The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) is pleased to announce its 2019-2020 Class of Fellows, with research spanning more than a dozen disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, including architecture, political science, history, environmental studies, Asian studies, Latin American studies, Near-Eastern studies, English literature, philosophy, medical anthropology, economics, and religious studies. For more information on our fellows and their projects, please visit the NDIAS website.
Philip Bess
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Fall 2019)
“After Burnham: The Notre Dame Plan of Chicago 2109”
Eileen Hunt Botting
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Fall 2019)
“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”
Debra Javeline
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Spring 2020)
“Coastal Homeowners in a Changing Climate”
Heather Keenleyside
University of Chicago
Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
“The Literary history of Ideas: Thoughts as Things in Eighteenth-Century Literature”
Robert Latiff
George Mason University
Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
“Future Peace: Resisting War in a Networked World”
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”
Yuliya Minets
Princeton University
Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
“Holy Men Speaking: Languages and Authority in the Ancient Mediterranean”
Evan Ragland
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Spring 2020)
“Remaking the World: Experiment, Ambition, and the Good of Knowing Nature in Early Modern Europe”
Joshua Stuchlik
University of St. Thomas
Residential Fellow (2019-2020)
“Intention and Wrongdoing”
Claire Wendland
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Residential Fellow (Fall 2019)
“Partial Stories: Maternal Death in a Changing African World”
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.
Originally published by at ndias.nd.edu on April 30, 2019.