Faculty Fellows
Eman Abdelhadi
- University of Chicago
- Faculty Fellow (2023-2024)
- Impossible Futures: Why Women Leave Muslim American Communities
Margaret Abruzzo
- University of Alabama
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Good People and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin, Evil, and Moral Responsibility in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries"
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
- University of Chicago
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Fossil Futures: Growth, Energy, and Ideology in Britain at the End of the Holocene 1800-1900"
Mark Alfano
- Macquarie University
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Factitious Virtue”
Karl Ameriks
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- "Kant’s Elliptical Path: On the Stages, Limits, and Aftermath of Critical Philosophy"
Clifford Ando
- University of Chicago
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Roman Social Imaginaries"
Robert Audi
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "A Theory of Moral Conduct"
Lewis Ayres
- Durham University
- Pampusch Scholar, Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Resting in the Word: The Origins and Future of the Catholic Scriptural Imagination"
Scott Barton
- New York University
- Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)
- "Feeding the Gods: Sacred Nagô Culinary Culture in Northeastern Brazil"
Kimberly Hope Belcher
- University of Notre Dame
- Teaching Lab Fellow (2023-2024)
- "Rhythms of Faith: Liturgy, Music, and Creativity"
Elise Berman
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Learning How to Know: The Social Control of Goods and Information in the Marshall Islands”
Paolo Bernardini
- University of Insubria
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “Circa 1773: The Suppression of the Jesuits and the Destiny of Europe”
Francesco Berto
- University of Amsterdam
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic: The Law of Non-Contradiction As Basic Knowledge”
Philip Bess
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- "After Burnham: The Notre Dame Plan of Chicago 2109"
Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Lawyer and Poet
- Artist in Residence (2021-2022)
- Author of "Felon: Poems"
John Betz
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “From Metaphysics to Christology: The Intellectual Path of Erich Przywara, S.J. (1889-1972)”
Justin Biddle
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "Intellectual Property Rights and the Social Control of Information: The Case of Genetically Modified Seeds"
Laura E. Bland
- University of Houston
- Graduate Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Unfriendly Skies: The Comet of 1680 in the Spanish and English Empires"
W. Martin Bloomer
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- "The Ecology of Ovid’s Metamorphoses"
Susan D. Blum
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Wellbeing, Suffering, and Schooling"
Catherine E. Bolten
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- Faculty Fellow (2023-2024)
Costica Bradatan
- Texas Tech University; University of Queensland, Australia
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- "Philosophy as an Art of Dying"
Harvey Brown
- University of Oxford
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- Director's Fellow (2018-2019)
Thom Browne
- Fashion Designer
- Artist in Residence (2022-2023)
Eric J. Bugyis
- University of Washington Tacoma
- Graduate Fellow (2010-2011)
- “Beyond Shadows and Ghosts: The Aesthetic Validity of Post- Metaphysical Religion and Post-Secular Politics in Habermas, Derrida, and Kant”
Pete Buttigieg
- Politician
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- "Principles of Trust for the 2020s"
Katlyn Carter
- University of Notre Dame
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- "Truth and Trust in the Age of Revolutions”
William T. Cavanaugh
- DePaul University
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Disenchantment and Idolatry"
Eric J. Chaisson
- Harvard University; Smithsonian Institution
- Director's Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Giving Back: Cosmology Applications for Human Society"
Ted Chiang
- Science Fiction Writer
- Artist in Residence (2020-2021)
- Author of "Stories of Your Life and Others" and "Exhalation"
David Ciepley
- University of Denver
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “Our Corporate Civilization and Its Neoliberal Crisis”
Evan Claudeanos
- University of Notre Dame
- Graduate Fellow (2016-2017)
- “The Epistemology of Data-Intensive Science: How Big Data Is Changing Scientific Knowledge and Its Acquisition”
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
- Harvard Divinity School
