Meet our 2011-2012 Fellows
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) is pleased to announce its 2011-2012 class of fellows!
2011-2012 Fellows Brief Biographies and Photos
Mark Alfano, University of Oregon
“Factitious Virtue”
Martin Dimitrov, Tulane University (fall semester 2011)
“Dictatorship and Information: Autocratic Resilience in Communist Europe and China”
Erwin Feyersinger, University of Innsbruck
“Augmented Reality As Animation beyond Cinema and Television Screens”
Eugenia Gorogianni, University of Akron (spring semester 2012)
“Women’s Dress and Socio-Cultural Identity in Late Bronze Age Aegean”
Jessica Hellmann, University of Notre Dame
“Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Ecosystems in an Era of Human Culpability”
Slavica Jakelić, Institute for Advanced Studies of Culture (IASC),
University of Virginia (fall semester 2011)
“The Practice of Religious and Secular Humanisms”
Sabine MacCormack, University of Notre Dame
“Natural Philosophy, History and Theology in the Writings of José de Acosta, S.J. (1540-1600)”
Elisabeth Mégier, Independent Scholar (fall semester 2011)
“What Is Salvation History? An inquiry into Historiographical and Exegetical Texts of the Latin Church, from the Fathers to the Middle of the 12th Century”
Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa (spring semester 2012)
“From Paradise to Diaspora: Natural History in the Americas”
Atalia Omer, Kroc Institute for Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame (fall semester 2011)
“The Rhetoric of ‘No-Place’: Symbolic Diasporas and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict As a Trope”
Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins University (spring semester 2012)
“Cycles of Renewal and Collapse: Portugal and Brazil, c. 1780-1845”
Vasileios Syros, Finnish Centre of Political Thought & Conceptual Change (spring semester 2012)
“Giovanni Botero and the Beginnings of Comparative Politics in the West”
Joseph Wawrykow, University of Notre Dame (fall semester 2011)
“Jesus the ‘true human’: Grace and Virtue in the Christology of Thomas Aquinas”
2011-2012 Graduate Fellows of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study:
David Lantigua, University of Notre Dame
“Idolatry and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World”
Laura Rominger Porter, University of Notre Dame
“From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals, Politics, and Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-Century Upper South”
