Visiting Scholars
The Nanovic Institute offers scholars from Europe the opportunity to spend a semester or summer research leave at Notre Dame. Two research and teaching positions are available during each semester of the academic year (August-December, January-May). Shorter, month-long research leaves are available during the summer months (June-August).
Openings are limited. The Institute will prefer applications from younger tenure-track faculty at institutions in its Catholic Universities Partnership, but it welcomes inquiries from all European universities.
View the Nanovic Visiting Scholar Programs
Current Visiting Scholars
Myron Schneider
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Doctoral candidate at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
Research Interests
- Contemporary German Literature
- Literary Minialia
- Literature
- Philosophy
Myron Schneider is a visiting researcher at the Institute and a doctoral candidate at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Specializing in philosophy and modern German literature, Schneider completed his undergraduate studies and master's degree at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. A past fellow of the Notre Dame Berlin Seminar, Myron has also been a participant in the Research Academy and the Scientific College of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. While visiting Notre Dame, he hopes to make strides on his dissertation on introspective explorations in relation to public spaces in the context of Rainald Goetz's revival of writing. His teaching and research interests include contemporary German literature, theoretical and interpretative problems of literary minimalia, and the interferences between literature and philosophy.
He is a visiting scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Philipp Schultheiss
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Doctoral candidate, research fellow, and lecturer
Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany
Research Interests
- Transitional Justice
- GDR/Germany after 1990
- Communism
- Conflict Studies
Philipp Schultheiss, a visiting researcher at the Institute on a DAAD scholarship, is a doctoral candidate, research fellow, and lecturer in the Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg. Schultheiss completed his undergraduate studies at Istanbul University and the University of Tübingen. At Marburg, he is working on a research team led by Prof. Susanne Buckley-Zistel focused on the transitional justice process in Germany after 1990. He is also a concurrent fellow of the German Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Eastern Germany. Schultheiss's dissertation investigates how former members of the Nationale Volksarmee (NVA) were portrayed in public during the process of coming to terms with the GDR past and how NVA members now perceive themselves in response to these ascribed roles. Part of his project involves extensive interviews with professional soldiers of the NVA in eastern Germany. While visiting Notre Dame, he hopes to analyze his empirical data, bring it into conversation with a range of transitional justice theories, and complete the central chapter of his dissertation.
Visiting Scholar for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Andrzej Szabaciuk
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Assistant Professor in the Department of Eastern Studies
Institute of Political Science
John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, Poland
Research Interests
- Russian depopulation
- Migration policy
- Russian Federation after 2014
Prof. Andrzej Szabaciuk joins the Institute from the John Paul II Catholic University in Lublin, where he serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Eastern Studies in his university's Institute of Political Science and International Affairs. A specialist in security studies of post-Soviet areas, Prof. Szabaciuk earned his Ph.D. at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin and has since published extensively in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. He collaborated in writing an award-winning monograph on the Caucasus and South-Russia in 2017 and recently conducted the central research project for Poland's Institute of National Remembrance, for which his research team won international awards. Prof. Szabaciuk has held scholarly fellowships in Ukraine, Estonia, Russia, and Georgia and was an international observer of parliamentary elections in the Donetsk in 2012. Prof. Szabaciuk also serves as Rector Plenipotentiary for the Eastern-European University Network (comprising 23 institutions) and Catholic Universities Networks. His current research focuses on Russian depopulation and the migration policy of the Russian Federation after 2014.
Visiting Scholar during 2018-2019 academic year.
Christian Vassallo
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Education Sciences
University of Calabria, Italy
Research Interests
- Philology
- Ancient Philosophy
- Law
- Classics
Prof. Christian Vassallo, Distinguished Visiting US-Italian Fulbright Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame (IN, USA), studied Classics and Philosophy at the University of Naples ‘Federico II'. After his PhD dissertation on Plato's Republic, he has specialized in Ancient Philosophy and Philosophcal Papyrology. He has studied, organized, and collaborated with scholars in the history of ancient philosophy at universities and institutes in Rome (CNR-ILIESI), Berlin, Heidelberg, Trier, Jena, Tübingen, Pisa, and Oxford. Recently, Prof. Vassallo has been organizing a series of 'Paideia' lectures on the history of ancient philosophy in collaboration with the Department of Literature, Philosophy, and Art History at the University of Rome 'Tor Vergata.' He currently serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultures, Education and Society (DiCES) at the University of Calabria (Cosenza), where he teaches Ancient Philosophy. Some of his most recent publications are: Physiologia: Topics in Presocratic Philosophy and Its Reception in Antiquity (= AKAN-Einzelschriften), Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2017; Plotino, La bellezza intelligibile (Enn. V 8 [31]): Introduzione, traduzione e commento, mit einem Vorwort von Ch. Horn (= Spudasmata), Hildesheim/Zürich/New York: Olms, 2019; Presocratics and Papyrological Tradition: A Philosophical Reappraisal of the Sources (= Studia Praesocratica), Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
Visiting Scholar during 2018-2019 academic year.
