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MA in Philosophie

Islamic Radicalism; Political Philosophy; Continental Philosophy.

MA in Philosophie

Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of science, psychoanalysis, philosophy of mind, Vedics, cognitive science, quantum mechanics.

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Reclaiming Personal Authority Upon Leaving Evangelical and/or High-Control Religious Settings, Race, Place, and Religion in the American South, Individuation as Renewed Access to the Psychoid/Imaginal Realm ,

Everaldo Carlos

MA in Theologie

Theology and social work

Arnab Chakraborty

MA in Theologie

Ritual Studies, comparatively on the Catholic Eucharist, the Islamic Qurbani, and the Vedic Yagna or sacrificial rituals, repetition, mediation, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Soteriology, violence, trauma and the sacred.

Thomas Connelly

PhD in Natural Sciences

theoretical physics; philosophy of physics; metaphysics.

MA in Philosophie

Mohammad Ali (Yaser) Derakhshan

MA in Psychoanalyse

Lacanian psychoanalysis; migration and subjectivity; identity and belonging; psychoanalytic readings of film and television

Elizabeth Devane

Non-Degree Researcher

Artemis Thea’Leona Douglas

MA in Philosophie

feminist epistemology, quantitative text analysis, rhetoric/discourse and media, comparative political philosophy;

Political geography, Political sociology

Eleni Evangelidi

PhD in Natural Sciences

cognitive neuroscience, psychology, philosophy of mind

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

philosophy of psychedelics, philosophy of religion, 4E CogSci

Non-Degree Researcher

Psychoanalysis, Hegel, Marx, Classics, Continental Philosophy

Alison “Ali” Forster

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Philosophy of Psychedelics, Kyoto School philosophy, French Phenomenology, Consciousness Studies, and Semiotics

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

multinsensoriality, cultural sociology, experimental literature, multimodal art

Jose Ruben Garcia

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

political theology, early modern political theory, continental philosophy

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Silence, auto-ethnography, desire & feminine, psychoanalytic practice from India, unconscious and Hindu philosophy

MA in Theologie

theopoetics, ensoulment, erotic theology, queer theology, ecotheology, expanded animism, new materialisms, object vitality, beyond-human kinship, alterity studies, narratology, theogenic imagination, theogenic iconography, relics and reliquaries (divine bodies and evidences), the inhabited body and elective possession, ecstatic practices and the performativity of ceremony, ritual scripting, the haptics and somatics of prayer, microphenomenology in religious experience, rhetorical postures and functions in prayer (second person direct address as an aliving-gesture) …. and, essentially, post-secular theology reimagined as an artistic medium (by extension - the prospective use of active imagination and creative/poetic processes in possible approaches to chaplaincy).

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Architectural Representation, Visual Culture, Architectural Collage, AI-generated Imagery, and Authorship & Originality

MA in Philosophie

Applied Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Ontologies, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of AI and Technology, Urban Humanities (space and place, etc), Non-Western Philosophy, Latin American and Modern Greek Philosophies, Cinema, and Aesthetics.

Stephen James Guion, M.Sc.

PhD in Natural Sciences

theoretical temporology, time, open systems, systems philosophy, neurotechnology, Polanyian dynamics, emerging technologies, science diplomacy, etc.

MA in Psychoanalyse

Sexuality, Psychoanalysis

MA in Psychoanalyse

Lacan, psychedelics, dialectics

MA in Philosophie

Queer Theory, Philosophy of Violence, Bataille

MA in Philosophie

Messianism; (Academic Study of) Western Esotericism; Nietzsche; Marx in 20th & 21st Centuries

PhD in Natural Sciences

MA in Psychoanalyse

paradox. Zen Buddhism. Tales and Myths. Parables.

Anand (Andy) Iyer

Maria Kantardjieva

MA in Psychoanalyse

psychoanalysis and religion, political theology

Kevin B. Ketchmen

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Epistemology of AI, Ontology of AI, Phenomenology, Political sciences, Philosophy, Technology, Techno-solutionism.

Vakhang Kezheradze

MA in Psychoanalyse

Matrixial theory; clinical aesthetics and ethics; Bionian and post-Bionian field theory; relational and intersubjective psychoanalysis; phenomenological psychopathology; Gestalt field theory; Tantric studies; psychoanalytic epistemology; psychic void and unformulated affect; embodiment and pre-reflective experience; collective melancholia and historical trauma; psychoanalytic cultural theory; post-Soviet subjectivity.

