Past Fellows
Since August 1998 when our inaugural group arrived,
the Erasmus Institute has welcomed over seventy-five fellows, listed below according to their year of residence. Individuals can also be sought by surname,
in a list arranged alphabetically.
Alphabetical List of Past Fellows
2006-07 FELLOWS
CAREY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Maurizio Albahari
University of California - Irvine
Project: Charitable Borders: Pastoral Power at the Southern Edges of Europe
Evyatar Marienberg
Tel Aviv University
Project: "Cardinal Ottaviani stumbled back in humiliation": An Historical Inquiry into the Construction and Dissemination of "The Vatican II Story," 1962-2005
Sarah Powrie
University of Toronto
Project: From Metaphysics into Metaphor: the Changing Purposes of Renaissance Platonism
2005-06 FELLOWS
CAREY POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Randy Boyagoda
Boston University, English
Project: Reading the Human Person Back into the Humanities
Stephen D'Evelyn
University of Cambridge, Medieval Latin Literature
Project: Hildegard of Bingen’s 'Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum': Text, Translations, and Commentary
Alan Durston
University of Chicago, Historical Anthropology
Project: Quechua and the Catholic Translation Tradition in Peru
Tiffany Eberle Kriner
University of Wisconsin-Madison, English
Project: A Future and a Hope: The Eschatology of the Other
and Twentieth-Century American Literature
Bryan T. McGraw
Harvard University, Political Science
Project: Faith in Politics: the Place of Religion in Liberal Democratic Theory and Practice
Paulina Ochoa Espejo
Johns Hopkins University, Political Science
Project: Political Theology: Sources of Legitimacy in the Liberal Democratic State
2004-05 FELLOWS
CAREY SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Anna Battigelli
State University of New York, Plattsburgh
Project: John Dryden and the
Roman Catholic Tradition
in England
Jennifer Herdt
University of Notre Dame
Project: Hypocrisy among the Virtues
JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Eric Gregory
Princeton University
Project: Politics and the Order
of Love:
Modern Variations on Augustinian Themes
Tobias Hoffmann
The Catholic University of America
Project: Practical Rationality
and the “good of virtue”
according to Aquinas
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Johannes Heil
Technische Universität, Berlin
Project: Concerning Theodulf: The
Book, Christians, Jews, Visigoths and Franks
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Eleonora Bonocuore (Spring 2005)
Universitŕ degli Studi di Siena
Project: In Search of the Middle
Term: Pseudo-Lullian Logic and the Work of Bernhard of Lavinheta
as a Link between Ramon Lull’s Thought and Renaissance Lullism
in Europe
John Carlson
The University of Chicago
Project: The Case for Limited
Justice: Human Nature, Irony,
and Transcendence in Political Ethics
Sarah Hammerschlag
The University of Chicago
Project: The Trope of the
Jew: Twentieth-Century Revalorizations out of the Sources of German
Idealism
Florian Michel (Fall 2004)
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Project: The Introduction of the
European Thomistic Revival
in North America
Kevin Ostoyich
Harvard University
Project: The Transatlantic Soul:
German Catholic Emigration
during the Nineteenth Century
Michael Tomko
University of Notre Dame
Project: The Catholic Question
in British Romantic Literature: National Identity, History, and
Religious Politics, 1791-1829
2003-04 Fellows
CAREY SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Thomas Albert Howard
Department of History
Gordon College
Project: Protestant Theology and
the Making of the Modern German University
John Howe
Department of History
Texas Tech University
Project: The Reform of the Latin
Church at the Millennium u
Darcia Narvaez
Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
Project: The Nature of Moral
Character: Integrating Psychological Science with Philosophical
and Theological Perspectives?
JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOW
Morgan Powell
German and French Language and Literature
Franklin College, Switzerland
Project: Mary's Reading: Gender,
Literacy and Gnosis, 1120-1230
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Neslihan Senocak
IISBF Department of History
Bilkent University
Project: Analyzing Fourteenth-Century
Franciscan Library Invertories
Falk Wunderlich
Philosophy
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Project: The Doctrine of the
Soul in the Eighteenth-Century Philosophy of Mind
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Haein Park
Department of Literature
University of California, San Diego
Project: Converging Roads: Catholicism
and American Literary Responses, 1864-1930
Bradford Whitener
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
Project: Varieties of Historical
Consciousness in Modern Germany: Ranke, Döllinger, and Marx
2002-03 Fellows
CAREY SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Ruth Groenhout
Associate Professor, Philosophy,
Calvin College
Project: Created to Care: The
Augustinian Roots
of an Ethics of Care
Sabine MacCormack
Walgreen Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding,
Professor of Classical Studies and History
University of Michigan
Project: History and Social
Thought in Early Colonial Peru
Vincent Rougeau
Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Law School
University of Notre Dame
Project: Sustaining Community
in a Culture of Individuals: Is There a Place for Catholic Social
Thought in American Law?
JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Bernd Goebel
Hannover Institute of Philosophical Research
Project: From Imago Dei
to Absolute Freedom:
The Origins of Modern Moral Anthropology in
13th- and early 14th-century Theology
Brian Lockey
Assistant Professor, English
San Francisco State University
Project: Conquest and English
Legal Identity
in the Early Modern Romance
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Florian Ehrensperger
Philosophy, University of Munich
Project: Salomon Maimon's
Doctrine of Imagination
Slavica Jakelic
Sociology of Religion, Boston University
Project: A Comparative Study
of the Roman Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
and Slovenia:
Religion and Collective Identity
Lara Mancuso
History, El Colegio de Méxcio
Project: Religious Celebrations,
Brotherhoods and Ethno-Racial Identities: A Comparative Analysis
of Ouro Preto, Brazil and Zacatecas, New Spain
Elöd Nemerkenyi
Medieval Studies, Central European University (Budapest)
Project: Latin Classics in
Medieval Hungary:
The Eleventh Century
2001-02 Fellows
CAREY SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
†Rev. Dr. Salvatore Camporeale (Fall)
The Harvard University Center for Italian
Renaissance Studies, I Tatti
Project: Human Free Will and
Divine Predestination in Renaissance Thought: Lorenzo Valla's
De libero arbitrio
(1438-39)
Vittorio Hösle
Paul G. Kimble Professor of Arts and Letters
Professor of German and Russian Languages and Literature
University of Notre Dame
Project: Hermeneutics of Dialogue
Karl Morrison
Gotthold Lessing Professor of History and Poetics
Professor, Department of History
Rutgers University
Project: Know Thyself: Christian
Art and Spirituality in the West
John M. Murrin (Fall)
Professor, Department of History
Princeton University
Project: Upheaval, Social Hysteria,
Reform, and Revolution
in England and the Colonies, 1675-92
JUNIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Margaret Pappano
Assistant Professor, Department of English
and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Project: The Priest's Body in
Performance:
Clerical Playing and Theatrical Space in the Late Middle Ages
Brad Gregory (Spring)
Associate Professor, Department of History
Stanford University
Project: The Seduction of Secularism:
The Displacement of Christianity in Early Modern Europe
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Theodor Paleologu
Ecole Normale Superieure
PhD Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)
and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (München)
Project: "Secret France"
Seen From The Outside
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Wendy Love Anderson
History, University of Chicago Divinity School
Project: Free Spirits, Presumptuous Women, and False Prophets:
The Discernment of Spirits in
the Late Middle Ages
Anne Martinez
American Studies, University of Minnesota
Project: Sacred Journeys: Mexican
Migration to Chicago
and the Export of Catholicism to Mexico, 1910-1929
Julia Cummings O'Hara
History, Indiana University, Bloomington
Project: Transforming the Sierra:
Missionaries, Indians,
and the State in Chihuahua, Mexico, ca. 1900-1960
Dorothea Rice
English, University of Chicago
Project: Rewriting Early Modern
Eden: Literature, Epistemology, and Discourses of the Fall, 1605-1674
2000-01 Fellows
SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
George Howard
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
Project: Against the Idols of
our Age
Martin Maehr
Professor, Education and Psychology
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Project: Meaning and Motivation:
Toward an Integration of Psychological, Religious
and Philosophical Perspectives
Michael G. Peletz
W.S. Schupf Professor of Far Eastern Studies
and Professor of Anthropology
Colgate University
Project: Sacred Texts, Contested
States:
Islamic Courts and Modernity in Malaysia
JUNIOR FACULTY AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Mary M. Keys
Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International
Studies
University of Notre Dame
Project: Virtue, Law, and the Common
Good:
The Relevance of Thomas Aquinas
Lisa Lampert
Assistant Professor, Department of English
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project: After Eden, Out of Zion:
Creating the Christian
in Early English Literature
Collin Meissner
Assistant Provost
University of Notre Dame
Project: Reading and the Public
Sphere
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Nicholas Creary
History, Michigan State University
Project: Domesticating a Foreign
Import: Inculturating the Catholic Church in Southern Africa at
Jesuit Missions,
1879-1980
Paul V. Kollman, C.S.C.
