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Inside Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters
Committed to ScholarshipFaculty research is rooted most firmly within the 21 departments of the College of Arts and Letters, but such scholarship also drives a number of campus research centers and institutes, including these recent additions.
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced
Study—scheduled to open this fall under
the direction of Vittorio Hösle, Paul G.
Kimball Professor of Arts and Letters and
one of the world’s most distinguished
philosophers—will offer faculty and
graduate fellowships tenable for up to a
full academic year. Welcoming proposals
from any field, it will support inquiries
grounded in a specific discipline that
engage the world’s greatest questions.
Funding for the institute and several other
projects is drawn from $80 million the
University has allocated for two phases of
faculty research initiatives.
Founded in 2004, the Center for the
Study of Religion and Society combines
cultural analysis with large-scale survey
research. The John Templeton Foundation
has awarded Director Christian Smith
(sociology) a $5 million grant for the
“Science of Generosity,” a multiyear
project that began in January 2009. Since
its inception, the center has received more
than $10 million in external funding.
David Campbell (political science) directs
the Rooney Center for the Study of
American Democracy, established last
year with a $10 million gift to Notre Dame.
The resulting endowment will be used for
a variety of purposes, from filling multiple
faculty positions to hosting conferences
and prominent visitors and speakers.
Distinguished FacultyWhether they are among the most well-respected senior scholars in their fields or early in their careers, Arts and Letters faculty contribute to that collective dialogue that moves knowledge forward. In the process, they regularly earn the recognition of their peers, leading to distinctions such as those detailed here.
Gerald Bruns (English) was elected a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, making him one of 13 in
Arts and Letters. In addition, Thomas
Stapleford (Program of Liberal Studies)
was selected for the academy’s Visiting
Scholars Program.
Over the three-year period ending in 2008,
Notre Dame’s Department of History won
more research fellowships (six) from the
American Council of Learned Societies than
any other history department in the country.
Recipients were Gail Bederman, Olivia Remie
Constable, Alex Martin, Margaret Meserve,
Linda Przybyszewski, and John Van Engen.
Cambridge University Press published a
book of essays devoted to the work of Alvin
Plantinga (philosophy) in its “Contemporary
Philosophy in Focus” series, which to
date includes introductory volumes on
15“dominant philosophical thinkers of
the current age.” Plantinga is the second
member of Notre Dame’s Department of
Philosophy to be featured in the series,
joining colleague Alasdair MacIntyre.
These scholars are among those who have decided to join Notre Dame’s faculty in the past year.
After adding three assistant professors last fall, Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology now has one of the country’s largest quantitative faculties housed entirely within a psychology department.
Christian Davenport,
Professor of Political Science
and Peace Studies
(from University of Maryland)
Davenport’s primary research
interests include political
conflict, measurement, and
racism. The recipient of six
grants from the National
Science Foundation and
a J. William Fulbright
Foreign Scholarship grant,
he is spending 2008–09 as
a residential fellow at the
Center for Advanced Study
in the Behavioral Sciences at
Stanford University.
Margot Fassler,
Keough-Hesburgh Professor
of Music History and Liturgy
(from Yale University)
A fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Fassler specializes in the liturgy
of the Latin Middle Ages and
sacred music, serving for more
than 10 years as the director
of the Yale Institute of Sacred
Music. She was named a
2008–09 Henry Luce III Fellow
in Theology and is currently
in residence at the Center
of Theological Inquiry in
Princeton, N.J.
Felipe Fernández-Armesto,
William P. Reynolds Professor
of History
(from Tufts University)
Fernández-Armesto is
the author of Millennium,
Civilizations, and The Americas, each a foundational
volume for global history, and
his work has been translated
into 25 languages. A frequent
contributor to Spanish and
British media, including The Times Literary Supplement, he won the 2007 World
History Association Book
Prize for Pathfinders.y
Peter Jeffery, Michael P. Grace
Professor of Medieval Studies
(from Princeton University)
Jeffery, whose research focuses
on medieval chant and the
history of liturgical music,
has received a MacArthur
Foundation “Genius Award”
and a fellowship from the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, among other
honors. He joined Princeton’s
faculty in 1993 and is a visitor
at the nearby Institute for
Advanced Study during the
2008–09 academic year.
Distinctive Research and Resources
In just under a decade, faculty in the College of Arts and Letters have won 107 fellowships from agencies whose award decisions are tracked by the National Research Council. Included in Notre Dame’s total are 37 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, the most awarded to any university faculty in the country from 1999–2008; the eight received in 2007–08 represents the best year for any school during this time.
