Albanian scholar, professor, editor, and contributor to The Guardian and New Statesman, Lea Ypi has announced she is the first-ever Albanian member of the European Academy of Humanities, Letters, and Sciences.
Ypi made the announcement on Twitter.
The Academia Europea is a pan-Europan academy of humanities, letters, law and sciences. It was founded in 1988 and encompasses all fields of scholarly enquiry. It also functions as a co-ordinator of European interests in national research agencies.
“The object of Academia Europaea is the advancement and propagation of excellence in scholarship in the humanities, law, the economic, social, and political sciences, mathematics, medicine, and all branches of natural and technological sciences anywhere in the world for the public benefit and for the advancement of the education of the public of all ages in the aforesaid subjects in Europe.
It has more than 4000 members including 70 Nobel Laureates.
Ypi lives in the UK and is a Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. She has degrees in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza and completed her PhD at the European University Institute. Prior to joining LSE, she was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University, the Italian Institute for Historical Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. In addition, Ypi has held visiting positions at, for instance, Stanford University (2017), the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 2014-2015), the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po, Paris (2011), the University of Frankfurt (2010, 2016), the University of Tokyo, and the Federal University of Santa Caterina in Brazil.
Ypi has given over a hundred invited lectures, including at Chicago, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, UCL, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Berlin, Prague, Leiden, Uppsala, Barcelona, Oslo, St Andrews, Bristol, Montreal, Toronto, Beijing, Kyoto, and Melbourne. She regularly contributes to the Guardian, the New Statesman, The Independent, Jacobin Magazine, and to BBC Radio and TV panels and debates.
She has also won numerous prizes and awards and specialises in Kant, Marx, democratic theory, migration, and political theory and philosophy.
