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

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: Associate Professor Justin Strong, MF

Thomas Christensen
e-mail: Thomas.Christensen@mf.no
Working title of project: "Lukan Mnemonarratives: Myth, Memory, and Identity Construction in Luke-Acts"
Project Start: Fall 2025
Supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Strong, MF

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

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)

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

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

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)

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

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

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)