Associate director departure
Anthony Monta, M.A., PhD., has accepted a full-time faculty position in the Department of English at Holy Cross College.
2019 Nanovic senior awards
Jennifer Yi received the Nanovic Institute Prize for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in European Studies while Christian Brunner-Lopez was awarded the 2019 J. Robert Wegs Prize for the Best Minor in European Studies Capstone Essay.…
Refugee relief and migration in the Western Balkans
Serbia is situated directly on a mass migration route from Asia to Europe. Since 2015, over a million people have taken this route on their way to such countries as Germany and Sweden. For a country of roughly 7.2 million, such a massive movement of people through its territory has...
Student spotlight: Alexandra Tatarian
Alexandra Tatarian, a senior Science-Business major on the pre-medical track with a minor in Science, Technology, and Values, is passionate about pursuing her interests in the medical humanities. She visited Greece over the winter break with Institute support to conduct an independent research project entitled "Greek Dealings with Death and the Potential...
Migration matters
In his address to an international forum on migration and peace in 2017, Pope Francis reminded us that our principal response to migrants could be summarized in four simple verbs: “to welcome, to protect, to promote and to integrate.”…
Freedom and its legacies
Elly Bleier ('20), from "Freedom of Thought," is the daughter of Robert "Rocky" Bleier ('68), captain of the Notre Dame football team in 1967. She recently spent a few minutes with the Institute reflecting on what it was like to grow up with her dad.
Visiting scholars: Fall 2018
Visiting scholars from Ukraine and Poland will be hosted by the Nanovic Institute for fall 2018.
Student spotlight: Laura Qi
Laura Qi '19, an international economics major with a minor in European Studies, investigates France outside of Paris through a Nanovic research and travel grant.…
2018-19 winners of Tobin and Annese Dissertation Fellowships
Matteo Bianchetti, Ashely Foster, and Charles Yost have been awarded the 2018-19 Tobin Dissertation Fellowship. Raymond Drause and Heather Stanfiel have been granted the 2018-19 Annese Fellowship in Graduate Studies.
Student spotlight: Erica Machulak
At the end of a long period of study, research, and teaching, graduate students writing dissertations need time to sit down and write.
Student spotlight: Daniel DeToro
The British brutally suppressed insurgencies in Kenya and Malaya during the disintegration of the empire, Dan DeToro (’17), investigates the economic rationale behind the counterinsurgency campaigns in both territories.
Student spotlight: Shinkyu (James) Lee
Shinkyu (James) Lee presented his paper entitled “Defiant Realism: Arendtian Reflections on Peace” at the American Political Science Association.
Student spotlight: Benjamin Gallucci-Wright
Benjamin Gallucci-Wright (doctoral candidate in Medieval Studies) visited the archives of the Vatican Library in Rome and the Royal Library in Brussels.
Student spotlight: Madeline Fairman
Over Winter Break, junior architecture student Madeline Fairman traveled to Vienna, Milan, and Brussels on a Nanovic Institute grant to study the Art Nouveau movement.
Student spotlight: Allison Bartoszewicz
As part of an educational institution focused on developing the whole person, the Nanovic Institute makes a certain number of grants available to students committed to service and spiritual discernment.
Fellow research honored in Milan
Nanovic Fellow Robert R. Coleman, Professor Emeritus of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art History, Department of Art, Art History and Design was admitted as academicus to the Classe di Studi Borromaici of the Academy of the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan this fall.
Asylum in Austria
This spring, the Institute funded a faculty-led seminar to Salzburg to explore the complex phenomenon of asylum seeking in Europe.
New Nanovic fellows: Spring 2017
With now more than 170 members across campus, the Institute welcomes the following new fellows.
Student spotlight: Robert Myak
In preparation for his senior thesis, Robert Myak recently traveled to Spain to investigate how the contention between modernity and the Catholic Church influenced the principal laic and ecclesiastical characters in Leopoldo Alas’s celebrated novel.
Neopolitan theatre in Europe
In conversation with Francesco Cotticelli, Distinguished Visiting Italian Fulbright to Notre Dame in spring semester 2017.
Student spotlight: Alex Kruszewski
How strong is the British economy in the immediate wake of Brexit? Sophomore Alex Kruszewski recently traveled to London to investigate what the financial markets could tell us on a Break Travel and Research Grant from the Nanovic Institute.
Student Spotlight: Khaoula Morchid
Congratulations to Khaoula Morchid ('17), who has been accepted to take part in the European Horizons Student Conference 2017 at Yale University.
Architecture Longa, Vita Brevis
The premise that somehow Italy’s venerable buildings and urban fabric are inherently fragile is, at best, an exaggeration.
Religious Liberty in France
In the story of religious liberty in France, Ernest Renan (1823-1892) holds an influential and complicated place.
ND and Fulbright
Distinguished US-Italian Fulbright Scholars reflect on "The Humanities in a Global Context" at a Nanovic gathering in Rome. Papers are online here.