Past Visiting Scholars
Marcela Andokova
Visit Dates: 2016-17
Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Faculty of Arts, Department of Classical and Semitic Philology
Gal Ariely
Visit Dates: 2010-11
Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics & Government
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Rev. Petro Balog
Visit Dates: 2014-15
St. Thomas Aquinas Institute of Religious Studies
Kyiv, Ukraine
Jan Banas
Visit Dates: 2005-06, 2017-18
Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Letters
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
jan.banas@gmail.com
Janos Barcsak
Visit Dates: 2013-14
Assistant Professor, Institute of English and American Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Marton Beke
Visit Dates: 2006-07
Assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities
Institute of Slavic and Central European Studies (Czech Department)
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Vera Benczik
Visit Dates: 2016-17
Assistant Professor and Deputy Head
Department of American Studies
School of English and American Studies
Eötvös Loránd Universit, Budapest, Hungary
Maria Jadwiga Bloch-Trojnar
Visit Dates: 2017-18
Associate Professor and Head, Department of Celtic Studies
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Piero Boitani
Visit Dates: 2000-01
Professor of Comarative Literature
La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Piotr Bolibok
Visit Dates: 2016-17
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Institute of Economics and Management
Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Banking and Finance
Nataliya Bordun
Visit Dates: 2013-14
Director of the Institute of Leadership and Management
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Rev. Ihor Boyko
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Head of the School of Bioethics
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Ruzica Brecic
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Marina Calloni
Visit Dates: 2010-11
Facoltà di Sociologia
Università degli Studi di Milano - Bicocca
Julian Casanova
Visit Dates: 2002-03
Professor of Contemporary History
Department of History
Department of Political Science
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Magdalena Charzynska-Wojcik
Visit Dates: 2016-17
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Department of History of the English Language and Translation Studies
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Sr. Barbara Chyrowicz
Visit Dates: 2012-13, 2013-14
Department of Applied Ethics
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Francesco Cotticelli
Visit Dates: 2016-17
Visiting Italian Fulbright
Professor of Theatre Studies
Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Andras Cser
Visit Dates: 2007-08
Associate Professor, Chair of Theoretical Linguistics
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Melinda Dabis
Visit Dates: 2017-18
Assistant Professor, Institute of English and American Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Hungary)
Fr. Antoni Debinski
Visit Dates: 2008-09
Faculties Faculty of Law
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Taras Dobko
Visit Dates: 2006-07, 2010-11, 2012-13
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Senior Vice-Rector
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Rev. Hendryk Drawnel, SDB
Visit Dates: 2007-08
Professor of Second Temple Literature and Semitic Studies
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Andrea Feckova Bozekova
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Department of Political Science
Faculty of Philosophy
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Kinga Foldvary
Visit Dates: 2006-07, 2011-12
Institute of English and American Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Summer 2007
Fall 2011
Sebastian Galecki
Visit Dates: 2013-14
Faculty of Philosophy
Pontifical University of John Paul II
Krakow, Poland
Ewa Grzeszczyk
Visit Dates: 2003-04
Assistant Professor of American Studies, Institute of Americas and Europe
Warsaw University, Poland
Orysya Hachko Bila
Visit Dates: 2009-10
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Fr. Milosz Holda
Visit Dates: 2014-15
Faculty of Philosophy
Pontifical University of John Paul II
Krakow, Poland
Rev. Grzegorz Holub, SDB
Visit Dates: 2007-08
Assistant Professor in Bioethics
The Pontifical Academy of Theology, Krakow, Poland
Jan Hrkut
Visit Dates: 2014-15
Vice-dean of the Faculty of Arts & Letters
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
jan.hrkut@ku.sk
Svitlana Hurkina
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
hurkina@ucu.edu.ua
Gabriella Ilonszki
Visit Dates: 2001-02
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Budapest University of Economic Sciences, Hungary
Pavel Izrael
Visit Dates: 2013-14
Lecturer, Department of Journalism, Faculty of Arts and Letters
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Bartosz Jozwik
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Department of International Economic Relations
Institute of Economics and Management
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Jana Juhasova
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Department of Slovak Language & Literature
Catholic University of Ruzomberok, Slovak Republic (Slovakia)
Tamas Karath
Visit Dates: 2013-14
Institute of English and American Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
tamas.karath@gmail.com
Hrvoje Kekez
Visit Dates: 2014-15
Assistant Professor of History
Catholic University of Croatia, Zabgreb
Rev. Pavlo Khud
Visit Dates: 2017-18
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology
Ukrainian Catholic University
Director, School of Journalism
William Kissane
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Associate Professor in Politics
London School of Economics, United Kingdom
László Komáromi
Visit Dates: 2010-11
Associate Professor
Department of Legal History
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Ivan Koniar
Visit Dates: 2016-17
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia
Marian Kuna
Visit Dates: 2005-06
Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Arts and Letters
