UNIVERSITETETS HJEMMESIDE
Institut for Filosofi og Idéhistorie
Aarhus Universitet
Interdisciplinary Evolutionary Studies
IES People
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Senior members |
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Dr Peter C. Kjaergaard Associate Professor, MA, PhD Institute of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University Visiting Fellow 2008-2010, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, and Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge Office phone: +44 (0)1223 764 722 Fax: +44 (0)1223 764 710 Email : idepck@hum.au.dk |
My research is concerned with the history and public understanding of evolution. I am particularly interested in theories and concepts of human evolution, their origins, reception, uses and impact. An important part of my research in public understanding of evolution includes the history and current state of creationism in Europe. Current projects: A Cultural History of the Missing Link Theories of Human Evolution Creationism in Europe |
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Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus University Tel: +45 8942 2306 Email: awg@teo.au.dk Office: bldg. 1442, room 211 |
My main interests are cognitive theory in the study of religion; the religions of indigenous peoples; recent developments in contemporary religiosity, and method and theory in the comparative study of religions. | |
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Professor, Dr.phil.habil. Department of Language, Literature and Culture, Department of English Tel: +458942 6522 Email: engsv@hum.au.dk Office: bldg. 1463, room 421 |
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Associate Professsor Department of the Study of Religion, Aarhus Universitet Tel: +45 8942 2255 Email: jsn@teo.au.dk Office: bldg. 1463, room 221 |
I am currently involved in several projects investigating action representations and event-segmentation underlying ritual behaviour as well as a project on the cognitive aspects of charisma and religious authority. |
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Assistant Professor, MA, PhD Dept. of Philosophy and History of Ideas Tel: +45 8942 2123 Mobile: +45 2639 1325 Email: ideca@hu.au.dk Office: bldg. 1465, room 624 |
My current research works at the intersection of engineering studies and the history of imperialism. I am interested in how engineers and the technologies they handle have structured the interconnected and globalised world that we inhabit today – and the hierarchies of power that underpins this world. My PhD thesis, ‘The Civilisers’: British Consulting Engineers, Imperialism, and Africa 1880-1914 was submitted and accepted in 2009. Current IES project: Follow the Money: networks, peers and patronage 2009 - 2012 |
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MA, PhD Department of Science Studies, Aarhus University Tel: +45 8942 3525 Email: hhh@ivs.au.dk Office: bldg. 1110, room 211 |
My current research is concerned with debates about Darwinism in Denmark around 1900. I am focusing on religious responses to Darwinism and thus engage in the history of the relationship between science and religion. Moreover, I work with the recent history of anti-Darwinism in Europe. Drawing on insights from history of science, intellectual history and church history my approach has an interdisciplinary focus. |
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Dr Toby Musgrave Affiliated Research Scholar |
My research interests are within history of ecology and garden history. |
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Assistant Professor, MA pol.sc., PhD Department of Political Science Tel: +45 8942 5426 Email: michael@ps.au.dk Office: bldg. 1350, room 232 |
My research focuses on the intersection between political science and evolutionary psychology. I investigate how public opinion is shaped by evolved mechanisms for social and moral cognition in small-scale groups. Topics include how citizens form opinion on criminal justice and social welfare issues and how they represent political parties. Some of this research is carried out in collaboration with people at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara. | |
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Dr Felix Riede Assistant Professor, MA, PhD Department of Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics Tel: +45 8942 4559 Mobile: +45 2310 7382 Email : farkfr@hum.au.dk Office: bldg. 4211 room 123 |
My current research focuses on the use of evolutionary models and tools in archaeology, in particular the application of phylogenetic comparative methods under the umbrella of the niche construction framework. In this context I also investigate the impact of climatic and environmental changes – in particular catastrophic environmental changes – on cultural evolution. |
PhD Students |
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Jakob Bek-Thomsen PhD Student, MA History of Ideas, BA in History of Ideas and Science Studies
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My research is concerned with patronage and scientific networks. My project focuses on the influence of the Medicis on natural philosophy with specific attention to the period surrounding Accademia del Cimento and their patronage of danish anatomist and natural philosopher Nicolaus Steno. Current IES project: Follow the Money: networks, peers and patronage 2009 - 2012 |
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Mathias Clasen PhD Student, MA in English, BA in English and the History of Science Tel: +45 8942 6469 Email : engmc@hum.au.dk Office: bldg. 1463 room 621 |
My research is concerned with the interdisciplinary study of frightening entertainment. I am interested in integrating horror study with the natural and social sciences, in particular, human behavioural biology and evolutionary and cognitive psychology. Current IES project: Evolution and Fear |
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Stine Grumsen PhD Student
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My research is concerned with science and popular culture. My current project focuses on health, hygiene and advertising in the early 20th century. I am interested in the role that advertising of commercial products has played in forming popular opinion on health sciences. I am particularly interested in how scientists, doctors and dentists have interacted with and responded to advertising of commercial products drawing on vocabulary and iconography from their professional areas. |
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PhD Student Department of Psychology, Aarhus University Tel: +45 8942 6985 Email: nielshje@psy.au.dk Office: bldg. 1481, room 661 |
My research focuses on evolutionary perspectives on human moral cognition. Our moral cognition is shaped by ancient selective pressures, and it is mainly designed to enable cooperation within small social groups. My project investigates how moral cognition reflects evolutionary challenges in small social groups, in particular to what extent prosociality and punishment is used strategically in social interactions. Topics of interest include prosociality, punitive sentiments, costly signaling and game theory. | |
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Marcela Zalamea
Affiliated Research Scholar Ph.D. student at the Institute of Biology and CPNSS, University of Copenhagen Telephone: (+45) 353 -25347 or -25507 Office: CPNSS, Blegdamsvej 17, Cc11 or Cc8, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark |
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