Dr Jonathan Egid

Jonathan Egid is a Lecturer in Philosophy at SOAS, University of London. 

He received his PhD in Philosophy from King’s College London in June 2024, writing a thesis on a 17th century Ethiopian philosopher named Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and the question of whether or not he existed. This research was funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership, and the British Society for the History of Philosophy, for which he was a postgraduate fellow 2023-24. 

He received his BPhil in philosophy from Wadham College Oxford, and his BA from the University of Kent in Canterbury and Université Paris IV – La Sorbonne. He has held research fellowships at the Freie Universität in Berlin and Addis Ababa University. 

Jonathan's first edited volume (with Lea Cantor of Cambridge and Fasil Merawi of Addis Ababa), In Search of Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob was published by De Gruyter in September, and a second volume, the Zärʾa Yaʿǝqob and the Authorship Dispute: A Sourcebook is under contract with Oxford University Press. 

He was a BBC New Generation Thinker for 2024, and his essays on philosophy, art and politics appear regularly in the Times Literary Supplement, Literary Review and elsewhere. He runs a podcast and interview series on philosophy in lesser studied languages ‘Philosophising in…’.