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.
Supervisors: Professor Kristin Joachimsen, MF,
Assistant Professor Jean Maurais, Acadia University (co-supervisor)

Steinar Aandahl 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 Kristin Joachimsen, MF

The New Testament

Hans Johan Sagrusten
e-mail: hjs@bibel.no
Working title of project: "Are the Gospels folk literature? The role of community, orality and materiality in the debate whether the Gospels are folk literature or the products of an elite class of writers"
Project Start: Fall 2025
Supervisor: Professor Justin Strong, MF

Thomas Christensen
e-mail: Thomas.Christensen@mf.no
Working title of project: "The Memory of Paul in Acts and the Development of Early Christian Identity"
Project Start: Fall 2025
Supervisor: Professor Justin Strong, MF,
Professor Ole Jakob Filtvedt, MF (co-supervisor)

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
Supervisors: Professor James Crossley, MF

Mack Emerson Parker 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: Associate Professor Matthew Monger, MF Professor James Crossley (co-supervisor)

Merete Hodt
e-mail: meretehodt@gmail.com
Working title of project:."How to make sense of Paul’s Bodily Weakness?"
Start project period: Fall 2019
Supervisors: Professor Ole Jakob Filtvedt, MF,
Professor Karl Olav Sandnes, MF (co-supervisor)

Per Kristian Sætre
e-mail: perkristiansatre@gmail.com
Working title of project: "Salomo mellom linjene: Meininger minnet om Salomo skapar i Matteusevangeliet" [Memories and Meanings of Solomon in the Gospel of Matthew]
Start project period: Fall 2016
Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Karl Olav Sandnes

Church and Culture History

Fredrik Hope
e-mail: Fredrik.Hope@mf.no
Working title of project: "Felles fiende for kirke og stat: skremselstaktikker i reformasjonens korrespondanser og flygeblader"
Start project period: Spring 2026
Supervisor: Professor Otfried Czaika, MF

Marianne Cappelen
e-mail: mariannecappelen@gmail.com
Working title of project: "Trivium I Tanum: Høymiddelalderkirkens korbuevegg - et «mind-map» for formidling og læring? Om skolastiske perspektiver i den norske høymiddelalderkirkens bilder"
Start project period: Spring 2026
Supervisor: Professor Otfried Czaika, MF

Olav Refvem
e-mail: olav.refvem@mf.no
Working title of project: "Teologi og kirke i møte med den totalitære stat og antisemittismen - Leiv Aalens politiske teologi før og under den annen verdenskrig"
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisor: Adjunct Associate Professor Per Kristian Aschim, MF,
Professor Otfried Czaika, MF (co-supervisor)

Mar Sancho Prades
e-mail: sanchopradesmar@gmail.com
Working title of project: "Critical edition and study of op. 66 Liber de articulis fidei et Apostrophe ad summum pontificem by Ramon Llull (Rome, 23rd June 1296)"
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisors: Professor Otfried Czaika, MF
Professor Oscar de la Cruz Palma, Universitet Autonoma de Barcelona (co-supervisor)

Fridtjof Willem Leemhuis
e-mail: Fridtjof.Leemhuis@mf.no
Working title of project: "Lost and Bound: The Rebinding of Codex Sinaiticus".
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisors: Professor Brent Nongbri, MF,
Professor Blossom Stefaniw , MF (co-supervisor)

Øyvind Brun Andersen
e-mail: Oyvind.B.Andersen@mf.no
Working title of project: "Norske prester fredsforening og kristen fredsdiskurs 1915-1930"
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Per Kristian Aschim, 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.
Supervisor: Professor Otfried Czaika, MF 

Systematic Theology (ST)

Torgeir Værnesbranden
e-mail: torgeirvarnesbranden@gmail.com
Working title of project: Pneumatological Imagination in a World of Algorithmic Principalities.
Start project period: Spring 2026
Supervisor: Professor Atle Søvik, MF

Nuray Ayten
e-mail: Nuray.Ayten@ankara.edu.tr
Working title of project: A Dialogue Between Hegel's Philosophy of Nature and Posthumanism.
Start project period: Fall 2025
Supervisor: Professor Asle Eikrem, MF

Odd Ketil Sæbø
e-mail:odd.k.sabo@mf.no
Working title of project: This little light of mine. A discussion on the pedagogical view and the child view expressed by children's ministry leaders in free churches in light of recent child theology and research on children's spirituality.
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisor: Professor Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF

Amund Areklett
e-mail: amund.tobias@hotmail.no
Working title of project: "Mediated Morality: Using Postphenomenological Mediation Theory to Solve Problems in Theological Metaethics"
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisor: Professor Atle Søvik, MF

Gunnhild Nordgård Hermstad
e-mail: gunnhild.n.hermstad@mf.no
Working title of project: “Towards a Better Understanding of Sin and Forgiveness of Sin: An Empirical Systematic Theological Contribution"
Start project period: Spring 2024
Supervisors: Associate Professor Kristin Graff-Kallevåg, Professor Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF (co-supervisor)

Espen Løkhammer
e-mail: espen.lokhammer@mf.no
Working title of project: “Does the Fine-tuning Argument support the existence of God?"
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Professor Atle Søvik, MF

Simeon Ottosen
e-mail: simeonottosen@me.com
Working title of project: “Creation and Christology in Modern Scandinavian Theology”
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Associate Professor Ragnar Misje Bergem Professor Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen, MF (co-supervisor)

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.
Supervisors: Professor Asle Eikrem, MF,
Professor Amador Vega, CERCCA (co-supervisor)

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
Supervisors: Professor Asle Eikrem, MF
Knut Alfsvåg, VID (co-supervisor)

Practical Theology (PT)

Ingrid M. Petersen
e-mail: ingrid@myrtveit.com
Working title of project: Parents as Mediators of Faith: A Study of Parents’ Self-Understanding of Their Role Through Theological and Societal Lenses
Start project period: Spring 2026
Supervisor: Professor Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF,
Professor Bård Eirik Norheim Hallesby, NLA, (co-supervisor)

Ragnhild Naterstad
e-mail: rnaterstad@fjellhaug.no
Working title of project: The Warriors and the Sisters:A qualitative study on a gender-specific youth ministry initiative in Norway
Start project period: Spring 2025
Supervisor: Professor Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF

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 Knut Tveitereid, MF (main)

Thomas Gudbergsen
e-mail: tgu@km.dk
Working title of project: Bibellæsning i krævende tider – Et kvalitativt studie af mennesker i krises erfaringer af at læse en valgt tekst fra Første Mosebog
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisors: Associate Professor Knut Tveitereid, MF,
Associate Professor Ingunn Aadland, MF (co-supervisor)

Camilla Jørgensen
e-mail: Camilla.Jorgensen@mf.no
Working title of project: "'So I built a room where the confirmands can pray': A qualitative in-depth study of catechists' understanding and practice of agency (or space of possibility), location, space, and material in the catechist practice in the Church of Norway."
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisors: Associate professor Kristin Graff-Kallevåg, MF
Professor Trine Anker (co-supervisor)

Ingvild Lalim Hanseid
e-mail: Ingvild.Lalim@mf.no
Working title of project: "Choosing death: experiences with considering seeking assistance in dying".
Start project period: Spring 2023.
Supervisor: Associate Professor Fredrik Saxegaard, MF. 

Rasmus Lund Jonstrup
e-mail: rasmusjh1@gmail.com
Working title of project: "Fra vugge til grav. En homiletisk undersøgelse af oplevelsen af at være taler i minoritetsgrupperne Humanistisk Samfund og Mosaik i forbindelse med meningen med livet ved begyndelsen og enden på livet".
Start project period: Spring 2021
Supervisor: Professor 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
Supervisors: Professor Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF
Solvor M. Lauritzen (co-supervisor)

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 Jan-Olav Henriksen
Professor Leif Gunnar Engedal (co-supervisor)

Missiology (MV)

Dawit Olika Terfassa
e-mail: giiftiikodaw@yahoo.co.in
Working title of project: "Understanding the Growth of Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY): Empirical and Theological Analysis."
Project Start Year: 2014
Supervisors: Associate Professor Roar Fotland, MF,
Associate Professor Lars L. Iversen, MF (co-supervisor)

Psychology of Religion (RPSY)

Ingrid R. Juell
e-mail: ingrid_rogndahl@hotmail.com
Working title of project: “Exploring Meaning in Life in Young-Onset Dementia: Experiences of Patients, Relatives, and Healthcare Professionals"
Start project period: Spring 2026
Supervisor: Professor Tatjana Schnell, MF
Associate Professor Sigrid Helene Kjørven Haug, University of Inland Norway (co-supervisor)

