UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor, Theology
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- Concurrent Professor, Theology
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- Assistant Director, Reilly Center Director, STV
- Fellow, Nanovic Inst for European Studies
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- Founding Member of the Reilly Center
- History
- Professor Emeritus, History
Biography
A founding member of the Reilly Center, Christopher Hamlin is an historian of science, technology and medicine broadly concerned with the application of expertise to matters of public policy. Current projects include an exploration of the natural theological foundations of sensibilities on climate and environment, the history and philosophy of the forensic sciences, and concepts of disease endemicity
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- Assistant Teaching Professor, Philosophy
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- Concurrent Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
- Concurrent Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures / Director, Physis
- Director, Physis
Biography
Robichaud studies the history of philosophy and intellectual history. He works on Platonism, Neoplatonism, Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Philosophy, Italian Renaissance humanism, the classical tradition, and traditions of ancient philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. His research also engages various aspects of philology, premodern manuscript and Early Modern book studies, as well as humanist commentary and textual practices. He is especially interested in the history of Platonism, and its intersections with religious traditions.
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- Associate Professor, English
- Director, Environmental Humanities Initiative
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Dr. Roy Scranton is an essayist, novelist, literary critic, and climate philosopher, best known for his work on war, war literature, and the Anthropocene. He is the author of five books, and has written widely for publications such as the New York Times, Rolling Stone, MIT Technology Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Dr. Scranton grew up in Oregon, dropped out of college, and spent his early twenties wandering the American West. He served four years in the US Army (2002-2006), including fourteen months in Iraq, then completed his bachelor's degree and earned a master's degree at the New School for Social Research, before earning a Ph.D. in English at Princeton.
His essay "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene" was selected for the 2015 Best American Science and Nature Writing. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences at Rice University, has been awarded a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities and a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, and held the inaugural Teaching Lab Fellowship at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.
Dr. Scranton is the founding director of the Notre Dame Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHUM).
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- Professor, Keough School of Global Affairs
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- Associate Professor, History
- Co - Director, History and Philosophy of Science
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- Assistant Professor of Philosophy
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Feraz works primarily at the intersection of philosophy and science, with a particular focus on issues that arise in physics. Most recently, he has worked on questions of probability in primordial cosmology and on philosophical aspects of black hole physics.
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- Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
- Member of the Program of Liberal Studies and of the History
Biography
Francesca Bordogna is a member of the Program of Liberal Studies and of the History and Philosophy of Science Program. Her research concentrates on the history of the sciences and technologies of the mind, especially psychology, and their relationships with philosophy. She is the author of William James at the Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, and the Geography of Knowledge (University of Chicago Press, 2008). She is currently working on a book on a group of early twentieth-century European philosophers who transformed the philosophy of pragmatism into a philosophical, scientific, and political way of life. Her research has been sponsored by grants from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin), the National Humanities Center, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities.
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- Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
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- Historian
- Assistant Professor, History
Biography
Ian Johnson is historian of war, diplomacy, and technology. He received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2016, with a dissertation that explored secret military cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany in the interwar period. During graduate school, he was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, as well as the OSU Presidential Fellowship.
From 2015-2016, Ian was a predoctoral fellow with International Security Studies at Yale University. He then headed to Austin, Texas, where he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Clements Center for National Security and a lecturer in the department of history at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2017, he returned to Yale University as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and lecturer in the department of history.
Research Interests
His research focuses on the origins and conduct of war, and the maintenance of peace. His first monograph, The Faustian Bargain: Secret Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. He has also edited the memoirs of a Russian veteran and revolutionary for publication, The White Nights: Pages from a Russian Doctor's Notebook (http://bowenpressbooks.com/books/whitenights/). He is currently working on a new manuscript exploring the military history of the early Cold War, with a focus on collective security, the question of the atomic bomb, and plans for an international military force. His writing has also appeared in the National Interest, the Claremont Review of Books, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the Global Military Studies Review, the Journal of Global War Studies, Technology and Culture, and the Journal of Slavic Military Studies, among others.
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- Associate Professor of Systematic Theology
- Full Professor, Theology
Biography
J. Matthew Ashley is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology. He received an MTS from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in 1988, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1993, before coming to the University of Notre Dame in the same year. Besides his teaching and research he has served as the Director of Graduate Studies and Department Chair for the Department of Theology. He has written on the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz, and translated and edited four books of Metz's work. He also writes on the liberation philosophy and theology of Ignacio Ellacuria, and on the relationship between science and religion, with a focus on responses to Darwin in the United States from the 1890's until the present. He has just completed a book on the impact of Ignatian spirituality on Catholic theology in the past one hundred years. He has been a Henry Luce III Fellow in theology and just finished a term as the Wolfgang Huber Professor for Ecumenical Theology at the University of Heidelberg.
Biography
Jon T. Coleman is a professor of History, and member of the program in History and Philosophy of Science. His books and teaching span colonial and contemporary America and integrate social, cultural, and environmental approaches. He is the author of Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (Yale University Press, 2004), winner of the W. Turrentine Jackson Award from the Western History Association and the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, and Here Lies Hugh Glass: a Bear, a Mountain Man, and the Rise of the American Nation (Hill & Wang, 2012). With the support of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2013), he is working on an environmental history of movement in America before the widespread use of combustion engines and exploitation of fossil fuels.
