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Its grants support the research of young scholars, from across the humanities and sciences, whose work promises to advance their fields, strengthen their institutions, and enrich public life. Through programs, conferences, and faculty mentoring, the Center assists Barry Fellows as they move into positions of intellectual leadership in the academy and beyond. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/2009ab70-be35-4373-b0a9-c042a80e457a/tempImagebSgTaU.jpg About - Matthew Rose Director of the Barry Center on the University and Intellectual Life A scholar of modern religious thought, Matthew was previously Director of the Berkeley Institute and Ennis Fellow in Humanities at Villanova University, where he taught courses in philosophy, politics, and literature. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago after receiving an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an A.B. from Wabash College. He is the author of A World After Liberalism (Yale, 2021) and Ethics with Barth (Ashgate, 2010), as well as of articles in Political Theology, The Thomist, Logos, Pro Ecclesia, Studies in Christian Ethics, Journal of Catholic Moral Theology, First Things, National Affairs, Public Discourse, Commonweal, and The Weekly Standard. In 2019, he was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities. He can be reached at rose@morningsideinstitute.org. https://www.barrycenter.org/21-22-fellows daily 0.75 2022-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1630079519063-E6F48CXWMMYJDIIR2DM2/Ahrens.jpg 21–22 Fellows - Stephanie Ahrens Princeton University Department of Politics Stephanie Ahrens 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. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of political theory and American politics. Her work focuses on community in democracy and the normative aspects of political relationships. While at Princeton, she will finish a book manuscript that responds to ongoing declines in political trust in the United States by defining what trust should look like among members of a constitutional democracy. Stephanie earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a University Scholars B.A. from Baylor University with concentrations in Political Science and Classics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1630079739801-KBHY1GJE71PIUNU1R2KQ/Boros-photo.jpg 21–22 Fellows - Jacob Boros Princeton University Department of Politics Jacob Boros 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. His research focuses on American environmental thought, especially the ideas of the twentieth-century conservationist Aldo Leopold. His current book project examines how Leopold helps Americans with differing perspectives talk to one another productively about environmental issues. Jacob is also examining the British geographer Halford J. Mackinder’s relationship with the realist tradition of international relations theory. These two projects share a focus on the connection between physical space and political life. He earned his B.A. in history and politics from Saint Vincent College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Baylor University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1630079916888-IYT0KNYPOZFTE12PCTG5/Finley-2.jpg 21–22 Fellows - Emily Finley Princeton University Department of Politics Emily Finley 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 research interests include the history of political thought, politics and the imagination, and political ideology. Her current line of research traces the direct and indirect influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Catholic social and political thought. She holds a B.A. in classical studies from Trinity University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political theory from the Catholic University of America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1629296413792-VLZZR4DT62WCXVLV5PQO/hegelmeyer_head.jpg 21–22 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1618518371138-78U8EB4ZM2XO9FC9AVRY/KatelynLong-Photo.jpeg 21–22 Fellows - Katelyn Long Harvard University Chan School of Public Health Katelyn Long is the John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Her current work focuses on determinants of well-being, group dynamics of religion on human flourishing, and the development of tradition-specific spiritual well-being measures. She completed her DrPh at Boston University’s School of Public Health, where her dissertation focused on the role of faith-based and charitable health care providers. She earned her M.S. in Public Health from the University of Utah and her B.A. in religion from Vanguard University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1630080113297-WY6KIQJRMIIAWYSDYQK3/Luna.jpg 21–22 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1630174182293-R7M8FFGKZB1KQNNZSSII/IMG_2573.jpg 21–22 Fellows - Nicolás García Mills University of Chicago Department of Philosophy Nicolás García Mills is a John and Daria Barry Foundation post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago. Previously, he taught in the Philosophy Department at Tufts University. He specializes in Kant and post-Kantian German philosophy (especially Hegel). More specifically, his research focuses on