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2020-2021 Faculty Fellows
Pete Buttigieg
- Politician
- Former South Bend Mayor and Democratic Presidential Candidate
- "Principles of Trust for the 2020s"
Katlyn Carter
- University of Notre Dame
- Assistant Professor of History
- "Truth and Trust in the Age of Revolutions”
Ted Chiang
- Science Fiction Writer
- Author of "Stories of Your Life and Others" and "Exhalation"
Sara Konrath
- Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
- Associate Professor of Philanthropic Studies
- “Changes over Time in Empathic, Generous, and Trusting Behaviors in the United States”
Barbara Lauriat
- King's College London
- Senior Lecturer in Law
- “Global Arbiters of Reasonableness and Selectors of Standards--Technology and Trust”
Aaron Michka
- University of Michigan
- Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology
- “Un-Islamic: Christian Life and Religious Difference in an Upper Egyptian Society”
Mutale Nkonde
- Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society at Harvard University
- Founding CEO of AI for the People
- “Facial Recognition Tool Kit: A Guide for Black and Other Advocates of Color”
Hollie Nyseth Brehm
- The Ohio State University
- Associate Professor of Sociology
- “Reentry and Reintegration of People Convicted of Genocide”
Robert Orsi
- Northwestern University
- Grace Craddock Nagle Chair of Catholic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies, History, and American Studies
- “Give Us Boys”
Michael Robillard
- University of Oxford
- Research Fellow at the Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics
- “Privacy, Social Knowledge, and Accountability: Building Trustworthy Institutions in the Age of Big Data”
Walter J. Scheirer
- University of Notre Dame
- Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
- “Those Who See, Think They Know Beyond Mistake: Visual Media and Trust”
Thomas W. Simpson
- University of Oxford
- Associate Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy
- “Faith, Flag, Family: Sources of Civic Trust”
Denise Walsh
- University of Virginia
- Associate Professor of Politics and Women, Gender & Sexuality
- “Weaponizing Rights: The Politics of Debating Culture and Women’s Rights in Liberal States”
2020-2021 Notre Dame Graduate Fellows
Melissa Coles
- Department of History
- History and theology of interreligious pilgrimages
J. Columcille (Colum) Dever
- Department of Theology
- Theological interpretations of Tertullian’s "Adversus Marcionem"
Patrick Graff
- Department of Sociology
- Educational inequality, teacher turnover, and the organizational conditions of K-8 schools
Sam Grieggs
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering
- Automated historical document analysis
Kristin M. Haas
- Department of Theology
- Christian approaches to the natural world, language, and gender
Ross Jensen
- Department of Philosophy
- Ecologically-informed neo-Aristotelian ethics and politics
Sara Judy
- Department of English
- Twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry and poetics
Megan Levis
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Multi-scale coordination of cell communication
Nicholas Roberts
- Department of History
- Global history of the Omani Empire in the nineteenth century
Emily Smith
- Department of History
- Twentieth-century American history, women, maternity, and reproduction
Dominique Vargas
- Department of English
- Uses of the corporeal body in contemporary literature by women
Luiz Vilaça
- Department of Sociology
- Anti-corruption reform in Brazil