Non-resident fellows
Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of philosophy and politics at the New School for Social Research and a member of the Editorial Committee of New Left Review. Trained as a philosopher, she specializes in critical social theory and political philosophy. Widely known for her work on the relation between redistribution and recognition in the theory of justice, she works now on the relation of capitalism to racial oppression, social reproduction, ecological crisis, feminist movements, and the rise of rightwing populism.
Fraser’s newest book is Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet–and what we can do about it (Verso, 2022). Other recent books include Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, co-authored with Cinzia Arruzza and Tithi Bhattacharya (Verso, 2019); The Old is Dying (Verso, 2019); and Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory, co-authored with Rahel Jaeggi (Polity Press, 2018).
Fraser’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and was cited three times by the Justices of the Brazilian Supreme Court–in opinions upholding marriage equality, affirmative action, and Afro-descendant collective land rights. A Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor, a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a past President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, she is the recipient of six honorary degrees, the Alfred Schutz Prize for Social Philosophy, the Nessim Habif World Prize, the Nonino Prize “Master of our Time,” the Ester Boserup Prize, Fair Saturday Foundation Award, Andorka Rudolf Medal for Social Sciences (Budapest) and the Havens/Wright Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship.
Willi Semmler is the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development Emeritus at the New School for Social Research, New York. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Columbia University, a professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and Bielefeld University, Germany, and a Fulbright Professor at the University of Vienna. He is an honorary doctor of the American University Europe-Fon and was an evaluator of research projects for the EU Commission and a visiting scholar at the ECB and the IMF while working for the IEO at the IMF. He is also a member of the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University, directed by Edmund Phelps, a research associate at La Sapienza, Rome, a senior research associate at the IIASA, Vienna, and an associate editor of the journal Econometrics and Statistics. His research is on empirical macroeconomics, financial economics, financial instability, wealth inequality, and the economics of
climate change. He has numerous journal and book publications, and his research has appeared in publications of the World Bank, the IMF, the ECB, and the ILO.
Post-Keynesian Economist. Professor of development finance at Tallinn University of Technology, adjunct Professor at the New School for Social Research and editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics.
June Sekera is a public policy practitioner and researcher whose work concerns the public economy and public goods production. At the New School, Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies, June directed the Public Economy Project, encompassing the topics of collective choice, collective finance and understanding government as a public production system. For over twenty years, June held programmatic, leadership and management positions at federal, state and local levels of government. Her economics training was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (MPA, 1984).
Founder and director of the Public Goods Institute, June is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, University College London. Author of The Public Economy in Crisis; A Call for a New Public Economics (2016), she has published a wide range of papers on the public economy and public goods.
In recent years, June has focused on government’s role in addressing climate change. She has directed projects to examine climate change mitigation and energy decarbonization policies from the perspective of public need. At the Heilbroner Center, June initiated and led a project on “Climate Change and Collective Need,” supported by funding from the Rockefeller Family Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Her research resulted in the 2020 publication of a paper, co-authored with New School PhD candidate Andreas Lichtenberger, “Assessing Carbon Capture.” This work was cited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in its 2022 report on mitigation. At the Global Development Policy Center, Boston University, where June is a Senior Research Fellow, she leads a project to assess systems of electricity supply in terms of accessibility, affordability and energy security. She and her team developed a policy and practice blueprint for localized and locally-controlled solar generation and storage systems, called “Local Power Networks”.
Scott B. Martin (Ph.D., Columbia University) has taught in the New School’s Graduate Program in International Affairs since 2005 and at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs since 1998, and he is also a Lecturer at NYU’s Wagner School. He previously taught at Princeton, Yale, and Sarah Lawrence College, and served as Assistant Director of Columbia’s Institute of Latin American Studies. His research focuses on comparative and transnational labor politics, AI governance and regulation, comparative social policy, corporate social responsibility, socio-economic development policy, and Latin American political economy. His recent work includes field research in Brazil and Mexico on labor relations in Amazon’s e-commerce warehouses and participation in the Task Force on Ethics, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work at Columbia University. He is co-author or co-editor of several books, including Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil (2021) and the forthcoming volume Unpacking Global Amazon (2026), and has published in journals such as Global Labour Journal, Perspectives on Politics, Labour Studies Journal, and Politica e Trabalho.
Ayca Zayim is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College. Her research interests lie in economic sociology, political economy, and the sociology of development. Specifically, she is interested in the study of central banks, the policy space of financially subordinate economies, power, and global economic governance. Based on a multi-sited fieldwork, her research has examined the politics of central banking in South Africa and Turkey and the workings of financial power in economic management. She has published in journals such as Politics & Society, Socio-Economic Review, and Contexts, as well as edited volumes.
Sheba Tejani is Senior Lecturer of International Development in the Department of International Development at King’s College London. She obtained her PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research, NY. Her research centres on the distributional consequences of structural transformation and international trade in developing countries. She studies labour market inequalities including gender segregation and its links to technological upgrading, automation, and the future of work. In a related research programme, she investigates the shifting political economy foundations of development in India, focusing on labour reforms, social policy, and business–state relations.
Janine Berg is a senior economist and Head of the Effective Labour Institutions Unit in the Research Department of the International Labour Office (ILO) in Geneva. Since joining the ILO in 2002, she has led major research initiatives on labour market institutions, inequality and the digital transformation of work. She is the author of several books and numerous articles on employment, labour regulations, and working conditions, and has served as lead author of ILO flagship reports on non-standard employment, global working conditions, working from home, and essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Throughout her career, Janine has played a central role in shaping the ILO’s analytical and policy work. She currently contributes to the Organization’s research on artificial intelligence and the world of work and is a member of the departmental observatory on AI and Work in the Digital Economy. She serves as an expert on the International Panel on the Information Environment and is also an advisory board member for FairWork and iMANAGE at Oxford University. In 2019, she served on the Secretariat for the Global Commission on the Future of Work.
Earlier in her career, Janine worked as an economist in the Office of the Comptroller of the City of New York. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the New School for Social Research.