Brian Milstein (AB, Vassar College; MA & PhD, New School for Social Research) is an associate professor of Political Theory. Before joining the UL community in Fall 2021, he held postdoctoral positions in Berlin, Frankfurt, and Paris, and was a Research Associate at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt's Research Centre “Normative Orders.” His research interests centre on critical and democratic theory, theories of crisis, capitalism, and cosmopolitanism. He is author of Commercium: Critical Theory from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015), and he edited a volume of dialogues between Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi entitled Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory (Polity Press, 2018). He has published articles in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, Philosophy and Social Criticism, European Journal of Political Theory, and European Journal of Philosophy.