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CONTACT US 100 O'Shaughnessy Hall COLLEGE OF Notre Dame, IN 46556 [email protected] ARTS AND LETTERS 574-361-7085 Message from New Faculty 2020-2021 Economics Sarah A. Mustillo American Studies Mary Kate Batistich - Ph.D., Purdue University Laurel Daen - Ph.D., College of William & Mary Assistant Research Professor I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean Assistant Professor Batistich is part of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Daen’s research focuses on disability, sickness, Economic Opportunities (LEO) within the Department The College of Arts and Letters is a liberal medicine, and health in America, primarily during the of Economics at Notre Dame. Her research focuses on arts college—focused on cultivating 18th and 19th centuries. She is currently completing domestic poverty, including its connection to homelessness, crime, labor markets, and health care. understanding of the arts, humanities, and her first book, which examines disability and civil rights around the time of the American Revolution. She also has work quantifying the roles of international social sciences. The College is also at the This project has received multiple awards, including trade and technology on the loss of manufacturing heart of a research university—supportive of long-term funding from the National Endowment for employment in the U.S., with special attention to black faculty and student efforts to be original, the Humanities. Daen has also published articles on the and non-college workers. Mary Kate earned her PhD creative scholars. And, the College is deeply intersections of disability and language, art, in Economics from Purdue University in 2020 and a BA technology, and poverty. “‘To Board & Nurse a from the in 2012. Catholic—embracing diversity of thought and Stranger’: Poverty, Disability, and Community in encouraging faculty and students to use their Eighteenth-Century Massachusetts.” Journal of Social gifts to build a vibrant, distinctive History 53, 3 (Spring 2020): 716-741. “Beyond community tied to one of the world’s great Impairment: Recent Histories of Early American Jeffrey Campbell - Ph.D., Northwestern University Disability.” History Compass 17, 4 (April 2019): e12528. Frances D. Rasmus and Jerome A. Castellini Professor of intellectual traditions. Economics Campbell's research covers econometrics, industrial Katherine Walden - Ph.D., University of Iowa Nothing is more important to any of our organization and macroeconomics. His current Assistant Teaching Professor projects include the development of econometric aspirations than the quality of our hiring Walden's research and teaching looks at the methods for macroeconomic forecasting during decisions. Faculty accomplishments- intersection of sport and culture, with a focus on disaster recovery, the development and empirical professional baseball labor. Her research uses data teaching our students, advancing research— application of computationally-simple game-theoretic analysis, visualization, and interactive digital mapping determine our academic reputation. Their models of industry dynamics, and the evaluation of the to illustrate the scale and scope of Minor League Federal Reserve's and European Central Bank's collaborative spirit allows us to better Baseball labor, as well as the historical forces and labor unconventional monetary policy actions. His long term educate our students and build new structures that shape Minor League players’ working research interests also include middle-class programs and better departments. Their conditions. She is also involved in outreach and households' financial choices, the dynamics of retail advocacy work lobbying for improved working support for the University’s mission enables prices and the theoretical foundations of New conditions for Minor League players. Her teaching its standing as the premier Catholic research Keynesian macroeconomic models. Publications practice uses intersectional feminist and anti-racist include: The Limits of Forward Guidance (with Filippo university. This brochure describes the new pedagogical approaches for teaching interdisciplinary Ferroni, Jonas D.M. Fisher and Leonardo faculty who have joined the College of Arts data literacy, data science, and computational thinking. Melosi) Journal of Monetary Economics 108, pp. 118-134. This work uses digital humanities methods and and Letters this year. You will see they are an December 2019.Liquidity Constraints of the Middle pedagogies to help students gain facility with digital unusually accomplished group. Please join Class (with Zvi Hercowitz) American Economic Journal: technology, while also thinking critically about me in welcoming them to the College. Economic Policy 11(3), pp. 130-155. August 2019. historical context and intersecting structures of power. Matthias Hoelzlein - Ph.D., University of California, English German & Russian Berkeley Essaka Joshua - Ph.D., University of Birmingham Languages and Literatures Instructor Associate Professor Hoelzlein works on topics in international trade, urban Joshua has published three monographs and numerous Judith Benz - Ph.D., economics and economic geography. His research articles and