Charlotte Rosenberg
e-mail: charlotte.rosenberg@mf.no
Working title of project: The Role of Meaning in Life in Adolescents’ Mental Health
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisor: Professor Tatjana Schnell, MF,
Professor Torgeir Sørensen, VID (co-supervisor),
Associate Professor Kenneth Larsen, USN (co-supervisor)

Øystein Buer
e-mail: oeybue@ous-hf.no
Working title of project: “Near-death experiences among critical ill patients.”
Start project period: Spring 2020
Supervisors: Professor Tatjana Schnell, MF
Professor Angelika Gabriele Sorteberg, OUS-HF (co-supervisor)

Teacher Education (LU)

Binta-Victoria Jammeh
e-mail: Binta.V.Jammeh@mf.no
Working title of project:  "Educating for Democracy in Unequal Contexts: A Study of social studies classroom Practices in Sweden and Denmark"
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: "Religionskritikkens hva, hvorfor og hvordan: En empirisk studie av undervisning om religionskritikk i religion og etikk".
Start project period: Fall 2021.
Supervisors: Professor Trine Anker, MF
Associate Professor Audun Toft (co-supervisor)

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 Claudia Lenz, MF

Religious Studies (RV)

Kjersti Anne Glover Litleskare
e-mail: Kjersti.A.G.Litleskare@mf.no
Working title of project: "Presenting China as a Muslim-friendly country"
Start project period: Fall 2025
Supervisor: Professor Iselin Frydenlund
Senior Lecturer David Stroup, University of Manchester (co-supervisor)

Tiril Flatebø
e-mail: Tiril.Flatebo@mf.no
Working title of project: "Fatherhood and masculinity in the Catholic Church"
Start project period: Fall 2025
Supervisor: Professor Ingrid Storm, MF

Iram Salih
e-mail: Iram.Salih@mf.no
Working title of project: "Female authority and identity within a growing transnational salafi network in the Pakistani diaspora: An analysis of NurulQuran"
Start project period: Spring 2025
Supervisor: Professor Torkel Brekke, MF

Munkhnaran Bayarlkhagva
e-mail: Munkhnaran.Bayarlkhagva@mf.no
Working title of project: "Chinggisid-Buddhist deification in Mongolia: state and reincarnation"
Start project period: Spring 2025
Supervisor: Professor Moumita Sen, MF,
Professor Uradyn E. Bulag, University of Cambridge (co-supervisor)

Zeshan Ullah Qureshi
e-mail: zeshan.u.qureshi@mf.no
Working title of project: "Beyond Orientalism: George Sale, al-Bayḍāwī, and the European Qurʾān Translation Tradition"
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisor: Associate Professor Matthew Monger, MF, Professor Jan Loop Copenhagen University (co-supervisor)

Elray Gene Henriksen
e-mail: Elray.Henriksen@mf.no
Working title of project: "Faith, Family and Freedom: The Political Rise of the Book of Mormon"
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisor: Professor Iselin Frydenlund, MF

Anita Christensen
e-mail: Anita.Christensen@mf.no
Working title of project: "What we talk about when we talk about Yiddish: A study of transvaluation, representation and revitalization of Yiddish in contemporary Sweden".
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisors: Professor Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF
Professor Claudia Lenz, MF (co-supervisor)

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.
Supervisors: Professor Moumita Sen, MF,
Senior Lecturer Arkoton Longkumer, University of Edinburgh (co-supervisor)

Social Sciences (SV)

Kalpani Dambagolla
e-mail: Kalpani.Dambagolla@mf.no
Working title of project: "Contextualizing Human Rights Pedagogy in Post-War Sri Lanka: Narratives, Memory, and Multicultural Education"
Start project period: Fall 2025
Supervisor: Associate Professor Merethe Skårås, MF

Øystein Hellevik
e-mail: oystein.b.hellevik@mf.no
Working title of project: "Delusions of Grandeur: France in Libya 2011"
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisor: Associate Professor Andreas Hvidsten, MF  Associate Professor Ragnar Misje Bergem, 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 Trine Anker, MF

Ragnhild Fauske 
e-mail: RagnhildF@hivolda.no
Working title of project: "Samtalen om eksistensielle spørsmål i barnehagen"
Project Start Year: 2013
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Heid Leganger-Krogstad, MF,
Professor Liv Gjems, Volda University College (co-supervisor)