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Giovanni Gellera is an Assistant Professor of the History of Early Modern Philosophical and Theological Thought at the Institute for Reformation History (IHR), part of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva. He leads the interdisciplinary project At the Crossroads of Early Modernity: An Interdisciplinary Study of John Mair (c.1467-1550), funded by the SNSF Consolidator Grant (2024–2029).
- PhD in History of Philosophy (University of Glasgow, 2012)
- Network Facilitator for the Leverhulme Trust project (2010–2014)
- Post-doctoral researcher for Christian Maurer’s SNSF project on religious tolerance (2016–2020)
- Member of the SNSF project A Disregarded Past (2020–2024)
His research spans early modern thought, focusing on John Mair’s legacy, Reformation-era scholasticism, Scottish philosophy (1400–1800), and intersections between scholasticism and modern philosophy (Cartesianism, natural law, Scottish Enlightenment). He has extensively studied the reception of Scotism and James Dundas’s moral philosophy.
Collaborations include work with Alexander Broadie, Christian Maurer, Ueli Zahnd, Arthur Huiban, and Zachary Seals. His publications analyze theological debates, epistemology, and moral philosophy within Scottish intellectual traditions.
