Augustine on the Affections
Teubner_Augustine on Affectus
December 5, 2017
I am a social entrepreneur, writing, and teacher. Currently based in Berlin, I have served in a number of leadership capacities in academia, business, and non-profits and have pioneered the applicaiton of data-driven methods to reduce and prevent religion-related violence. Previously, I served as Lecturer and Associate Director of the Initiative on Religion, Politics and Conflict at the University of Virginia, and was Economist at Lehrman, Bell, Mueller and Canon in Washington, DC. I have taught and held fellowships at Yale University, University of Cambridge, University of Virginia, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Currently, I am Research Fellow at the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne) and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. My current projects including Co-Producing the documentary Uncommon Fellows, research and writing on the ways in which faith has informed business, politics, and culture, and founding Filter Media, a start-up that provides technological tools for assessing the reliability and bias of news articles consumed through social media platforms.