the practical, moral as well as social and political philosophies of Kant and Hegel and their contemporary relevance. During his time at the University of Chicago, he plans to work on a book manuscript, in which he articulates and defends the interpretive view that Hegel is an ethical naturalist and puts him into conversation with various forms of neo-Aristotelian naturalism. He earned his B.A. from the Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1629295283768-Q0UPGMZHU0HFE5ACDOU7/IMG_0648.jpeg 21–22 Fellows - Molly Gurdon Pinkoski Columbia University Department of Philosophy Molly Gurdon Pinkoski is a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Columbia University, and a graduate fellow at the Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto, California. She works mainly in moral philosophy, with particular interest in the thought of Aristotle, Anscombe, and Kant. Her dissertation articulates and defends a neo-Aristotelian account of absolute moral prohibitions. Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Examiner. She received a B.A. in Philosophy and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1629295039158-AGMHG402FS4L8S8944UG/headshot-3.jpg 21–22 Fellows - Nathan Pinkoski Zephyr Insitute Palo Alto, CA Nathan Pinkoski is the director of academic programs at the Zephyr Institute. He has written for a variety of scholarly and popular publications, including Catholic Social Science Review, First Things, Interpretation, Law and Liberty, Perspectives on Political Science, The Political Science Reviewer, and The Review of Politics. He holds a B.A. (Hon) from the University of Alberta, Canada, and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford. He had held research fellowships and lectureships at Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He recently co-edited Augustine in a Time of Crisis (Palgrave-MacMillan Press). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1630080213292-YM0XKD3XISJMSWQWGPUY/Porter.jpeg 21–22 Fellows - Allen Porter Princeton University Department of Politics Allen Porter 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. His current research focuses on bioethics and political philosophy. His dissertation investigated the rhetoric and underlying political ideology of contemporary university activism. During his fellowship he will be working on turning his dissertation into a book. He holds a B.A. in German from Princeton University, a M.A. in philosophy from Tulane University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from Rice University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1629297002691-I47JVIEJDBWMTPII4B74/alfredo-watkins.jpg 21–22 Fellows - 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, and will be teaching a course in the Spring titled "Contemporary Nationalism and Classical Political Theory." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1629295115028-Y5TZP2LG07MNSAHPB4Z5/Heather+Wilford+2020.jpg 21–22 Fellows - 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. https://www.barrycenter.org/22-23-fellows daily 0.75 2023-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/3994656f-cfee-4bf7-a0d5-3bcb97ef2d9b/Anderson+headshot.jpg 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/19ff7ec5-43a6-4ae6-9d89-142d43faf43d/Kyu-BeenChun_091321_0002.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/5b2b7038-af6e-4019-a856-bf898df95243/Cooper+headshot.png 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/fbab4fae-36a8-46d0-8dcb-06dd4a751827/Duffee+headshot.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/ece46f04-8862-41d8-8790-a1ff62fb1dbc/image.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/d00a04fe-ccec-472b-a8c9-424dd661deea/Natalie_Neil_2017-0008.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/7f12aac3-a857-440b-b505-d6f913aa0319/hegelmeyer_head.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/4320330d-5bd9-4519-88ac-2b2f2685d0fd/Jackson-Meyer+Headshot.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1630080113297-WY6KIQJRMIIAWYSDYQK3/Luna.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/ea241bef-d217-4e5c-93c8-c97c5bf0bc6a/IMG_1027+%281%29.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/e66e3d4a-3909-4ca3-90ea-0c34368d2915/Price+headshot.jpeg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c61a80bb-b354-44ac-aafa-27b4cc8e6c71/Rutledge+headshot.jpeg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/faecf79f-a69a-48f5-a270-5373299ddf1d/mercier-simpson.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/52e0544a-201c-41e0-a1d2-c40fe88092ad/Staysa+headshot.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1629297002691-I47JVIEJDBWMTPII4B74/alfredo-watkins.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c426bd10-13c7-491a-9d12-a44eac56ba9f/Heather+Wilford+2020.jpg 22–23 Fellows - 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. https://www.barrycenter.org/23-24-fellows daily 0.75 2024-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/55e2edda-4ea6-4316-9017-ccf9b0ccbf73/DSC02653.jpg 23–24 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/fa2cdcd0-9836-4801-84b9-3e128be745f1/gd_portrait.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/a3f2527b-5930-4d2e-b0e2-d63a156fb6db/8508+edited+3.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/8d3f2b66-73fd-4742-9e0d-ed798e9f8b36/Ebert.Headshot.