2019-2020 NEW FACULTY

BROCHURE

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS

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Message from Sarah A. Mustillo

I.A. O’Shaughnessy DeanThe College of Arts and Letters is a liberalarts college—focused on cultivatingunderstanding of the arts, humanities, andsocial sciences. The College is also at theheart of a research university—supportive offaculty and student efforts to be original,creative scholars. And, the College is deeplyCatholic—embracing diversity of thought andencouraging faculty and students to use theirgifts to build a vibrant, distinctivecommunity tied to one of the world’s greatintellectual traditions. Nothing is more important to any of ouraspirations than the quality of our hiringdecisions. Faculty accomplishments-teaching our students, advancing research—determine our academic reputation. Theircollaborative spirit allows us to bettereducate our students and build newprograms and better departments. Theirsupport for the University’s mission enablesits standing as the premier Catholic researchuniversity. This brochure describes the newfaculty who have joined the College of Artsand Letters this year. You will see they are anunusually accomplished group. Please joinme in welcoming them to the College.

New Faculty 2019-2020Art, Art History and Design

James Rudolph - M.S., Bentley UniversityAssistant ProfessorJames brings extensive industry and user-centereddesign experience to the department, having spent themajority of his career in medical device developmentand design consulting. His areas of interest includecontextual inquiry in healthcare environments, designstrategy, ideation methodologies, medical devicedevelopment, and creating environments for successfulcross-disciplinary productivity. Prior to joining thefaculty, he led design and development programs for awide array of healthcare and consumer electronicsbusinesses. Previous clients include: GE Healthcare,Mako Surgical, Medtronic, DePuy Mitek. (2016) “TurningQualitative Insights into Value-Driven BusinessOpportunities.” Presentation given at BIOMEDeviceBoston 2016 conference. Boston, MA.Watch the SterileField – Conducting Research in the OR. (2013) “Watchthe Sterile Field – Conducting Research in the OR.”Proceedings of the Boston UXPA Chapter, 12th AnnualConference, Boston, MA.Tatiana Reinoza - PhD, University of Texas at AustinAssistant ProfessorReinoza is an art historian who specializes incontemporary Latinx art. Her monograph projectfocuses on the history of Latinx printmaking. Inparticular, she investigates how artists use the mediumof prints to create new cartographies of the Americas.She is also at work on an edited anthology thatcommemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the East LosAngeles graphic workshop Self Help Graphics, whichbegan with the support of the Sisters of the Order of St.Francis. “The Island within the Island: RemappingDominican York,” Archives of American Art Journal 57:2(fall 2018): 4-27. Peer-reviewed. Awarded best essayprize Latin American Studies Association Visual CultureSection. “Immigrant Invisibility and the Post-9/11Border in Sandra Fernandez’s Coming of Age,”alter/nativas latin american cultural studies journal 7(fall 2017) ISSN 2168-8451 

Cara Ocobock - Ph.D., Washington Universty, St. Louis Assistant ProfessorHer research program integrates human biology andanthropology, with a focus on the interaction betweenanatomy, physiology, evolution, and the environment.She explores the physiological and behavioralmechanisms necessary to cope with and adapt toextreme climate and physical activity. Her researchassesses their life ways, life history patterns, coldclimate adaptations, and addresses potential healthdisparities. One aspect of this work focuses on brownadipose tissue, a type of fat that burns only to keep anindividual warm when cold and leads to a knownincrease in metabolic rate – the number of caloriesyou burn each day. Brown fat has importantimplications for not only understanding coldadaptations now and throughout human evolution,but also for metabolic health and the treatment ofobesity. Ocobock C, *Overbeck A, *Carlson C, *RoyerC, *Mervenne A, Thurber C, Dugas L, Carlson B,Pontzer H. (2019) Sustained high levels of physicalactivity lead to improved endurance and performanceamong “Race Across the USA” athletes. AmericanJournal of Physical Anthropology. 168(4): 789-794. (DOI:10.1002/ajpa.23781). Ocobock C. (2017) Body fatattenuates muscle mass catabolism among physicallyactive humans in temperate and cold high altitudeenvironments. American Journal of HumanBiology.29(5): e23013.

