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.

Risto Aleksovski, is the public relation officer for the Institute of social sciences and humanities also a junior researcher. His main contribution to the research done by the ISSHS is gathering the data, data mining and visualization. The projects that he work on are: “”Who owns Alexander the Great?”: A Question Upon Which EU Enlargement Relies,” (data gathering and data visualization), “Ethnically and Gender Inclusive Grass-Root LGBTI Movements in Macedonia” (data gathering and data visualization), “Official Language Usage in Municipalities in the Republic of Macedonia” (data gathering), “Legalizing Restrictions of the Freedom of the Press” (data visualization), “TECHNOLOGY OF STATE CAPTURE Overregulation in Macedonian Media and Academia” (data mining and data visualization), Freedom of expression, association and entrepreneurship in a captured state: Macedonia in 2015 (data visualization), “Прирачник за застапување заснован на податоци“ /Manuel for advocacy based on data/ (research and data visualization). He is one of the creators of the campaign #заробенадржава and its web site and also the creator of the on line campaign that emerged from the publication “Legalizing Restrictions of the Freedom of the Press.”

Email: risto.aleksovski@isshs.edu.mk
Phone/Fax: +389 2 3113 059

Prof. Svetlana Slapšak

Prof. Nina Power

Prof. Andrea Peto

Prof. Krasimira Daskalova

Prof. Michael O’ Rourke

Prof. Jason Adams

Prof. Miglena Nikolchina

Prof. Jelisaveta Blagojević