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- Associate Professor, English
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- Library Assistant, Reilly Center - STV
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- Professor Emerita, English
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- Assistant Professor of American Studies
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Laurel Daen is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she is affiliated with the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values. Her research and teaching focus on disability, sickness, medicine, and health in America, primarily during the 18 th and 19 th centuries. She is currently completing her first book, which examines the exclusion of disabled people from legal and political rights in early America. This book will be published as part of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture's series at the University of North Carolina Press. Daen's work has also appeared in the Journal of Social History, Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Literature, History Compass, and Rethinking Modern Prostheses in Anglo-American Commodity Cultures, 1820-1939. Her article for the Journal of the Early Republic won the 2018 Outstanding Article Award from the Disability History Association.
Education
Before coming to Notre Dame, Daen earned her Ph.D. from William & Mary in 2016 and held long-term National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Massachusetts Historical Society. While at William & Mary, she received the Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the John E. Selby Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction.
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- Library Assistant
- Library Assistant, Reilly Center - STV
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- Administrator
- Administrative Coordinator, Reilly Center - STV
MacKenzie serves as a center administrator and is the primary contact for HHS, STV, & GLOBES.
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- Teaching Professor, Ansari - Global Engagement W Religion
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- Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
Biography
Michelle Karnes studies late medieval literature in its intellectual context. She investigates medieval theories about how literature affects us-how it engages us, confuses us, or amazes us-by looking at medieval literature and philosophy in tandem. Her first book, Imagination, Meditation, and Cognition in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 2011), explores the role of imagination in medieval religious meditations and theories of cognition. It argues that meditations draw on imagination, as it was newly understood by scholastic philosophers, to give the meditant new power to inhabit imagined scenes. As a consequence, such meditations expand the powers associated with literature. Her current project studies marvels in medieval romance and philosophy. In all of her scholarship, she identifies similar interests between writers of fiction and philosophy, as in the mechanisms of metaphor and the power of marvels, and even in the sort of "truth" that literature lays claim to, and uses those similarities to build arguments about the purpose of literature as it was understood in the late Middle Ages.
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- Associate Professor, Philosophy
- Co - Director, History and Philosophy of Science
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- Assistant Teaching Professor
- Assistant Teaching Professor / Director, a & L Dual Degree Program
- Director, a & L Dual Degree Program
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- Assistant Professor, English
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal researches and teaches about the aesthetic and politico-economic entanglements of our technological cultures. He has won the 2020 Edwin Bruns Prize from the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA), and the 2021 best paper award from the Media, Science and Technology SIG at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS).
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- Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
- Director, Reilly Center
- Historian of Renaissance
Biography
Robert Goulding is a historian of Renaissance science and mathematics. His current book project, Images of Broken Light, concerns the discovery of the law of refraction of light, especially in the forty years from Thomas Harriot's refractive experiments in 1597, to Descartes' publication of the law in 1637. He also has research interests in the history of magic (particularly illusion); science and mathematics at the Renaissance universities; Neoplatonism; and Peter Ramus and Ramism. Goulding's research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Newberry Library, and the Institute for Advanced Study.
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- Library Assistant
- Library Assistant, Reilly Center - STV
Biography
Sean specializes in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle. He came to Notre Dame in 2009, having taught before that at UCLA (1998-2009) and Iowa State (1997-98); he received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Princeton in 1997. His recent publications include ‘Truth and value in Plato's Republic' (Philosophy 88 (2013): 197-218), ‘Empty words' (in D. Ebrey (ed.), Theory and Practice in Aristotle's Natural Science (Cambridge, 2015)), ‘Aristotle on interpreting nature' (in M. Leunissen (ed.), Aristotle's Physics: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2015)), ‘Limited Government in Plato's Republic' (forthcoming in Philosophy (Athens)), and ‘An aporia about aisthêsis' (forthcoming in a volume being edited by R. Radice and M. Zanatta (Unicopli)). He is currently working on a book on Aristotle's De anima (working title Life, Sensibility, and Intelligence)
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- Visiting Assistant Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
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- Associate Professor, Philosophy
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- Associate Professor, Program of Liberal Studies
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- Administrative Coordinator
- Administrative Coordinator, Reilly Center - STV / Administrative Coordinator
Tori serves as the center's administrator and is the primary contact for general business inquiries as well as questions about the Reilly Center's HPS and STV academic programs.
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- Research Assistant, History
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- Director, Health, Humanities, & Society
- Full Professor, Anthropology / Director, Health, Humanities, & Society
Biography
Vania Smith-Oka is a cultural and medical anthropologist who specializes on the effect of institutions (medical, economic, development) on the behavior and choices of marginalized populations, especially women. She has explored the impact of an economic development program on the reproductive lives and motherhood of indigenous women in eastern Mexico. From this research emerged her first book, Shaping the Motherhood of Indigenous Mexico (Vanderbilt, 2013). She also researched the doctor-patient relationship in a maternity ward in the city of Puebla, particularly the role of space/place, notions of social and medical risk, and quality of care. Her current research is investigating how skills, practices, and attitudes of medicine are transmitted to medical students. She is specifically addressing the process by which practices such as obstetric violence become prevalent across some societies.
She teaches a variety of health-related classes: Gender and Health; Anthropology of Reproduction; The Culture of Medicine; and a CSEM on How Doctors Think.