Inside Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters

Committed to Scholarship Faculty 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 David Campbell (political science) directs philosophers—will offer faculty and Founded in 2004, the Center for the the Rooney Center for the Study of graduate fellowships tenable for up to a Study of Religion and Society combines American Democracy, established last full academic year. Welcoming proposals cultural analysis with large-scale survey year with a $10 million gift to Notre Dame. from any field, it will support inquiries research. The John Templeton Foundation The resulting endowment will be used for grounded in a specific discipline that has awarded Director Christian Smith a variety of purposes, from filling multiple engage the world’s greatest questions. (sociology) a $5 million grant for the faculty positions to hosting conferences Funding for the institute and several other “Science of Generosity,” a multiyear and prominent visitors and speakers. projects is drawn from $80 million the project that began in January 2009. Since University has allocated for two phases of its inception, the center has received more faculty research initiatives. than $10 million in external funding. Distinguished Faculty

Whether 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.

Cambridge University Press published a book of essays devoted to the work of Alvin Gerald Bruns (English) was elected a Over the three-year period ending in 2008, Plantinga (philosophy) in its “Contemporary fellow of the American Academy of Arts Notre Dame’s Department of History won Philosophy in Focus” series, which to and Sciences, making him one of 13 in more research fellowships (six) from the date includes introductory volumes on Arts and Letters. In addition, Thomas American Council of Learned Societies than 15“dominant philosophical thinkers of Stapleford (Program of Liberal Studies) any other history department in the country. the current age.” Plantinga is the second was selected for the academy’s Visiting Recipients were Gail Bederman, Olivia Remie member of Notre Dame’s Department of Scholars Program. Constable, Alex Martin, Margaret Meserve, Philosophy to be featured in the series, Linda Przybyszewski, and John Van Engen. joining colleague Alasdair MacIntyre. These scholars are among those who have decided to join Notre Dame’s faculty in the past year.

Christian Davenport, Margot Fassler, Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Peter Jeffery, Michael P. Grace Professor of Political Science Keough-Hesburgh Professor William P. Reynolds Professor Professor of Medieval Studies and Peace Studies of Music History and Liturgy of History (from ) (from University of Maryland) (from ) (from Tufts University) Jeffery, whose research focuses Davenport’s primary research A fellow of the American Fernández-Armesto is on medieval chant and the interests include political Academy of Arts and Sciences, the author of Millennium, history of liturgical music, conflict, measurement, and Fassler specializes in the liturgy Civilizations, and The has received a MacArthur racism. The recipient of six of the Latin Middle Ages and Americas, each a foundational Foundation “Genius Award” grants from the National sacred music, serving for more volume for global history, and and a fellowship from the John Science Foundation and than 10 years as the director his work has been translated Simon Guggenheim Memorial a J. William Fulbright of the Yale Institute of Sacred into 25 languages. A frequent Foundation, among other Foreign Scholarship grant, Music. She was named a contributor to Spanish and honors. He joined Princeton’s he is spending 2008–09 as 2008–09 Henry Luce III Fellow British media, including The faculty in 1993 and is a visitor a residential fellow at the in Theology and is currently Times Literary Supplement, at the nearby Institute for Center for Advanced Study in residence at the Center he won the 2007 World Advanced Study during the in the Behavioral Sciences at of Theological Inquiry in History Association Book 2008–09 academic year. Stanford University. Princeton, N.J. Prize for Pathfinders.y

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. 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. Fellowships Awarded to Liberal Arts Faculty at U.S. News Top 25 National Research From July 2003 through June 2008, Universities, 1999–2008 psychology faculty won 90 external

