Members
Research Group Leader: Kim Angell
Vice-Leader: Kerstin Reibold
Kim Angell

Associate Professor
kim.angell@uit.no
Democratic Theory; Global Justice; Territorial Rights
Kerstin Reibold

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
kerstin.reibold@uit.no
Trust and integration; Liberal nationalism; Indigenous rights; Territorial Rights
Jan Harald Alnes

Associate Professor
jan.harald.alnes@uit.no
Pluralism and stability; Rule of law; Constitutionalism
Anna-Karin Margareta Andersson

Post-doctoral research fellow
anna-karin.m.andersson@uit.no
Global justice; Climate justice and sustainable development goals; Capabilities approach; Human Rights
Roar Anfinsen

Associate Professor
roar.anfinsen@uit.no
Tolerance
Melina Duarte

Post-doctoral Researcher
melina.duarte@uit.no
Immigration and borders; Human rights and state sovereignty; minority rights and equality
Magnus Skytterholm Egan

magnus.egan@uit.no
Migration; Global justice
Kjersti Fjørtoft

Andreas Føllesdal

Professor
andreas.follesdal@jus.uio.no
Minority Rights, distributive justice, democratic theory
Jennifer Clare Heyward
Professor
jennifer.c.heyward@uit.no
Climate change as a cultural injustice; Technological responses to climate change
Thea Isaksen
PhD student
thea.isaksen@uit.no
Deliberative democracy; Populism; Social media; Feminist philosophy
Jonas Jakobsen

Associate professor
jonas.jakobsen@uit.no
Democratic theory; Free speech; Secularism and religion
Zsolt Kapelner
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
zsolt.k.kapelner@uit.no
democratic theory, political philosophy of immigration
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen

Professor
kasper.l.rasmussen@uit.no
equality and discrimination
Michael Morreau

Professor
michael.morreau@uit.no
Social choice theory; Epistemic democracy; Social epistemology; Multi-criterial decision-making
Kaja Jenssen Rathe

kaja.j.rathe@uit.no
Political philosophy, phenomenology, migration, rightlessness, feminist philosophy, existentialism
Vegard Stensen

vegard.stensen@uit.no
Recognition theory; Self-respect; Rawls
Øyvind Stokke

Associate professor
oyvind.stokke@uit.no
Deliberative democracy; Climate justice and institutions
Attila Tanyi

Professor
attila.tanyi@uit.no
Freedom; Global justice and institutionalism; Consequentialism
Sara Toffanin
Phd Student
sara.toffanin@uit.no
Space and spatiality, Multiculturalism, Migration, Gender
Annamari Vitikainen

Professor
annamari.vitikainen@uit.no
Multiculturalism; Migration; Minority rights; Sexuality and gender
Previous PhD students:
Melina Duarte: State Membership: A Question of Individual Choice (Fall 2016)
Jonas Jakobsen: "The Claims of Freedom: Habermas´ Deliberative Multiculturalism and the Right to Free Speech" (Spring 2017)
Tomasz Jarymowicz: Democratic Deliberation in the Context of Deep Pluralism and Mass Democracy: A Case for an Epistemic Idea of Public Reason (Spring 2017)
Kerstin Reibold: Can concern for equal social bases of self-respect justify indigenous rights? (Fall 2020)
Magnus Egan: Who merits admittance? The fairness of skills-based migration criteria. (Fall 2021)
Vegard Stensen: On the place of self-respect and self-esteem in the justification of a theory of social justice. (Fall 2022)
Institutional partners:
Civic Constellation III: Democracy, Constitutionalism, and Anti-Liberalism. Hosted by University of Malaga (2019-2022)
Indigenous Citizenship and Education (ICE). Hosted by the Center for Sami Studies (SESAM), UiT (2017-2021)
Globalizing Minority Rights. Hosted by Pluralism, Democracy and Justice Research Group, UiT (NFR Project 2016-2020)
Centre for the Experimental-Philosophical Study of Discrimination - CEPDISC. Hosted by Aarhus University (2020-2026).