Research Fellows
MF CASR Fellows are selected for their high scholarly output and outstanding contributions to the field. One Global Fellow is nominated each year to join MF CASR for four weeks in Oslo; click here for more information.
Global Fellows
Professor Doctor Ute Hüsken studied Indology, Tibetology, Burmese Studies, Sociology and Ethnology at the University of Göttingen, where she also received her doctorate in 1996 on the topic, "The Rules for the Buddhist Nunnery in the Vinaya-Piṭaka of the Therāvadin." In 2003 she completed her habilitation at the University of Heidelberg on the subject of "Transitional Rituals of the South Indian Viṣṇuitischen Vaikhānasa Tradition." After working as a research assistant and university assistant at the University of Göttingen, she worked from 2003 to 2008 as a project manager at the collaborative research center 619 Ritual Dynamics at the University of Heidelberg. From 2007-2017 she was professor in the South Asian Studies section at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. Professor Hüsken is currently the head of the Department of Cultural and Religious History of South Asia at the University of Heidelberg.
Fellows at MF
Professor of Medieval Studies
Email: Kristin.B.Aavitsland@mf.no
Phone: 22590615
Office: 343
Professor of Teacher Education
Email: Geir.Afdal@mf.no
Phone: 22590607
Offfice: 474
Professor of Religious Studies
Email: Trine.Anker@mf.no
Phone: 22590543
Office: 333
Postdoctoral Fellow of Systematic Theology
Email: Ragnar.M.Bergem@mf.no
Phone: 22590645
Office: 424B
Christian Bull
Associate Professor of History of Religion
Email: Christian.Bull@mf.no
Phone: 22590565
Office: 465
Mary Jane Cuyler
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: Mary.J.Cuyler@mf.no
Phone: 22590500
Office: 427
Professor of Church History
Email: Otfried.Czaika@mf.no
Phone: 22590581
Office: 324A
Sami Al Daghistani
Postdoctoral Fellow of Islamic Studies
Email: Sami.A.Daghistani@mf.no
Phone: 22590659
Office: 427
Professor of Practical Theology with Psychology of Religion
Email: Lars.Danbolt@mf.no
Phone: 22590513
Office: 464
Professor of Systematic Theology
Email: Asle.Eikrem@mf.no
Phone: 22590641
Office: 365
Ole Jakob Filtvedt
Professor of New Testament
Email: Ole.J.Filtvedt@mf.no
Phone: 22590657
Office: 334
Pro-Rector/Professor of Ethics and Diaconal Studies
Email: Kjetil.Fretheim@mf.no
Phone: 22590625
Office: 351
Professor of Religious Studies
Email: Iselin.Frydenlund@mf.no
Phone: 22590619
Office: 478A
Professor of Antiquity and Early Christian Studies
Email: Victor.Ghica@mf.no
Phone: 22590577
Office: 478E
Professor of Systematic Theology
Email: Jan.O.Henriksen@mf.no
Phone: 22590534
Office: 340
Postodoctoral Fellow of Social Science
Email: Andreas.H.Hvidsten@mf.no
Phone: 22590646
Office: 424A
Associate Professor of Social Science
Email: Lars.L.Iversen@mf.no
Phone: 22590652
Office: 325A
Professor of Old Testament
Email: Kristin.Joachimsen@mf.no
Phone: 22590640
Office: 339
Professor of Religious Studies
Email: Liv.I.Lied@mf.no
Phone: 22590526
Office: 478B
Professor of History of Religions
Email: brent.nongbri@mf.no
Phone: 22590548
Office: 427
Daniela Lucia Rapisarda
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: Daniela.L.Rapisarda@mf.no
Phone: 22590559
Office: 367A
Professor of New Testament
Email: Karl.O.Sandnes@mf.no
Phone: 22590537
Office: 342
Tatjana Schnell
Professor of Psychology of Religion and Existential Psychology
Email: Tatjana.Schnell@mf.no
Phone: 22590688
Office:
Moumita Sen
Associate Professor of Cultural Studies
Email: Moumita.Sen@mf.no
Phone: 22590547
Office: 424A
Professor of Diaconal Studies, Religion and Society
Email: Sturla.Stalsett@mf.no
Phone: 22590634
Office: 335
Professor of Systematic Theology
Email: Atle.O.Sovik@mf.no
Phone: 22590536
Office: 325B