From July 2003 through June 2008,
psychology faculty won 90 external
research awards as principal investigators,
meeting with success on more than 50
percent of their proposals and receiving
$24.5 million in funding.
With Shakespeare at Notre Dame,
the University is building a national and
international reputation in Shakespeare
studies. The program consists of elements
such as the touring theatre company
Actors From The London Stage and the
McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare
Studies, held by world-renowned scholar
Peter Holland (theatre).
Notre Dame features two of the country’s
premier university arts venues: the Snite
Museum of Art—home to more than
24,000 pieces—and the Marie P. DeBartolo
Center for the Performing Arts, which will
celebrate its fifth anniversary this fall.
Fellowships Awarded to Liberal Arts Faculty at U.S. News Top 25 National Research
Universities, 1999–2008
All fellowship numbers are taken from the fellowship lists provided by the funding agencies. Fellowship granting agencies are those used by the National Research Council in its rankings for the humanities. The Top 25 national research universities are from the U.S. News rankings (September 2003). The statistics include only faculty (rather than dissertation or pre-doctoral) fellowships. They also include only fellowships given to faculty in departments equivalent to those in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters (humanities, arts, and social sciences). Fellowships awarded to scientists and engineers were excluded for the purpose of comparing Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters to other universities. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford does not make its fellowship lists public. Including those numbers could change the rankings slightly.
1 Notre Dame 372 Michigan 27
3 Harvard 23
4 Princeton 18
5 Virginia 16
National Endowment for theHumanities Fellowships
1 Princeton 126
2 California, Berkeley 123
3 Michigan 122
4 Harvard 120
5 Chicago 111
6 Notre Dame 1077 Columbia 95
8 Northwestern 85
9 Pennsylvania 79
10 Duke 74
11 Brown 71
12 Yale 71
13 Stanford 70
14 Virginia 68
15 Georgetown 67
16 Cornell 66
17 Emory 46
18 Dartmouth 45
19 Vanderbilt 45
20 Washington (St. Louis) 44
21 Johns Hopkins 39
22 MIT 39
23 Rice 32
24 Carnegie Mellon 17
25 Cal Tech 11
A growing investment in doctoral programs, both by the College of Arts and Letters and the University, is matched by the caliber of students choosing Notre Dame for graduate studies.
All students admitted into a doctoral program in
the Colleges of Arts and Letters, Engineering, and
Science are considered for a Richard and Peggy
Notebaert Premier Fellowship. For up to six
years, fellows receive full tuition, health insurance,
and a stipend that is among the most generous in
the country.
Notre Dame now offers a Ph.D. in peace studies.
One of the few of its kind in the world, the new
program was developed by the Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies in partnership with
the Departments of History, Political Science,
Psychology, and Sociology.
Advances in Graduate Studies
Edward Sorin Postdoctoral
Fellowships allow select Ph.D.
recipients from Arts and Letters to
stay at Notre Dame after graduation
to further their research and gain
additional teaching experience.
Arts and Letters graduate students
continue to distinguish themselves
by securing external awards. Two
highlights from the past year are a
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship (Woodrow
Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation) and a Miller Center
Fellowship in American Politics,
Foreign Policy, and World Politics
(University of Virginia).
Of our recent graduate placements, those at the institutions listed here are among the most
notable: Ateneo de Manila University, Boston College, Fordham University, Harvard Divinity
School, College of the Holy Cross, University of Kansas, University of Miami, Ohio State
University, University of Oxford (five-year teaching fellowship), Pepperdine University, University
of Pittsburgh (postdoctoral fellowship), Princeton University (postdoctoral fellowship), Teachers
College (Columbia University), University of Texas at Arlington, Tulane University, Vanderbilt
University (postdoctoral fellowship), and Yale University (postdoctoral fellowship).
Note: Positions are tenure-track except where indicated.
The College offers grants and fellowships to students
through the Undergraduate Research Opportunity
Program (UROP). During 2007–08, UROP made 108
awards totaling nearly $190,000 to undergraduates from
all three divisions of Arts and Letters. Funded projects
ranged from a study of food and water scarcity in Egypt
to an examination of Italian comedic cinema.
Many undergraduates also receive research funding
from other campus sources, such as the Institute for
Latino Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International
Studies, and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies.
At Notre Dame, pursuing a liberal arts major immerses undergraduates in a nurturing yet challenging environment, one where they’re empowered to put an individual stamp on their education.
Undergraduate E xcel lence
In the last five years, industrial design
students have won four International
Design Excellence Awards (IDEA)
in a competition cosponsored by
BusinessWeek magazine and the
Industrial Designers Society of America.