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "From (Hindu) Ritual to (Catholic) Theology: Two Exercises in Slow Reading Across Religious Borders"
Kathleen Sprows Cummings
- University of Notre Dame
- Faculty Fellow, Teaching Lab Fellow (2023-2024)
- Global Catholicism
Hilary Davidson
- Rice University
- Graduate Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Searching for the Good Life: How Cultural Narratives Anchor the Aspirations of Emerging Adults"
Vanessa Davies
- University of California, Berkeley
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Understanding Hetep in Ancient Egypt: The Social Aspects of Offering and Peace”
Emmalon Davis
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Faculty Fellow (2022-2023)
- “Paradoxes of Resistance: Maria Stewart's Public Political Philosophy”
Thadious M. Davis
- University of Pennsylvania
- Director's Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Imagination and the Space of Freedom"
John Deak
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "The State of Exception and the Fall of the Habsburg Monarchy in the First World War"
Diego De Brasi
- University of Marburg
- Residential Fellow (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"
Annelien de Dijn
- University of Amsterdam
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “The Conservative Enlightenment: Political Thought Before the Triumph of Democracy”
Michael Desch
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “The Professionalization of Social Science and the Decline of Public Intellectualism: The Case of National Security Studies”
Martin Dimitrov
- Tulane University
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Dictatorship and Information: Autocratic Resilience in Communist Europe and China”
Alyssa Dinega Gillespie
- Independent Scholar
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Dangerous Verses: Alexander Pushkin and the Ethics of Inspiration"
Melissa Dinsman
- York College
- Graduate Fellow (2012-2013)
- Radio at War: Literature, Propaganda, and the Emergence of New Modernist Networks during World War II
Sabine Doering
- University of Oldenburg
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Concepts of Blessing in Hölderlin’s Poetic Work"
Xinyu Dong
- University of Chicago
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Ernst Lubitsch Goes to China: The Art of Ellipsis in the Age of World Cinema"
Carsten Dutt
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “Truth as a Value of Literature”
Sabrina Ferri
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Temporal Ruinations: A History of Time in Italy, 1744-1836”
Erwin Feyersinger
- University of Innsbruck
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Augmented Reality as Animation Beyond Cinema and Television Screens”
Naomi Fisher
- Loyola University of Chicago
- Graduate Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Natural Reason: Rationality as Emerging out of Animal Nature"
Jennifer Forestal
- Loyola University Chicago
- Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)
- "Mute, Block, Unfollow: Technology, Democracy, and the Politics of Opting Out"
Bjarne Sode Funch
- Roskilde University; University of Copenhagen
- Templeton Fellow (2015-2016)
- "An Existential-Phenomenological Study of Artistic Creativity"
Brett Gadsden
- Northwestern University
- Faculty Fellow (2022-2023)
- "From Protest to Politics: How African Americans Transformed the Presidency"
Brandon Gallaher
- University of Exeter
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "Primacy, Papacy and the Challenge of Secularism in Modern Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Theology"
Roland Galle
- Universitat Duisburg Essen
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “Invalidation and Construction of Norms in Moralist Literature”
Margaret Garvey
- Holy Cross College
- Graduate Fellow (2013-2014)
- "Returning to Aristotle’s Body: The Montessorian Educational Philosophy and Embodied Arts Practice of Jacques Copeau"
Ilana Gershon
- Indiana University
- Residential Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Getting a Job in the Digital Age"
Eliza Gettel
- Villanova University
- Faculty Fellow (2022-2023)
- “Between Federation and Empire: The Koinon in Roman Hellas”
Carl Gillett
- Northern Illinois University
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "Human Nature, Cognitive Neuroscience and Expansive Materialism: Exploring a New Approach to the Foundations of Neuroscience"
John Golden
- The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
- Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)
- "Resilient Legal Systems for Innovation, Risk Regulation, and Democratic Governance"
Eugenia Gorogianni
- University of Akron
