William Storrar
Director

William Storrar was invited to become Director of CTI in 2005 after serving as Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology and Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently an Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, and at the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University. He has served as an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch and on the selection committee for the Blumberg Chair in Astrobiology at the Library of Congress. Professor Storrar is an elected fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion and an elected member of the International Academy of Practical Theology. As a practical theologian his focal interest is in the practice of collaboration in the church, academy, and civil society. His co-edited publications include Public Theology for the 21st Century (2004), A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (2011), and Yours the Power: Faith-Based Organizing in the USA (2013).

Joshua Mauldin
Associate Director

Joshua Mauldin holds a PhD in theological ethics, and he is the author of Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Modern Politics (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr (Oxford University Press, 2021), co-editor of The Future of Christian Realism (Lexington, 2023), and co-editor of Theology as Interdisciplinary Inquiry: Learning with and from the Natural and Human Sciences (Eerdmans, 2017). His research has been published in scholarly journals such as the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Theology Today, Political Theology, and the Journal of Law and Religion. As Associate Director, he runs the virtual and resident phases of the Center’s research cycle of interdisciplinary inquiry and brings the fresh thinking of the scholars and scientists in this distinctive research program to a wider public audience in CTI’s flagship podcast series, Theology Matters.

Clifford B. Anderson
Consultant on Digital Research

Clifford Anderson holds a M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School, a PhD in systematic theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a M.S.L.I.S from the Pratt Institute. He has served as director of an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities and as co-principal investigator of a Mellon-funded program titled Sustaining Television News for the Next Generation. Recently, he and colleagues at Vanderbilt University launched a massive open online course (MOOC) on the Coursera platform titled Programming for a Networked World. Among other publications, he is co-author of XQuery for Humanists (Texas A&M University Press, 2020) and editor of Digital Humanities and Libraries and Archives in Religious Studies (De Gruyter, 2022).

Robert Jones
Director of Operations

Bob Jones has over thirty years of experience of working in collaboration with a variety of building stakeholders in Higher Education institutions, while supporting and sustaining the core values of the Administration. He brings his extensive knowledge and proficiency in facilities operations management to overseeing the maintenance, plant operations, engineering services, energy management, grounds, and custodial services in the Center’s newly renovated building. The Center relies on Bob’s professional expertise in project management, contract bidding and implementation, and regulation compliance to ensure the optimal operation of CTI’s state of the art facilities, always in the service of its interdisciplinary mission.

Michelle Tan
Center Manager

Michelle Tan is a graduate in marketing and psychology who brings extensive business experience to managing the Center and its nonprofit affairs. After running her own event planning business, where she developed her skills in the hospitality industry, she gained extensive operational experience as the business manager of a retail and wholesale company and more recently as Executive Director of Business Operation and Associate Head of a Princeton area non-profit school with a dual language immersion program and International Baccalaureate curriculum. Michelle, her husband, and two daughters enjoy living in the Princeton area and being involved in their local community.

Kamal Ahmed
Executive Assistant
Office of the Director

Kamal Ahmed is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Oxford, where he is currently completing a PhD: his research focuses on legal epistemology in early Islamic intellectual history.  He co-led a project on ‘Building Collaborative Research Networks Across the Islamic Scholarly Tradition and Western Philosophy’ at the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion, 2020-23, funded by a Templeton grant. He has held appointments as Visiting Fellow at the Center for Culture, Society and Religion at Princeton University, Assistant in Research in the Philosophy Department at Yale University, and Visiting Fellow in Islamic Thought at CTI.