1 Princeton 126 research awards as principal investigators, National Endowment for the meeting with success on more than 50 2 California, Berkeley 123 Humanities Fellowships 3 Michigan 122 percent of their proposals and receiving 4 Harvard 120 1 Notre Dame 37 $24.5 million in funding. 5 Chicago 111 2 Michigan 27 6 Notre Dame 107 3 Harvard 23 7 Columbia 95 4 Princeton 18 8 Northwestern 85 5 Virginia 16 With Shakespeare at Notre Dame, 9 Pennsylvania 79 the University is building a national and 10 Duke 74 international reputation in Shakespeare 11 Brown 71 studies. The program consists of elements 12 Yale 71 such as the touring theatre company 13 Stanford 70 Actors From The London Stage and the 14 Virginia 68 All fellowship numbers are taken from the fellowship McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare lists provided by the funding agencies. Fellowship 15 Georgetown 67 granting agencies are those used by the National Studies, held by world-renowned scholar 16 Cornell 66 Research Council in its rankings for the humanities. The Peter Holland (theatre). 17 Emory 46 Top 25 national research universities are from the U.S. News rankings (September 2003). The statistics include 18 Dartmouth 45 only faculty (rather than dissertation or pre-doctoral) 19 Vanderbilt 45 fellowships. They also include only fellowships given to faculty in departments equivalent to those in Notre 20 Washington (St. Louis) 44 Dame’s College of Arts and Letters (humanities, arts, Notre Dame features two of the country’s 21 Johns Hopkins 39 and social sciences). Fellowships awarded to scientists premier university arts venues: the Snite and engineers were excluded for the purpose of 22 MIT 39 comparing Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters to Museum of Art—home to more than 23 Rice 32 other universities. The Center for Advanced Study in 24,000 pieces—and the Marie P. DeBartolo 24 Carnegie Mellon 17 the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford does not make its fellowship lists public. Including those numbers could Center for the Performing Arts, which will 25 Cal Tech 11 change the rankings slightly. celebrate its fifth anniversary this fall. Advances in Graduate Studies

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. 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 Of our recent graduate placements, those at the institutions listed here are among the most Wilson National Fellowship notable: Ateneo de Manila University, Boston College, Fordham University, Harvard Divinity Foundation) and a Miller Center School, College of the Holy Cross, University of Kansas, University of Miami, Ohio State Fellowship in American Politics, University, University of Oxford (five-year teaching fellowship), Pepperdine University, University Foreign Policy, and World Politics of Pittsburgh (postdoctoral fellowship), Princeton University (postdoctoral fellowship), Teachers (University of Virginia). College (), University of Texas at Arlington, Tulane University, Vanderbilt University (postdoctoral fellowship), and Yale University (postdoctoral fellowship).

Note: Positions are tenure-track except where indicated. Undergraduate Excellence

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.

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. 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 The Department of Anthropology has Notre Dame’s first Undergraduate Scholars have been selected to participate added a field study option to its signature Conference, held in May 2008, featured the in the Intercollegiate Studies Smithsonian summer internship, still the original research of more than 200 students Institute Honors Program in the past only internship at the National Museum from across the University. three years. The program annually of Natural History offered exclusively to recognizes “50 of the nation’s most the students of one university. promising undergraduates.” An Intellectual Tradition 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.

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 Graduate students from nine universities Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C., (political of medievalists at any North American came to Notre Dame in October science) received a Presidential university. The institute recently 2008 for a conference focused on the Citizens Medal—the second highest welcomed the Société Internationale varied ways people have defined “the distinction the president can confer pour l’Étude de la Philosophie common good.” Sponsored by the upon a civilian—at the Oval Office in Médiévale for a conference organized University’s Graduate School, Kellogg December. Director of the University’s by Kent Emery, Jr., (Program of Institute for International Studies, and Institute for Educational Initiatives, Liberal Studies) marking the society’s Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Scully was honored for developing 50th anniversary. the event gave participants a forum “innovative ways to support under- to discuss their research with peers in resourced schools.” multiple disciplines. [PAGE 12 – WORLD VIEWS] – stat tidbit in box

Exploring Worldviews

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. 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.

Opened in January, the Center for the Undergraduates now have 14 options for The Department of Romance Languages Study of Languages and Cultures foreign language study with the launch and Literatures has created a graduate is an innovative facility with space, last fall of a Korean program in the student exchange program with technology, and programming that Department of East Asian Languages l’Université de Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne, promote advanced foreign language and Cultures. In addition, several western France’s most important research and cultural competency. The center campus sources offer grants that support center and higher education community provides students opportunities for the summer study of languages not for the humanities and social sciences. informal and structured practice, taught at Notre Dame. interaction, and communication. Notre Dame at a Glance

Founded in 1842 Undergraduate 97.7% retention of Total 2008–09 enrollment 1,250-acre campus acceptance rate in first-year students of approximately 11,700 2008 of 26.7% (four-year average) from all 50 states and nearly 90 other countries Academic Leadership

President Provost Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. Thomas G. Burish

Deans College of Arts and Letters Mendoza College of Business College of Engineering John T. McGreevy Carolyn Y. Woo Peter K. Kilpatrick

College of Science School of Architecture Gregory P. Crawford Michael N. Lykoudis

Law School Graduate School First Year of Studies Patricia A. O’Hara Gregory E. Sterling (The Rev.) Hugh R. Page

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