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Women’s Dress and Socio-Cultural Identity in Late Bronze Age Aegean”
Brad S. Gregory
- University of Notre Dame
- Director, 2013-2019 (Directors)
Patrick Griffin
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "The Age of Atlantic Revolution(s): An Interpretation"
Kevin G. Grove
- University of Notre Dame
- Pampusch Scholar, Residential Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Memory and the Whole Christ: Augustine and the Psalms"
Ethan John Guagliardo
- Boğaziçi University
- Graduate Fellow (2013-2014)
- "The Limelight of the Idols: Poetry and Political Theology in Early Modern England"
Gregory Haake
- University of Notre Dame
- Faculty Fellow, Pampusch Scholar (2022-2023)
- “Xenophobia/Xenophilia: The Stranger and French Identity in the Early Modern Era”
Tomáš Halík
- Charles University
- Templeton Fellow (2015-2016)
- Director's Fellow (2017-2018)
Lawrence O. Hall
- University of South Florida
- Melchor Visiting Professor of Engineering, Residential Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Mining ‘Big Data’ for Small and Impactful Nuggets"
David Bentley Hart
- Templeton Fellow (2015-2016)
- Director's Fellow (2016-2017)
Douglas Hedley
- University of Cambridge
- Templeton Fellow (2013-2014)
- "The Iconic Imagination"
Megan Heffernan
- DePaul University
- Faculty Fellow (2023-2024)
- Resilient Books: Archival Science in an Age of Precarity
Jessica Hellmann
- University of Minnesota
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Ecosystems in an Era of Human Culpability”
Daniel B. Hinshaw
- University of Michigan
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Kenosis and the Mystery of Life"
Mary Hirschfeld
- Villanova University
- Graduate Fellow (2010-2011)
- “Virtuous Consumption in a Dynamic Economy: A Thomistic Engagement with Neoclassical Economics”
Vittorio Hösle
- University of Notre Dame
- Director, 2008-2013 (Directors)
Eileen M. Hunt
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Three Political Science Fictions: Apocalypse, Nature, and Lovelessness”
Faisal Husain
- Pennsylvania State University
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Water and Power in the Ottoman Tigris-Euphrates Basin”
Andrey V. Ivanov
- University of Wisconsin–Platteville
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "A Spiritual Revolution: The Impact of Reformation and Enlightenment in Orthodox Russia, 1700-1825"
Luc Jaeger
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Zoe, Bios, Psyche, and the Quest for True Life"
Slavica Jakelić
- Valparaiso University
- Pampusch Scholar, Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “The Practice of Religious and Secular Humanisms”
Katie Jarvis
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “Citizenship as Social Experience: Economics, Gender, and Politics in Revolutionary France”
Debra Javeline
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Coastal Homeowners in a Changing Climate”
Robin M. Jensen
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "The Intercessory Image: Christians and the Potency of Material Objects"
Claire Taylor Jones
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Washing the Altars: Shaping Religious Community in Medieval Holy Week Ritual"
Maxim Kantor
- Independent Scholar and Artist
- Director's Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Russia: Empire Upside Down"
Catherine Kavanagh
- University of Limerick
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Eriugena’s Trinity: A Framework for Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue"
Cleo Kearns
- New York University
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "The Nature of Sacrifice: Ritual, Mind and Belief"
Heather Keenleyside
- University of Chicago
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “The Literary History of Ideas: Thoughts as Things in Eighteenth-Century Literature”
Luke Kemp
- Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
- Faculty Fellow (2023-2024)
- Societal Complexity and Control in the Long Run
Scott M. Kenworthy
- Miami University
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin), the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Russian Revolution"
Mary M. Keys
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Pride, Politics, and Philosophy: The City of God and Augustine’s Apologia for Humility"
Clare Kim
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Graduate Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Manifold Modernisms: Thinking and Knowing Mathematics in the Mid-20th-Century United States"
Karrie Koesel
- University of Notre Dame
- Teaching Lab Fellow (2022-2023)
- “Global Asia”
Elisabeth Köll
- University of Notre Dame
- Teaching Lab Fellow (2022-2023)
- “Global Asia”
Paul Kollman, C.S.C.
