondhalgh is a Professor of Media, Music and Culture at the University of Leeds, where he has been based since 2007. From 2010 to 2013, he served as Head of the Institute of Communications Studies (now the School of Media and Communication).

Gary Genosko

Gary Genosko is a Full Professor and internationally recognised scholar of communication and cultural theory, with expertise in Continental philosophy, technoculture, and critical semiotics. From 2002 to 2012, he held a Canada Research Chair in Technoculture Studies, strengthening his international reputation for research on media, technology, and cultural transformation.

Fabio Vighi

Fabio Vighi is Professor of Critical Theory and Italian at Cardiff University, UK. His research spans critical theory, ideology critique, continental philosophy, theoretical psychoanalysis, and film studies. He is particularly interested in the intersections of capitalism, culture, and psychoanalytic theory, with a focus on the contemporary crises of the capitalist system and the ideology of “emergency capitalism.”

Brian Price

Brian Price works at the intersection of film and philosophy. He is especially interested in the aesthetic dimension of moral and political philosophy, particularly as these modes of inquiry are expanded by the varied forms of the moving image, both avant-garde and popular, and by the history of film theory. He has also worked extensively on questions about ontology, color, categorization, French cinema, avant-garde film, and the history of film theory.

Darrow Schecter

Darrow Schecter is Professor of Critical Theory & Modern European History at the University of Sussex (GB), where he has been teaching and researching since 1992. His books have been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, and Turkish.

Dino Franco Felluga

Dino Franco Felluga is Professor of English at Purdue University. He has spent his career building large collaborative resources and organizations, including the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Britain Representation and Nineteenth-Century History (BRANCH), and the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education (COVE).

Hans-Herbert Kögler

Hans-Herbert Kögler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville and regular visiting professor at the Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt, Austria. Dr. Phil. Goethe -University of Frankfurt, graduate work at Northwestern, New School, Berkeley.

Dr. Geoff M. Boucher

Dr. Geoff M. Boucher is Associate Professor in Literary Studies at Deakin University. He currently researches the authoritarian personality from the perspective of critical theory and is an expert on Frankfurt School critical theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis, as well as the work of Žižek and Lacan.

Dr. Brian L. Ott

Dr. Brian L. Ott is a professor of communication at Missouri State University. His chief research interest concerns the intersection of rhetoric and media, and how evolving communication technologies alter the form and character of public discourse. He regularly publishes on political communication, social media, and fake news.

Claudia Leeb

Claudia Leeb is an Associate Professor in political theory at Washington State University. She works at the intersection of early Frankfurt school critical theory, feminist theory, and psychoanalysis to address questions of power and rebellion.

Michael J. Thompson

Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at William Paterson University. He teaches courses in the history of political thought, including Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Modern political philosophy, as well as courses in democratic theory, Marxism, critical theory, and psychology and politics

Senior Advisors

Richard Cavell

Richard Cavell is Founding Professor of Media Studies at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver Canada). Mentored by Marshall McLuhan at the University of Toronto, Prof. Cavell went on to found the Bachelor of Media Studies Program at UBC.

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren

Gray Kochhar-Lindgren has served as Director of the Common Core since June 2014. Prior to joining HKU, he served as Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, the inaugural Director of the First Year and Pre-Major Programmes, and the inaugural Associate Vice-Chancellor for Undergraduate Learning at the University of Washington Bothell (just outside Seattle). He holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University. In 2009–10, he served as a Fulbright Scholar in Hong Kong, where he taught The Postmodern City for Comparative Literature and Kant’s Critiques for the Department of Philosophy, and worked with six other Fulbright colleagues as a consultant on Hong Kong’s 2012 curricular reform.

Alessandro Ferrara

Alessandro Ferrara is Professor Emeritus of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and Adjunct Professor of Legal Theory at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. In 2025 he has been Spender Visiting Professor at the Law School of the University of Sydney.

Jay M. Bernstein

Jay M. Bernstein is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His work is grounded in the conviction that philosophy interrogates the foundations of our life together—how we make sense of the world, how we succeed in doing so, and how we fail. For Bernstein, philosophy profiles the human condition as simultaneously upright and failing, knowing and blinded, world-making and suffering, flourishing and dying, and explores how these competing dimensions are bound together in morality, politics, art, and everyday life.

Stefano Petrucciani

Stefano Petrucciani is Honorary Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He previously served as President of the Italian Association for Political Philosophy.

Ian Buchanan

Ian Buchanan is an Australian scholar and independent researcher whose work focuses on critical theory, cultural studies, and contemporary continental philosophy. He was formerly Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong. His research and publications have made significant contributions to the study of Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Fredric Jameson.

Nikolas Kompridis

Nikolas Kompridis is the author of Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory between Past and Future (MIT), Philosophical Romanticism (Routledge), the Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought (Bloomsbury), and Cinematic Heterotopias: Fugitive Spaces of Refuge and Freedom (Routledge, forthcoming).

Robert Hassan

Robert Hassan is Professor of Media and Communication in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has taught, researched, and written for over two decades at the intersection of politics, media, technology, temporality, and the philosophy of science. Since joining the University of Melbourne in 2011, he has played a central role in teaching across BA, MA, and PhD programs, served as Head of Media and Communication from 2014 to 2018, and is currently Director of the Media and Communications MA program.

Colby Dickinson

Colby Dickinson is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. His primary interests are continental philosophy in relation to theology, philosophy of religion, phenomenology and theology, atheism and secularism, and political theology.

Alex Koutsogiannis

Alex Koutsogiannis holds a BA in sociology from Panteion University in Athens (Greece), and MA and DPhil degrees in social and political thought from Sussex University in the UK. He is currently an Associate Professor of Political Theory in the Department of Political Science at the University of Crete.

Peter J. Verovšek

Peter J. Verovšek is Senior Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of European Integration at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the author of Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist (Columbia University Press, 2026) and Memory and the Future of Europe: Rupture and Integration in the Wake of Total War (Manchester University Press, 2020).