Publications

Writing for the Dignity and Development blog published by Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, Lee discusses the challenges workers may face with the rapid adoption of AI in the near future.

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The Evolving Impact of Robots on Jobs

John Chung, Yong Suk Lee
ILR Review, 2023

This paper examines a key concern related to technology adoption: whether or not new technologies replace workers and create adverse labor market consequences.

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The Washington Book

Carlos Lozada
Simon & Schuster: 2024

Pulitzer Prize–winning opinion columnist Carlos Lozada explores how people in power reveal themselves through their books and writings.

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Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility

Henrike Christiane Lange
Cambridge University Press: 2023

This book enables scholars and students to rediscover Giotto's Arena Chapel and to see it with new eyes.

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Eclipse and Revelation: Total Solar Eclipses in Science, History, Literature, and the Arts

Henrike C. Lange and Tom McLeish, eds.
Oxford University Press: 2024

Delivers a unique framework and an entirely new model of truly interdisciplinary scholarship about total solar eclipses across the sciences, arts, humanities, history, and theology.

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Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts

Mark William Roche
University of Notre Dame Press: 2023

This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.

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Music in Medieval Rituals for the End of Life

Elaine Stratton Hild
Oxford University Press: 2024

Author Elaine Stratton Hild examines and recovers the chants sung for the dying during the Middle Ages, beginning in the late eighth century.

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The Uses of Idolatry

William T. Cavanaugh
Oxford University Press: 2024

William T. Cavanaugh offers a sustained and interdisciplinary argument that worship has not waned in our supposedly “secular” world—rather, the target of worship has changed.

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Love & Despair: How Catholic Activism Shaped Politics and the Counterculture in Modern Mexico

Jaime M. Pensado
University of California Press: 2023

Love and Despair explores the ways that Catholic priests, lay activists, journalists, intellectuals, and filmmakers responded to competing notions of modernity in Cold War Mexico.

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A History of Fake Things on the Internet

Walter J. Scheirer
Stanford University Press: 2024

An expert in machine learning and recognition, computer scientist Walter J. Scheirer takes a deep dive into the origins of fake news and conspiracy theories.

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The Theological Foundations of the Right to Stay in Catholic Social Teaching

Antônio Lemos
Journal on Migration and Human Security, 2025

The right to stay emerged as a fundamental principle in modern Catholic social teaching (CST) in the twentieth century, even preceding the right to migrate.

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Robots and Labor in Nursing Homes

Yong Suk Lee, University of Notre Dame; Toshiaki Iizuka, University of Tokyo, Japan; and Karen Eggleston, Stanford University and NBER, USA
Labour Economics, 2025

ECG's program chair for technology ethics Yong Suk Lee and his co-authors argue that robot adoption complements care workers by reducing quit rates, and is associated with better quality of care.

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Institutional Neutrality Is a Cop-out: Colleges Must Speak with Their Own True Voices

Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2025

Colleges are lightning rods for controversy not only because they foster open, vigorous discussion and debate, but also because they are centers of learning and education and, as such, their decisions — and their institutional voice — matter in society.

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Trump’s economists should study what happened in Japan and South Korea

Yong Suk Lee
The Hill, May 29, 2025

The Trump administration’s economic strategy — achieving trade surpluses and deploying tariffs and non-tariff barriers to protect domestic industries and promote growth — is reminiscent of the strategies that Japan and South Korea pursued during their per

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To Fix Our Immigration System, Promote the "Right to Stay"

Antônio Lemos
U.S. Catholic, 2025

In the midst of massive deportations and growing attention to border crises in the United States, the church’s teaching not only affirms people’s right to migrate but also emphasizes the freedom people have to remain in their homeland.

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AI and the Subjective Crisis of Knowledge

Paul Scherz and Luis Vera
Journal of Religious Ethics, June 2025

The article addresses the epistemological instability created by AI, and suggests we can address resulting ethical problems by returning to practices of the self that philosophers and theologians have relied on in the past.

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