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/ece46f04-8862-41d8-8790-a1ff62fb1dbc/image.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/18ecce86-5009-49b3-80ef-2be3fcb0d9e1/jhall_headshot.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/682eed60-62ce-4596-863e-ec29560ff46f/Sol_Hershey_1_1_20.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c481fb46-4fed-485f-99d1-6c7557e48b64/Landon+%283+of+4%29.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/e23eb7c1-2e71-4a75-8b6b-20596e57cd90/Jackson-Meyer+Headshot.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/b9cc0e13-0f18-4e43-9776-0de84f7f0a65/AJ_Marsh_Headshot.jpeg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c4ee3389-7935-41e2-800f-2db57c257cd7/Ogle+Barry+Headshot.jpeg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/ea241bef-d217-4e5c-93c8-c97c5bf0bc6a/IMG_1027+%281%29.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/a159556b-1d3c-4631-ac49-2ebfe705ec3c/Mincin+headshot.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/e66e3d4a-3909-4ca3-90ea-0c34368d2915/Price+headshot.jpeg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c61a80bb-b354-44ac-aafa-27b4cc8e6c71/Rutledge+headshot.jpeg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/d008a3f4-7c1f-4a03-b718-9b68c7549afc/Stoner+headshot.jpeg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/23b9c6e7-fab8-412b-b4e1-f6105964c8fe/20230522_133757.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/d896517d-81cb-47de-9959-83d6c56f2dcd/Headshot+--+IPT.jpg 23–24 Fellows - 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). https://www.barrycenter.org/24-25-fellows daily 0.75 2025-06-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/4f43982e-f9d7-4439-bd9b-da212d83b41b/Screenshot+2024-07-22+at+3.49.07%E2%80%AFPM.jpg 24–25 Fellows - Evelyn Boyden Princeton University James Madison Program Evelyn Boyden is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research studies early modern theories of the origin and limits of political obligation, particularly as these theories bear on the relationship between political and religious authority. Her current projects examines these themes in the thought of King James I, especially in the context of his prolonged debate with Jesuit political thinkers. Evelyn holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Harvard University and a B.A. from Georgetown University, where she studied Political Theory and Theology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c2a6708e-fbf9-45c8-89fb-9ef1dafdf061/Greg+headshot.jpg 24–25 Fellows - Greg Brown University of Chicago Department of Philosophy Greg D. Brown is a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He works primarily in the philosophy of action and in ethics, with a focus on the virtue of practical wisdom. His dissertation develops a neo-Aristotelian account of practical rationality that is indebted to the work of G. E. M. Anscombe and Philippa Foot, and his interests extend to various other areas, especially to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Aquinas, (meta)ontology, the history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2024 and his B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/e695d29a-4ef4-4946-9ca6-55aad9ac6f05/Profile.jpg 24–25 Fellows - Christopher Coome Duke University Civil Discourse Project Christopher Coome is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the Civil Discourse Project at Duke University. His research examines intellectual and religious history with a focus on civil society, the long 19th century, and transformations in Western religiosity. Before his academic career, Chris worked in both business and politics, and he is excited to put this background to use in advancing the Civil Discourse Project. Chris holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in history from Queen’s University, and a B.A. in history from McMaster University. His doctoral dissertation received an award from Queen’s University for its distinction and is being published by Oxford University Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/fa2cdcd0-9836-4801-84b9-3e128be745f1/gd_portrait.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/a3f2527b-5930-4d2e-b0e2-d63a156fb6db/8508+edited+3.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/742931b6-186d-4442-a216-adeeb6f3cacb/Barry+Center_profile.png 24–25 Fellows - Djair Dias Filho Princeton University James Madison Program Djair Dias Filho is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral 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 Jewish, Christian and pagan traditions in Antiquity, with special interest in Philo of Alexandria. Before doing his PhD in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity at Princeton University, Djair studied Classics at the University of São Paulo (BA) and completed graduate degrees in theology and religious studies at Oxford (PGDip), Edinburgh (MTh), and Yale (MAR). He also spent one year as an exchange student at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/279db802-7830-434c-960a-be72466a84fd/7B5CB5E3-850B-42C2-B01D-C27D3B77C85CIMG_2180+copy.jpg 24–25 Fellows - Connor Grubaugh Duke University Civil Discourse Project Connor Grubaugh is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the Civil Discourse Project at Duke University. His work ranges widely across intellectual history, with a focus on the modern reception of ancient historiography and theology. His dissertation examined the concept of hope in the political thought of John Locke and the subsequent liberal tradition. He holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/18ecce86-5009-49b3-80ef-2be3fcb0d9e1/jhall_headshot.