Staff

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 has served as an Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow Caledonian University in the UK and an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. He is an elected fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion and an elected member of the International Academy of Practical Theology and the American Theological Society. As a practical theologian his focal interest is in the practice of collaboration in the church, academy, and civil society; he initiated the Global Network for Public Theology to foster scholarly exchange among research centers in higher education institutions. 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).

Tom Greggs
Director-Designate

Tom Greggs, DLitt, FRSE, arrives at CTI in summer 2025 from the University of Aberdeen where he held The Marischal Chair of Divinity (founded in 1616) and served for over a decade as either Director of Research or Head of Divinity. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Tom undertook studies in Theology at the University of Oxford (where he graduated first in his year) and a PhD in Systematic Theology at the University of Cambridge (where one of his mentors was the late Dan Hardy, first Director of CTI). He holds the higher Doctor of Letters degree for ‘research that marks an original and substantial contribution to humane learning’. Tom served on the UK government’s panel which assesses university research and  serves on the World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission. A prolific author, his most recent books include: Dogmatic Ecclesiology Volume 1; The Church in a World of Religions; Barth and Bonhoeffer as Contributors to Post-Liberal Ecclesiology; and The Breadth of Salvation.

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.

John Walker
Princeton University Graduate Social Impact Fellow

John Walker is a doctoral student in the Department of Religion at Princeton University, where he studies religion, ethics, and politics. His research concerns the history of Christian moral and political theology, with a focus on Augustine, Augustinianism, and the Protestant tradition. His current project concerns the nature of mercy, its relationship to human flourishing, and its role in public life. John received a B.A. in Philosophy from George Fox University, as a member of the Honors Program, and an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Princeton University's Social Impact Fellowship places graduate students with partnering nonprofit institutions to provide opportunities for organizational experience and public-facing scholarship.