Joseph_Bulbulia
Joseph A. Bulbulia is a Professor of Psychology in the Faculty of Science at Victoria University of Wellington (2020-present). He was the Maclaurin Goodfellow Chair in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts at University of Auckland (2018-2020). He previously served as a Professor in the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington (2000– 2017).[1][2] Bulbulia is regarded[by whom?] as one of the founders of the contemporary evolutionary religious studies [citation needed]. He is a past president of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion[3] and is currently co-editor of Religion, Brain & Behavior.[4] Bulbulia is one of four on the Senior Management Team of the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study,[5] a national longitudinal study started in 2009 that has repeatedly sampled over 45,000 New Zealanders. He is an associate investigator for Pulotu,[6] a database of 116 Pacific cultures purpose-built to investigate the evolutionary dynamics of religion. In 2016 Bulbulia won a Research Excellence Award at Victoria University.[7]