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Scientific advisory board
The Institute is proud to announce the appointment of its Scientific Advisory Board. The Board has been established by the President of the Max Planck Society. Its role is to counsel the Institute’s Directors and staff members, to provide regular evaluations and to critically assess the Institute’s work by way of assuring it is of high international quality. The Board also advises the Institute and the President of the Max Planck Society on the innovative development of the Institute’s research activities and deployment of its resources. With each appointed for a six-year term, the Board’s members include:
- Talal Asad, Graduate Center, City University of New York
- Neil Brenner, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
- Craig Calhoun, Director, London School of Economics and Political Science
- José Casanova, Department of Sociology, Georgetown University
- Lily Kong, Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
- Will Kymlicka, Department of Philosophy, Queen’s University
- Douglas Massey, Office of Population Research, Princeton University
- Alejandro Portes, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
- Saskia Sassen, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
- Mary Waters, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