This total places Notre Dame among
the Top 5 winners since 2004 in the
“schools” category, along with Art
Center College of Design, California
College of the Arts, Hongik University,
and Seoul National University.
Seven Arts and Letters students
have been selected to participate
in the Intercollegiate Studies
Institute Honors Program in the past
three years. The program annually
recognizes “50 of the nation’s most
promising undergraduates.”
The Department of Anthropology has
added a field study option to its signature
Smithsonian summer internship, still the
only internship at the National Museum
of Natural History offered exclusively to
the students of one university.
Notre Dame’s first Undergraduate Scholars Conference, held in May 2008, featured the original research of more than 200 students from across the University.
Notre Dame’s Catholicism provides an intellectual framework that allows Arts and Letters to be a leading center of scholarship in many areas outside theology. These fields range from Dante studies to the psychology of children and families and help animate entire programs as well as special events.
An Intel lec tual Tradition
Together with the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for
Culture and Pontifical Gregorian University, Notre
Dame’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology,
and Values is sponsoring “Project Evolution,”
a lineup of conferences and workshops that
underscores the compatibility of Catholicism
and evolutionary theory while facilitating
dialogue between scientists, philosophers, and
theologians. “Darwin at Notre Dame” is a series
of on-campus conversations that, like “Project
Evolution,” marks the 150th anniversary of On the Origin of Species.
The newly established Tocqueville
Program for Inquiry Into Religion
and American Public Life, directed
by Michael Zuckert (political science),
held an inaugural conference to
explore competing conceptions of
religious freedom.
Notre Dame’s Medieval Institute—
directed by Olivia Remie Constable
(history), who was just elected a
fellow of the Medieval Academy of
America—houses the largest group
of medievalists at any North American
university. The institute recently
welcomed the Société Internationale
pour l’Étude de la Philosophie
Médiévale for a conference organized
by Kent Emery, Jr., (Program of
Liberal Studies) marking the society’s
50th anniversary.
Graduate students from nine universities
came to Notre Dame in October
2008 for a conference focused on the
varied ways people have defined “the
common good.” Sponsored by the
University’s Graduate School, Kellogg
Institute for International Studies, and
Nanovic Institute for European Studies,
the event gave participants a forum
to discuss their research with peers in
multiple disciplines.
Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C., (political science) received a Presidential Citizens Medal—the second highest distinction the president can confer upon a civilian—at the Oval Office in December. Director of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, Scully was honored for developing “innovative ways to support under-resourced schools.”
Inherent to the success of a genuinely Catholic college or university is its ability to serve as a means for scholars and students with diverse ideas, perspectives, and interests to engage each other and the rest of the world.
Notre Dame is consistently a leader
among U.S. News’ Top 25 national
universities in the percentage of
undergraduates who study abroad.
With approximately 40 international
study programs in more than 20
countries, the University is currently
second in this group according to
data compiled by the Institute of
International Education.
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E xplor ing Worldv iews
Opened in January, the Center for the
Study of Languages and Cultures
is an innovative facility with space,
technology, and programming that
promote advanced foreign language
and cultural competency. The center
provides students opportunities for
informal and structured practice,
interaction, and communication.
Undergraduates now have 14 options for
foreign language study with the launch
last fall of a Korean program in the
Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultures. In addition, several
campus sources offer grants that support
the summer study of languages not
taught at Notre Dame.
The Department of Romance Languages
and Literatures has created a graduate
student exchange program with
l’Université de Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne,
western France’s most important research
center and higher education community
for the humanities and social sciences.
Dianne Pinderhughes (Africana studies and political science), the 2007–08 president of the American Political Science Association, is one of four principal investigators for the Gender and Multi-Cultural Leadership Project. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the project studies African-American, American Indian, Asian-American, and Latino/a elected officials.
Notre Dame at a Glance Founded in 1842 Undergraduate
acceptance rate in
2008 of 26.7%
Total 2008–09 enrollment
of approximately 11,700
from all 50 states and
nearly 90 other countries
97.7% retention of
first-year students
(four-year average)
1,250-acre campus
President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.
Provost Thomas G. Burish
University of Notre Dame Academic Leadership
College of Arts and Letters John T. McGreevy
Mendoza College of Business Carolyn Y. Woo
College of Engineering Peter K. Kilpatrick
Deans
College of Science Gregory P. Crawford
School of Architecture Michael N. Lykoudis
Law School Patricia A. O’Hara
Graduate School Gregory E. Sterling
First Year of Studies (The Rev.) Hugh R. Page
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
574.631.5000
www.nd.edu