New Fellows
Min Tae Cha
University of Southern California
Nova Forum
Min Tae Cha is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Nova Forum at the University of Southern California. He is interested in the historical relationship between religion and law, especially in issues of Church and State. His dissertation explored these themes by focusing on the interaction between ecclesiology and constitutionalism in the 19th-century British Empire and United States. In addition, Min Tae is broadly interested in liturgical studies and the history of Christianity. He holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, and an M.A. and B.A. in History from Yonsei University (Seoul).
Gonzalo Dona
University of Texas at Austin
Population Research Center
Gonzalo Dona is the John and Daria Barry fellow at the Population Research Center at University of Texas Austin. His research is focused on driving the improvement of social policies by critically evaluating the most important and popular of them. Additionally, Gonzalo asks the big questions about societal success and secondary effects of large welfare systems. Gonzalo received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Irvine and went on to work as postdoctoral fellow at NTNU (Norway).
Charlotte Duffee
Harvard University
Human Flourishing Program
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 medical debates over the assessment and treatment of suffering. She is currently at work on a new book project using digital humanities tools to analyze ideas about suffering across different versions of the Western canon. 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 and New York University respectively.
Aaron Ebert
Duke University
Civil Discourse Project
Aaron Ebert is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Civil Discourse Project in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. His intellectual interests are in the theology and philosophy of early Christian thought.. He is currently writing a theological account of envy, anchored in the thought of Augustine, Gregory the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante that is responsive to movements in modern philosophy.. When not writing or teaching, Aaron can be found working with his family on their homestead in Rougemont, North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. in Religion from Duke University, an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity, and a B.A. from the University of Montevallo.
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.
Jacob Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Economics
Jacob Hall is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Economics. His primary research focuses on quantitative economic history and the political economy of premodern states. His work explores the fiscal and political workings of medieval European institutions, and their transition into the modern world. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University.
Maria Hershey
Harvard University
Human Flourishing Program
Maria Soledad Hershey is a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding and optimizing societal well-being and health through lifestyle habits rooted in a society and an individual’s principals. She is designing a school-based intervention study using the theoretically grounded leadership intervention, The Practical Wisdom Framework™, aimed at understanding the efficacy of character and virtue education on the underlying sociocultural determinants of lifestyle behaviors. This study aims to bridge the gap between science and action with a wholistic and interdisciplinary vision for achieving flourishing societies. Her Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology focused on the associations between Mediterranean lifestyle factors on chronic disease health outcomes at the University of Navarra. She recently completed a fellowship at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Landon Hobbs
Zephyr Institute
Landon Hobbs is Senior Fellow and Director of Academic Programs at the Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto, California. His area of academic research is Ancient Greek philosophy, especially the theoretical philosophy of Aristotle, and his current research focuses on the metaphysical principle that the cause must precontain its effect. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. in Philosophy from Pepperdine University.
Kate Jackson-Meyer
Harvard University
Human Flourishing Program
Kate Jackson-Meyer, Ph.D., is a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of fundamental moral theology and social ethics. Her current research investigates the problems of tragic dilemmas, moral distress, and moral injury in fields such as bioethics, war, and peacemaking in order to analyze the complexity of moral decision-making and the prospects for community-based moral healing. She is the author of Tragic Dilemmas in Christian Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2022). She 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.
Anthony Marsh
Princeton University
James Madison Program
AJ Marsh is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His work at Princeton centers on natural rights in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. He specializes in Thomistic ethics and metaphysics, as well as the philosophy of religion, especially the ethics and epistemology present in the mysticism of Teresa of Ávila. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University, and an A.B. in philosophy from Brown University.
Nicholas Ogle
University of Pennsylvania
Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society
Nicholas Ogle is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania. His research explores the nature of human action, practical reason, and moral responsibility, with a focus on the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas and its modern reception. He has published articles in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Scottish Journal of Theology. He holds a Ph.D. and M.T.S. in Moral Theology & Christian Ethics from the University of Notre Dame, as well as a B.A. in Philosophy from George Fox University.
Dale Parker
University of Notre Dame
de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
Dale Parker teaches in the Business Ethics and Society Program at the University of Notre Dame. His teaching and research interests include the use and abuse of wealth, Cicero's philosophica, and dialectic in Plato and Aristotle. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
Taylor Pincin
Columbia University
Department of Philosophy
Taylor Pincin is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Initiative in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is primarily interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle’s metaphysical and scientific systems. Her current research focuses on the different modes of explanation operative in Aristotelian science, particularly in the Science of Being. Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UT Austin, an M.St. in Ancient Philosophy from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Classics and Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley.
Jonathan Price
University of Oxford
Pusey House
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
Human Flourishing Program
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.
Rosalie Stoner
Yale University
Department of Classics
Rosalie Stoner is a Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Classics at Yale University, where she teaches courses like "Roman Consolation Literature: Seneca and Boethius" and "Is Rhetoric a Good Thing? The Debate Between Rhetoric and Philosophy." Her current book project examines Quintilian’s portrayal of the ideal orator. Her wider interests include ideals and practices of education in the ancient Mediterranean world; the Roman oratorical tradition from Cato to Augustine; early Christian transformations of classical traditions; competition and tension between rhetoric and philosophy; and Platonic reception. She obtained a PhD in Classical Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago in 2021 and an AB summa cum laude in Classics with a certificate in Medieval Studies from Princeton in 2015.
Oliver Traldi
Princeton University
James Madison Program
Oliver Traldi 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. He is an epistemologist by training and primarily interested in political beliefs and political disagreement in theory and practice. His research covers the psychology of political beliefs, the interpretation of political disputes, the epistemology of democracy, and questions about whether our political beliefs are rational. His first book, Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction, is under contract with Routledge, and he is working on large projects on political realism and on the epistemology of liberalism. He holds a B.A. in classics from Bard College, an M.A. in philosophy from Tufts University, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.
Ian Tuttle
Princeton University
James Madison Program
Ian Tuttle 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 research focuses on the intersection of contemporary poetics, politics, and metaphysics. Ian holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the Catholic University of America, where he completed a dissertation on T.S. Eliot, and a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College (Annapolis, MD).