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Rahel is Professor of Political and Social Philosophy and director of the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her research focusses on the concepts of alienation, commodification and reification, ideology, forms of life, institution and solidarity. As a visiting professor, she has taught at Yale University, at Fudan University in Shanghai, […]

Robin is Professor of Social Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and deputy director of the Centre for Social Critique. He is co-chair of the Board of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP) and co-editor of the journal Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory (Duke UP). Among his publications are Critique as Social […]

Christian is a private lecturer for philosophy and research associate at the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His philosophical interests lie in the field of social philosophy, philosophy of law and history with historical emphasis on Hegel and the Hegelian Left (especially Marx and the Marxism), the authors of critical theory […]

Zveta (full name Tzvetomila Pauly) is academic coordinator at the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She is a PhD in Slavonic Philology and Literature and speaks Polish, Croatian, and Bulgarian next to German, English and a little French. Previousely she worked at University Zagreb and at University Helsinki. She joined Humboldt University […]

Rabea is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-University of Berlin. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her thesis, “The Reconfiguration of Urban Places of (Re-)Production. Airbnb and Coworking in Berlin” (forthcoming 2026) analyses the impact of financialised real estate speculation and platform companies […]

Jacob is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Social Critique, Humboldt University Berlin, where he co-directs an interdisciplinary research project with Rabea Berfelde on Socialization in Theory and Practice: Democratizing Access to Land and Energy, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Previously, he was an assistant professor of Practical Philosophy at the Carl von […]

Isette Schuhmacher has worked as a research associate at Centre for Social Critique. Since March 2025, she is an assistant professor (postdoc) at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Humboldt University of Berlin. In her dissertation Social Crises (Gesellschaftskrisen). A Social-Philosophical Conception of Crisis, she has developed a […]

Marvin is a research associate at the Centre for Social Critique, where he explores the intersections of critical theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, and materialist social criticism. His dissertation, Narcissism and Ideology, offers a nuanced reconstruction of Theodor W. Adorno’s theory of social regression, framed through Adorno’s immanent critiques of Freudian […]

Since September 2023, Charlie is the coordinator for the project Critical Theory Under Pressure (CritUP). They hold an MA in philosophy from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and worked as a student research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique from 2018 to 2022.

Solveig Degen is a doctoral candidate in the research project Socialization in Theory and Practice, which is based at the Centre for Social Critique in Berlin. The project is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and led by Dr. Rabea Berfelde and Dr. Jacob Blumenfeld. Solveig leads the subproject on socialization in the energy sector, […]

Friedemann studies philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and works as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2024.

Svana is studying for a master’s degree in philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has been working as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2023.

Hannes is studying philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has been working as a research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2024.

Clara completed a law degree at Humboldt University of Berlin, where she is now studying philosophy and social sciences. She has been working as a research assistant in the project Socialization in Theory and Practice at the Centre for Social Critique since 2025.

Luca is studying Philosophy (MA) at Freie Universität Berlin and has been working as a student research assistant in the Critical Theory Under Pressure (CritUP) project since 2024.

Ruben studies philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy since 2023.

Josefine is studying philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Practical Philosophy and Social Philosophy since 2022.

Samu/elle Striewski is master student philosophy (FU Berlin) and gender studies (Université Paris VIII) and works as research assistant at the Centre for Social Critique since 2023. Their research interests lie in the intersection of Queer Theory and political philosophy and they are currently writing their master thesis on the socioeconomic, political, and normative grounds […]