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Artur Kus
Visit Dates: 2009-10
Faculty of Law, Canon Law, and Administration
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Ildiko Limpar
Visit Dates: 2012-13
Senior Lecturer of English
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Rev. Marek Lis
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Visiting Fellow
Theological Faculty of Opole University
Opole, Poland
Julia Lopez
Visit Dates: 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2010-11, 2012-13, 2013-14
Professor of Labor Law and Social Security Law
Head of the Area of Labor Law and Social Security Law
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Robert Marszalek
Visit Dates: 2000-01
Department of Philosophy and Sociology
University of Warsaw, Poland
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Director, Institute of English Studies
Associate Professor and Head, Department of American Literature and Culture
Krystyna Mazur
Visit Dates: 2007-08
Assistant Professor
American Studies Center
University of Warsaw, Poland
Balazs Mezei
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Department of Theoretical Philosophy
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Fr. Boguslaw Migut
Visit Dates: 2008-09, 2015-16
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
boguslawmigut@gmail.com
Dalibor Mikulas
Visit Dates: 2004-05
Vice-rector for Foreign Relations and Mobilities
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Ivanka Mohylyak
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Program and Project manager
Administrative director of English Summer School
Center of Modern Foreign Languages
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
Rev. Slawomir Nowosad
Visit Dates: 2012-13, 2015-16
Dean, Faculty of Theology
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Pablo Nuevo Lopez
Visit Dates: 2004-05
Associate Professor of Constitutional Law
Department of Law and Political Sciences
Universitat Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain
Tamas Nyirkos
Visit Dates: 2012-13
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Visiting Scholar - Summer 2013
Karoly Pinter
Visit Dates: 2011-12, 2016-17
Associate Professor, Institute of English and American Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Kalman Pocza
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Department of International Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Hermann Pottmeyer
Visit Dates: 1999-00
Catholic Theological Faculty
The Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Gabriella Reuss
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Senior Lecturer, Institute of English and American Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Piliscaba/Budapest, Hungary
Piotr Salwa
Visit Dates: 2006-07
Professor, Director of the Scientific Center in Rome of the Polisch Academy of Sciences
Polish Academy of Sciences, University of Warsaw, Italy
Veronika Schandl
Visit Dates: 2006-07
Associate Professor
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Monika Schmitz-Emans
Visit Dates: 2001-02
Kolleg Research Group BildEvidenz
General and Comparative Literature
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Nicoletta Scotti Muth
Visit Dates: 2014-15
Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer
Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
Luka Seso
Visit Dates: 2014-15
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Catholic University of Croatia
Zabgreb, Croatia
Dmytro Sherengovsky
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Director, Department of International Academic Relations Department
Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
Roman Skakun
Visit Dates: 2012-13
Department of Church History
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Visiting Scholar - Summer 2013
Dariusz Skorczewski
Visit Dates: 2017-18
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Vice-Dean, Research and International Cooperation
Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Anthropology of Literature
Marta Soniewicka
Visit Dates: 2010-11
Department of Philosophy and Law and Legal Ethics
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland)
Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science and International Affairs
Chair, Department of Eastern Studies
Bohdan Szklarski
Visit Dates: 1999-00, 2000-01
Assistant Professor of Political Science, American Studies Center
Warsaw University, Poland
Fr. Frantisek Trstensky
Visit Dates: 2010-11, 2011-12, 2012-13
Vice President for International Relations
Faculty of Theology
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Oleh Turiy
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Ph.D., Vice Rector for External Affairs
Associate Professor of Church History
Chair of Church History Department
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Michela Valmori
Visit Dates: 2017-18
Department of Linguistics
University Linguistic Center
University of Bologna, Italy
Contact Information
574-631-3149
mvalmori@nd.edu
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Teaching University (Georgia)
Rector and Professor
President, Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD), Georgia
Fr. Peter Volek
Visit Dates: 2013-14
Department of Philosophy
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
Fr. Alfred Marek Wierzbicki
Visit Dates: 2014-15
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Oleh Yaskiv
Visit Dates: 2016-17
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Director of Information-Resource Center/Library - The Sheptytsky Center
Adam Zadroga
Visit Dates: 2012-13
Associate professor, Department of Family Social Life
Institute of Family Studies and Social Work
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Valentina Zaffino
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Italian Fulbright
Research Associate, Faculty of Philosophy
Pontifical Lateran University
Vatican City, Italy
Viktor Zhukovskyy
Visit Dates: 2012-13
Faculty of Philosophy
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Fr. Wladyslaw Zuziak
Visit Dates: 2012-13, 2014-15
Faculty of Philosophy
Pontifical University of John Paul II, Krakow, Poland