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Past Fellows — Alphabetically

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Albahari, Maurizio
University of California - Irvine
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-07)
Project:  Charitable Borders: Pastoral Power at the Southern Edges of Europe 

Alter, Steve
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Postdoctoral Fellow (Fall 1999)
Project: Near Eastern Archaeology and Biblical Criticism in American Scholarship, 1850-1940

Anderson, Wendy Love
History, University of Chicago Divinity School
Dissertation Fellow (2001-02)
Project: Free Spirits, Presumptuous Women, and False Prophets: The Discernment of Spirits in the Late Middle Ages

Battigelli, Anna
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2004-05)
Project: John Dryden and the Roman Catholic Tradition
in England

Bays, Terri
Literature, University of California at Los Angeles
Dissertation Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: Liturgical Inclusion in Late-Medieval English Literature

Bonocuore, Eleonora
Università degli Studi di Siena
Dissertation Fellow (Spring 2005)
Project: In Search of the Middle Term: Pseudo-Lullian Logic and the Work of Bernhard of Lavinheta as a Link between Ramon Lull’s Thought and Renaissance Lullism in Europe

Boyagoda, Randy
English, Boston University
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-06)
Project:  Reading the Human Person Back into the Humanities

†Camporeale, Rev. Dr. Salvatore
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, I Tatti
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (Fall 2001)
Project: Human Free Will and Divine Predestination in Renaissance Thought: Lorenzo Valla's De libero arbitrio (1438-39)

Carlson, John
The University of Chicago
Dissertation Fellow (2004-05)
Project: The Case for Limited Justice: Human Nature, Irony,
and Transcendence in Political Ethics

Cochran, Clarke E.
Professor, Department of Political Science
Texas Tech University
Senior Faculty Fellow (1998-99)
Project: Catholic social thought and the transformation of public institutions

Creary, Nicholas
History, Michigan State University
Dissertation Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Domesticating a Foreign Import: Inculturating the Catholic Church in Southern Africa at Jesuit Missions, 1879-1980

D'Evelyn, Stephen
Medieval Latin, University of Cambridge
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-06)
Project:  Hildegard of Bingen’s 'Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum': Text, Translations, and Commentary

Donahue, William Collins
Assistant Professor, Department of German
Rutgers University
Junior Faculty Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: Afterlives: The Reprise of the "Secularization Narrative" in Modern German Culture

Durston, Alan
Historical Anthropology, University of Chicago
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-06)
Project: Quechua and the Catholic Translation Tradition in Peru

Eberle Kriner, Tiffany
English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-06)
Project: A Future and a Hope: The Eschatology of the Other
and Twentieth-Century American Literature


Ehlers, Benjamin A.
History, Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation Fellow (1998-99)
Project: Juan de Ribera and Counterreformation religious reform in Valencia

Ehrensperger, Florian
Philosophy, University of Munich
Dissertation fellow (2002-03)
Project: Salomon Maimon's Doctrine of Imagination

Goebel, Bernd
Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research
Junior Faculty Fellow (2002-03)
Project: From Imago Dei to Absolute Freedom: The Origins of Modern
Moral Anthropology in 13th- and early 14th-century Theology

Gregory, Brad
Associate Professor, Department of History
Stanford University
Junior Faculty Fellow (Spring 2002)
Project: The Seduction of Secularism: The Displacement of Christianity in Early Modern Europe

Gregory, Eric
Princeton University
Junior Faculty Fellow (2004-05)
Project: Politics and the Order of Love:
Modern Variations on Augustinian Themes


Groenhout, Ruth
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Calvin College
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2002-03)
Project: Created to Care: The Augustinian Roots of an Ethics of Care

Gutting, Gary
Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Senior Faculty Fellow (Spring 2000)
Project: Religion and Existential Phenomenology: Marcel, Levinas, and Ricoeur

Hammerschlag, Sarah
The University of Chicago
Dissertation Fellow (2004-05)
Project: The Trope of the Jew: Twentieth-Century Revalorizations out of the Sources of German Idealism

Hare, John E.
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Calvin College
Senior Faculty Fellow (Fall 1998)
Project: The doctrine of creation and its implications for ethical theory

Heil, Johannes
Technische Universität, Berlin
Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-05)
Project: Concerning Theodulf: The Book, Christians, Jews, Visigoths and Franks

Hensley, Jeffrey
Religious Studies, Yale University
Dissertation Fellow (1998-99)
Project: Divine agency and reciprocity in the theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher

Herdt, Jennifer
University of Notre Dame
Carey Senior Fellow (2004-05)
Project: Hypocrisy among the Virtues