Decentralized digital technologies; non-hierarchal governance structures; heterodox economics; labor history; credit theory of money; anarchist theory

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Poetry and Psychoanalysis

Ercan Küçükoba

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

social work ,critical mathematical pedagogy

Shaifila Ladhani

Psychic Deadness and Retreats, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and Politics, Group Analysis and Community Building, Intimacies, Envy, and Erotic Life, Postcolonial Theory and the Unconscious, Gender, Mourning, and Queer Presence

Maria Veronica Laguna

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Psychoanalysis, Borderland Theory, Phenomenology, Immigration, Diasporic Placemaking

MA in Philosophie

Claudia Landolfi

MA in Philosophie

Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Modern Philosophy, Post-Structuralism, Art and Music, and Embodied Forms of Expression.

Samuel Eshleman Latimer

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

conflict management, adversarial collaboration, couples and family therapy, controversy in research, democracy

Ewa Tamar Lewandowska

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

STS, critical AI studies, ecofeminism, data ecofeminism, fear of becoming obsolete, AI ethics, embodiment

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

critical pedagogy, post-Soviet studies, embodied geographies, post-colonialism

Arun Melepurayil

MA in Psychoanalyse

Psychoanalysis and political economy, desire and market, commodity fetishism, death drive and financial markets

Fatemeh Naji Meydani

Non-Degree Researcher

Psychoanalysis and technology

Tessina Grant Moloney

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

human-centered artificial intelligence, LLM [mis]alignment, cyborg theory, cyborg anthropology, responsible AI, cybersocial AI risks, critical AI

Samuel Morales Jr.

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Epistemology, philosophy of technology, AI ethics, digital forensics, science and technology studies

MA in Philosophie

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

History, Economics, International Relations, Theology, Defense Studies

Jacqueline Neale

Photography, Historical Processes, Art & Psychoanalysis, Art History

Nicolas P. Nicoletti

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Psychoanalysis, Sociology, Anthropology, Philosophy of Science, Mathematics

Non-Degree Researcher

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Institutional Theory, Organizational Theory, Game Theory, Regulatory Governance, Public Administration, and Strategic Management.

Henry (Rick) Poce

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

philosophical anthropology, critical theory, metaphysics, ethics, sports and performance psychology

Artemii Poniatovskii

MA in Theologie

contemporary theology, philosophy of religion, mysticism, non-creedal movements, New Thought

Tathagatan Ravindran

Non-Degree Researcher

Political subjectivities, racial formations, ideology, social movements, intersectionality

MA in Psychoanalyse

BA in interdisziplinären Studien

Systems, Power Dynamics/Power Inbalance, Propaganda, Myths, Communication

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Maiwand Rohani's research examines the long-term structural impact of protracted forced displacement on host-country society, politics, and governance, with a particular focus on the Syrian refugee presence in Türkiye as a constitutive condition of state-society relations rather than a temporary humanitarian crisis.

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Religious Studies, Christian–Muslim relations, comparative theology, Islamic theology and philosophy, medieval Arabic Christian and Muslim thought, and interreligious dialogue.

BA in interdisziplinären Studien

surveillance, digital privacy, neuroscience

Mercy Itohan Shoroye

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

The Culture of Silence in Healthcare: Exploring Clinician Non-Disclosure, Fear of Professional Repercussions, Diagnostic Errors, and Their Implications for Patient Safety and Healthcare Governance.

Gabriella Simpson

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Caribbean Studies, Black feminism, Political philosophy, Migration studies, Archival Studies, and Case Studies.

Non-Degree Researcher

psychoanalysis & art

BA in interdisziplinären Studien

mathematics, epistemology

MA in Philosophie

critical theory, existentialism, liberation theology

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Wittgenstein; philosophy of language; epistemology; formal philosophy; philosophy of mathematics; foundations and limits of formal systems; Frege; Russell; philosophical methodology

BA in interdisziplinären Studien

Political theology, Philosophical theories, law, politics, ethics, religious studies, institutional hierarchy, primitive culture & tradition and how they evolved, etc.

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

National Security Intelligence and Ethics. Intelligence Elicitation & Rapport Narrative - State vs Human Rights. Impact of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) and AI Tools on Security Management.

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

psychoanalysis, somatics, maternal studies, desire, death drive, disappointment

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

history, gender studies, popular culture

Dr. Tiffany Wicks

MA in Theologie

Interfaith liberation theology, Palestine Peace and Justice, Political Theology

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Theology and ethics; biblical reception and interpretation; religion, literature and music; theology and the arts; compassion, neighbourliness and human responsibility; humanitarianism and social ethics; moral psychology and prosocial behaviour; religion and society; organisational values, culture and human behaviour.

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Personality development, individual differences, adolescent personality, emotional wellbeing, identity, resilience, relationships, and mental health.