Kateri Carmola, C. A. Johnson Fellow in Political Philosophy, Middlebury College 

Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University 

Martin K. Dimitrov, assistant professor of political science, Department of Government, Dartmouth College

Jiri Pehe, director of New York University in Prague and head of NYU`s Prague Institute for Democracy, Economy, and Culture, He teaches at Charles University and New York University in Prague 

Anne Allison, Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University