Anthropology

MusicJohanna Frymoyer - Ph.D., New York UniversityAssistant ProfessorHer research interests explore questions of musicalmeaning through the lenses of semiotics, narrativetheory, and cognitive metaphor, with particularemphasis on the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky.She earned her PhD in musicology from PrincetonUniversity and her B.M., majoring in violin and Germanstudies, from Vanderbilt University. Her current bookproject, tentatively titled Topics, Markedness, andModernism, focuses on the use of Classical andRomantic music conventions in early twentieth-century music and seeks to reevaluate the role ofrupture and irony in the interpretation of modernistmusic. At Notre Dame, she will teach harmony andvoice leading for undergraduate music majors as wellas courses in music analysis for advanced majors andgraduate students. “Topics and Stylistic Register inRussian Opera, 1775–1800,” in The Routledge Handbookof Musical Signification, ed. Esti Sheinberg and WilliamDougherty (Routledge Press, forthcoming). “The Five,”“Glazunov, Aleksandr,” “Glinka, Mikhail,” and“Musorgsky, Modest” in Cambridge StravinskyEncyclopedia, eds. Edward Campbell and PeterO’Hagan (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).“The Musical Topic in the Twentieth Century: A CaseStudy of Schoenberg’s Ironic Waltzes,” Music TheorySpectrum 39:1 (2017).

John Firth - Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute ofTechnologyAssistant Professor Firth is a development economist whose research aimsto understand why poor countries suffer from lowproductivity. Some of his recent work uses data fromIndian Railways to study how infrastructure affectsmanufacturing productivity. He is also interested inlegal and institutional barriers to productivity, and inhow productivity challenges arise in the nonprofit andgovernment sectors.

Ian Johnson - Ph.D., Ohio State UniversityJ.P. Moran Family Assistant Professor of Military HistoryJohnson is a historian of war, diplomacy, andtechnology. He received his PhD from the Ohio StateUniversity in 2016, with a dissertation that exploredsecret military cooperation between the Soviet Unionand Germany in the interwar period. During graduateschool, he was the recipient of a Fulbright-HaysFellowship, as well as the OSU Presidential Fellowship.His research focuses on the origins and conduct ofwar, and the maintenance of peace. His firstmonograph, The Faustian Bargain: Secret Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period, isforthcoming with Oxford University Press.

PhilosophyFeraz Azhar - Ph.D., University of CambridgeAssistant ProfessorAzhar works primarily at the intersection of philosophyand science, with a particular focus on issues that arisein physics. Most recently I have worked on (i) questionsof probability in primordial cosmology, especially inthe context of cosmological inflation, and (ii)epistemological and foundational aspects of the physicsof black holes. Publications include: Gauging fine-tuning, F. Azhar & A. Loeb, Physical Review D 98,103018, (2018). Flows into inflation: An effective fieldtheory approach, F. Azhar & D. I. Kaiser, PhysicalReview D 98, 063515, (2018). Scientific realism andprimordial cosmology, F. Azhar & J. ButterfieldIn The Routledge Handbook on Scientific Realism, ed.J. Saatsi. London: Routledge, pp. 304–320, (2018).

EconomicsRob Collinson - Ph.D., New York UniversityAssistant ProfessorHis research focuses on the role of housing andneighborhood environments in the outcomes of adultsand children, and the optimal design of low-incomehousing programs. In recent research, he explores theeffects of eviction in housing court on adult and childwell-being. He also conducted research on the designof housing voucher subsidies. How Do Changes InHousing Voucher Design Affect Rent and NeighborhoodQuality (with Peter Ganong) American EconomicJournal: Economic Policy 2018, 10(2): 62–89

History

Laura Callahan - Ph.D., Rutgers UniversityAssistant ProfessorCallahan's primary interests are in epistemology, valuetheory, and philosophy of religion. She is particularlyinterested in the questions: how are we responsible forwhat we believe? Are there distinctive desiderata forbeliefs when it comes to, say, morality and religion,and what if any special norms apply to belief formationon those topics? What is the place of intellectual virtuein a theory of epistemology and a theory of the virtuesbroadly? Sample publications: "Lights Out on Virtue,"(commissioned, 2020) Philosophical Issues, 30(1)."Epistemic Existentialism," (forthcoming) Episteme."Moral Testimony: A Re-conceived UnderstandingExplanation," (2018) The PhilosophicalQuarterly,68(272): 437-459.

