People

2023-2024 Faculty Fellows

Eman Abdelhadi

  • University of Chicago
  • Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development
  • "Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave Muslim American Communities"

Kimberly Hope Belcher

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Associate Professor of Theology
  • "Rhythms of Faith: Liturgy, Music, and Creativity"

Catherine E. Bolten

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Associate Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies
  • "Unknowing the World: Humans, Chimpanzees, and Climate Change in Sierra Leone"

Kathleen Sprows Cummings

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Professor of American Studies and History
  • "Global Catholicism"

Megan Heffernan

  • DePaul University
  • Associate Professor of English
  • "Resilient Books: Archival Science in an Age of Precarity"

Luke Kemp

  • Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
  • Research Associate
  • "Societal Complexity and Control in the Long Run"

Paul Kollman, C.S.C.

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Associate Professor of Theology
  • "Global Catholicism"

Marcus Kreuzer

  • Villanova University
  • Professor of Political Science
  • "Longue DurĂ©e Analysis: Elongating Time to Explore Macro-Historical Questions"

J.J. Wright

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Director, University of Notre Dame Folk Choir
  • "Rhythms of Faith: Liturgy, Music, and Creativity"

Jessica Zu

  • University of Southern California
  • Assistant Professor of Religion
  • "Karma, Science, and a Just Society: Buddhist Philosophical Toolboxes for Post-Racial and Post-Caste Worldmaking"

2023-2024 Notre Dame Graduate Fellows

Makella Brems

  • Department of Political Science
  • "Restoring Glaucus: The Nature of Freedom and the Freedom of Nature"

Sara Chan

  • Department of Philosophy
  • "Disability, Testimony, and Love"

Jaylexia Clark

  • Department of Sociology
  • "Racing Towards Global Racial Capitalism: An Investigation of How Racial and Gender Inequality is Reproduced in the Platform and Gig Economy"

Henry Downes

  • Department of Economics
  • "American Labor at its Peak: What Did Unions Do?"

Jacob Swisher

  • Department of History
  • "Precious Things: A Planetary History of an Early American Borderland"

2023-2024 Undergraduate Ethics Fellows

Meera Bhakta

  • Science Pre-Professional Studies, International Development Studies

Kaden Cunningham

  • Anthropology, Sustainability

Elena Ding

  • Philosophy, Physics

Marcelo Guzman Aguirre

  • Economics, Spanish

Jun Wei Lee

  • History, Philosophy

Edward Nagler

  • Political Science, Business Economics

Melissa Osorio

  • Economics, Latino Studies

Nazwin Palines

  • Theology, Philosophy

Miriam Rice

  • Music, Program of Liberal Studies

James Thompson

  • Sociology, Peace Studies