Visiting Scholars
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.
Adams Fellows
The Patrick and Angela Adams Fellowship for Catholic Higher Education in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brings promising scholars and administrators from Catholic universities in post-communist Eastern Europe and the areas of the former Soviet Union to the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. The fellowship's goal is to provide these individuals with experiences at Notre Dame that will ensure their success as the future leaders of their region's Catholic universities.
The Nanovic Institute welcomes these scholars, who are affiliated with our Catholic Universities Partnership institutions, for semester-long stays during the fall or spring semesters or for one-month stays during the summer break. Their scholarly work matches one of the Institute's research areas, and may also connect with the “Faith and Freedom” and “Humanities and Policy” research initiatives.
Information on eligibility and the application process for this program is available on the visiting scholars program page.
Distinguished U.S.-Italian Fulbright Scholars
During the spring semester (only), the Nanovic Institute collaborates with the Center for Italian Studies and the College of Arts and Letters to host an Italian Fulbright scholar at Notre Dame. Italian Fulbright scholars may offer graduate and upper-level undergraduate courses in any number of Departments in the College of Arts and Letters including Classics, English, History, Art History, Philosophy, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Theology. Courses must be proposed and are subject to approval by the department in which they would be offered. Guidelines and application information are available at the University of Trento – Italy and the U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission.
Current Visiting Scholars

Magdalena Charzynska-Wojcik
Visit Dates: 2017-18, 2021-22, 2023-24
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Chair of the Department of History of the English Language and Translation Studies
Former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

Jasna Ćurković Nimac
Visit Dates: 2023-24
Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences
Catholic University of Croatia in Zagreb
Email: jcurkovi@nd.edu
Office: Nanovic 1060O