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c8e4b260-6aab-4aa0-90fa-0d37c7d18ff6/Justin+Hawkins+outdoor+headshot+%281%29.jpg 24–25 Fellows - Justin Hawkins Columbia University Center for Medical Ethics Justin R. Hawkins is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Medical Ethics. His research areas include virtue ethics, bioethics, disability theory, and the relationship of political theory and Christian theology. His current research project examines the history of American presidential bioethics commissions and councils to investigate whether and how they serve a significant pedagogical and advisory purpose in the development of bioethics policy. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University. He also holds an MAR in the Philosophy of Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a BA in Government from Georgetown University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/682eed60-62ce-4596-863e-ec29560ff46f/Sol_Hershey_1_1_20.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c481fb46-4fed-485f-99d1-6c7557e48b64/Landon+%283+of+4%29.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/e23eb7c1-2e71-4a75-8b6b-20596e57cd90/Jackson-Meyer+Headshot.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c4ee3389-7935-41e2-800f-2db57c257cd7/Ogle+Barry+Headshot.jpeg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/ea241bef-d217-4e5c-93c8-c97c5bf0bc6a/IMG_1027+%281%29.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/719d5780-9c76-46b7-9cc5-f997c89bd0ab/IMG_1963.jpg 24–25 Fellows - Armando Perez-Gea Stanford University Program in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Armando Perez-Gea is a Fellow to Diversify Teaching and Learning at the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Program at Stanford University. His research proposes a role morality of authority relations that builds on Aristotle's theory of rule and the neo-republicans' concept of domination by proposing that there are four kinds of authority relations that each has its own standard of what counts as domination. He has published in Ancient Philosophy. Armando holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Philosophy, M.A.R. in Philosophy of Religion, and M.A. in Economics from Yale University, as well as M.A. in Philosophy and B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Stanford University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/a159556b-1d3c-4631-ac49-2ebfe705ec3c/Mincin+headshot.jpg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/a2d76ce8-05e8-42c8-81f4-1a30f6a32857/Image-3.jpg 24–25 Fellows - Matthew Reising Princeton University James Madison Program Matthew K. Reising is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His primary areas of research include classical and medieval political philosophy, American political thought, and constitutional studies. His current research project focuses on the nature of freedom and tyranny in Herodotus’s History. His articles have appeared in American Political Thought, Polis, and History of Political Thought. He holds a B.A. in Political Science, History, and Philosophy from Ashland University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Baylor University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c61a80bb-b354-44ac-aafa-27b4cc8e6c71/Rutledge+headshot.jpeg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/d008a3f4-7c1f-4a03-b718-9b68c7549afc/Stoner+headshot.jpeg 24–25 Fellows - 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. https://www.barrycenter.org/25-26-fellows daily 0.75 2025-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c2a6708e-fbf9-45c8-89fb-9ef1dafdf061/Greg+headshot.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Greg Brown University of Pennsylvania Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society Greg D. Brown 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. He works primarily in the philosophy of action and in ethics, with a focus on the virtue of practical wisdom. His dissertation develops a neo-Aristotelian account of practical rationality that is indebted to the work of G. E. M. Anscombe and Philippa Foot, and his interests extend to various other areas, especially to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Aquinas, (meta)ontology, the history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2024 and his B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College in 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/0ebda1f7-088b-4ef2-8479-2d729731c7e3/_W2B4807.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Qian Cao Columbia University Department of Philosophy Qian Cao 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. Her primary research interests lie in Ancient Greek Philosophy—especially Plato's moral psychology and epistemology—and in psychoanalysis. Her current research explores the psychological difficulties of inquiry from a perspective that draws on both Plato and Freud. Qian holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Columbia University, and a B.A. in Philosophy from NYU. