The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is pleased to welcome two visiting scholars for the 2025–26 academic year: Myser Visiting Fellow Angela M. Knobel (University of Dallas) and Postdoctoral Fellow James Wilson (University of Cambridge).

As part of its mission as an interdisciplinary research center at the University of Notre Dame, the de Nicola Center annually welcomes visiting faculty, students, and postdoctoral fellows from around the world to pursue research projects in a vibrant scholarly community rooted in the Catholic intellectual, moral, and aesthetic tradition. During these research visits, scholars play an active role in the life of the de Nicola Center, taking part in regular Center events and conferences and interacting with its wide network of faculty and student fellows.

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The de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture celebrates the July 31, 2025, news that Pope Leo XIV will soon declare St. John Henry Newman the newest Doctor of the Church, recognizing his personal sanctity and influential contribution to Catholic theology and doctrine. Jennifer Newsome Martin, director of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture and the John J. Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities at the University of Notre Dame, was a member of the committee of scholars that prepared the positio in support of Newman’s elevation to the honor.

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