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
Máté Botos
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Pázmány Pétér Catholic University in Budapest
Research Interests
- Economics
- Political philosophy
- Historical philosophy
Máté Botos is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Studies at Pázmány Pétér Catholic University in Budapest, where he recently completed a term as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. An historian of political and economic thought, Prof. Botos earned his PhD in political science from Eötvös Loránd University after several years at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. During the month of June, Botos will be working on the historiographical approaches of Hungarian-born John Lukacs and Russell Kirk as well as the reception of Russell Kirk's political and historical philosophy.
Róbert Ďurka
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia
Research Interests
- Psychology of corrective humor and laughter
- Student stress
- Internet addiction
- Media habits of children
Róbert Ďurka is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the Catholic University of Ružomberok, Slovakia. Prof. Ďurka earned his PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Tyrnava, Slovakia, in 2006, following a Master's in Clinical Psychology in 2003. His research interests, which have been funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Research in Slovakia, have focused on the psychology of corrective humor and laughter, student stress, internet addiction, and media habits of children. During his summer residency, Prof. Ďurka will be working on a project on national stereotypes.
Dariusz Eligiusz Staszczak
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Professor of Economics at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Research Interests
- Global economy and politics
- International relations
- Transnational corporations
Dariusz Eligiusz Staszczak is a prize-winning Professor of Economics at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Economics in Krakow and wrote his habilitation thesis at the University of Bialystok. With broad research interests in global economy and politics, international relations, and transnational corporations, Prof. Staszczak will spend the month of June at the Institute exploring the best way to frame the relationship between European Union and the global system, evaluating the currently competing frames of neo-liberalism, neo-Marxism, and neo-realism
Dimitry Gegenava
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Associate Professor of Law and Vice-Rector of the Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani Teaching University in Tblisi, Georgia
Research Interests
- Church-state relations
- Modern constitutionalism
Dimitry Gegenava is an Associate Professor of Law and Vice-Rector of the Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani Teaching University in Tblisi, Georgia. Earning his PhD in Law from the State University in Tbilisi in 2016, Prof. Gegenava has held, and continues to hold, numerous leadership positions in Georgian academia, such as his serving as Editor-in-Chief of the journals Legal Methods and Journal of Law "Sarchevi" as well as serving as Secretary General of the European Law Students' Association of Georgia and as President of the Young Scientists' Society. His publications, in Georgian and in English, focus on constitutional issues of church-state relations and modern constitutionalism in Georgia. While at Notre Dame, he will be working on a project comparing the interpretation of constitutional norms and procedures of constitutional review in Georgia, Europe, and America.
Robert Tabaszewski
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Research Associate at the Institute of Law at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Research Interests
- Healthcare law
- Human rights
Robert Tabaszewski (PhD, LLM) is a Research Associate at the Institute of Law at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. With interests that range from health care law to human rights, Prof. Tabaszewski has held positions in the Presidency of the European Parliament, the Global Health Law Groningen Research Centre, the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, and the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development in Warsaw. Prof. Tabaszewski is practicing lawyer in Lublin, where he also hosts his own television program. At the Institute during the month of June, his research project is to clarify the problem of "permissibility" when it comes to legal derogation (the partial repeal of a law) and the limitation of rights and freedoms in extraordinary or emergency circumstances.
Andrii Yasinovskyi
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Dean of Humanities at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine
Research Interests
- Early modern religious culture
Andrii Yasinovskyi, PhD, is the current Dean of Humanities at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, where he is also head of the Department of Classical, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies. Prof. Yasinovskyi also serves as the Director of the Ukrainian Catholic University Press. His teaching is frequently cross-cultural, focusing on Byzantine and Western civilization or the role of Venice in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. He has interests in early modern religious culture as well and has served on the editorial board of ΚΑΛΟΦΩΝΙΑ: A journal for History of Church Monody and Hymnography. At the Institute during the month of June, Prof. Yasinovskyi will be working with Notre Dame resources and faculty to develop a new course "on the cultural crossroads" of the classical Mediterranean world.
Nadiia Zasanska
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine
Research Interests
- Political exploitation
- Religion in post-Soviet states
- Rhetoric and online media
Nadiia Zasanska has been a Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher at Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, since 2017. Previously she served as a research fellow in the Open Society Archives of Central European University in Budapest and as an independent researcher at the State Pedagogical University 'Kropivnitskiy' in central Ukraine. Her PhD (2016) was in Applied Linguistics; her Master's and bachelor's degrees are in English and Literature. While at Notre Dame, she will continue her line of publication on the political exploitation of religion in post-Soviet states, focusing in on the rhetoric and online media of the Russian Orthodox Church as it seeks to shape Ukrainian identity.
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, 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
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, 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
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
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