chapters on Romantic and Victorian Teaching Professor agenda is centered on how heterogeneous agents’ literature. Joshua specializes in Disability Studies and is Benz is a medievalist who is interested in medievalism exposure to local markets determines welfare and engaged in a book project on disability in British studies and examines how contemporary German- distributional effects of shocks such as policy Romantic theatre. Selected Publications: Physical speaking authors have reimagined, and continue to interventions. In his papers he applies recent modeling Disability in British Romantic Literature (Cambridge: reimagine, the Arthurian legend. Before coming to tools in the international trade literature to topics in Cambridge University Press, 2020). “Disability and Notre Dame, she directed the German program at other fields of economics such as spatial inequality in Deformity: Function Impairment and Aesthetics in the Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA, for twelve years. cities and its sources, scaling up randomized controlledLong Eighteenth Century,” in The Cambridge Judith has done extensive professional-development trials (RCT) in GE or welfare effects of financial market Companion to Literature and Disability, ed. by Clare work to hone her teaching skills. She most recently integration. Barker and Stuart Murray (Cambridge: Cambridge coauthored Roney, Deborah W., Judith G. Benz, and University Press. 2018), 47-61.“Introduction to Amy Frazier-Yoder.“K-16 Educational Collaborations Dis/Enabling Narratives,” Special Issue on Dis/Enabling Expand the World for Students.”(The Language Narratives, edited by Essaka Joshua, Journal of NarrativeEducator, Oct./Nov. 2018. With Deborah W. Roney and Theory. 47.3 (2017) 305-316. Amy Frazier-Yoder). Maciej H. Kotowski - Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley Sara Marcus- Ph.D., Associate Professor Assistant Professor Kotowski is an economic theorist with particular Marcus specializes in American and African American interest in auctions, market design, matching markets, literature, popular music, sound, and performance from and economic networks. His current projects focus on the 19th century through the present. Her current book the interpretation and implications of property rights project, Political Disappointment: A Partial History in economic models, the properties of dynamic and (under contract with Harvard University Press), argues multiperiod matching markets, and the formation of that the defining American texts of the twentieth trading networks. Publications: 2020. First-Price century are records of disappointment. Bringing Auctions with Budget Constraints. Theoretical together an interdisciplinary archive that runs from Economics 15(1):199–237 // [2] Balbuzanov, Ivan, and Reconstruction’s aftermath through the AIDS crisis, this Maciej H. Kotowski. 2019. Endowments, Exclusion, and book tells a new cultural history of the century. Its Exchange. Econometrica 87(5):1663–1692 // [3] Kadam, archive of disappointment throws into sharp relief the Sangram V., and Maciej H. Kotowski. 2018. Multiperiod role of nonfulfillment as a central element of the Matching. International Economic Review 59(4):1927– twentieth century—and indeed of the republic itself. 1947. Marcus’s first book, Girls to the Front (Harper Perennial, 2010), a critical and cultural history of the 1990s punk-feminist movement , was a National Award for Arts Writing finalist and is currently in its tenth printing. History Music Philosophy Katlyn Carter - Ph.D., Princeton University Kola Owolabi - DMA, Eastman School of Music Jc Beall - Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Assistant Professor Professor O'Neill Family Professor Carter is a political and intellectual historian of the Owolabi has performed as a solo recitalist across the His research is mostly in logic and the philosophy of eighteenth-century Atlantic World, specializing in the United States, Canada and in Europe. Notable venues logic and related areas (e.g., philosophy of language, American and French Revolutions. Her research include St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York, philosophy of mathematics, a little epistemology, a focuses on the origins of modern representative Cornell University, Yale University, Klosterneuburg little metaphysics). He has worked on the notion of democracy through the study of political practices and Abbey in Austria, Église du Bouclier in Strasbourg, truth, on a variety of paradoxes, and especially on institutions. Currently, she is finishing a book that France and the University of the West Indies in Mona, “deviant” (or nonstandard) accounts of logic. He also explores how decisions and debates about the place of Jamaica. He performs a broad range of repertoire from works in philosophy of religion and analytic theology. secrecy in politics during the Age of Revolutions the 16th century to contemporary works. Current Publications: The Contradictory Christ/ (Oxford: OUP), shaped representative government. Houses of Glass: interests are South German baroque repertoire, Iberian in press; /Formal Theories of Truth/ (Oxford: OUP), Secrecy, Transparency, and the Birth of Representative baroque repertoire, organ repertoire by composers of 2018; /Spandrels of Truth/ (Oxford: OUP), 2009; Democracy (under contract with Yale University Press) African descent, and contemporary repertoire by /Logical Pluralism/ (Oxford: OUP), 2006. "Denouncing Secrecy and Defining Democracy in the women composers. CD Recordings: Jacques Boyvin: Early American Republic," forthcoming this fall in the Four Suites from the Second Livre d’Orgue. Kola Journal of the Early Republic Owolabi, Organist. 