Zoriana Rybchynska
Visit Dates: 2023-24
Head of the Department of Cultural Studies
Ukrainian Catholic University
Email: zrybchyn@nd.edu
Office: Nanovic 1060N
Past Visiting Scholars
Marcela Andokova
Visit Dates: 2016-17
Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Faculty of Arts, Department of Classical and Semitic Philology
Enrique Anrubia
Visit Dates: 2009-10
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia, Spain
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
Yaryna Boychuk
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Lviv Business School
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Rev. Ihor Boyko
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Head of the School of Bioethics
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
Andrea Bozekova
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science,
Department of Political Science,
College of Arts and Letters,
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
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
Andrea Carteny
Visit Dates: 2020-21
Associate Professor of History of International Relations and Director of CEMAS Center of research Cooperation with Eurasia Mediterranean and Africa of Sub-sahara
College of Political Sciences, Sociology and Communication
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Julian Casanova
Visit Dates: 2002-03
Professor of Contemporary History
Department of History
Department of Political Science
University of Zaragoza, Spain
Sr. Barbara Chyrowicz
Visit Dates: 2012-13, 2013-14
Department of Applied Ethics
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Andrzej Cieslik
Visit Dates: 2008-09
Associate Professor and Chair of Macroeconomics and International Trade Theory,
Faculty of Economic Sciences,
University of Warsaw, Poland
Adela Cortina
Visit Dates: 2001-02
Professor of Moral Philosophy,
Department of Moral and Political Philosophy,
College of Philosophy and Educational Sciences,
Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Francesco Cotticelli
Visit Dates: 2016-17
Visiting Italian Fulbright
Professor of Theatre Studies
Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Ante Crnčević
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Professor, Faculty of Catholic Theology
University of Zagreb
Email: acrncevi@nd.edu
Office: 1060N Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Andras Cser
Visit Dates: 2007-08
Professor and Chair of the Department of Theoretical Linguistics,
Institute of English and American Studies,
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, 2021-22
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
Jekatyerina (Katya) Dunajeva
Visit Dates: 2020-21
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Pámány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.
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,
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
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
Aneta Gawkowska
Visit Dates: 2005-06
Vice-Dean for Research and Development
Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Customs and Law
Warsaw University, Poland
Dimitry Gegenava
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Associate Professor of Law and Vice-Rector,
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, Georgia
Anna Gonczi
Visit Dates: 2010-11
Visiting Lecturer
Faculty of Law
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
George Goradze
Visit Dates: 2021-22
Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, 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
Pavol Hrabovecky
Visit Dates: 2020-21
Vice Dean for Education, Faculty of Theology, Catholic University Ružomberok, Slovakia.
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
Klára Katona
Visit Dates: 2020-21
Head of the Heller Farkas Institute for Economics at the Faculty of Law, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary.
Jela Kehoe
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Lecturer of English Language and Literature, Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
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
Svitlana Khyliuk
Visit Dates: 2021-22
Associate Professor of Theory of Law and Human Rights Department
Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine
William Kissane
Visit Dates: 2011-12
Associate Professor in Politics
London School of Economics, United Kingdom
Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
Visit Dates: 2004-05
Professor of History,
Institute of History,
Warsaw University, Poland
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
Ewa Kula
Visit Dates: 2009-10
Associate Professor,
Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology,
Institute of Pedagogy,
Jan Kochanowski University, Poland
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
Professor
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
Carla Locatelli
Visit Dates: 2002-03
Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature,
University of Trento, Italy
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
Grzegorz Maziarczyk
Visit Dates: 2017-18
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
Professor of Philosophy
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
Head of International Relations Office,
Palacky University Olomouc, Czechia
Ivanna 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
Sarolta Molnár
Visit Dates: 2021-22
Assistant Professor, Department of Private Law
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary
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
Nino Papachashvili
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Professor and head of MBA program
Faculty of Business and Technology
Director, Institute for Developmental Studies
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University in Tbilisi, Georgia
Email: npapacha@nd.edu
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
Andrzej Podraza
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Head of the Department of International Relations and Security
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Email: apodraza@nd.edu
Phone: 574-631-1851
Office: 1060O Nanovic Hall
Hermann Pottmeyer
Visit Dates: 1999-00
Catholic Theological Faculty
The Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Halyna Protsyk
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Director of International Academic Relations
Ukrainian Catholic University
Email: hprotsyk@nd.edu
Office: 1060N Nanovic Hall
Yaroslav Prytula
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Dean of Applied Sciences Faculty
Ukrainian Catholic University
Email: yprytula@nd.edu
Phone: (574) 631-8739
Office: 1060I Nanovic Hall
Marianna Pyrih
Visit Dates: 2021-22
Head of Research Support Office, Ukrainian Catholic University
Lviv, Ukraine
Gabriella Reuss
Visit Dates: 2015-16
Senior Lecturer, Institute of English and American Studies
Pázmány Péter Catholic University
Piliscaba/Budapest, Hungary
Dominika Ruszkiewicz
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Assistant Professor
Department of English Language and Culture
Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow
Email: druszkie@nd.edu
Office: 1060I Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Phone: 574-631-8379
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
Gabriella Saputelli
Visit Dates: 2019-20
Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Regionalism, Federalism, and Self-Government in the National Research Council (Rome, Italy); Distinguished Visiting US-Italian Fulbright Assistant Professor
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
Andrii Shestak
Visit Dates: 2020-21
Director of the School of Journalism and Communications,
Faculty of Social Sciences,
Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv
Monika Sidor
Visit Dates: 2020-21
Associate Professor, Department of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Literature, Institute of Literary Studies, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland.
Andrea Simoncini
Visit Dates: 2008-09
Professor of Constitutional Law,
Department of Juridical Sciences,
University of Florence, Italy
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, 2022-23
Dean, Faculty of Humanities
Associate Professor of Theory and Anthropology of Literature,
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
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
Magdalena Smoleń-Wawrzusiszyn
Visit Dates: 2021-22
Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Polish Language
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Marta Soniewicka
Visit Dates: 2010-11
Department of Philosophy and Law and Legal Ethics
Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Tomasz Stepniewski
Visit Dates: 2017-18
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
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
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
Vaja Vardidze
Visit Dates: 2017-18
Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University (Georgia)
Rector and Professor
President, Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD), Georgia
Christian Vassallo
Visit Dates: 2018-19
Assistant Professor,
Department of Languages and Education Sciences,
University of Calabria, Italy
Emmanuele Vimercati
Visit Dates: 2007-08
Philosophy Professor,
Pontificia Università Lateranense, 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
Associate Professor of the Classical, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies Department,
Faculty of Humanities,
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,
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland
Valentina Zaffino
Visit Dates: 2015-16
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
Eugen Zelenak
Visit Dates: 2022-23
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Catholic University in Ružomberok, Slovakia
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