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/e695d29a-4ef4-4946-9ca6-55aad9ac6f05/Profile.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Christopher Coome Duke University Civil Discourse Project Christopher Coome is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the Civil Discourse Project at Duke University. His research examines intellectual and religious history with a focus on civil society, the long 19th century, and transformations in Western religiosity. Before his academic career, Chris worked in both business and politics, and he is excited to put this background to use in advancing the Civil Discourse Project. Chris holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in history from Queen’s University, and a B.A. in history from McMaster University. His doctoral dissertation received an award from Queen’s University for its distinction and is being published by Oxford University Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/ab1b749c-948d-48a1-a477-03cbb6ba0109/headshot.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Patrick Fitzsimmons University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics Patrick Fitzsimmons is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Economics. His research focuses include economic history, political economy, and economic growth. His current research interest is on how conflict and violence have shaped state/empire-building and political systems in the premodern world. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/0dd00ba9-0cfb-47db-b30b-ada4e8aa4169/flynn-headshot-2-22-23.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Andrew Flynn University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Department of Philosophy Andrew McKay Flynn is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Associate at the Illinois Forum on Human Flourishing in a Digital Age, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He works in ethics, moral psychology, and the philosophy of action. His current research project broadly concerns the significance of ideals that people are blocked from acting upon. In connection with this project, he has published papers on anger and on akrasia, and he is at work on papers on contentment and on irony. He received a PhD in Philosophy from UCLA, an MA in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, and a BA in History and Philosophy (double major) from Columbia University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c8e4b260-6aab-4aa0-90fa-0d37c7d18ff6/Justin+Hawkins+outdoor+headshot+%281%29.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Justin Hawkins Columbia University Center for Medical Ethics Justin R. Hawkins is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Medical Ethics. His research areas include virtue ethics, bioethics, disability theory, and the relationship of political theory and Christian theology. His current research project examines the history of American presidential bioethics commissions and councils to investigate whether and how they serve a significant pedagogical and advisory purpose in the development of bioethics policy. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University. He also holds an MAR in the Philosophy of Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a BA in Government from Georgetown University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/0e851b5c-da50-47fa-9bad-a6a077a6c141/finalDF2A5270.jpeg 25–26 Fellows - Thomas Holman Princeton University James Madison Program Thomas W. Holman 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 work focuses on the role of communication and debate in politics, especially in the context of twentieth century continental thought. Thomas holds a Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America, where he completed a dissertation on Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin’s 1953 debate over totalitarianism. He is currently working on a book project which explores the role of the human person in the thought of Hannah Arendt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/c481fb46-4fed-485f-99d1-6c7557e48b64/Landon+%283+of+4%29.jpg 25–26 Fellows - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/f5d349d4-655c-4da1-a865-ccd7e94024e1/McDougal+230913+headshot+crossed+square+small.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Austen McDougal New York University Center for Bioethics Austen McDougal is Faculty Fellow at NYU’s Center for Bioethics. He works on the ethics and moral psychology of the heart, so to speak, where he sees agency bottoming out in motives rather than beliefs or emotions. He is especially interested in the various kinds of reasons for love and compassion. Before NYU, he was a postdoc at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values with the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford and a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Computer Science from Princeton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/cc1d0b15-aaec-440f-966d-917ab5727bac/julianakamura_headshot.jpeg 25–26 Fellows - Julia Nakamura Harvard University Human Flourishing Program Julia Nakamura will be a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University (starting in January 2026). Her research integrates theories and perspectives from health psychology, epidemiology, biostatistics, and translational science to identify, understand, and intervene upon prosocial behaviors (e.g., volunteering, helping behaviours, charitable giving) that improve health and well-being. Julia received her M.A. in Health Psychology from the University of British Columbia, and her B.S. in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Health Psychology at the University of British Columbia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/1e1bc7ea-fe95-4f58-add0-2beeacfda9b0/Screenshot+2025-06-27+at+1.50.20%E2%80%AFPM.