Graduate Fellows

Brian Boyd

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • "Full Equality in Exchange: A Renewed Theory of the Just Wage"

Char Brecevic

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • "Patient Nonadherence: Imagining a Way Forward"

Makella Brems

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2023-2024)
  • "Restoring Glaucus: The Nature of Freedom and the Freedom of Nature"

Claudia Carroll

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • “Why Characters Feel Real: Representations of Consciousness in the Nineteenth-Century Novel”

Sara Chan

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2023-2024)
  • "Disability, Testimony, and Love"

Jaylexia Clark

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2023-2024)
  • "Racing Towards Global Racial Capitalism: An Investigation of How Racial and Gender Inequality is Reproduced in the Platform and Gig Economy"

Melissa Coles

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • History and theology of interreligious pilgrimages

J. Columcille (Colum) Dever

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Christian Reading and Writing in Late Antiquity

Henry Downes

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2023-2024)
  • "American Labor at its Peak: What Did Unions Do?"

Jennifer Dudley

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2022-2023)
  • “The Cultural Capital of Political Incivility: Do Jerks Join Congress or Does Joining Congress Turn People Into Jerks?”

Patrick Graff

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Educational inequality, teacher turnover, and the organizational conditions of K-8 schools

Sam Grieggs

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Automated historical document analysis

Kristin M. Haas

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)

Ross Jensen

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Ecologically-informed neo-Aristotelian ethics and politics

Sara Judy

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Twentieth and twenty-first century American poetry and poetics

Jacob Kildoo

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2022-2023)
  • "The Qur'an's Epistemology: A Scriptural Approach to Human Knowledge"

Arpit Kumar

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2022-2023)
  • "Sociability and British Imperialism in Literature and Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century"

Megan Levis

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Multi-scale coordination of cell communication

Jake McGinnis

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • “Disturbance Ecologies: Antebellum American Travel Literature and Contemporary Environmental Nonfiction”

Eileen M. W. Morgan

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2022-2023)
  • “Structuring Nature: Peacocks, Food, and the History of Science, 1250-1550”

Nicholas Roberts

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Global history of the Omani Empire in the nineteenth century

Shana Scogin

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • “Rebuilding the Foundations: Community Politics of Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Nepal”

Claire Scott-Bacon

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • “Autistic Psychopathy: Size and Specificity between Psychopathy, Autism, and Criminal Responsibility”

Khan Asfandyar Shairani

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • "Renewing Muslim Knowledge Traditions: The Search for Authenticity in 18th-century Ottoman and Mughal Empires”

Emily Smith

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Twentieth-century American history, women, maternity, and reproduction

Jacob Swisher

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2023-2024)
  • "Precious Things: A Planetary History of an Early American Borderland"

Dominique Vargas

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Uses of the corporeal body in contemporary literature by women

Luiz Vilaça

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2020-2021)
  • Anti-corruption reform in Brazil

Bethany Wentz

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2022-2023)
  • “Impact of Emotional Security on Youth Engagement in Sectarian Antisocial Behavior and Youth Participation in Prosocial Behavior”

Alyssa Willson

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2021-2022)
  • “The Ecological Time Machine: Investigating the Past and Present to Improve Ecological Forecasts”

Gregory Wurm

  • University of Notre Dame
  • Graduate Fellow (2022-2023)
  • “Depolarization Nation: Why and How Americans Bridge Political Differences”