Researcher Directory

Mohammed Aziz

MA in Philosophie

Islamic Radicalism; Political Philosophy; Continental Philosophy.

Amy Caldas

MA in Philosophie

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

Tony Caldwell

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 ,

Thomas Connelly

PhD in Natural Sciences

theoretical physics; philosophy of physics; metaphysics.

Madison Covell

MA in Philosophie

Artemis Thea’Leona Douglas

MA in Philosophie

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

Nohad Eltayeb

MA in Politik

Political geography, Political sociology

Eleni Evangelidi

PhD in Natural Sciences

cognitive neuroscience, psychology, philosophy of mind

Tiago Faleiro

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

philosophy of psychedelics, philosophy of religion, 4E CogSci

Alison Forster

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Kyoto School philosophy, French Phenomenology, Consciousness Studies, and Semiotics

Sofia Galli

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

Mahima Garg

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Eli Gold

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).

Amy Gorissen

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Andrew Grigiss

MA in Philosophie

Applied Philosophy, Metaphilosophy, Ontologies, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of AI and Technology, Non-Western Philosophy, Latin American and Modern Greek Philosophies, Cinema, and Aesthetics.

Lucas Hergert

MA in Philosophie

Queer Theory, Philosophy of Violence, Bataille

Daniel Hyer

MA in Psychoanalyse

paradox. Zen Buddhism. Tales and Myths. Parables.

Maria Kantardjieva

MA in Psychoanalyse

psychoanalysis and religion, political theology

Vakhang Kezheradze

MA in Psychoanalyse

Bionian psychoanalysis, phenomenological psychopathology, Gestalt field theory, Tantra, cultural theory, trauma and collective memory, and post-Soviet subjectivity

Brian Kraemer

MA in Politik

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

Maria Veronica Laguna

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

Psychoanalysis, Borderland Theory, Phenomenology, Immigration, Diasporic Placemaking

Derek Lan

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

Irina Malinina

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

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

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

Alex Moyle

MA in Philosophie

Khwaja Navil

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

Gizem Onay

MA in Politik

Joseph Phelan

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Artemii Poniatovskii

MA in Theologie

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

Alexander Read

MA in Psychoanalyse

The Big Other

MAIVAND ROHANI

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.

Tomas Samuel

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.

Gabriella Simpson

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Eva Stenram

Non-Degree Researcher

psychoanalysis & art

Florin Stinga

BA in interdisziplinären Studien

mathematics, epistemology

Orsolya Szőcs

MA in Philosophie

critical theory, existentialism, liberation theology

Jan Tappé

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

Lopini Tupou

BA in interdisziplinären Studien

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

Helena Vissing

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Kathryn Weber

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

Philip Willatt

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.

Blanaid Wilson

PhD in Humanities & Social Sciences

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

Esther Zhang

MA in Politik

anarchism