22–23 Fellows
Nicholas Anderson
Princeton University
Department of Politics
Nicholas Anderson is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His academic interests include the history of political thought, German Idealism, the philosophy of history, and the relationship between aesthetics and politics. While at Princeton, he will work on a book manuscript on the political philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Nicholas earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College and has a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College, Santa Fe.
Kyu-Been Chun
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Economics
Kyu-Been Chun is the Asness Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Economics working with Professor Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde at the Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets (PISM). He works in the field of classical political philosophy and American political thought. His current research is on the intersection between factional conflict, equality, and perception in Aristotle's philosophy. He holds a BA in philosophy from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign and a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy and American Politics from Claremont Graduate University.
Shawn Phillip Cooper
Princeton University
Department of Politics
Shawn Phillip Cooper is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His academic interests center on the relationship between political philosophy and culture, and his work focuses on the complex interplay between political theory, cultural practices, and literary depictions of polities. While at Princeton, he will draft a book manuscript that addresses how an emerging Hobbesian state of nature in the American Constitutional order may be addressed by a Common Good administrative state constrained within the framework of Madisonian Democracy. He holds a Ph.D. in English Literature and Culture from Wayne State University, an M.A. in English from Oakland University, and a B.A. in English and History from Oakland University.
Charlotte Duffee
Harvard University
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Charlotte Duffee is a John and Daria postdoctoral fellow with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history and philosophy of suffering in Western thought, with an eye toward contemporary medical debates over the measurement, assessment, and treatment of suffering. She completed her Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Toronto, where she also obtained a B.A. in philosophy and a M.A. in the history and philosophy of science. She holds additional M.A. degrees in philosophy and in bioethics from the New School for Social Research and New York University respectively.
Luke Foster
University of Notre Dame
Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government
Luke Foster is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government, where his research concerns the education of elites in democracy according to Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Irving Babbitt. He is currently at work on a book project examining the French and American republics' understanding of elite education as a means of reconciling aristocratic claims of excellence with democratic claims of equality. He holds a PhD and MA from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought and a BA from Columbia University, where he studied English and history. Prior to coming to Notre Dame, he was a Visiting Research Fellow and Lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris.
Natalie Hannan
Duke University
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Natalie Hannan is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the Civil Discourse Project within the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Her research focuses on the intersection between ethics and theories of knowledge in ancient philosophy; she is currently working on a book project about knowledge, truth, and virtue in Plato. She has additional interests in the philosophy of religion and classical East Asian and South Asian philosophy. Before coming to Duke, Natalie taught at the University of Rochester. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University and a B.A. in Philosophy from Princeton University.
Chad Hegelmeyer
New York University
Department of English
Chad Hegelmeyer is a postdoctoral fellow in the English department of New York University, where he also completed his Ph.D. in 2020. His dissertation examined the fact-checking of poetry, fiction, and literary journalism at major American magazines since the 1930s, arguing that these peculiar practices belong to a more pervasive, critically neglected concern with factual accuracy in American literature. More broadly, his research focuses on literary production within institutional contexts like magazines, prisons, and the U.S. military. Chad graduated with a B.A. in English and Linguistics from UC Berkeley. At NYU he teaches courses in American literature and literary theory.
Kate Jackson-Meyer
Harvard University
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Kate Jackson-Meyer is a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Kate’s current research investigates bioethics, war, peacemaking, and clergy abuse to analyze the complexity of moral decision-making and the prospects for healing amid tragic dilemmas, moral distress, and moral injury. Her work has been published in outlets such as Health Progress, Political Theology Network, and Health Care Ethics USA. Kate’s first book, Tragic Dilemmas in Christian Ethics, will be published in fall 2022 by Georgetown University Press. Kate has taught at Boston College and Catholic Theological Union. Kate earned a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College, a M.A.R. in ethics from Yale Divinity School, and a B.A. in biology and religion from the University of Southern California.
Iván Luzardo Luna
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Economics
Iván Luzardo Luna is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Economics working with Professor Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde at the Penn Initiative for the Study of Markets (PISM). His primary research focuses on quantitative economic history and is aimed at identifying the reasons behind structural unemployment. He also considers how labor markets adapt to structural changes such as deindustrialization or automation. His secondary research field is economic growth, particularly related to the case of Latin America. Iván received his Ph.D. in Economic History from the London School of Economics and his M.S. in Economics from Georgetown University.
Dale Parker
University of Notre Dame
Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame
Dale Parker is a visiting scholar at the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests fall under Greek rhetoric and philosophy. His work focuses on the relationship between the Platonic dialogues and Aristotle's logical works, and on the ancient debate culture to which both Plato and Aristotle respond. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. in Classics from the University of Notre Dame. He has spent the past few years studying in Rome.
Jonathan Price
University of Oxford
Faculty of Law
Jonathan Price is the John and Daria Barry Fellow of Pusey House and Pusey Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford, where he is Research Associate in the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government in the Faculty of Law. Recently he has founded and is the Director of the Centre for Theology, Law, and Culture. Between 2011 and 2021 he taught philosophy and law at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford and related topics at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He remains Visiting Researcher at the University of Leiden Law School. Dr. Price is the Founding Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Politics & Poetics. He is writing a book on the theological origins of modern contract doctrine, especially focusing on the doctrine of the radically free will of Hugo Grotius.
Jonathan Rutledge
Harvard University
Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Jonathan Rutledge is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He holds PhDs in philosophy (University of Oklahoma) and theology (University of St Andrews) and is currently working on various projects at the intersection of positive psychology, analytic philosophy, and narrative theology. Such projects include the process of moral and intellectual virtue development, theological doctrines of sanctification, and questions of how seeing one’s life story as bound up with a transcendent reality—such as God—affects one’s degree of hope and optimism amidst suffering.
William Simpson
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Philosophy
William Simpson is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Research Associate of the University of Cambridge. His academic interests span the philosophy of science and philosophy of physics, as well as the philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion. While at Austin, he will work on the metaphysics of open quantum systems, investigating ways in which the physical world may be open to causal agency at different ‘levels'. William holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and an MPhil in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge. He also holds a PhD in Physics and an MPhys in Physics and Mathematics from St Andrews.
Abigail Staysa
Princeton University
Department of Politics
Abby Staysa is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her principal areas of research include classical political philosophy, the history of political thought, and constitutional studies. Her current research focuses on the nature and limits of practical wisdom in Aristotle’s political philosophy. She holds a B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy from Hiram College and a Ph.D. in Political Theory and a Certificate of Classics from the University of Notre Dame.
Alfredo Watkins
Duke University
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Alfredo Watkins is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Arete Initiative in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from UNC-Chapel Hill and a B.A. from UCLA. His interests include ancient and medieval philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of science. Currently he is working on neo-Aristotelian theories of mathematics.
Heather P. Wilford
Yale University
Department of Political Science
Heather P. Wilford is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Yale University. Her research and teaching engages with a broad array of thinkers in the history of political philosophy, with an emphasis on Ancient philosophy and on 18th and 19th century French and British authors. She has written and presented on ethics, liberalism, empire, and popular sovereignty in the writings Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Mill. Her articles have appeared in The Adam Smith Review and National Affairs. She has taught courses at Middlebury College, Carleton College, Boston College, and Yale University. She holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. from Boston College.