Jana Ndiaye Berankova is a philosopher, writer, publisher, theorist of architecture, and currently a fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. Former student of the École Normale Supérieure, she defended her PhD dissertation on the links between French philosophy and architectural theory between 1965 and 1990 at Columbia University's School of Architecture (GSAPP). Her research interest include the links between continental philosophy and theory of architecture, Marxism,
Alain Badiou's thinking, the artistic and political avant-gardes of Central Europe, and Senegalese architecture after the proclamation of independence. She is the founder of
Suture Press and a member of the Prague Axiomatic Circle (together with Nick Nesbitt and Michael Hauser).