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Affiliates

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Programs

Core Institutions

University of Birmingham:  MA / Diploma Social and Political Theory
University of California-Davis:  Center for History, Society, and Culture
University of Exeter:  Centre for Political Thought
University of Kentucky:  Committee on Social Theory
University of Leeds:  MA Social and Political Thought
University of Leeds:  Bauman Institute
Pennsylvania State University: Social Thought Program
University of South Florida: Center for Social and Political Thought
University of Sussex:  Centre for Social Political Thought
University of Tennessee-Knoxville:  Committee on Social Theory
Virginia Tech: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought
University of Innsbruck: Social Theory Centre / MA Social and Political Theory
University of Warwick:  Social Theory Centre
York University: Social and Political Thought Programme

Others

University of Amsterdam:  Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Australian National University: Social and Political Theory
Berlin Institute of Critical Theory (InkriT)
Binghamton University:  The Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture (PIC) grad prog
Birkbeck College, University of London:  MA Cultural and Critical Studies
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London
Bowland College Lancaster University: Institute for Cultural Research
University of Brighton:  Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE)

Cambridge University: Political Thought and Intellectual History
Cardiff University:  Centre for Ideology Critique and Zizek Studies
Carleton College: Social Thought Concentration
Centre for Ideology Critique and Žižek Studies
Columbia University: Political Theory Subfield
Center for Research and Studies on Culture and Society, National University of Córdoba-CONICET:  Contemporary Social Theory Programme
University of California, Irvine:  Critical Theory Institute
University College Cork Department of Sociology
Duke University:  Institute for Critical Theory
Edinburgh University: Social and Political Theory
University of East Anglia: Social and Political Theory
European University Institute: Department of Social and Political Sciences
George Mason University: Cultural Studies Doctoral Program
George Washington University: Interdisciplinary Program in Human Sciences
Goldsmiths College: Centre for Cultural Studies
Harvard University: Committee on Degrees in Social Studies
Hillsdale College: Sociology and Social Thought Program
University of Innsbruck:  MA in Social and Political Theory
Iowa State University: 
Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities
Jena University: Master of Societal Comparisons
La Trobe University,:Thesis Eleven Center
Mount Holyoke College: Critical Social Thought Interdisciplinary Program
University of Naples l'Orientale:  Center for Postcolonial Studies
New School for Social Research
Nottingham Trent: Theory, Culture and Society
Queen Mary, University of London: Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought
The Queen’s University of Belfast: Post-Structuralism and Radical Politics Specialist Group
San Francisco State University: Critical Social Thought Program
Stanford University:  Program in Modern Thought and Literature
U. of Birmingham: Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology
UCLA: Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
UCLA Program in Experimental Critical Theory
University of California Santa Cruz: Graduate Program in History of ConsciousnessUC-Irvine
U. of Chicago: The Committee on Social Thought
University College, London: MA European Thought, UCL Centre for European Studies
U. of Edinburgh: MSc/Diploma – Social and Political Theory
University of Essex: Centre for Theoretical Studies
Universidad Federal da Bahia, Brazil: Philosophy and Social Theory
University of Illinois-Urbana: Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory
University of Kent:  Centre for Critical Thought

University of Leicester:  Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE)
U. of Massachusetts at Amherst: Social Thought and Political Economics
University of Maryland: Theory Program
University of Melbourne: Ashworth Centre for Social Theory
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: University Program in Cultural Studies
University of Nottingham: Postgraduate School of Critical Theory
University of Sheffield: Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies
University of Sussex:  MA Critical Theory, School of English
University of Texas-Arlington:  Center for Theory
Virginia Tech
: ASPECT
University of Victoria: Concentration in Contemporary Social and Political Thought
U. of Virginia: The Political and Social Thought Program
University of the West of England, Centre for Critical Theory
University of West Sydney: Social and Political Thought
Vilnius University: Department of Social Theory
Washington University: Committee on Social Thought and Analysis
University of Western Ontario:  Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism

University of Westminster: Centre for the Study of Democracy

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