Ongoing Doctoral Projects
The projects are organized based on discipline:
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The Old Testament
Solvår Ask Isene
e-mail: solvarisene@yahoo.com
Working title of project: "Not "my shepherd"? The reception and representation of the Persian king Cyrus in OG Isaiah."
Start project period: Fall 2020.
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Kristin Joachimsen, MF (main), assistant professor Dr. Jean Maurais, Acadia University (co)
Steinar Skarpnes
e-mail: Steinar.Skarpnes@mf.no
Working title of project: "Hezekiah - The Making of a leadership Ideal in Judean Memory".
Start project period: Fall 2018
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Kristin Joachimsen, MF
The New Testament
Ronit Dassa
e-mail: ronit.dassa@stud.mf.no
Working title of project: "A Cultural History of the “Jewish Jesus” in Critical Scholarship in Light of Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations, Controversies about Jewish Identity, and Anglo-American Constructions of Israel"
Project Start: Fall 2022
Supervisor: Professor James Crossley, MF
Veronica Humby
e-mail: veronica.j.humby@stud.mf.no
Working title of project: "Is the Lord’s Prayer a Complete Prayer, a Summary of Scriptural Prayer, or a Structure for Future Worship?"
Project Start: Fall 2022
Supervisor: Professor Dr. James Crossley, MF (main), professor Dr. Chris Keith, MF (co)
Ryan Smith
e-mail: ryan.f.smith@stud.mf.no
Working title of project: " Can a Reading be too Difficult? The Case of the Pre-Mortem Spearing of Jesus at Matt 27:49b"
Project Start: Fall 2022
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Chris Keith, MF
Mack Griffith
e-mail: mack.e.p.griffith@stud.mf.no
Working title of project: "Recognizing Ourselves: Johannine Recognition Scenes as Sites for Transgender Biblical Interpretation"
Project Start: Fall 2022
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Chris Keith, MF
Merete Hodt
e-mail: meretehodt@gmail.com
Working title of project:."How to make sense of Paul’s Bodily Weakness? Paul’s paradoxical Self-Presentation and the Ambiguous task of Interpreting him"
Start project period: Fall 2019
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Ole Jakob Filtvedt, MF (main); professor Dr. Karl Olav Sandnes, MF (co).
Church and Culture History
Fridjof Leemhuis
e-mail: Fridjof.Leemhuis@mf.no
Working title of project: "Codex Sinaiticus: A modern object itinerary in three acts, told through narratives and performances".
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Brent Nongbri, MF (main), and professor Dr. Blossom Stefaniw , MF (co).
Øyvind Brun Andersen
e-mail: Oyvind.B.Andersen@mf.no
Working title of project: "Hvordan og hvorfor arbeidet prester for fred 1914-1940 på en moderat eller radikal måte i lys av kirkelig, teologisk og politisk kontekst?"
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisor: Associate professor Dr. Per Kristian Aschim, MF.
Rhiannon Williams
e-mail: Rhiannon.Williams@mf.no
Working title of project: "Late Antique Christianity in Kharga Oasis (3rd to 6th Centuries) - A Case Study Based on Archaeological Record".
Start project period: Fall 2021.
Supervisors: Associate professor Dr. Christian Bull, MF
Carina Lasch Lind
e-mail: Carina.L.Lind@mf.no
Working title of project: "Service and music in the churches of the German Kontor in Bergen. A reconstruction attempt considering the city´s biculturalism".
Start project period: Fall 2021.
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Otfried Czaika, MF
Laura-Marie Mork
e-mail: Laura.M.Mork@mf.no
Working title of project: "Religion and/or politics? The political communication in Early Modern Sweden under the reign of Gustav Vasa (1520-1560)".
Start project period: Fall 2018
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Otfried Czaika, MF
Jostein Garcia de Presno
e-mail: jospres2@gmail.com
Working title of project: "Rettssaken mot Hans Nielsen Hauge: Fra justismord til katalysator for Haugebevegelsen."
Start project period: Spring 2018
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Kristin B. Aavitsland, MF
Systematic Theology (ST)
Gunnhild Nordgård Hermstad
e-mail: gunnhild.n.hermstad@mf.no
Working title of project: “Let us confess. Theologizing sin and forgiveness in the Church of Norway"
Start project period: Spring 2024
Supervisor: Associate professor Kristin Graff-Kallevåg
Espen Løkhammer
e-mail: espen.lokhammer@mf.no
Working title of project: “Fine-tuning Arguments for the Existence of God"
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Atle Søvik
Simeon Ottosen
e-mail: simeonottosen@me.com
Working title of project: “How to View the World? The Significance of Creation, Christ, and Church for Interpreting Reality in the Works of Bonhoeffer, Hamann, and Wannenwetsch”
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen, MF
Tollef Graff Hugo
e-mail: Tollef.G.Hugo@mf.no
Working title of project: "Mystikk som formidling: En systematisk utarbeidelse av begrepet om 'positiv mystikk' hos Mester Eckhardt, som formidling mellom apofatisk og katafatisk teologi".
