Casper Hesp is a PhD candidate in Social Computational Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. His research aims to model and understand how social life develops in individuals and over generations, and going from an understanding of the emotional basis of social life to modeling culture. More»
Samantha Waite is a PACFA-accredited psychotherapist, certified practicing counsellor, and international speaker on death literacy. She is the founder of Taboo Education, an independent business based in Perth, Western Australia, dedicated to improving how medical professionals approach death, dying, and end-of-life care. Taboo Education provides psychological education, consultation, and resources to reduce death anxiety and challenge the “death is a failure” mindset often found in clinical environments. She also has a YouTube channel, Taboo Education - Let's Talk Death (@TabooEducation). More»
Dr. Roderick Beaton is Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature at King’s College London. He is the author of Europe: A New History. More»
Dr. Ryan Burge is Professor of Practice at the John C. Danforth Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Burge is a political scientist whose research focuses on the impact of religion on American life, especially politics. His popular Substack newsletter “Graphs about Religion” has tens of thousands of subscribers and is read millions of times annually. He is the author of The Vanishing Church: How the Hollowing Out of Moderate Congregations Is Hurting Democracy, Faith, and Us. More»
Dr. Kevin Mitchell is Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin. He is interested in the development of connectivity in the brain, specifically in how this process is controlled by genes and how mutations in such genes affect the connectivity of neuronal circuits, influence behavior and perception and contribute to disease. His latest book is Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will. More»
Dr. Séamus Power is an Associate Professor of Cultural Psychology at the University of Copenhagen. He is a visiting senior fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and has been a visiting associate professor at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. His work has been featured in numerous international media outlets including The Guardian, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Atlantic. He is the author of Inequality: A View from Manywheres. More»
Dr. George Boss is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He is a political theorist working on human needs, voice, poverty, and Marx. His first book is Marx and the Politics of Need. More»
Dr. Espen Hammer is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. His main interests are in Kant and German Idealism, social and political philosophy, modern European philosophy, phenomenology, Critical Theory, and aesthetics. He is the author of After the Death of God: Secularization as a Philosophical Challenge from Kant to Nietzsche. More»
Dr. Stephen Vaisey is Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Duke University. The main goal of his research is to understand moral and political beliefs: what they are, where they come from, and what they do. He pursues these questions in the broader interdisciplinary context of cultural evolution. More»
Dr. James Tilley is Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He works primarily in the fields of public opinion and electoral behavior, with a focus on Britain and the EU. More»