1732 Andreas Silbermann Organ, Saint-Maurice Abbey, Ebersmunster, France. RAVEN Michael Zhao - Ph.D., New York University OAR-997. 2017. Sacred Expressions: Twentieth Century Assistant Professor Music for Organ. Works by Oliver Messiaen, Petr Eben Zhao works primarily in value theory. He's working on a project about how moral practice should change if Joshua Specht - Ph.D., Harvard University & Calvin Hampton. Kola Owolabi, Organist. 1950 moral judgments are more like emotions than beliefs, Assistant Professor Holtkamp Organ, Crouse College, Syracuse University. and on another project on the nature of various moral Specht is a historian of the nineteenth-century United RAVEN OAR-996. 2016. attitudes. Zhao also has interests in ancient Chinese States. His work explores the intersections of philosophy and philosophy of language and science. environmental history, business history, and political "Guilt without Perceived Wrongdoing." Philosophy and history. His first book, Red Meat Republic, traces the Public Affairs 48 (2020): 285–314. origins of industrial beef in the United States and the "Meaning, Moral Realism, and the Importance of importance of cattle-raising and beef consumption to Morality." Philosophical Studies 117 (2020): 653–666. American society and identity. He is currently "Solidarity, Fate-Sharing, and Community." developing his next project, on the long history of land Philosophers' Imprint 19 (2019): 1–13. and ecological transformation in American politics. "Intervention and the Probabilities of Indicative Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Conditionals." The Journal of Philosophy 112 (2015): 477– Beef Changed America, Princeton University Press 503. (May 2019). “Commodity History and the Nature of Global Connection: Recent Developments,” Journal of Global History (March 2019), 14(1): 145-150. Political Science Psychology Romance Languages and Literatures Christina Bambrick - Ph.D., University of Texas at Vanessa Chan - Ph.D., University of Toronto Austin Assistant Teaching Professor Ana Fauri - Ph.D., Brown University Assistant Professor Chan joins the department with an appointment to Assistant Teaching Professor Bambrick specializes in constitutional theory and the Neuroscience and Behavior undergraduate major. Fauri's current research focuses on the way development. Her research and teaching interests She is dedicated to fostering skills for both in and out government repressive mechanisms in the twentieth range from American and comparative of the academic classroom, and is interested in century impacted Portuguese and Brazilian literature. constitutionalism to republican theory and the research on pedagogical improvements for the She analyses how visual media, propaganda and history of political thought. Her publications include classroom and applying empirically-tested practices. fictional narratives were created and used by, and the articles, "Horizontal Rights: A Republican Vein in Her graduate training is in experimental psychology against, both dictatorial governments. It also targets Liberal Constitutionalism," in Polity in 2020, and and cognitive neuroscience, specifically in speech the role that the United States played in the changing "'Neither Precisely National Nor Precisely Federal': perception in noisy environments, with separate political landscape covering the descent into Governmental and Administrative Authority in interests in music cognition and effects of musical dictatorship, and the eventual emergence of Tocqueville's Democracy in America," in Publius: The training. Publications include: Chan, T.M.V., & Alain, democracy in Brazil and in Portugal. FAURI, Ana Journal of Federalism in 2018. She is currently writing C. (2020). Theories of cognitive aging: A look at Leticia; BORDINI, Maria da Gloria (Org.) Erico a book manuscript on the horizontal application of potential benefits of music training on the aging Verissimo na União Panamericana. Discursos 1953-1956. rights to non-state actors in comparative context. brain. In L. Cuddy, S. Belleville, & A. Moussard (Erico Verissimo in the Pan-American Union - Before coming to Notre Dame, Bambrick taught at (Eds.) Music and the Aging Brain. Elsevier. Wood, S., Speeches 1953-1956). Rio de Janeiro: Macunaíma; CNPq, Clemson University. She received her doctorate in & Chan, V. (2020). Sequential assignments to 2020. 256 p. FAURI, Ana Leticia, et al. DELP – Government from the University of Texas at Austin critically evaluate psychological journal articles. Dicionário Essencial de Língua Portuguesa (The where she was recognized for Excellence in Teaching Society for the Teaching of Psychology Essential Dictionary of the Portuguese Language). 6ª by the College of Liberal Arts. website. https://teachpsych.org/resources/Document edition. Porto Alegre: Rígel. 2012. 804 p. s/otrp/resources/wood20.pdf