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Asle Eikrem, MF. (main), Professor dr. Amador Vega, CERCCA (co)
Filip Rasmussen
e-mail: filip.rasmussen@mf.no
Working title of project: "Between the Times: The Critique of Religion in the Theology of the Early Karl Barth."
Start project period: Fall 2020
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Asle Eikrem, MF (main), professor Dr. Jayne Svenungsson, Lund (co).
Jo Bertil R. Værnesbranden
e-mail: J.B.Varnesbranden@mf.no
Working title of project: "Language as Metaphor for Faith: A study of Luther's rerum metaphora and Derrida's archi-écriture".
Start project period: Fall 2018
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Asle Eikrem, MF (main), Knut Alfsvåg, VID (co)
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Practical Theology (PT)
Jarle Waldemar
e-mail: post@jarlewaldemar.no
Working title of project: «Sjelesorg i pinsebevegelsen: en empirisk studie av sjelesorgpraksis»
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Associate professor dr. Knut Tveitereid, MF (main)
Thomas Gudbergsen
e-mail: tgu@km.dk
Working title of project: «Bibellæsning i sjælesorgen – Et kvalitativt studie af konfidenters opfattelse og udbytteaf læsningen af udvalgte fortællinger i Første Mosebog»
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisors: Associate professor Dr. Knut Tveitereid, MF (main), associate professor Dr. Ingunn Aadland, MF (co)
Camilla Jørgensen
e-mail: Camilla.Jorgensen@mf.no
Working title of project:Kateketens profesjonsforståelse og profesjonsutøvelse. En kvalitativ studie av kateketers profesjonelle arbeid i Den norske kirke
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisor: Associate professor Dr. Kristin Graff-Kallevåg, MF (main), professor Dr. Trine Anker (co)
Ingvild Lalim Hanseid
e-mail: Ingvild.Lalim@mf.no
Working title of project: "Experiences with assisted death".
Start project period: Spring 2023.
Supervisor: Associate professor Dr. Fredrik Saxegaard, MF.
Rasmus Lund Jonstrup
e-mail: rasmusjh1@gmail.com
Working title of project: «Fra vugge til grav».
Start project period: Spring 2021
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF.
Felicity K. Kiaira
e-mail: kiaira20@yahoo.com
Working title of project: "Healing and reconciliation of female rape victims within the Church in Kenya"
Start project period: Spring 2017
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF (Main), Dr. Solvor M. Lauritzen, (Co)
Maria Stensvold Ånonsen
e-mail: Maria.Anonsen@mf.no
Working title of project: "En kvalitativ undersøkelse av voldutsatte ungdommers fortellinger om tro og religion".
Project Start Year: 2015.
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF (main); Professor Dr. Carolina Øverlien, Stockholm Universitet (co).
Vegard Holm
e-mail: vegard.holm@mf.no
Working title of project: "Retreat in change - experienced by the lived body. A phenomenological exploration of experiences and meaning making among inmates doing silent retreat".
Project Start Year: 2015.
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Jan-Olav Henriksen (main supervisor); Professor Dr. Leif Gunnar Engedal (co-supervisor).
Sunniva Gylver
e-mail: sunniva.gylver@mf.no
Working title of project: "Bånd og broer - en studie av forestillinger om folkekirkefellesskapet, (blant konfirmanter, foreldre, frivillige og prester) i to folkekirkemenigheter."
Project Start Year: 2013.
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF; Professor Dr. Harald Hegstad, MF.
Missiology (MV)
Dawit Olika Terfassa
e-mail: giiftiikodaw@yahoo.co.in
Working title of project: "The Growth of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY): An Empirical and Theological Analysis."
Project Start Year: 2014
Supervisor: Associate Professor Dr. Roar Fotland, MF
Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Dr. Lars L. Iversen, MF
Lloyd Nyrota
e-mail: lnyarota@yahoo.com
Working title of project: "The mission of healing and reconciliation and the message of Christian Church leadership in response to the Zimbabwe political conflict in the years 2000-2012."
