Ajay Singh Chaudhary is the executive director of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a core faculty member specializing in social and political theory. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on social and political theory, Frankfurt School critical theory, political economy, political ecology, media, religion, and post-colonial studies. He has written for The Guardian, The Nation, The Baffler, n+1, Los Angeles Review of Books, Quartz, Social Text, Dialectical Anthropology, The Hedgehog Review, Filmmaker Magazine, and 3quarksdaily, among other venues. Ajay’s book on the politics of climate change, The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World, is forthcoming from Repeater Books in February, 2024.

Audrey Nicolaides is a Chicago-based critical theorist, educator, and union organizer committed to public facing scholarship. She is the Chicago coordinator for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at Northwestern University where she specializes in political theory and international relations. Her current research project “Gripping the Masses: Internationalism and the Philosophy of History” probes the history and theoretical infrastructure of nineteenth and twentieth century internationalist movements in both the Marxist and liberal traditions. She received her MA in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) from the University of Chicago and her BFA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts.