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BSc (McGill), BA (McGill), MA (Leuven), PhD (Leuven)
Anya Topolski completed two bachelors degees at McGill University in Montreal, Canada: BSc in Biochemistry (1999) and a BA Honours in Philosophy (2000). After a brief but memorable experience teaching in Korea, Anya moved to Belgium to complete a Masters in Continental Philosophy (2002, Magna Cum Laude) specialising in the political thought of Hannah Arendt and the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas with a special interest in contemporary Jewish thought. She obtained her PhD in Philosophy (Magna Cum Laude) at the KU Leuven in 2008. Her dissertation was awarded the Auschwitz Foundation Stichting Prize and is currently being published. In addition, she completed her high-school teacher’s degree in 2009 (ALO, KU Leuven), and university lecturer degree in 2011 (BKO, 2011, T.U. Eindhoven). In 2009, she joined an NWO project (Eindhoven, Breda) as a post-doctoral researcher to consider the application of her theory of relationality in the field of military ethics at the Netherlands Defense Academy where she engaged in post-Srebrenica research on responsibility and judgment. Her current research on antisemitism and islamophobia in Europe is funded by FWO – Flanders. She has lectured extensively on the thought of Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas and has taught courses on the ethics of globalisation, global democracy, terrorism & totalitarianism, conflicting political traditions, ethics and Judaic ethics.