Nina Stoeckel - Ph.D., Syracuse University Assistant Clinical Professor Stoeckel’s interests are in the area of adult behavioral medicine, integrated care, and empirically supported treatments. Prior to joining the faculty at Notre Dame, she worked as a practicing clinical psychologist at a medical office and also did consultation work for a general medical hospital. Dr. Stoeckel coordinates the practicum training for the doctoral students in clinical psychology and provides training and clinical supervision to doctoral students in the delivery of empirically supported assessments and interventions. Sociology Theology Jay Martin- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame (pending) Assistant Teaching Professor Dana Moss - Ph.D., University of California, Irvine Jeremy Brown- Ph.D., New York University Martin is a Roman Catholic systematic theologian who Assistant Professor Assistant Professor specializes in the Catholic engagement with Moss’ research addresses three questions: (1) how do Brown is a scholar of Judaism, and especially the psychoanalysis, German Romanticism and Idealism, authoritarian forces exercise power? (2) under what textual corpus of religious knowledge known as radical emancipatory political philosophy, critical race conditions do subordinated groups challenge kabbalah. His research interests include the literature theory, and continental philosophy, hermeneutics and powerholders? and (3) in a globalized world, how do of the Zohar, its inter-religious contexts in medieval phenomenology. He is in the process of completing a the dynamics of power and resistance transcend state Iberia, and its penitential discourses (the subject of his manuscript on death of God theology in the thought of borders? Her ongoing work focuses on how Middle doctoral dissertation and current monograph project). Slovenian philosopher and cultural theorist Slavoj Eastern regimes repress their critics on a global scale Brown’s research also explores the political cultures of Zizek. He is also editing a volume on the dialogue and how collective actors contest illiberal power. Kabbalah in contemporary Latin America. Recent between science and religion and is co-authoring a Dana's first book, The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora publications include: “Gazing into Their Hearts: On the book on educational philosophy in science and Activism Against Authoritarian Regimes (forthcoming Appearance of Kabbalistic Pietism in Thirteenth- religion. Representative Publications: with Cambridge University Press), explains how the Century Castile," European Journal of Jewish Studies 14 “‘As love, the giver is perfect’: Love at the Limit of Arab Spring revolutions mobilized the Libyan, Syrian, (2020): 177-214; "From Nacionalista Anti-Kabbalistic Representation in the Thought of Cyril O’Regan,” In An and Yemeni diasporas and how activists in the US and Polemic to Aryan Kabbalah in the Southern Cone," Apocalypse of Love: Essays in Honor of Cyril J. Britain facilitated rebellion and humanitarian relief in Journal of Religion 99, No. 3 (2019): 341-360; “‘La O’Regan. Edited by Jennifer Newsome Martin and their homelands. Publications: 2020. “Voice After Exit: Perversión de la Cábala Judía’: Gershom Scholem and Anthony C. Sciglitano, Jr. (New York: Crossroad, 2018). Explaining Diaspora Mobilization for the Arab Spring.” anti-Kabbalistic Polemic in the Argentine Catholic Social Forces 98(4): 1669–1694. 2019. “The Promises and Nationalism of Julio Meinvielle,” in All Religion Is Trent Pomplun - Ph.D., University of Virginia Perils of Diaspora Mobilization Against Authoritarian Inter-Religion: Engaging the Work of Steven M. Associate Professor Regimes,” Brown Journal of World Affairs 26(1): 1-19. Wasserstrom, eds. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri and Paul Pomplun’s expertise extends from late medieval to Robertson (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), 65-73, 218-223; modern thought, with special emphasis on the "Of Sound and Vision: The Ram’s Horn in Medieval seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has Kabbalistic Rituology," Qol Tamid: The Shofar in Ritual, published on the history of scholastic theology, History and Culture, eds. Jonathan Friedman and Joel Catholic missions in Asia, and Indo-Tibetan religion Gereboff (Claremont, Ca: Claremont Press, 2017), 83- and culture. He is chiefly absorbed in the study of 113. Ippolito Desideri, a Jesuit who lived in Tibet during the early eighteenth century. When not squinting at Tibetan manuscripts, he studies both eastern and western traditions of scholasticism. His recent publications include “The Alphabetum Tibetanum of Agostino Antonio Giorgi (1711–1797): Between Augustinianism and the History of Religions.” History of Religions 59 (2020): 193–221; “Ippolito Desideri’s Tibetan Works and the Problem of ARSI Goa 74, fols. 47r-92v.” Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines 52 (2019): 176–99; and “John Duns Scotus in the History of Medieval Philosophy from the Sixteenth Century to Étienne Gilson (†1978).” Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale 58 (2016): 355–445. 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