Anders Sevelsted is the PI of the MORALITES project. He is a historical sociologist whose research takes place in the intersection of civil society research, elite studies, and intellectual history. He is an Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School, Dept. of Business Humanities and Law.
He studies governance and leadership processes within the tension between top-down and bottom-up dynamics, elite and popular governance, and the roles of experts and civic engagement. Within this framework, he is particularly interested in how patterns of inequality, diversity, and difference emerge and persist, as well as how alternative and affirmative organizing efforts seek to address, circumvent, or resist these patterns.
His research focuses on civil society elites, moral elites, intermediary elites, and movement elites. He explores the role of religion and science in shaping governance and behavior under modern conditions, as well as the historical regulation of moral conduct and the development of social and economic policy.
Methodologically, he combines genealogical and contemporary approaches, employing both interpretive and statistical methods, including affirmative genealogy, conceptual history, and Social Network Analysis.
email: ase.bhl@cbs.dk
Milka Ivanovska Hadjevska is a political scientist studying civil society organizations and their leaders from a comparative and an interdisciplinary perspective.
She is currently a postdoc researcher in the ERC-funded project Moral Elites. Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer at the Political Science Department and a postdoctoral fellow in the ‘Civil Society Elites in Europe’ project at Lund University (Sweden). She hold a PhD in Political Science from the University of Exeter (UK) where she was a Research Associate in the ERC-funded ‘Regulating Civil Society Project’.
Her research focuses on questions related to nonprofit governance and regulation, inequality and elites in civil society and the representational capacity of interest groups and movements in democratic and hybrid regimes in Europe.
email: mi.bhl@cbs.dk
Morten Fischer Sivertsen is a political sociologist specializing in the intersection of elite studies, civil society research, and relational sociology. His research focuses on power, legitimacy, ideology, morality, inequality, and democracy—key themes he examines as a postdoc in the Moralites project.
Methodologically, he employs a range of quantitative techniques, including multiple correspondence analysis and social network analysis. His experience as a research assistant has also involved extensive work with qualitative methods, including interviews and discourse analysis.
He earned his PhD from Roskilde University, where his dissertation explored inequality, democracy, and media use through a field sociological lens.
email: mf.bhl@cbs.dk
Andrzej Turkowski is a sociologist and political scientist studying contemporary elites through the lens of inequalities and power relations, with a particular focus on Eastern and Central Europe. His research examines how knowledge and expertise are embedded in social relations, including within historical and geopolitical processes.
His empirical work has focused on foreign policy experts and commentators, government ministers, scholars of underdevelopment, and social movements. He earned his PhD from the University of Warsaw, where he worked as Assistant Professor until 2024. Currently, he is a post-doc in the Moral Elites: The Historical Positioning of Civil Society Leaders in National Moral Economies (MORALITES) project.
email: at.bhl@cbs.dk
Andrea Zisa is a PhD researcher on the MORALITES Project. His previous fieldworks focused on entrepreneurial political participation in illiberal regimes and on diasporic transnational spaces for political rights struggles. His interests include civil society, power coalitions, and the blurred boundary between democracy and authoritarianism. In the MORALITES Project, he will critically assess the assumption that civil society inherently promotes democracy, focusing on the integration of civil society elites with economic and political elites in Italy, engaging with Bourdeausian and Gramscian theories
email: az.bhl@cbs.dk
Rebecca Cuozzo is a student assistant on the MORALITES project. She is a Master’s student in Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento (Italy), whose skills lie at the intersection of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. At the moment in her thesis, she is studying gender occupational segregation in contemporary civil society organizations in Italy. In the MORALITES project, she is supporting the group especially in relation to data collection and socio-historical coding of prosographical data.
email: rc.bhl@cbs.dk
Josephine Clausen is a student assistant on the MORALITES project. She is a sociology student at the University of Copenhagen whose interests include civil society, elite studies and globalization. She is currently writing her bachelors thesis on the experienced co-creation processes in Danish eldercare. In the project, she will assist mainly with data collection and coding of the Danish case.
email: jhc.bhl@cbs.dk