Heyking, John von
Government, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation Fellow (1998-99)
Project: Augustine's theory of virtue as a remedy for the deficiencies of technological rationality and liberal political theory

Hoffmann, Tobias
The Catholic University of America
Junior Faculty Fellow (2004-05)
Project: Practical Rationality and the “good of virtue”
according to Aquinas

Hösle, Vittorio
Paul G. Kimble Professor of Arts and Letters
Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literature
University of Notre Dame
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2001-02)
Project: Hermeneutics of Dialogue

Houck, Anita
Religion and Literature, University of Chicago Divinity School
Dissertation Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: If God is God: Laughter and the Divine in Ancient Greek and Modern Christian Literature

Howard, George
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
Senior Faculty Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Against the Idols of our Age

Howard, Thomas Albert
Associate Professor, Department of History
Gordon College
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2003-04)
Project: Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University

Howe, John
Professor, Department of History
Texas Tech University
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2003-04)
Project: The Reform of the Latin Church at the Millennium

Jakelic, Slavica
Sociology of Religion, Boston University
Dissertation Fellow (2002-03)
Project: A Comparative Study of the Roman Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia: Religion and Collective Identity

Jason, Pamela
Political Science, Catholic University of America
Dissertation Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: Divine Artifice and Sovereign Fiat: The Opposing Nominalist Political Constructs of George Lawson and Thomas Hobbes

Keys, Mary M.
Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies
University of Notre Dame
Junior Faculty Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Virtue, Law, and the Common Good: The Relevance of Thomas Aquinas

Kollman,C.S.C, Paul V.
History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School
Dissertation Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Making Catholics: 19th Century Slave Evangelization at the East African Coast

Kort, Wesley
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Duke University
Senior Faculty Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: Religion and the Language of Place and Space in Modern English Fiction

Kostroun, Daniella
History, Duke University
Dissertation Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: Gender and Church-State Relations in Absolutist France: The Case of the Port Royal Nuns, 1609-1709

Lampert, Lisa
Assistant Professor, Department of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Junior Faculty Fellow (2000-01)
Project: After Eden, Out of Zion: Creating the Christian in Early English Literature

Lockey, Brian
Assistant Professor, English
San Francisco State University
Junior Faculty Fellow (2002-03)
Project: Conquest and English Legal Identity in the Early Modern Romance

Lundin, Roger
Kilby Professor of English
Wheaton College
Senior Faculty Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: Natural Experience: Emerson and the Shaping of American Pragmatism

MacCormack, Sabine
Walgreen Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding,
Professor of Classical Studies and History
University of Michigan
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2002-03)
Project: History and Social Thought in Early Colonial Peru

Maehr, Martin
Professor, Education and Psychology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Senior Faculty Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Meaning and Motivation:
Toward an Integration of Psychological, Religious and Philosophical Perspectives

Mancuso, Lara
History, El Colegio de Méxcio
Dissertation Fellow (2002-03)
Project: Religious Celebrations, Brotherhoods and Ethno-Racial Identities:
A Comparative Analysis of Ouro Preto, Brazil and Zacatecas, New Spain

Marienberg, Evyatar
Tel Aviv University
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-07)
Project: "Cardinal Ottaviani stumbled back in humiliation": An Historical Inquiry into the Construction and Dissemination of "The Vatican II Story," 1962-2005

Martinez, Anne
American Studies, University of Minnesota
Dissertation Fellow (2001-02)
Project: Sacred Journeys: Mexican Migration to Chicago and the Export of Catholicism to Mexico, 1910-1929

McGraw, Bryan T.
Government, Harvard University
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-06)
Project: Faith in Politics: the Place of Religion in Liberal Democratic Theory and Practice

McGreevy, John
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Senior Faculty Fellow (Fall 1999)
Project: Thinking On One's Own: Catholicism and American Liberalism from Slavery to Abortion

Meissner, Collin
Assistant Provost
University of Notre Dame
Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Reading and the Public Sphere

Michel, Florian
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Dissertation Fellow (Fall 2004)
Project: The Introduction of the European Thomistic Revival
in North America

Morrison, Karl
Gotthold Lessing Professor of History and Poetics
Professor, Department of History
Rutgers University
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2001-02)
Project: Know Thyself: Christian Art and Spirituality in the West

Murphy, Mark C.
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Georgetown University
Junior Faculty Fellow (1998-99)
Project: Natural law theory, political obligation, and the common good

Murrin, John M.
Professor, Department of History
Princeton University
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (Fall 2001)
Project: Upheaval, Social Hysteria, Reform, and Revolution in England and the Colonies, 1675-92

