The Laboratory for Alternative Theories works brings together a wide range of leading researchers, emerging scholars, PhD candidates, as well as graduate and undergraduate students from around the world. Below is the list of coordinating team members currently active in the laboratory.
Marcello Musto
Marcello Musto is the Director of the Laboratory for Alternative Theories. He is a Professor of Sociology at York University. He is the Principal Investigator of the SSHRC-funded Partnership Development Project, The Global History of Karl Marx's 'Capital'. Among his authored books there are Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International (Bloomsbury, 2018); The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography (Stanford University Press, 2020); and Travels of Karl Marx: Destinations, Encounters and Reflections (Europa Editions, forthcoming 2022).
Talita Yaltırık
Talita Yaltırık is a Ph.D. candidate in the program Political Science at York University. She is mainly interested in social and political theory, particularly Marxism and Feminist Theory, and the history of social and political thought. She is also interested in the politics of ‘aesthetics’ and psychoanalysis.
Massimiliano Muci
Massimiliano Muci is a Ph.D. candidate at York University, Department of Political Science. His research focuses on political theory, especially Marx and Marxism, and critical theory. He is also interested in 19th-century European philosophy (Hegel and German Idealism).
Lucely Ginani
Lucely Ginani is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at York University. She is interested in Social Reproduction Theory, Marxist Feminism, Marxist Dependency Theory and Imperialism in Latin America, and the question of a communist strategy.
Erik Tate
Erik Tate is a Ph.D. candidate in the Humanities program at York University. He is interested in critical theories of ecology and environmentalism, including ecological Marxism, the Environmental Humanities and Posthumanism, Metabolic Rift Theory and Autopoiesis. In his research, he uses the conceptual tools of critical and social systems theory to explore political, social and economic dimensions of global ecological issues.
Ugurcan Akcadag
Ugurcan Akcadag is a Master’s candidate in sociology at York University. He currently has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Bilkent University in Turkey and in sociology from York University. His research interest includes political sociology, social and political protests, regime change, Marxism, nationalism and Kurdish issue.
Ding Wang
Ding Wang is a Master's student in sociology at York University. His interest is critical and conflict theory, centered on Marxian theory, facets of Continental Philosophy, social system, and examining the institutional logic of Chinese state governance. He is also the translator of the forthcoming Chinese edition of The Workers Unite!: The International 150 Years Later (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Arkayan Ganguly
Arkayan Ganguly is a Master’s candidate in the Social and Political Thought program at York University. He also has a Master’s degree in Political Science from St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous) under the University of Calcutta, India. His main research interests include Marx and Marxian thought, interpretations of Marx, and modern Western political thought. Some of his recent publications are the review article of The Last Years of Karl Marx in Critique, vol. 49(3-4), 2022 and two chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Marx's Capital: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception edited by Marcello Musto and Babak Amini (Routledge, forthcoming 2023).
Xinmei Wang
Xinmei is an undergraduate in Sociology at York University. As an advocate for social equality, she's particularly interested in social movements, Marxism, anti-racist feminism and post-colonialism.
Elisa Marcobelli
Elisa Marcobelli is temporary research assistant at the University of Avignon and research associate at the University of Rouen-Normandie, France. She has published several monographies: La France de 1914 était-elle antimilitariste? (Fondation Jaurès, 2013); Internationalisme et crises. Les socialistes français, allemands et italiens et les crises diplomatiques (1889-1915) (Arbre bleu, 2019); French, German and Italian Socialists and the Diplomatic Crises (1889-1915) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) and edited books: Les défenseurs de la paix. 1898-1917 (PUR, 2018); and Selected Writings of Jean Jaurès: On Socialism, Pacifism, Marxism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).
Enrico Campo
Enrico Campo is a post-doctoral researcher in sociology at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy. He is author of Attention and its Crisis in Digital Society, Routledge, 2022 (La testa altrove. L'attenzione e la sua crisi nella società digitale, Donzelli, 2020).
Lorenzo Sabetta
Lorenzo Sabetta is a post-doctoral at Sapienza-University of Rome and an adjunct professor of sociology at LUISS, Italy. In 2022, he is also a visiting researcher at Nuffield College, Oxford University, and an EkSoc fellow at the Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz. His recent publications include: The Anthem Companion to Robert K. Merton (2022, Anthem Press, ed. with C. Crothers); Against the Background of Social Reality (2022, Routledge, ed. with C. Lombardo); The Appearance of Nothingness: Concealed Strategic Actions (2021, in The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interaction, with C. Lombardo).
Dilan E. Tekingunduz
Dilan E. Tekingunduz is a project coordinator at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and a visiting researcher in the Department of Sociology at York University. She has an M.A. and Ph.D. degree in philosophy from Istanbul University. Her research interests include critical theory and Marxism, particularly Marx's theory of alienation. She is also interested in the labor theory of value and Marxist-Humanism.
Ksenia Arapko
Ksenia Arapko is a Masters by Research (MRes) candidate at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Her thesis is on Karl Marx's early reception of political economy. She has published in City, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, and Annals of the American Association of Geographers.