2015-2016 Fellows – Brief Biographies and Photos
![Bland Bland](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167253/bland.jpg)
Laura E. Bland, University of Notre Dame
Graduate Student Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“Unfriendly Skies: The Comet of 1680 in the Spanish and English Empires”
![De Brasi De Brasi](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167254/de_brasi.jpg)
Diego De Brasi, University of Marburg, Germany
Residential Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“The Relation of Body, Mind and Soul in Lactantius’ De opificio Dei, Gregory of Nyssa’s De hominis opificio and Nemesios of Emesa’s De natura hominis”
![Funch Funch](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167255/funch.jpg)
Bjarne Sode Funch, Roskilde University, Denmark
Templeton Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“An Existential-Phenomenological Study of Artistic Creativity”
![Gershon Gershon](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167256/gershon.jpg)
Ilana Gershon, Indiana University
Residential Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“Getting a Job in the Digital Age”
![Grove Grove](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167257/grove.jpg)
Kevin G. Grove, University of Cambridge, UK
Residential Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“Memory and the Whole Christ: Augustine and the Psalms”
![Halik Halik](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167258/halik.jpg)
Tomáš Halík, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
Templeton Fellow at the NDIAS (Fall 2015)
“Afternoon of Christianity: How Can Christian Monotheism Keep Its Identity in Global Pluralistic ‘Post-Secular’ Civilization?”
![Hall Hall](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167259/hall.jpg)
Lawrence O. Hall, University of South Florida
Residential Fellow at the NDIAS (Fall 2015) and Melchor Visiting Professor of Engineering
“Mining ‘Big Data’ for Small and Impactful Nuggets”
![Hart Hart](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167260/hart.jpg)
David Bentley Hart, St. Louis University
Templeton Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“Mind and Nature, Soul and Machine”
![Keys Keys](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167262/keys.jpg)
Mary M. Keys, University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow at the NDIAS (Spring 2016)
“Pride, Politics, and Philosophy: The City of God and Augustine’s Apologia for Humility”
![Moll Moll](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167265/moll.jpg)
Henrike Moll, University of Southern California
Templeton Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“Towards a Transformative Account of Human Cognition”
![Pensado Pensado](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167266/pensado.jpg)
Jaime M. Pensado, University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“Catholic Youth in Cold War Mexico”
![Quinn Quinn](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167267/quinn.jpg)
Aleta Quinn, University of Pittsburgh
Residential Fellow at the NDIAS (Fall 2015)
“Hypotheses and Inference in Biological Systematics”
![Santa Ana Santa Ana](http://ndias.nd.edu/assets/167268/santa_ana.jpg)
Otto Santa Ana, University of California Los Angeles
Templeton Fellow at the NDIAS (2015-2016)
“Toward Consilience in our Accounting of Human Laughter and Humor”
Originally published by Grant Osborn ’06, ’09M.F.A. at ndias.nd.edu on June 10, 2015.