Isidoros Katsos
Assistant Professor of Theological Epistemology and Philosophy; National University of Athens
Isidoros (né Charalampos) Katsos, Assistant Professor of Theological Epistemology and Philosophy at the Divinity Faculty, National University of Athens. He holds a PhD in Human Rights, Ecology, and Cultural Heritage Law (Freie Universität Berlin, 2009); and a PhD in Philosophy and Theology (University of Cambridge, 2019), under the supervision of Rowan Williams. He has studied law in Athens, Paris and Berlin; and philosophy and theology in Athens and Cambridge. Previous appointments include a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford; a Junior Research Fellowship at Campion Hall, Oxford; and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Study of Christianity, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He holds research affiliations at Cambridge University (Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Enquiry; Centre for the Study of Platonism) and the Forum of Advanced Studies in Rome. Since 2019, he was part of a multi-year international research project on Orthodoxy and Human Rights run by the Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University. He is the author of The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Gregory of Nyssa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023); and–as Charalampos Katsos–of Nachhaltiger Schutz des kulturellen Erbes: Zur ökologischen Dimension des Kulturgüterschutzes (Baden-Baden: Nomos; Zürich: Dike; Wien: Facultas, 2011). His teaching and research interests focus on ‘Christian Philosophy’, largely defined, and the intersection of theology, ecology and human rights. During the Fellowship, he aims to combine his expertise as human rights lawyer in Athens and at the EU, with his expertise in Christian philosophy and theology in both East and West. In particular, he would like to focus on synergies and tensions that arise at the cross-section between human rights and Orthodox theology, both in historical and contemporary perspectives. As a Greek-Orthodox archpriest (Archimandrite), he runs a historic parish at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.