Project Start Year: 2013
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Kjetil Fretheim, MF (main), associate professor Dr. Roar Fotland, MF (co)
Psychology of Religion (RPSY)
Cathrine Bang Hellum
e-mail: cathrine.b.hellum@gmail.com
Working title of project: “Meaning in life and mental health strategies during the corona crisis.”
Start project period: Spring 2021.
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Tatjana Schnell, MF (main), Lars Johan Danbolt SI-HF (co)
Yvonne Aarestrup
e-mail: Yvonne.Aarestrup@sykehuset-innlandet.no
Working title of project: ""Evaluation and efficacy study for using the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in palliative healthcare contexts"
Start project period: Fall 2020
Supervisor: Førsteam. (HiI) Sigrid Helene Kjørven Haug, professor Dr. Lars Johan Danbolt, MF (co)
Øystein Buer
e-mail: oeybue@ous-hf.no
Working title of project: “Exploring near-death experiences (NDE) among critically ill patients at Oslo University Hospital.”.
Start project period: Spring 2020
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Tatjana Schnell, MF. (main) professor dr. Angelika Gabriele Sorteberg, OUS-HF (co)
Religious Education (RP)
Binta-Victoria Jammeh
e-mail: Binta.V.Jammeh@mf.no
Working title of project: "Democracy education at the margins. A case study on citizenship and empowerment in Scandinavia"
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Trine Anker, MF
Sebastian Tjelle Jarmer
e-mail: Sebastian.T.Jarmer@mf.no
Working title of project: "Religionskritikk i samtidens Religion og etikk".
Start project period: Fall 2021.
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Trine Anker, MF (main) and associate professor Dr. Audun Toft (co).
Christine Lillethun Norheim
e-mail: Christine.L.Norheim@mf.no
Working title of project: "Negotiating racism within an institutional framework: A contextually delimited and relationally focused study of teachers perceptions and practices of and against racism"
Start project period: Fall 2020
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Claudia Lenz, MF.
Leni Mjåland
e-mail: Leni.Mjaland@mf.no
Working title of project: "Caring in Urban Spaces:
Discovering Spatiality in Social Work Practices"
Start project period: Fall 2019
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Geir Afdal, MF (main). Associate professor Dr. Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen, MF (co).
Henrik Nykvist
e-mail: Henrik.Nykvist@mf.no
Working title of project: "Youth Political Mobilization and Ideological Work in Contemporary China”.
Start project period: Fall 2018
Supervisor: Associate professor Dr. Andreas H. Hvidsten, MF
Lina Snoek Hauan
e-mail: lina.e.snoek@mf.no
Working title of project: "Kunnskaps- og holdningsmål i religionsfaget i den videregående skolen?"
Start project period: Fall 2017
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Trine Anker, MF (main) , professor Geir S. Afdal (Co.)
Ragnhild Fauske
e-mail: RagnhildF@hivolda.no
Working title of project: "Eksistensielle samtaler i barnehagen"
Project Start Year: 2013
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Heid Leganger-Krogstad, MF
Co-supervisor: Professor Dr. Liv Gjems, Volda University College
Religious Studies (RV)
Elray Gene Henriksen
e-mail: Elray.Henriksen@mf.no
Working title of project: "Captain Moroni in the Temple of Democracy - The Book of Mormon as a Political Tool in American Politics"
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Professor dr. Iselin Frydenlund, MF
Maria Dumitru
e-mail: maria.dumitru@mf.no
Working title of project: “The enslaved female: A gendered analysis of a Roma enslavement and its memoralization in Romania"
Start project period: Fall 2022
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Jan selling, Södertörn Universitet (main), Professor Dr. Trine Anker, MF (co)
Anita Christensen
e-mail: Anita.Christensen@mf.no
Working title of project: "Yiddish in Scandinavia. Negotiating Jewish identity through meta-linguistic practice and speech community".
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF (main), and professor Dr. Claudia Lenz, MF (co).
The'ang Teron
e-mail: Theang.Teron@mf.no
Working title of project: "New Karbi Religious Movements: Lokhimon, creation of dialogue space".
Start project period: Fall 2021.
Supervisor: Associate professor Dr. Moumita Sen, MF (main), Senior Lecturer Dr. Arkoton Longkumer, University of Edinburgh (co)
Espen Gilsvik
e-mail: Espen.Gilsvik@mf.no
Working title of project: "Journey out of Eden: Exploring experiences of high cost charismatic disaffiliation among members of Reisen community".
Start project period: Fall 2019
Supervisor: Associate professor Dr. Lars Laird Iversen, MF