NDIAS Graduate Fellows

NDIAS Graduate Fellows are students of the University of Notre Dame unless otherwise noted.

2023-2024

Makella Brems, "Restoring Glaucus: The Nature of Freedom and the Freedom of Nature"
Sara Chan, "Disability, Testimony, and Love"
Jaylexia Clark, "Racing Towards Global Racial Capitalism: An Investigation of How Racial and Gender Inequality is Reproduced in the Platform and Gig Economy"
Henry Downes, "American Labor at its Peak: What Did Unions Do?"
Jacob Swisher, "Precious Things: A Planetary History of an Early American Borderland"

Jennifer Dudley, “The Cultural Capital of Political Incivility: Do Jerks Join Congress or Does Joining Congress Turn People Into Jerks?”
Jacob Kildoo, "The Qur'an's Epistemology: A Scriptural Approach to Human Knowledge"
Arpit Kumar, "Sociability and British Imperialism in Literature and Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century"
Eileen M. W. Morgan, “Structuring Nature: Peacocks, Food, and the History of Science, 1250-1550”
Bethany Wentz, “Impact of Emotional Security on Youth Engagement in Sectarian Antisocial Behavior and Youth Participation in Prosocial Behavior”
Gregory Wurm, “Depolarization Nation: Why and How Americans Bridge Political Differences”

Brian Boyd, "Full Equality in Exchange: A Renewed Theory of the Just Wage"
Char Brecevic, "Patient Nonadherence: Imagining a Way Forward"
Claudia Carroll, “Why Characters Feel Real: Representations of Consciousness in the Nineteenth-Century Novel”
Kristin M. Haas, "The Ecological Significance of Louis Bouyer’s Historical and Eschatological Theology"
Jake McGinnis, “Disturbance Ecologies: Antebellum American Travel Literature and Contemporary Environmental Nonfiction”
Shana Scogin, “Rebuilding the Foundations: Community Politics of Reconstruction in Post-Earthquake Nepal”
Claire Scott-Bacon, “Autistic Psychopathy: Size and Specificity between Psychopathy, Autism, and Criminal Responsibility”
Khan Asfandyar Shairani, "Renewing Muslim Knowledge Traditions: The Search for Authenticity in 18th-century Ottoman and Mughal Empires”
Alyssa Willson, “The Ecological Time Machine: Investigating the Past and Present to Improve Ecological Forecasts”

Melissa Coles, "History and Theology of Interreligious Pilgrimages"
J. Columcille (Colum) Dever, "Christian Reading and Writing in Late Antiquity"
Patrick Graff, "Educational Inequality, Teacher Turnover, and the Organizational Conditions of K-8 Schools"
Sam Grieggs, "Automated Historical Document Analysis"
Kristin M. Haas, "The Ecological Significance of Louis Bouyer’s Historical and Eschatological Theology"
Ross Jensen, "Ecologically-Informed Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Politics"
Sara Judy, "Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Poetry and Poetics"
Megan Levis, University of Notre Dame, "Multi-Scale Coordination of Cell Communication"
Nicholas Roberts, "Global History of the Omani Empire in the Nineteenth Century"
Emily Smith, "Twentieth-Century American History, Women, Maternity, and Reproduction"
Dominique Vargas, "Uses of the Corporeal Body in Contemporary Literature by Women"
Luiz Vilaça, "Anti-Corruption Reform in Brazil"

Clare Kim (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Manifold Modernisms: Thinking and Knowing Mathematics in the Mid-20th-Century United States"
Raphael Mary Salzillo, O.P., "Aquinas on the Ontology of the Human Person and its Implications for Ethics"

Janice Gunther Martin, "Unburdening the Beasts: Equine Medicine and Expert Healers in Early Modern Castile"
Finola Prendergast, "Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Moral Discourse in Contemporary U.S. Literature"

Evan Claudeanos, “The Epistemology of Data-Intensive Science: How Big Data Is Changing Scientific Knowledge and Its Acquisition”
Cassandra Painter (Vanderbilt University), "The Life and Afterlife of Anna Katharina Emmerick: Reimagining Catholicism in Modern Germany”

Laura E. Bland, "Unfriendly Skies: The Comet of 1680 in the Spanish and English Empires"

Hilary Davidson, "Searching for the Good Life: How Cultural Narratives Anchor the Aspirations of Emerging Adults"
Naomi Fisher, "Natural Reason: Rationality as Emerging out of Animal Nature"
Daniel John Sportiello, "The Primacy of the Practical in the History of Philosophy"

Margaret Garvey, "Returning to Aristotle’s Body: The Montessorian Educational Philosophy and Embodied Arts Practice of Jacques Copeau"
Ethan John Guagliardo, "The Limelight of the Idols: Poetry and Political Theology in Early Modern England"
Bharat Ranganathan (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Religious Ethics and Obligations to Others"

Melissa Dinsman, "Radio at War: Literature, Propaganda, and the Emergence of New Modernist Networks during World War II"
Richard Oosterhoff, “Making Mathematical Culture: Piety and Print in Renaissance Paris”

David Lantigua, “Idolatry and the Rights of Infidels: The Christian Legal Theory of Religious Toleration in the New World”
Laura Rominger Porter, “From Sin to Crime: Evangelicals, Politics, and Public Moral Order in the Nineteenth-Century Upper South“

Eric J. Bugyis (Yale University), “Beyond Shadows and Ghosts: The Aesthetic Validity of Post- Metaphysical Religion and Post-Secular Politics in Habermas, Derrida, and Kant”
Mary Hirschfeld, "Virtuous Consumption in a Dynamic Economy: A Thomistic Engagement with Neoclassical Economics”
Andrea L. Turpin, “Gender, Religion, and Moral Vision in the American Academy, 1837-1917”