- University of Notre Dame
- Teaching Lab Fellow (2023-2024)
- Global Catholicism
Mary Ellen Konieczny
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “Service Before Self: Organization, Cultural Conflict, and Religion at the U.S. Air Force Academy”
Sara Konrath
- Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Changes over Time in Empathic, Generous, and Trusting Behaviors in the United States”
Philipp Koralus
- University of Oxford
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “Semantics and Pragmatics in Cognitive Science: The Open Instruction Theory of Attitude Report Sentences, Descriptions and the Necker Cube”
Marcus Kreuzer
- Villanova University
- Faculty Fellow (2023-2024)
- Longue Durée Analysis: Elongating Time to Explore Macro-Historical Questions
Ian Kuijt
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “New Walls, Good Fences, and Nice Neighbors? Considering the Origins of Privacy”
Henrike Christiane Lange
- University of California, Berkeley
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Giotto’s Triumph: The Arena Chapel and the First Beginning of the Renaissance"
David Lantigua
- University of Notre Dame
- Graduate Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Idolatry and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World”
Robert Latiff
- George Mason University
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Future Peace: Resisting War in a Networked World”
Barbara Lauriat
- King's College London
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Global Arbiters of Reasonableness and Selectors of Standards--Technology and Trust”
Ulrich L. Lehner
- Marquette University
- Pampusch Scholar, Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- Director's Fellow (2018-2019)
Richard Leider
- Inventure - The Purpose Company
- Public Fellow ()
Vincent Lloyd
- Villanova University
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- "Black Natural Law"
Leslie Lockett
- Ohio State University
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “The Old English Soliloquies and Anglo-Saxon Constructions of Augustine of Hippo”
Carlos Lozada
- The New York Times
- Practitioner in Residence (2022-2023)
Jin Lu
- Purdue University Northwest
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Chinese Soul in Global Catholicism: Chinese Catholic Intellectuals before Vatican II (1912-1965)”
Casey Lurtz
- Johns Hopkins University
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Fomenting Development: Latin America’s Economic Experiments in the Post-Independence Era”
Sabine MacCormack
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Natural Philosophy, History and Theology in the Writings of José de Acosta, S.J. (1540-1600)”
Jacob L. Mackey
- Occidental College
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Rethinking Roman Religion: Action, Practice, and Belief”
Daniel S. Malachuk
- Western Illinois University
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "A Higher Law: The Political Theory of American Transcendentalism"
Jonathan Marks
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Templeton Fellow (2013-2014)
- Director's Fellow (2019-2020)
Janice Gunther Martin
- University of Notre Dame
- Graduate Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Unburdening the Beasts: Equine Medicine and Expert Healers in Early Modern Castile"
Alexander M. Martin
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “A Man of Two Empires: J.A. Rosenstrauch's Odyssey in the Holy Roman Empire and Tsarist Russia”
Janne Matláry
- University of Oslo
- Director's Fellow (2019-2020)
- "Reasserting Nation and State? Europe at a Cross-Roads"
Bernard McGinn
- University of Chicago Divinity School
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Mysticism in Catholic Italy, Germany, and France, 1500-1650"
Jason McLachlan
- University of Notre Dame
- Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)
- “Managing Resilient Landscapes”
Tom McLeish
- University of York
- Director's Fellow (2017-2018)
- "The Poetry and Music of Science: A Comparison of Creativity in the Arts and Sciences"
Elisabeth Mégier
- Independent Scholar
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “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 Missouri
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “From Paradise to Diaspora: Natural History in the Americas”
Aaron Michka
- University of Michigan
- Faculty Fellow, Pampusch Scholar (2020-2021)
- “Un-Islamic: Christian Life and Religious Difference in an Upper Egyptian Society”
Yuliya Minets
- Princeton University
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Holy Men Speaking: Languages and Authority in the Ancient Mediterranean”
Koritha Mitchell
- Ohio State University
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture"
