
People
Faculty
Andrew Chignell
Co-Director
chignell@princeton.edu
Lara Buchak
Co-Director
lbuchak@princeton.edu
Mark Johnston
Project Faculty
johno@princeton.edu

Research Associates
Bas Tönissen
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Smriti Khanal
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Daniel Garber
Philosophy
dgarber@princeton.edu
Jonathan Gold
Religion
jcgold@Princeton.edu
Friends of the Project
Gabriel Citron
Religion
gcitron@princeton.edu
Leora Batnitzky
Religion
batnitzk@princeton.edu
Eric Gregory
Religion
gregory@princeton.edu
Hans Halvorson
Philosophy
hhalvors@princeton.edu
Tania Lombrozo
Psychology
lombrozo@princeton.edu
Denys Turner
Religion
daturner@princeton.edu
Project Alumni
Mei Wang
Visiting Student Research Collaborator 2024-2025 (Renmin University of China)
Evelina Edfors
Visiting Fellow 2024-2025 (Uppsala University)
Sebastian Hayden
Project Associate 2024-2025
Currently PhD student at the University of Toronto
Hüseyin Güngör
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2024-2025
Currently Lecturer in World Philosophy at the University of Glasgow
Eleanor Gordon-Smith
Postdoctoral Research Associate (with Philosophy) 2024-2025
Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at USC
Austen McDougal
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2023-2025
Currently Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow at NYU Center for Bioethics
Charles Goldhaber
Visiting Fellow Fall 2024 (University of Florida)
Sylwia Wilczewska
Visiting Fellow Spring 2024-Fall 2024 (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Zena Hitz
Visiting Fellow 2023-2024 (St. John’s College)
Lewis Wang
Visiting Fellow Spring 2024 (Boston University)
Wolfgang Ertl
Visiting Fellow Fall 2022 (Keio University)
Maya Krishnan
Visiting Fellow Fall 2022 (University of Oxford)
Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago
Ryan Darr
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2019-2022
Currently Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment at Yale Divinity School
Daniel Rubio
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2019-2022
Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Toronto Metropolitan University
Toni Alimi
Jeffrey L. Stout Honorary Graduate Fellow 2020-2021
Currently Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University
Katie Javanaud
Visiting Research Scholar 2019-2021 (University of Oxford)
Currently Research Consultant at World Animal Protection
Brian Ballard
Visiting Research Scholar Fall 2024 (Concordia University Irvine)
Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University
Z Quanbeck
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2023-2025
Currently Assistant Professor / Faculty Fellow at NYU Center for Bioethics
Kamaluddin Ahmed
Research Collaborator 2020-2023
Christopher Benzenberg
Visiting Fellow Spring 2023 (Cambridge University)
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethics at the University of Notre Dame
Elizabeth Li
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2020-2023
Currently Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Copenhagen
Alexander Englert
Postdoctoral Research Associate 2020-2023
Currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Richmond
Rory Phillips
Visiting Research Scholar 2020-2021 (University College London)
Currently Associate Lecturer at University College London