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
Pavol Hurbánek
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Research Interests
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Human geography
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Spatial and regional analysis
Pavol Hurbánek is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia. After earning his Master's degrees in geography - first at the Comenius University in Bratislava and then at the University of Nebraska at Omaha - he received his Ph.D. in human geography from the Comenius University in Bratislava, where he later served as an assistant professor. Before coming to Ružomberok, he was a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Southampton. While at Notre Dame, he will continue his line of research on spatial inequalities of social, economic and cultural characteristics in Europe and on the spatial distribution of population and built-up areas.
Grzegorz Skrobotowicz
Visit Dates: 2011-12, 2019-20
Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Executive Law at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Research Interests
- Criminal Law
- Canon Law
- Human Resources Development
Dr. Grzegorz Skrobotowicz (Ph.D., MBA) is a returning visiting scholar, having served the role in the 2011-12 academic year. An assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Executive Law, Faculty of Law, Canon Law, and Administration at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (KUL), Skrobotowicz received his Ph.D. in 2012 from KUL. His dissertation was entitled Mediation in Criminal Proceedings: Enforcement of Mediation Settlements in Research. During his residency, Skrobotowicz will give a lecture on why mediation, an extremely important tool for restorative justice, is rarely used in Poland, and discuss challenges and opportunities in Central Europe.
Volodymyr Turchynovskyy
Visit Dates: 2006-07, 2019-20
Dean of Social Sciences Faculty and Director of the International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary Issues, Ukrainian Catholic University
Research Interests
- Moral philosophy
- Political personhood
Volodymyr Turchynovskyy is a returning visiting scholar, having served in the role in the 2006-2007 academic year, and an accomplished scholar and administrator, serving as dean of social sciences faculty and director of the International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary Issues at Ukrainian Catholic University. He earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein, writing his thesis on moral subjectivity. With interests in moral philosophy and emerging technologies and communications, Prof. Turchynovskyy will spend the fall 2019 at the Institute researching texts that explore the integration of these new ways of communication in the context of a European “public square.”
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
Máté Botos
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Pázmány Pétér Catholic University in Budapest
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, Italy
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
Róbert Ďurka
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia
Dariusz Eligiusz Staszczak
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Professor of Economics at 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
Dimitry Gegenava
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Associate Professor of Law and Vice-Rector of the Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani Teaching University in Tblisi, Georgia
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, Ukraine, 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
Myron Schneider
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Doctoral candidate at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland
Philipp Schultheiss
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Doctoral candidate, research fellow, and lecturer
Center for Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, 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
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
Bohdan Szklarski
Visit Dates: 1999-00, 2000-01
Assistant Professor of Political Science, American Studies Center
Warsaw University, Poland
Robert Tabaszewski
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Research Associate at the Institute of Law at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
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
Christian Vassallo
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages and Education Sciences
University of Calabria, Italy
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
Andrii Yasinovskyi
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Dean of Humanities at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine
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
Nadiia Zasanska
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine
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