Marietta van der Tol
Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Fellow, the Blavatnik School of Government; Oxford University
Marietta van der Tol, Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Fellow, the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. She studied at Utrecht University and Yale and holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Cambridge. She is currently college lecturer in politics at Lincoln College (Oxford). Van der Tol’s research interests are in the comparative study of politics and religion, with an emphasis on coexistence and the sharing of public space. She leads the interdisciplinary networks ‘Religion, ethnicity and politics in German, Dutch and Anglo-American contexts: nationalism and the future of democracy’ and ‘Protestant political thought: religion, state, nation’. There networks have curated several special issues, including ‘Rethinking the Sacred in Religion and Nationalism’ in Religion, State, Society and ‘Old Testament Imaginaries of the Nation in German, Dutch, and Anglo-American Protestant Political Thought’ in The Journal of the Bible and its Reception. Her work in the area of law and religion focuses on issues related to religious identity, politics, and ethnicity in the European context.