Post-graduate (e.g. Ph.D., D.Phil., Th.D.) students in the fields relevant to Orthodox Christian Studies at accredited doctoral programs around the world are invited to connect with IOTA scholars, who will work with them on a temporary basis in a mentorship capacity, concerning a topic or method of mutual interest. The ideal mentors will be experts in their field who are eager to work with emerging scholars to provide encouragement and guidance.
Finding A Mentor
The students will contact the scholars on the list of IOTA mentors directly via email, describing their research interests and progress towards dissertation, and upon the scholar’s request, providing one recommendation from a professor familiar with their work, such as their dissertation supervisor.
Opportunities to Connect
The students and IOTA mentors will then connect with each other for a series of online sessions. The format, content, length, and frequency of the sessions will be agreed upon between the student mentee and his/her mentor.
Subject to the IOTA member’s availability, the students are encouraged to visit their mentor in-person for a brief research stay.
The mentor may later serve as an external reader of the mentee’s dissertation, subject to the mentee institution’s policy and mutual agreement.
At the end of the mentoring experience, the mentor and the student will submit a report of their experiences to Professor Katsos. The IOTA mentors will be expected to undertake their instruction pro bono, unless compensated by the student mentee’s doctoral program. Travel and research of student mentees will be self-funded.
List of Mentors
Revd. Dr. Demetrios Bathrellos, Associate Professor of Theology, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline Massachusetts, USA. Research interests: Systematic theology, dogmatics, history of doctrine, patristics, apologetics, political theology. Contact: [email protected].
Dr. David Bradshaw, Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, USA. Research interests: philosophy of religion, philosophical themes in the Church Fathers, philosophical differences between Eastern and Western Christianity. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Vladimir Cvetković, research professor, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia. Research interests: Late Antique Philosophy, Christian Neoplatonism, Church Fathers (Maximus the Confessor), Serbian Medieval and Modern Theology. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. George Demacopuolos, Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Co-Founding Direcotor of the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University, USA. General research interests: pre-modern church history (East and West) and Orthodoxy in the Modern world. Specific expertise: early Christian asceticism, papacy, Crusades, war and violence in Byzantium. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Carrie Frederick Frost, Assistant Professor of Religion and Culture at Western Washington University, USA. Research interests: Women, ritual change, contemplative prayer, hesychasm. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Paul Gavrilyuk, Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy, Theology Department, University of St Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. Research interests: patristics, philosophy of religion, systematic theology, ecumenical theology, modern Orthodox theology. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of Religion and History, Dept. of Religious Studies, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Research interests: women, Syriac and Byzantine Christianity, embodiment. Contact: [email protected]
Rev. Dr. Isidoros C. Katsos, FRHistS, Assistant Professor of Theological Epistemology and Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Research interests: Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of the Early Church, Science and Religion, Human Rights, Consciousness & AI. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Smilen Markov, Lecturer in Christian Philosophy, Byzantine philosophy and Byzantine Theology at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. Research interests: Phenomenology and the public space, Aristotle’s reception in Byzantine philosophy, Byzantine personalism, Islamo-Byzantine relations, Love in Religions. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou, Professor of Theology, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture, co-founding Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University, USA. Research interests: Contemporary Orthodox theology, trinitarian theology, apophaticism, political theology, theological anthropology, theology and trauma. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Elizabeth Theokritoff, Associate Lecturer, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Research interests: Orthodox theology and ecology; liturgical theology. Contact: [email protected]
Revd. Dr. Alexis Torrance, Archbishop Demetrios Associate Professor of Byzantine Theology, University of Notre Dame, USA. Research interests: Greek Patristics; Byzantine and modern Orthodox Theology; theological anthropology; asceticism and spirituality; theological method; dogmatic theology. Contact: [email protected]
Dr. Gayle Woloschak, Professor of Radiation Oncology, Northwestern University and Professor of Science and Theology, St. Sophia Ukrainian Orthodox Theological Seminary, USA. Research interests: environment, evolution, bioethical issues, AI. Contact: [email protected]
Questions?
Please contact Program Coordinator, Rev. Prof. Isidoros Katsos (IOTA Philosophy of Religion Group Co-Chair) at [email protected].
