Former Fellows

2025-2026

• 

  Mal Ahern

  University of Washington, Seattle

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "Error: The Art of Failure"

• 

  Adriana Albanus

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Ellie Anderson

  Pomona College

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Close Relationships”

• 

  Amelia Beltran '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Judith Bosco '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Sofia Buck '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Patrick Bunal '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Michael Burns

  Loyola University, Chicago

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Flourishing for the Future”

• 

  Matthew Coetzee

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "Rupture and Repair: Community Responses to State Failure and Racial Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa"

• 

  Michael J. Deem

  University of Pittsburgh

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Public Health and Human Flourishing”

• 

  Kyla Ebels-Duggan

  Northwestern University

  • Professor of Philosophy
  • 2025-2026
  • "Think on What is Good: Iris Murdoch’s Moral Philosophy"

• 

  Maria Fernanda Brenner '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Mariana Fernandez-Espinosa

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Thomas Gift

  University College London

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Disagreeing Well”

• 

  Ana María González Paniagua '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Sara Hendren

  Northeastern University

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Design, Dependence, and Human Flourishing”

• 

  Adnan Hoq

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Scott Hurd

  Catholic Charities U.S.A

  • Social Innovator Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Henry Jagodzinski '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Barbara Junisbai

  Pitzer

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "Organizational Learning for Human Thriving"

• 

  Conor Kelly

  Marquette University

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "The Power of Hope"

• 

  Esau McCaulley

  Wheaton College

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “The Bible, Slavery, and Abolition: Scriptural Interpretation for Freedom and Human Flourishing”

• 

  Owen McDonald '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Erin McDonnell

  University of Notre Dame

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "The Good Society"

• 

  Terence McDonnell

  University of Notre Dame

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "The Good Society"

• 

  Emily Hunter McGowin

  Wheaton College

  • Associate Professor of Theology
  • 2025-2026
  • "Saint-Making and Virtue-Building: The Communion of Saints and Christian Higher Education"

• 

  Appolinaire Nikiema '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Karin Nisenbaum

  Syracuse University

  • Associate Professor of Philosophy
  • 2025-2026
  • "The Highest Good in German Idealism"

• 

  Alejandra Nogueda

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "Narratives of Domestic Work and Representations of Domestic Workers in Latin American Literature and Cinema of the 20th and early 21st Centuries"

• 

  Julie Norman

  University College London

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Disagreeing Well”

• 

  Ozioma “Ozzie” Oguine

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Emmanuel Ojeifo

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Who Owns the Land? Theology, Ethics, and Politics of Land in Africa"

• 

  Precious Olaoye '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Robert Chao Romero

  University of California Los Angeles

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Borders: Migration, Ethnic Identity, and Human Flourishing in an Increasingly Diverse U.S. Society”

• 

  Stephania Sanchez '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Anna Sokol

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Bettina Spencer

  Saint Mary's College

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • "Belonging"

• 

  Francie Surdyke '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Gianna Switalski '28

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Annalisa Szymanski

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Catalina Toma

  University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Social Media and Wellbeing”

• 

  Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy

  Catholic Mobilizing Network

  • Social Innovator Fellow
  • 2025-2026

• 

  Joe Vukov

  Loyola University, Chicago

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Flourishing for the Future”

• 

  Kate Ward

  Marquette University

  • Associate Professor of Theological Ethics
  • 2025-2026
  • "Virtue Ethics Comes of Age"

• 

  Paul Weithman

  University of Notre Dame

  • Glynn Family Honors Professor of Philosophy
  • 2025-2026
  • "Stability and Justice in Liberal Democracy"

• 

  Laura Westhoff

  University of Missouri-St. Louis

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “St. Louis: Hope in Action”

• 

  Andre Willis

  Brown University

  • Signature Course Fellow
  • 2025-2026
  • “Systemic Racism and Modes of Resilience”

• 

  Yunyan Zhao

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2025-2026

2024-2025

• 

  Jada Bautista '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Juan Becdach '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Ethan Chiang '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Abby Córdova

  University of Notre Dame

  • Faculty Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • “A Good Life for Women Calls for the End of Gender-Based Violence: But, How to Do So in Some of the Most Challenging Contexts?”

• 

  Shivani Gutierrez '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Chris Heathwood

  University of Colorado Boulder

  • Faculty Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • “Well-Being and Desire”

• 

  Noah Karger

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Rebecca Kates

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • “Emotions and the Ethics of Perception”

• 

  Perla Khattar

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Matthew LaPorte '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Antônio Lemos

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • "The Right to Travel and Dwell in the 16th-Century Spanish Scholastics: A Historical Retrieval in Theological Migration Ethics"

• 

  Anastasia (Ana) Leyendecker '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Laura López-Pérez

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • “High-Risk Activism in Criminal Wars: The Collective Action of Victims’ Families in Mexico”

• 

  Micah Lott

  Boston College

  • Faculty Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • "The Puzzle of Utopia"

• 

  Ziyin (Lisa) Luo '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Laura Moncion

  University of Toronto

  • Faculty Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • “Good in the Next Life? The Nuns of St. Mary Magdalene in Strasbourg, c.1225–1792”

• 

  Matthew Mullin

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • "Affirmative Estrangement in Early Modern English Literature"

• 

  William O'Brien

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Luke Reynolds '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Suzanne Santiago '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Emma Schmidt

  University of Notre Dame

  • IBM Graduate Research Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Nate Sharadin

  University of Hong Kong

  • Faculty Fellow (Fall 2024)
  • 2024-2025
  • "The Meanings of Artificial Achievement"

• 

  Katharine Steffes '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Nicholas Swiderski '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Dani Tutani '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Annabel Wehrle '27

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025

• 

  Benjamin J. Young

  University of Notre Dame

  • Wilsey Distinguished Graduate Fellow
  • 2024-2025
  • “Suburbs of Zion: Evangelicals and the Making of the Metropolitan South, 1940-2000,”

2023-2024

• 

  Meera Bhakta '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  Kaden Cunningham '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  Elena Ding '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  Marcelo Guzman Aguirre '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  Jun Wei Lee '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  Edward Nagler '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  Melissa Osorio '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  Nazwin Palines '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024

• 

  James Thompson '26

  University of Notre Dame

  • Undergraduate Fellow
  • 2023-2024