Andreas m. Espegren Masvie

I am the John and Daria Barry Junior Research Fellow (JRF) in Civic Virtue at Regent’s Park College, the University of Oxford – and completed my DPhil (PhD) in 2026 at Christ Church, the University of Oxford. I work on the intersection of political philosophy and theology, making use of resources from classics and patristics.

More broadly, my interests revolve around the meaning of being human: what is it to be and become beings like us, and how can we live well? I have come to appreciate that certain components are integral to the good life: Fauré’s Requiem, the danish gambit, Rochefort 10, Maradona’s warm up in the UEFA Cup semi final in 1989, Randi, Gorgonzola pizza with pickled red onion, Barbour cord trousers and merino wool turtlenecks and Algha glasses, morning coffee with cinnamon rolls before 5am, picking wild raspberries, skijoring with pointer in front and children in pulk behind, liturgy of the hours, bells and smells (rather lots of it) – and, of course, silence.