Henrike Moll
- University of Southern California
- Templeton Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Towards a Transformative Account of Human Cognition"
Haruko Momma
- University of Toronto
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “The Pragmatics of Purgatory in Old English Literature”
Susannah Monta
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Sacred Echoes: Repetitive Prayer and Reformation-Era Poetics"
Vittorio Montemaggi
- King's College London; University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Truth, Language, Love: The Theology of Dante's Commedia”
Lisa Mueller
- Macalester College
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Political Conflict as a Catalyst of Reform: Comparative Protest Outcomes in Africa"
Hildegund Müller
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “A Reading of Augustine's Sermons”
Libby Murphy
- Oberlin College
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “The French Great War Picaresque“
Mutale Nkonde
- Berkman Klein Center of Internet and Society at Harvard University
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Facial Recognition Tool Kit: A Guide for Black and Other Advocates of Color”
James Nolan
- Williams College
- Pampusch Scholar, Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “What They Saw in America”
Mark A. Noll
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "The Bible and American Public Life, 1789-1876"
Hollie Nyseth Brehm
- The Ohio State University
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Reentry and Reintegration of People Convicted of Genocide”
Atalia Omer
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “The Rhetoric of ‘No-Place’: Symbolic Diasporas and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict As a Trope”
Richard Oosterhoff
- University of Cambridge
- Graduate Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Making Mathematical Culture: Piety and Print in Renaissance Paris”
Robert Orsi
- Northwestern University
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Give Us Boys”
Stephen Osadetz
- Harvard University
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “On Principle: Newton to Coleridge”
Cassandra Painter
- Vanderbilt University
- Graduate Fellow (2016-2017)
- “The Life and Afterlife of Anna Katharina Emmerick: Reimagining Catholicism in Modern Germany”
Gladden Pappin
- University of Dallas
- Pampusch Scholar, Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "The Political Significance of Ecclesiastical Thought"
Gabriel Paquette
- University of Oregon
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Cycles of Renewal and Collapse: Portugal and Brazil, c. 1780-1845”
Jaime M. Pensado
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Catholic Youth in Cold War Mexico"
Federico Perelda
- University of Bergamo
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “The Ontology of Time: Towards a Dynamical Eternalism. Do Things Really Come Into and Out of Existence?”
Mary Frances Phillips
- Lehman College, City University of New York
- Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)
- "Sister Love: Ericka Huggins, Spiritual Activism, and the Black Panther Party"
Finola Prendergast
- University of Notre Dame
- Graduate Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Moral Discourse in Contemporary U.S. Literature"
Aleta Quinn
- University of Idaho; Smithsonian Institution
- Residential Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Hypotheses and Inference in Biological Systematics"
Evan Ragland
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Remaking the World: Experiment, Ambition, and the Good of Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe”
Paul Ramírez
- Northwestern University
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “Salt of God: A Religious History of Mexico”
Bharat Ranganathan
- Case Western Reserve University
- Graduate Fellow (2013-2014)
- "Religious Ethics and Obligations to Others"
Michael Robillard
- University of Oxford
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Privacy, Social Knowledge, and Accountability: Building Trustworthy Institutions in the Age of Big Data”
Theresa Rocha Beardall
- University of Washington
- Faculty Fellow (2022-2023)
- “Transactional Policing and the Political Economy of Public Safety”
Mark Roche
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Aesthetics of the Ugly”
Laura Rominger Porter
- Drake University
- Graduate Fellow (2011-2012)
- “From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals, Politics, and Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-Century Upper South“
Kaya Şahin
- Indiana University
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "A Performative Empire: Ottoman Imperial Ceremonies, 1520-1566"
Raphael Mary Salzillo, O.P.