History of Religions, University of Chicago Divinity School
Project: Making Catholics: 19th
Century Slave Evangelization
at the East African Coast
Patrick Provost-Smith
History, Johns Hopkins University
Project: Between the Gospel
of Peace and the Sword of War: The Missionary Strategies of José
de Acosta (1540-1600)
and Matteo Ricci (1552-1610)
Kristin Ann Schwain
Art and Art History, Stanford University
Project: Figuring Belief: American
Art and Modern Piety,
1890-1917
1999-2000
Fellows
SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Gary Gutting (Spring)
Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame
Project: Religion and Existential
Phenomenology:
Marcel, Levinas, and Ricoeur
Wesley Kort
Professor, Department of Religious Studies
Duke University
Project: Religion and the Language
of Place and Space
in Modern English Fiction
Roger Lundin
Kilby Professor of English
Wheaton College
Project: Natural Experience:
Emerson and the Shaping
of American Pragmatism
John McGreevy (Fall)
Associate Professor, Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Project: Thinking On One's
Own: Catholicism and
American Liberalism from Slavery to Abortion
JUNIOR FACULTY AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Steve Alter (Fall)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of Notre Dame
Project: Near Eastern Archaeology
and Biblical Criticism
in American Scholarship, 1850-1940
William Collins Donahue
Assistant Professor, Department of German
Rutgers University
Project: Afterlives: The Reprise
of the "Secularization Narrative" in Modern German Culture
Susan Rosa
Associate Professor, Department of History
Northeastern Illinois University
Project: Catholic Polemic and the
Origins
of Enlightenment Rationalism
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Terri Bays
Literature, University of California at Los Angeles
Project: Liturgical Inclusion in
Late-Medieval English Literature
Anita Houck
Religion and Literature, University of Chicago Divinity School
Project: If God is God: Laughter
and the Divine
in Ancient Greek and Modern Christian Literature
Pamela Jason
Political Science, Catholic University of America
Project: Divine Artifice and Sovereign
Fiat:
The Opposing Nominalist Political Constructs
of George Lawson and Thomas Hobbes
Daniella Kostroun
History, Duke University
Project: Gender and Church-State
Relations in Absolutist France: The Case of the Port Royal Nuns,
1609-1709
1998-99 Fellows
SENIOR FACULTY FELLOWS
Clarke E. Cochran
Professor, Department of Political Science
Texas Tech University
Project: Catholic social thought
and the transformation
of public institutions
John E. Hare (Fall)
Professor, Department of Philosophy
Calvin College
Project: The doctrine of creation
and its implications for ethical theory
Alan J. Torrance
Director of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology and
Senior Lecturer, Department of Theology and Religious Studies
King's College, University of London
Project: The Christian contribution
to the concept
of the "open society"
JUNIOR FACULTY AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Mark C. Murphy
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy
Georgetown University
Project: Natural law theory,
political obligation,
and the common good
Daniel Philpott
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of California at Santa Barbara
Project: Christian social thought
and the
circumscription of state sovereignty
Marianne Sawicki
Instructor, Department of Philosophy and Religion
Eastern Kentucky University
Project: Resolving conflicts
of "identity politics" using the concept of empathy
articulated by phenomenologist Edith Stein
Stephen Schloesser, S.J. (Spring)
Ph.D. (Dec. 1998), Department of History
Stanford University
Project: Articulation of
a Catholic modernity:
The French "Catholic revival" in the interwar years
Christopher Shannon
Curator and Instructor, Selznik School of Film Preservation
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Project: The Catholic conception
of tradition
compared with the anthropological
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Benjamin A. Ehlers
History, Johns Hopkins University
Project: Juan de Ribera and Counterreformation
religious reform in Valencia
Jeffrey Hensley
Religious Studies, Yale University
Project: Divine agency and reciprocity
in the theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher
John von Heyking
Government, University of Notre Dame
Project: Augustine's theory
of virtue as a remedy for the deficiencies of technological rationality
and liberal political theory
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