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.

Steinar Skarpnes
e-mail: Steinar.Skarpnes@mf.no
Working title of project: "Hezekiah - The Making of a Hero in Judean Memory".
Start project period: fall 2018
Supervisor: professor dr. Kristin Joachimsen

Hans Olav Mørk
e-mail: hans.o.moerk@gmail.com
Project Theme: "Why does the LXX translate ha almah in Is 7,14TM with hæ parthenos? And exegetical, literary and translation study based investigation into the meaning and function of the term ha almah in Is 7,14TM and of its equivalent Greek term hæ parthenos in Is 7,14LXX." 
Project Start Year: 2011
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Kristin Joachimsen, MF and Professor Dr. Gard Granerød, MF

The New Testament

Ronit Dassa
e-mail: ronit.dassa@stud.mf.no
Project Theme: "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

Veronica Humby
e-mail: veronica.j.humby@stud.mf.no
Project Theme: "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 James Crossley

Ryan Smith
e-mail: ryan.f.smith@stud.mf.no
Project Theme: " 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 Chris Keith (main) and Tommy Wasserman (co).

Mack Griffith
e-mail: mack.e.p.griffith@stud.mf.no
Project Theme: "Scripture and the Promise of Transgender Interpretation"
Project Start: fall 2022
Supervisor: Professor Chris Keith

Sze Chit Hon
e-mail: sze.c.hon@stud.mf.no
Project Theme: " How the Gospel of John Remembered the Holy Spirit: The Meaning of παρὰκλητος in Light of the Second Temple Angelology "
Project Start: fall 2022
Supervisor: Professor Chris Keith

Merete Hodt
e-mail: meretehodt@gmail.com
Working title of project: "Humility and Self-Perception in 2 Cor 10-13".
Start project period: fall 2019
Supervisors: professor dr. Ole Jakob Filtvedt (main);  professor dr. Karl Olav Sandnes (co-supervisor).

Per Kristian Sætre
e-mail: per.k.satre@mf.no
Working title of project: "Salomo mellom linjene: Meininger minnet om Salomo skaper i Matteusevangeliet". [Memories and Meanings of Solomon in the Gospel of Matthew]
Start project period: fall 2016
Supervisor: professor dr. Karl Olav Sandnes, MF (main), postdoc Wally Cirafesi, MF (co).

Torunn Osnes 
e-mail: torunn.osnes@mf.no
Project Theme: "Towards the goal. Completion in Philippians."
Project Start Year: 2009
Supervisor: Professor Ole Jakob Filtvedt, MF

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 associate professor John Kaufman, 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

Jostein Garcia de Presno
e-mail: jospres2@gmail.com
Working title of project: "Et tempel av hjerter: Hans Nielsen Hauges vennesamfunn og det nye Jerusalem."
Start project period: spring 2018
Supervisor: Professor dr. Kristin B. Aavitsland     

Harald H. Torgersen
e-mail: harald.torgersen@mf.no 
Working title of project: "For heim, skole og kirke: Bjarne Hareide - kirkelig entreprenør og strateg."
Project Start Year: 2012
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Geir Afdal, MF.

Systematic Theology (ST)

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.

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

Van Hmung
e-mail: vanhmung@gmail.com
Working title of project: “Religious Conversion Law and Its Implication for Buddhist-Christian Relationship in Myanmar: Christian Response and Ecumenical Perspective”.
Start project period: fall 2017
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Sturla Stålsett, MF. Co-supervisor: ​Associate professor dr. Iselin Frydenlund, MF.

John Daniel Lannemy Andersen
e-mail: john.daniel.andersen@hlt.no
Working title of project: "Hvordan bør vi forstå efaringens rolle som kilde for teologien? En kritisk drøfting av Wolfhart Pannenbergs, Alister McGraths og Amos Youngs forståelse av forholdet mellom teologi og erfaring".
[How to understand the role of experience as a source for theology?]
Start project period: fall 2017
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Atle Søvik.​

Maria Ledstam
e-mail: Maria.Ledstam@mf.no
Project Theme: "Kristna etiska perspektiv på arbete ock ekonomi".
Project Start Year: 2015.
Supervisors: Professor Dr. Svein Olaf Thorbjørnsen and Professor Dr. Geir Afdal

Åse Margrethe Berger Cameron
e-mail: Ase.B.Cameron@mf.no
Project Theme: "Syndens betydning for menneskets moralske erkjennelse i Luthers teologi."
Project Start Year: 1999
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Theol. & Dr. Philos. Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF

Tron Fagermoen
e-mail: Tron.Fagermoen@mf.no
Project Theme: "Kirke - Fellesskap - Etisk praksis: En drøfting av kirkens etiske praksis i relasjon til to aktuelle ekklesiologiske modeller".
Project Start Year: 2002
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Theol. & Dr. Philos. Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF

Practical Theology (PT)

Camilla Jørgensen
e-mail: Camilla.Jorgensen@mf.no
Working title of project: "En flerdimensjonal didaktikk for kirkelig undervisning? En systematisk analyse og drøfting av hva som karakteriserer et utvalg av nåtidige didaktiske tenkemåter i kirkelig undervisning, med utgangspunkt i Gert J. J. Biestas teori om utdanningens flerdimensjonale formål".
Start project period: fall 2022.
Supervisor: associate professor dr. Kristin Graff-Kallevåg, MF.

Ingvild Lalim
e-mail: Ingvild.Lalim@mf.no
Working title of project: "Ordinary easchatology and funeral practices in Norway: A qualitatve study".
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: En homiletisk undersøkelse af meningen med livet ifølge pentakostale forkyndelse i Mosaik og ateistiske talere i Humanistisk Samfund».
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: dr. Solvor M. Lauritzen, MF; Professor Dr. Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF

Maria Stensvold Ånonsen
e-mail: Maria.Anonsen@mf.no
Project Theme: "En kvalitativ undersøkelse av voldutsatte ungdommers fortellinger om tro og religion".
Project Start Year: 2015.
Supervisors: Dr. Carolina Øverlien (main); Professor Dr. Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF (co). 

Vegard Holm
e-mail: vegard.holm@mf.no
Project Theme: "Retreat in change - experienced by the lived body".
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
Project Theme: "Bånd og broer - en studie av forestillinger om folkekirkefellesskapet, (blant konfirmanter, foreldre, frivillige og prester) i to folkekirkemenigheter."
Project Start Year: 2013.
Supervisor: Dr. Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF; Professor Dr. Harald Hegstad, MF. 

Missiology (MV)

Dawit Olika Terfassa
e-mail: giiftiikodaw@yahoo.co.in
Project Theme: "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
Project Theme: "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
Co-supervisor: Associate Professor Dr. Roar Fotland

Psychology of Religion (RPSY)

Silje Mathea Nylund
e-mail: Silje.Nylund@sykehuset-innlandet.no
Working title of project: "Meaning in life in residents in long term care nursing homes".
Start project period: fall 2021.
Supervisors:  Knut Hestad, Center of Psychology of Religion, SI-HF (main), with Tatjana Schnell, MF, and Lars Danbolt, SI-HF.

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.

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: professor dr. Tatjana Schnell, MF.

Øystein Buer
e-mail: oeybue@ous-hf.no
Working title of project: “Kartlegging av mulige nær-døden opplevelser (NDO) hos pasienter med livstruende sykdom og tolkningene deres”.
(Screening of close-to-death experiences by patients with life-threathening diseases and their experiences). 
Start project period: spring 2020
Supervisor: professor Tatjana Schnell, MF.​ Co-supervisor: professor dr. Angelika Gabriele Sorteberg, OUS-HF.

Kjersti Olstad
e-mail: Kjersti.Olstad@sykehuset-innlandet.no
Working title of project: "Meningsdannelse og ungdom i behandling for utviklingstramer i Barne- og ungdomspsykiatrien (BUP)".
[Meaningmaking and youths in treatment for trauma within psychiatric outpatient clinics for children and adolescents (BUP)]
Start project period: fall 2018
Supervisors: professor dr. Lars Johan Danbolt, MF (project leader, main); professor dr. Lars Lien, Religionspsykologisk senter, Sykehuset Innlandet HF and associate professor dr. Torgeir Sørensen, VID Oslo (co-supervisors).​

Daniel Prause
e-mail: daniel.prause@signo.no
Working title of project: "Åndelig og eksistensiell omsorg til personer med ervervet døvblindhet"
[Spiritual and existential care for persons with acquired deafblindness]
Start project period: spring 2018
Supervisors: professor dr. Lars Johan Danbolt, MF (project leader); associate professor dr. Kirsten Tornøe (main supervisor), LDH; professor em. dr. Venke Sørlie, LDH (co-supervisor).