- University of Notre Dame
- Graduate Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Aquinas on the Ontology of the Human Person and its Implications for Ethics"
Otto Santa Ana
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Templeton Fellow (2015-2016)
- "Toward Consilience in our Accounting of Human Laughter and Humor"
Walter J. Scheirer
- University of Notre Dame
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Those Who See, Think They Know Beyond Mistake: Visual Media and Trust”
John Schwenkler
- Florida State University
- Faculty Fellow, Pampusch Scholar (2021-2022)
- "Resilient Self Belief"
Roy Scranton
- University of Notre Dame
- Teaching Lab Fellow (2021-2022)
- Environmental Humanities
Scott Shackelford
- Indiana University
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "Governing the Global Commons in the Twenty-First Century"
LaKisha Simmons
- University of Michigan
- Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)
- "Labor, Love & Loss: Black Women, their Children and the Ancestors"
Thomas W. Simpson
- University of Oxford
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Faith, Flag, Family: Sources of Civic Trust”
John Sitter
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “Sustaining Literature: Swift, Pope, and Johnson in Our Climate”
Daniel John Sportiello
- University of Mary
- Graduate Fellow (2014-2015)
- "The Primacy of the Practical in the History of Philosophy"
Donald Stelluto
- University of Notre Dame
- Associate Director, 2009-2020 (Directors)
Elaine Stratton Hild
- Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
- Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
- "Historical Uses of Palliative Music: Recovering Melodic Material from European Rites for the Sick and Dying"
Joshua Stuchlik
- University of St. Thomas
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Intention and Wrongdoing”
Rebecca Stumpf
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Faculty Fellow (2021-2022)
- "Increasing Resilience in Western Uganda and Beyond: Identifying, Predicting, and Preventing Pathogen and Anti-Microbial Resistance Transmission"
Meghan Sullivan
- University of Notre Dame
- Current Director (Directors)
Robert Sullivan
- University of Notre Dame
- Interim Director, 2014-2015 (Directors)
Vasileios Syros
- Princeton University; Academy of Finland
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Giovanni Botero and the Beginnings of Comparative Politics in the West”
Mariusz Tabaczek
- Professor of Theology
- Residential Fellow (2016-2017)
- “Dispositional Metaphysics: In Search of Ontology for a Scientific Age”
Kimba Allie Tichenor
- Independent Scholar
- Residential Fellow (2014-2015)
- "Gender Politics, European Catholicism, and the Global South: The Transformation of Faith, Culture, and Politics in the Twentieth Century"
Avishalom Tor
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Towards a Fuller Understanding of Inequality: From Psychology to a Behaviorally-Informed Legal Policy"
Alexis Torrance
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2010-2011)
- “A Critical Assessment of Patristic Precedents for Contemporary Theologies of the Person”
Andrea L. Turpin
- Baylor University
- Graduate Fellow (2010-2011)
- “Gender, Religion, and Moral Vision in the American Academy, 1837-1917”
Thomas Tweed
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Religion in the Lands That Became America: From the Ice Age to the Digital Age"
James C. VanderKam
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2013-2014)
- "A Commentary on the Book of Jubilees"
Stefan Voigt
- University of Hamburg
- Residential Fellow (2012-2013)
- “Economic Effects of Judicial Systems: Normative Underpinnings and Policy Implications”
Laura Dassow Walls
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Children of the Fire: The Many Lives of American Transcendentalism"
Denise Walsh
- University of Virginia
- Faculty Fellow (2020-2021)
- “Weaponizing Rights: The Politics of Debating Culture and Women’s Rights in Liberal States”
Joseph Wawrykow
- University of Notre Dame
- Residential Fellow (2011-2012)
- “Jesus the ‘true human’: Grace and Virtue in the Christology of Thomas Aquinas”
Claire Wendland
- University of Wisconsin Madison
- Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
- “Partial Stories: Maternal Death in a Changing African World”
Mechtild Widrich
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Faculty Fellow (2022-2023)
- “Shifting Audiences: Monuments as Public Histories”
Johanna Winant
- West Virginia University
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Lyric Logic: American Modernism and the Problem of Induction"
J.J. Wright
- University of Notre Dame
- Teaching Lab Fellow (2023-2024)
- "Rhythms of Faith: Liturgy, Music, and Creativity"
Alexandre Zagoskin
- Loughborough University
- Residential Fellow (2018-2019)
- "Schrödinger’s Elephants and Quantum Slide Rules: From Quantum Physics to Quantum Engineering"
Jessica Zu
- University of Southern California
- Faculty Fellow (2023-2024)
- Karma, Science, and a Just Society: Buddhist Philosophical Toolboxes for Post-Racial and Post-Caste Worldmaking