Dimitar Bechev is the director of the European Policy Institute, a think-tank based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Previously, he held research fellowships at Harvard University, University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and headed the Sofia office of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR). Dr. Bechev has written extensively on EU’s external relations, the politics and modern history of Turkey and the Balkans, and Russia’s foreign policy. His book Rival Power (Yale University Press, 2017) explores Russia’s role in Southeast Europe (Balkans, Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey). He is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera, the American Interest, Politico, Foreign Policy, and openDemocracy. He holds a D.Phil. (PhD) from the University of Oxford.

Dr. Bechev’s is also a fellow at The Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies at University of North Carolina, where his research project examines the foreign policy of hybrid regimes, looking at the cases of Russia and Turkey. It inquires into the impact of domestic politics and institutions on external relations.

Tihomir Topuzovski received his doctoral degree from the University of Birmingham in the UK. He also has two BAs in Philosophy and Art, and an MA in Art, and has received numerous academic achievement awards and research grants. He was also postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies in the Södertörn University in Stockholm. His research is at the intersection of philosophy, politics, environmental sciences, and the visual arts. He has published a number of papers and participated in individual and group exhibitions. His latest work includes а monograph ‘Postanarchism and Critical Art Practices’ (forthcoming – Bloomsbury Academic), an edited book: with Saul Newman The Posthuman Pandemic (2021), published by Bloomsbury Academic. His other recent works are Aesthetics technique and spatial occupation in hybrid political regimes, Baltic Worlds, Vol. XIV:3, pp 57-63 (2021), and a contribution of chapter to an edited book: Topuzovski T. & Andreas L. (2020) Political protest, temporary urbanism and the deactivation of urban spaces, in Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism – A Comparative Overview, ed. ANDRES, L & ZHANG, Y , Springer. He has organized and contributed to a series of artistic projects and presentations including ‘Dis/Ordering the Art World’ and ‘Landscape of Anxiety’. Topuzovski is editor-in-chief of the journal The Large Glass (Journal for contemporary art, culture, and theory).

Iskra Gerazova Mujchin is researcher at the Institute of Social Studies and Humanities- Skopje. She studied Ethnology on the Institute of Ethology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University “St.Cyril and Methodius”- Skopje. She holds MPH and PhD in Public Health from the Medical Faculty at the same university. Her diverse professional experience includes working and researching for different entities in the field of migrations, youth, media monitoring, active ageing, improvement of mother and child healthcare etc. She has been public policies researcher associate in few CSO`s and produced policy briefs, studies, manuals. Gerazova Mujchin is actively enrolled in the ISSHS`s projects as a researcher.

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Zdravko Saveski (1976) is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities. He has PhD in Political Science from the Institute for Sociological, Political and Legal Research, at the University “St. Cyril and Methodius”. Previously, he was professor at FON University – Skopje.
He is author of Democracy: Models and Dilemmas (2011) and Beyond Uniform
Thinking: Rediscovery of the Left (2006), coauthor of several books including No pasarán: Participation of fighters from Macedonia in the Spanish Civil War (2016), Nationalism in/inside Context: Cooperation of Albanians and Macedonians from the Ilinden Uprising until the People’s Liberation War (2014), Wealth and Poverty in Macedonia (2013) and Devaluation of Labour: Analysis of Labour Law Legislation during the Period of Transition (2010), as well as editor of Strike: Experiences and Actualities (2011).
He deals with translation too. His most recent translation is Jason Hickel’s book “The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions” (Az-buki, 2019).

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Irena Cvetkovic holds a PhD in gender studies. As a younger researcher she has worked on many research projects in the fields of sociology, gender studies, and media. She is the author behind the socially engaged blog Fem Guerilla, and afterwards was a columnist in the Dnevnik newspaper. She is an activist for the human rights of marginalized communities, and has a special focus on LGBT people’s rights, drug users and sex workers. She is active in several formal and informal activist associations. At the momenth, she is the Executive Director of Coalition Margini.

Risto Karajkov holds a PhD in international development from the University of Bologna where he specialized in foreign aid to the Balkans in the period of transition, and an MS from the University of Trento. He holds several fellowship among which with the Centre for Civil Society Studies from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, US, and UNU-WIDER in Helsinki. His fields of interest include foreign assistance and donor policies with particular focus on EU pre-accession aid, international civil society and NGOs, project development and evaluation, as well as Balkans affairs. He has taught at the Integrated Business Faculty in Skopje. He has contributed as journalist/analyst to a number of international media including but not limited to the Osservatorio Balcani, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, European Voice, Il Riformista. He is the founder and director of DeSo, a development & management consultancy based in Skopje.

Michael O’Rourke is a visiting professor at ISSHS, Dublin Independent Colleges, GCAS and others. He is an author of Queer Insists (Brooklyn NY: Punctum Books, 2014), which appeared on the list of 101 important books in the field of critical theory published by http://www.critical-theory.com/88-critical-theory-books-th…/

Jason Adams (born 1975) is Senior Researcher/Full Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities-Skopje and Co-Founder and Co-Director at the The New Centre for Research&Practice, as well as Editor-in-Chief of Conatus Publishing.

Education
In 2002, Adams completed a BA in Political Economy & Social Change at The Evergreen State College, in Olympia, WA, USA. He received an MA from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada in 2004, where he studied under critical theory/communication theorists Andrew Feenberg and Ian Angus. In 2010, he completed his first Ph.D in political theory and cultural studies from the University of Hawaii, where he studied with Michael J. Shapiro and Kathy Ferguson. And in 2012, he completed his second Ph.D from the European Graduate School, where he focused on radical cultural and political thought with dissertation advisors Giorgio Agamben and Wolfgang Schirmacher. Following a Visiting Assistant Professorship at Williams College (2011-2012).

Work
Adams works in several fields including Political Theory, Political Economy, Cultural Studies and Media Studies. He is author of Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy and Resistance After Occupy Wall Street (Palgrave Macmillan), the co-editor of Deleuze and Race (Edinburgh University Press) and has written for such journals and periodicals as Radical Philosophy, boundary 2, Critical Inquiry, New Political Science, In These Times, TruthOut and Z Magazine. From 2004-2010, he was Managing Editor for the Johns Hopkins University Press journal Theory & Event, before founding Conatus Publishing.

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