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Frank Ngo Ohio State University Salmon P. Chase Center for American Civics, Culture, and Society Frank Ngo is Post Doctoral Researcher at the Salmon P. Chase Center for American Civics, Culture, and Society. Trained as a social anthropologist, his research examines religion, secularity, time, gender, labor, and debt through their intersection in the concept of the vocation. His current project focuses on social institutions as the sites of cultivating meaningful and purposeful lives. Ngo received his PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, MA in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo, and BA in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/ff281ce9-7974-4fbc-8c8b-1b28e792324b/Pangle+Portrait.jpeg 25–26 Fellows - Sophie Pangle Princeton University James Madison Program Sophie Pangle 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. Her research in the history of political thought addresses theories of dignity, indignation, justice, and freedom, with a focus on late modern responses to ancient Greek political philosophy. Her current book project compares the concepts of amour-propre and thumos in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s response to the thought of Plato. Her work has been published in History of Political Thought and The Political Science Reviewer. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/719d5780-9c76-46b7-9cc5-f997c89bd0ab/IMG_1963.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Armando Perez-Gea Stanford University Program in Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Armando Perez-Gea is a Fellow to Diversify Teaching and Learning at the Civic, Liberal, and Global Education Program at Stanford University. His research proposes a role morality of authority relations that builds on Aristotle's theory of rule and the neo-republicans' concept of domination by proposing that there are four kinds of authority relations that each has its own standard of what counts as domination. He has published in Ancient Philosophy. Armando holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and Philosophy, M.A.R. in Philosophy of Religion, and M.A. in Economics from Yale University, as well as M.A. in Philosophy and B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Stanford University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/17f4d084-54bc-43dc-b5a2-1f5917b5cd0b/0X0A1686.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Wan Ning Seah Princeton University James Madison Program Wan Ning Seah is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research interests are in religious pluralism and toleration, ancient and early modern political thought, French political thought, and democratic theory. Her current project examines religious pluralism as an alternative framework for managing religious diversity in non-liberal regimes, drawing on historical and contemporary case studies, including the political thought of Montesquieu. Wan Ning holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke University and a B.A. in Political Science from Middlebury College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/72e1dd36-b357-4a6d-984d-fb404b31b77f/DSCF2687edit+square.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Tucker Sigourney Harvard University Human Flourishing Program Tucker Sigourney is a John and Daria postdoctoral fellow with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He has a PhD in philosophy from Florida State University and undergraduate degrees in philosophy and physics from Grove City College. His research centers mainly on ethics and action theory from a broadly Thomistic angle, and especially on love and its place in ethics. Most of his published work has been on the nature and norms of forgiveness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/605bb19c7f671b031ca4fac9/bca9ed18-9ae8-4e2f-a903-2ef341e70f21/Williams_Avery_794-2574.jpg 25–26 Fellows - Avery Williams Princeton University James Madison Program Avery Williams is a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. His research focuses on the history of political thought with an emphasis on the political philosophy of Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle. His forthcoming book, Universal Tyranny: The Socratic Attack on Tyrannical Psychology, discusses the widely misunderstood critique of tyranny and the psychology of the tyrant in the early Socratics. He received his Ph.D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.