Saul Tobias received his Ph.D. from Emory University in 2005, where he has also held the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in the Institute of Liberal Arts. He was a DAAD Scholar in Berlin, Germany in 2002-3, and has studied in South Africa and the Netherlands. His doctoral dissertation examined the relation between humanistic and social-scientific approaches to human suffering in the work of Nietzsche, Max Weber, and Karl Mannheim. His work has appeared in a range of publications, including Theory, Culture & Society, Philosophical Writings, The Oxford Literary Review, and in the edited volume, Cultural History after Foucault (1998).   

As Humanities Fellow at CHAT, Tobias will be working on a study of Interdisciplinarity in the context of changing views concerning the scientific and cultural role of the University. Other continuing research interests include 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, and contemporary social and political theory.