Harald Nygaard
e-mail: harald.nygaard@ansgar.no
Working title of project: "Everyone's pastor, no one's friend. En religionspykologisk undersøkelse av eksistensiell ensomhet hos pastorer i frikirkelige menigheter"
[A religio-psychological investigation of existential loneliness in pastors in free-church congregations]
Start project period: fall 2016
Supervisor: professor dr. Geir Afdal, MF

Gunn-Ingrid Ulstein
e-mail: Gunn.I.Ulstein@mf.no
Project Theme: "Metaforer, Følelser og Mening: En kvalitativ studie av metaforers betydning for meningsdannelse gjennom affektintegrering"
Project Start Year: 2015
Supervisors: associate Professor dr. Gry Stålsett, MF (main supervisor); professor dr. Lars Johan Danbolt, MF and professor dr. Jon Monsen, UiO (co-supervisors). ​

Religious Education (RP)

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.
Supervisors: professor dr. Trine Anker, MF (main) and associate professor dr. Audun Toft (co).

Annette Gjerde Hansen
e-mail: annettehansen@me.com
Working title of project: "Reel Bad Religions? - Investigating trends of how religion is depicted in contemporary cinema". 
Start project period: fall 2020
Supervisor: professor dr. Kjartan Leer-Salvesen, UiA and professor dr. Trine Anker, MF.​

Christine Lillethun Norheim
e-mail: Christine.L.Norheim@mf.no
Working title of project: "Skolen som arena for å motvirke fordommer, rasisme og diskriminering: Lærerperspektiver på fenomenene og vilkår for å motvirke dem forut for og med fagfornyelsen."
(The school as an arena to counteract prejudice, racism and discrimination: Teacher perspectives on these phenomena and conditions for countering them before and contemporary with subject reworkings). 
Start project period: fall 2020
Supervisor: professor dr. Claudia Lenz, MF.

Leni Mjåland
e-mail: Leni.Mjaland@mf.no
Working title of project: "Utsatte EU-borgere i et frigjøringspedagogisk perspektiv: Muligheter og hindringer for gjensidige læringsprosesser i møte med ideelle og diakonale aktører".
Start project period: fall 2019
Supervisors: associate professor dr. Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen (main);  professor dr. Sturla Stålsett (co-supervisor).

Peter Sven Henrik Nykvist
e-mail: P.S.Nykvist@mf.no
Working title of project: "The Green Leap Forward: The Creation of Environmental Citizenship in Chinese High Schools”.
Start project period: fall 2018
Supervisor: Associate professor dr. Marielle Stigum Gleiss

Lina Snoek Hauan
e-mail: lina.e.snoek@mf.no
Working title of project: "Hvordan forhandles kunnskaps-og holdningsmål i religionsfaget i videregående skole?"
Start project period: fall 2017
Supervisors: Professor dr. Trine Anker, MF (main) and professor Geir Afdal (co).

Ragnhild Fauske 
e-mail: RagnhildF@hivolda.no
Project Theme: "Den åndelege dimensjonen i barnehagen: Kommunikasjon om religion og eksistens."
Project Start Year: 2013
Supervisor: Professor Dr. Heid Leganger-Krogstad, MF
Co-supervisor: Professor Liv Gjems, Volda University College

Religious Studies (RV)

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. Claudia Lenz, MF (main), and professor dr. Liv Ingeborg Lied, MF (co).

The'ang Teron
e-mail: Theang.Teron@mf.no
Working title of project: "Narrating the Leader: Lokhimon, Myth-Making and the Construction of a New Karbi Religious Identity".
Start project period: fall 2021.
Supervisor: associate professor dr. Moumita Sen, MF

​Espen Gilsvik
e-mail: Espen.Gilsvik@mf.no
Working title of project: "The Journey out of Eden: Exploring Experiences of Religious Disaffiliation".
Start project period: fall 2019
Supervisor: associate professor dr. Lars Laird Iversen (main).​

Esther Sarah Tenberg
e-mail: Esther.Tenberg@mf.no 
Working title of project: "Religious Authority in Myanmar: Self-Representation and Contemporary Discourses on Monks’ Facebook Pages".
Start project period: fall 2019
Supervisors: associate professor dr. Iselin Frydenlund (main)
The thesis falls within the INTERSECT project.

Bushra Ishaq
e-mail:
Working title of project: "Bioethical convictions, political belonging and religious practices – a study among Muslim women in Norway"
Start project period: spring 2018
Supervisor: professor dr. Jan Helge Solbakk (main), and professor Tatjana Schnell (MF).

Andreas Melsom Gregersen
e-mail:
Working title of project: "Atmosphering and religion"
Start project period: fall 2017
Supervisors: professor Geir Afdal, MF (main), and professor Tone S. Kaufman (co).