Meet Our 2018-2019 Class of Fellows
We at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) are pleased to announce our 2018-2019 Class of Director's, Residential, and Graduate Student Fellows, with research spanning more than a dozen disciplines across the humanities, natural and social sciences, including engineering, English literature, environmental studies, history, history and philosophy of science, law, mathematics, medicine, philosophy, physics, political science, religious studies and theology, among others. For more information on our fellows and their projects, please visit the NDIAS website.
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
University of Chicago
Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
"Carbon Nation: Learning to Scale with Coal in Victorian Britain"
Harvey Brown
University of Oxford
Director’s Fellow (Spring 2019)
"Probability and Entropy"
William T. Cavanaugh
DePaul University
Residential Fellow (Fall 2018)
"Disenchantment and Idolatry"
John Deak
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Fall 2018)
"The State of Exception and the Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy in the First World War"
Daniel B. Hinshaw
University of Michigan
Residential Fellow (Fall 2018)
"Kenosis and the Mystery of Life"
Andrey V. Ivanov
University of Wisconsin–Platteville
Residential Fellow (Fall 2018)
"A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700-1825"
Clare Kim
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Graduate Student Fellow (2018-2019)
"Manifold Modernisms: Thinking and Knowing Mathematics in the Mid-20th-Century United States"
Ulrich L. Lehner
Marquette University
Director’s Fellow (Fall 2018)
"Catholic Reform Revisited"
Lisa Mueller
Macalester College
Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
"Political Conflict as a Catalyst of Reform: Comparative Protest Outcomes in Africa"
Raphael Mary Salzillo, O.P.
University of Notre Dame
Graduate Student Fellow (2018-2019)
"Aquinas on the Ontology of the Human Person and its Implications for Ethics"
Avishalom Tor
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Spring 2019)
"Towards a Fuller Understanding of Inequality: From Psychology to a Behaviorally-Informed Legal Policy"
Thomas Tweed
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Spring 2019)
"Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Digital Age"
J. Wentzel van Huyssteen
Princeton Theological Seminary and University of Stellenbosch
Director’s Fellow (Spring 2019)
"Human Origins and the Emergence of Morality and Religion"
Laura Dassow Walls
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Fall 2018)
"Children of the Fire: The Many Lives of American Transcendentalism"
Johanna Winant
West Virginia University
Residential Fellow (Spring 2019)
"Lyric Logic: American Modernism and the Problem of Induction"
Alexandre Zagoskin
Loughborough University
Residential Fellow (Fall 2018)
"Schrödinger’s Elephants and Quantum Slide Rules: From Quantum Physics to Quantum Engineering"
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study supports research that is directed toward, or extends inquiry to include, ultimate questions and questions of value, bringing together leading thinkers from around the world to live and work at the University as fellows in a residential intellectual community. These cross-disciplinary scholars, scientists, and artists pursue innovative research projects as they engage and contribute to the research of Notre Dame colleagues and students from multiple disciplines, augmenting the life of the mind on campus. As an Institute within Notre Dame Research, the NDIAS strives to be the first place that comes to mind when scholars and scientists embark on major inter- or multidisciplinary projects that seek to relate specialized academic research to deeper inquiry about meaning and morality.