The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study are pleased to announce our 2017-2018 Class of Director’s, Residential, and Graduate Student Fellows, two of whom are Fellows of the Medieval Institute: Robin Jensen and Claire "CJ" Jones. Research supported by the NDIAS spans more than a dozen disciplines in the arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences, including anthropology, art history, biochemistry, cosmology, film studies, German, history, literature, Medieval studies, musicology, philosophy, physics, religious studies and theology, among others. For more information on our fellows and their projects, please view their respective bio pages on the NDIAS website.
Susan D. Blum
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Fall 2017)
“Wellbeing, Suffering, and Schooling”
Harvey Brown
University of Oxford
Residential Fellow (Spring 2018)
“New Problems in the Philosophy of Physics”
Eric J. Chaisson
Harvard University and Smithsonian Institution
Director’s Fellow (Spring 2018)
“Giving Back: Cosmology Applications for Human Society”
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Harvard Divinity School
Residential Fellow (Spring 2018)
“Two Experiments Leading from (Hindu) Ritual to (Christian) Theology”
Xinyu Dong
University of Chicago
Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
“Ernst Lubitsch Goes to China: The Art of Ellipsis in the Age of World Cinema”
Patrick Griffin
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Fall 2017)
“The Provincial Imagination: Mapping the Eighteenth Century through Britain’s Provincial Artists”
Tomáš Halík
Charles University
Director’s Fellow (Fall 2017)
“The Theological Hermeneutics of Contemporary History”
Luc Jaeger
University of California, Santa Barbara
Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
“Zoe, Bios, Psyche, and the Quest for True Life”
Robin M. Jensen
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Spring 2018)
“The Intercessory Image: Christians and the Potency of Material Objects”
Claire Taylor Jones
University of Notre Dame
Residential Fellow (Spring 2018)
“Legislation and Liturgy: The Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Nürnberg”
Henrike Christiane Lange
University of California, Berkeley
Residential Fellow (2017-2018)
“Giotto’s Triumph: The Arena Chapel and the First Beginning of the Renaissance”
Janice G. Martin
University of Notre Dame
Graduate Student Fellow (2017-2018)
“Hooves, Harnesses, and Healing: Equine Medicine and Stewardship in Early Modern Castile”
Bernard McGinn
University of Chicago
Residential Fellow (Fall 2017)
“Mysticism in Catholic Italy, Germany, and France, 1500-1650”
Tom McLeish, FRS
Durham University
Director’s Fellow (Fall 2017)
“The Poetry and Music of Science: A Comparison of Creativity in the Arts and Sciences”
Finola Prendergast
University of Notre Dame
Graduate Student Fellow (2017-2018)
“Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Moral Discourse in Contemporary U.S. Literature”
Kaya Şahin
Indiana University
Residential Fellow (Fall 2017)
“A Performative Empire: Ottoman Imperial Ceremonies, 1520-1566”
Elaine Stratton Hild
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Residential Fellow (Spring 2018)
“Historical Uses of Palliative Music: Recovering Melodic Material from European Rites for the Sick and Dying”
Originally published by at ndias.nd.edu on May 18, 2017.
Modified by Brandon Cook on July 26, 2017.