Current Global Fellow
Kevin Schilbrack is the 2025 MF CASR Global Fellow. He teaches and writes about the philosophical study of religions. A graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, he is the author of Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto (Blackwell, 2014) and he is presently interested in the relevance of embodied cognition and social ontology for understanding what religion is and how it works.
Past Global Fellows
2024 Global Fellow
Louis Jonker was the 2024 MF CASR Global Fellow. He is a leading scholar in the field of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament studies, particularly in the area of biblical literature from the Achaemenid Persian and early Hellenistic period of Ancient Israel’s history (538 – ca. 300 BCE). He not only enjoys recognition in his field in his own country as a rated scientist by the South African National Research Foundation and as Distinguished Professor of Stellenbosch University, but also in international circles as regular participant at the main conferences in the field and through his publications.
2023 Global Fellow
Mia Lövheim was the 2023 MF CASR Global Fellow. She is Professor in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University, and leader for the theme Democracy, Communication and Media at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CRS). Her research focuses on representations of religion in Swedish and Nordic daily press, public service media and social media in the context of social and political change. She is the editor of Media, Religion and Gender: Key Issues and New Challenges (2013) and A Constructive Critique of Religion: Encounters between Christianity, Islam, and Non-religion in Secular Societies (2020).
2022 Fellow
Professor Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, of the Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, was the 2022 MF CASR Global Fellow. Professor Moe-Lobeda is an expert in theological ethics, specializing in climate justice and its relationship to race, class, economic globalization, moral agency and hope.
Read more about Professor Moe-Lobeda's time at MF and current research here.
2021 Fellow
Professor Doctor Ute Hüsken, of Heidelberg University was the 2021 MF CASR Global Fellow. Professor Hüsken is an expert of South Asian religion, focusing on Buddhist studies, Hindu studies, Ritual and Festival studies and Gender studies.