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 (main), Assistant Professor Jean Maurais, Acadia University (co)

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

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 (main), Professor Chris Keith, MF (co)

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 (main) Professor Chris Keith (co)

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 (main), Professor Karl Olav Sandnes, MF (co)

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

Olav Refvem
e-mail: olav.refvem@mf.no
Working title of project: "Teologi i møte med antisemitisme og den totalitære stat – Antisemitisme og nazisympatier hos Christian Ihlen og Leiv Aalen i mellomkrigstiden"
Start project period: Fall 2024
Supervisor: Adjunct Associate Professor Per Kristian Aschim, MF (main), Professor Otfried Czaika, MF (co)

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

Fridjof Willem Leemhuis
e-mail: Fridjof.Leemhuis@mf.no
Working title of project: "Bound to Be British: Rebinding Codex Sinaiticus as a British Elite Bible".
Start project period: Fall 2022.
Supervisors: Professor Brent Nongbri, MF (main), Professor Blossom Stefaniw , MF (co)

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

Rhiannon Williams
e-mail: Rhiannon.Williams@mf.no
Working title of project: "The Archaeology of Late Antique Christianity in Kharga Oasis (Egypt)".
Start project period: Fall 2021.
Supervisor: Associate Professor 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.
Supervisor: Professor Otfried Czaika, MF 

Systematic Theology (ST)

Nuray Aytem
e-mail: Nuray.Ayten@ankara.edu.tr
Working title of project: The possibility of a Dialogue Between Hegel's Philosophy 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: A qualitative empirical study of the ideas about children's relationship with God among leaders of children's ministry in evangelical congregations.
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

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: “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: Associate Professor Ragnar Misje Bergem (main) Professor Jeppe Bach Nikolajsen (co), 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.
Supervisors: Professor Asle Eikrem, MF (main), Professor Amador Vega, CERCCA (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
Supervisors: Professor Asle Eikrem, MF (main), Knut Alfsvåg, VID (co)

Practical Theology (PT)

Ragnhild Naterstad
e-mail: rnaterstad@fjellhaug.no
Working title of project: "Krigerne og Søstrene - Hvordan bidrar Krigerne og Søstrene til å forme tros- og selvforståelse hos deltakere og ledere, og hva er de sentrale teologiske ideene for Krigerne og Søstrene?"
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 sjælesorgen – Et kvalitativt studie af konfidenters opfattelse og udbytte af læsningen af udvalgte fortællinger i Første Mosebog»
Start project period: Fall 2023
Supervisors: Associate Professor Knut Tveitereid, MF (main), Associate Professor Ingunn Aadland, MF (co)

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 (main), Professor Trine Anker (co)

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 HumanistiskSamfund 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 (main), Solvor M. Lauritzen (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 Jan-Olav Henriksen (main), Professor Leif Gunnar Engedal (co)

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 (main),
Associate Professor Lars L. Iversen, MF (co)

Lloyd Nyrota 
e-mail: lnyarota@yahoo.com
Working title of project:  "The Mission of Reconciliation: The Church’s Message in Zimbabwe 2000-2009." 
Project Start Year: 2013
Supervisors: Professor Kjetil Fretheim, MF (main), Associate Professor Roar Fotland, MF (co)

Psychology of Religion (RPSY)

Charlotte Rosenberg
e-mail: charlotte.rosenberg@mf.no
Working title of project: “The role of meaning in life and coping in adolescents mental health. Insights from a mixed-methods study in Norway”
Start project period: Fall 2024.
Supervisor: Professor Tatjana Schnell, MF. Professor Torgeir Sørensen (Co supervisor)(VID), Associate Professor Kenneth Larsen (USN) (Co supervisor)

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.
Supervisors: Professor Torgeir Sørensen, VID (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
Supervisors: Associate Professor Sigrid Helene Kjørven Haug, (main), Professor Dr. Lars Johan Danbolt, MF (co)

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 (main), Professor Angelika Gabriele Sorteberg, OUS-HF (co)

Teacher Education (LU)

Binta-Victoria Jammeh
e-mail: Binta.V.Jammeh@mf.no
Working title of project:  "A comparative case-study examining how teachers address socioeconomic and/or racial inequalties through classroom practices aimed at promoting democracy and citizenship in upper secondary school in social studies."
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 (main), Associate Professor 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 Claudia Lenz, MF

Religious Studies (RV)

Iram Salih
e-mail: iramsalih@yahoo.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

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: Associate Professor Moumita Sen, MF

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)

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

Social Sciences (SV)

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 og  Associate Professor Ragnar Misje Bergem

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

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 Geir Afdal, MF (main), Associate Professor Solvor Mjøberg Lauritzen, MF (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

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 (main),
Professor Liv Gjems, Volda University College (co)