Area Experts

The University of Notre Dame has an exceptionally large community of scholars with research interests in the history of philosophy and adjacent areas, such as intellectual history, history of ideas, history of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic thought, history of political thought, etc.  The following list is organized by department, and includes faculty with both primary and secondary research interests in these interconnected areas. (Note: If you are looking for a potential faculty host for a small grant application, please see the separate list of Faculty Affiliates of the History of Philosophy Forum).

 

Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies

• Hussein Abdulsater (classical Islamic)
• Catherine Bronson (early Islamic)
   

Classics

• Hildegund Muller (late antiquity)

 

German Languages and Literature

• Vittorio Hösle (ancient, modern)
• Robert Norton (18th-20th century German literature and philosophy)
• Mark W. Roche (modern German literature, philsophy, and intellectual history)

 

History

• Alexander Beihammer (Byzantine intellectual history)
• Thomas Burman (medieval Mediterranean intellectual history)
• Liang Cai (classical Chinese thought, including Confucianism and Daoism)
• Brad Gregory (early modern thought, especially Reformation-Era Christian thought)
• Daniel Hobbins (medieval intellectual history, 1300-1500)
• Margaret Meserve (Renaissance intellectual history)
• Evan Ragland (early modern intellectual history, history of science)

 

Keough School of Global Affairs

• Ebrahim Moosa (classical and modern Islamic thought)
• Mahan Mirza (Islamic studies)

 

Medieval Institute

• Wiebke-Marie Stock (ancient, Plato, Neoplatonism)
• Julia Schneider (medieval theology, Albert the Great)
   

Mendoza College of Business

• Jim Otteson (history of economic thought, 18th-century moral philosophy)

 

Philosophy

• Karl Ameriks (history of modern, Kant) emeritus
• Patricia Blanchette (history of logic)
• Alix Cohen (history of modern, Kant)
• David Cory (medieval, history of natural philosophy, Aquinas)
• Therese Cory (medieval, Aquinas, Arabic-to-Latin transmission)
• Richard Cross (medieval, Scotus, history of philosophical theology)
• Shane Duarte (early modern)
• Steven Dumont (medieval, Scotus)
• Alex Jech (modern, Kierkegaard)
• Lynn Joy (modern) emerita
• Sean Kelsey (ancient, Aristotle)
• Alasdair MacIntyre (Aristotle, Aquinas) emeritus
• Kris McDaniel (history of metaphysics)
• Sam Newlands (early modern, Leibniz, Spinoza)
• John O’Callaghan (medieval, Aquinas, Thomism)
• David O’Connor (ancient, Plato)
• Stephen Ogden (medieval, Islamic)
• Fred Rush (18th-20th century European)
• Stephen Watson (19th century)

 

Political Science

• Eileen M. Hunt (17th-19th century political thought from Hobbes to Mill)
• Susan D. Collins (ancient political philosophy)
• Patrick J. Deneen (history of political thought)
• Joshua B. Kaplan (19th century political thought, Tocqueville)
• Mary M. Keys (ancient and medieval political thought)
• Vincent Phillip Muñoz (early modern political thought) 
• Dana Villa (history of political thought)

 

Program of Liberal Studies

• Francesca Bordogna (history of the sciences and technologies of the mind, and their relationships with philosophy)
• Robert Goulding (Renaissance natural philosophy and Platonism)
• Felicitas Munzel (Kant)
• Emma Planinc (early modern and Enlightenment political philosophy)
• Gretchen Reydam-Schils (Platonism and Stoicism)
• Andrew Radde-Galwitz (early Christianity and late ancient philosophy)
• Matthew Rickard (Early Modern Philosophy, Humanism & Humanist Education)
• Denis Robichaud (Platonism, Neoplatonism, Italian Renaissance humanism and philosophy)

 

Theology

• Khaled Anatolios (early Christian thinkers)
• Ann Astell (medieval spiritual writers)
• Jeremy Brown (medieval Judaism)
• John Cavadini (Augustine)
• Ulrich Lehner (early modern, Enlightenment, 19th century religion)
• Cyril O’Regan (19-20th century theology & philosophy)
• R. Trent Pomplun (Late Medieval and Early Modern Scholasticism)
• Jean Porter (Christian tradition of moral theory, Aquinas)
• Alexis Torrance (Byzantine Christian tradition, early to modern)
• Joseph Wawrykow (Aquinas)