A. Sophie Lauwers
University of Edinburgh
Bio
Dr. A. Sophie Lauwers is a political philosopher whose work focuses on secularism, Christian privilege, racial and religious inequality, epistemic justice, and multiculturalism. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh, as well as a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven.
Sophie obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen in November 2023 as part of the interdisciplinary Marie Skłodowska-Curie POLITICO project. Her thesis investigated how current models of political secularism contribute to secular and Christian hegemony in contemporary Europe, and proposed a new model of political secularism. Based on this research, she is now writing a monograph on political secularism and hegemony. She is also working on religion and epistemic injustice in democratic deliberation, cultural Christianity, and questions of state recognition of religion.