Narvaez, Darcia
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2003-04)
Project: The Nature of Moral Character: Integrating Psychological Science with Philosophical and Theological Perspectives

Nemerkenyi, Elöd
Medieval Studies, Central European University (Budapest)
Dissertation Fellow (2002-03)
Project: Latin Classics in Medieval Hungary:
The Eleventh Century

Ochoa Espejo, Paulina
Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-06)
Project: Political Theology: Sources of Legitimacy in the Liberal Democratic State

O'Hara, Julia Cummings
History, Indiana University, Bloomington
Dissertation Fellow (2001-02)
Project: Transforming the Sierra: Missionaries, Indians, and the State in Chihuahua, Mexico, ca. 1900-1960

Ostoyich, Kevin
Harvard University
Dissertation Fellow (2004-05)
Project: The Transatlantic Soul: German Catholic Emigration
during the Nineteenth Century

Paleologu, Theodor
Ecole Normale Superieure
PhD Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (München)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2001-02)
Project: "Secret France" Seen From The Outside

Pappano, Margaret
Assistant Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Junior Faculty Fellow (2001-02)
Project: The Priest's Body in Performance: Clerical Playing and Theatrical Space in the Late Middle Ages

Park, Haein
Department of Literature
University of California, San Diego
Dissertation Fellow (2003-04)
Project: Converging Roads: Catholicism and American Literary Responses, 1864-1930

Peletz, Michael G.
W.S. Schupf Professor of Far Eastern Studies
and Professor of Anthropology
Colgate University
Senior Faculty Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Sacred Texts, Contested States: Islamic Courts and Modernity in Malaysia

Philpott, Daniel
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of California at Santa Barbara
Junior Faculty Fellow (1998-99)
Project: Christian social thought and the circumscription of state sovereignty

Powell, Morgan
Assistant Professor, German and French Language and Literature
Franklin College, Switzerland
Junior Faculty Fellow (2003-04)
Project: Mary's Reading: Gender, Literacy and Gnosis, 1120-1230

Powrie, Sarah
University of Toronto
Carey Postdoctoral Fellow (2006-07)
Project: From Metaphysics into Metaphor: the Changing Purposes of Renaissance Platonism

Provost-Smith, Patrick
History, Johns Hopkins University
Dissertation Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Between the Gospel of Peace and the Sword of War: The Missionary Strategies of José de Acosta (1540-1600) and Matteo Ricci
(1552-1610)

Rice Hawthorne, Dorothea
English, University of Chicago
Dissertation Fellow (2001-02)
Project: Rewriting Early Modern Eden: Literature, Epistemology, and Discourses of the Fall, 1605-1674

Rosa, Susan
Associate Professor, Department of History
Northeastern Illinois University
Junior Faculty Fellow (1999-2000)
Project: Catholic Polemic and the Origins of Enlightenment Rationalism

Rougeau, Vincent
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Law School
University of Notre Dame
Carey Senior Faculty Fellow (2002-03)
Project: Sustaining Community in a Culture of Individuals: Is There a Place for Catholic Social Thought in American Law?

Sawicki, Marianne
Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Eastern Kentucky University
Postdoctoral Fellow (1998-99)
Project: Resolving conflicts of "identity politics" using the concept of empathy articulated by phenomenologist Edith Stein

Schloesser, S.J., Stephen
Ph.D. (Dec. 1998), Department of History
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 1999)
Project: Articulation of a Catholic modernity: The French "Catholic revival" in the interwar years

Schwain, Kristin Ann
Art and Art History, Stanford University
Dissertation Fellow (2000-01)
Project: Figuring Belief: American Art and Modern Piety, 1890-1917

Senocak, Neslihan
IISBF Department of History
Bilkent University
Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-04)
Project: Analyzing Fourteenth-Century Franciscan Library Invertories

Shannon, Christopher
Curator and Instructor, Selznik School of Film Preservation
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Postdoctoral Fellow (1998-99)
Project: The Catholic conception of tradition compared with the anthropological

Tomko, Michael
University of Notre Dame
Dissertation Fellow (2004-05)
Project: The Catholic Question in British Romantic Literature: National Identity, History, and Religious Politics, 1791-1829

Torrance, Alan J.
Director of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology and Senior Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
King's College, University of London
Senior Faculty Fellow (1998-99)
Project: The Christian contribution to the concept of the "open society"

Whitener, Bradford
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
Dissertation Fellow (2003-04)
Project: Varieties of Historical Consciousness in Modern Germany: Ranke, Döllinger, and Marx

Wunderlich, Falk
Philosophy
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-04)
Project: The Doctrine of the Soul in the Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind


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