Political ScienceKristopher McDaniel - Ph.D., University ofMassachusettsProfessorHis main area of expertise is in metaphysics, althoughhe also works in the history of philosophy and inethics. In metaphysics, he's focused on the nature ofnecessity, parts and wholes, and ontology. In thehistory of philosophy, he's written on both canonicalfigures (e.g., Kant, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger) andunduly neglected figures (Edith Stein, SusanneLanger, and Mary Whiton Calkins). In ethics, he isinterested in intrinsic value. Some recent publicationsare: The Fragmentation of Being, Oxford UniversityPress, 2017.“Teleological Suspensions in Fear andTrembling”, Philosophy and PhenomenologicalResearch (forthcoming). “Freedom and Idealism inMary Whiton Calkins”, British Journal for the Historyof Philosophy (forthcoming). “AbhidharmaMetaphysics and the Two Truths”, Philosophy Eastand West (forthcoming).

Katie Bugyis - Ph.D., University of Notre DameAssistant Professor Bugyis is a historian of Christian theology, liturgicalpractice, and material culture, who is particularlyinterested in reconstructing the lived experiences ofreligious women in the Middle Ages through theirdocuments of practice and other material remains. Herbook, The Care of Nuns: Benedictine Women’sMinistries in England during the Central Middle Ages(Oxford University Press, 2019), recovers the liturgicalpractices of Benedictine nuns in England from 900 to1225 primarily through detailed analyses of the bookstheir communities produced and used. She haspublished numerous book chapters and articles, in suchjournals as Speculum, Traditio, Church History, TheJournal of Ecclesiastical History, and Journal ofMedieval History. She also has coedited two volumes,Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages(Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming) and Medieval Cantorsand Their Craft: Music, Liturgy, and the Shaping ofHistory (York Medieval Press, 2017). Her research haswon fellowships and grants from the Medieval Academyof America, the American Council of Learned Societies,the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the PontificalInstitute of Mediaeval Studies, and the RadcliffeInstitute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Scott Mainwaring - Ph.D., Stanford UniversityEugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science Mainwaring's research interests include politicalparties and party systems, democratic andauthoritarian regimes, democratization, and LatinAmerican politics. Mainwaring was elected to theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. In2019, he was included in a list of the 50 mostfrequently cited political scientists in the world."Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization,Decay, and Collapse" (edited, Cambridge UniversityPress, 2018), "Democracies and Dictatorship in LatinAmerica: Emergence, Survival, and Fall" New York:Cambridge University Press, 2013 (With Aníbal Pérez-Liñán) , "Partidos Conservadores no BrasilContemporâneo" Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 2000.(With Rachel Meneguello and Timothy J. Power)

Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt - Ph.D., University of NorthCarolina at Chapel HillAssistant ProfessorHis research examines processes of internationalmigration in the North American migratory system,with a focus on Mexican immigration to the UnitedStates. My dissertation analyzed the cross-borderengagement between Mexico and its citizens livingabroad. Additionally, I conduct research on theneighborhood and city-level correlates of crime, crimereporting behavior, and officer-involved shootings. Inparticular, my research assesses the impact of“sanctuary” policies on city-level violence as well astheir effect on the likelihood that individuals reportcrime victimization to law enforcement officials.Martínez-Schuldt, Ricardo D. and Daniel E. Martínez.2019. “Sanctuary Policies and City-Level Incidents ofViolence, 1990 to 2010.” Justice Quarterly, 36(4): 567-593.Hagan, Jacqueline Maria, Ricardo Martinez-Schuldt,Alyssa Peavey, and Deborah M. Weissman. 2018..

Program of Liberal Studies

Sociology

Joel Mittleman - Ph.D., Princeton UniversityAssistant ProfessorAs a sociologist and social demographer, Mittlemanstudies inequalities in the lives of stigmatized youth.His research applies an intersectional perspective tounderstand how children’s race/ethnicity, gender andsexual orientation impact their experiences andopportunities. He is especially interested in how youthare “policed:” by peers, by teachers and by the juvenilejustice system itself. Current research projects focuson LGBTQ youth in the U.S. and the U.K. Mittleman,Joel. 2019. “Sexual Minority Bullying & Mental HealthFrom Early Childhood Through Adolescence” TheJournal of Adolescent Health 64(1): 172–178. Mittleman,Joel. 2018. “A Downward Spiral? Childhood Suspensionand the Path to Juvenile Arrest” Sociology of Education91(3): 183-204. Mittleman, Joel. 2018. “SexualOrientation and School Discipline: New Evidence froma Population-Based Sample” Educational Researcher47(3): 181-190. 

TheologyUlrich Lehner - Ph.D., Central European UniversityWilliam K. Warren Foundation Professor of TheologyLehner, a native of Bavaria, specializes in the historyand theology of the Early Modern period and theEnlightenment, and has also a keen interest in 20thcentury German history and philosophy. He haspublished and edited over twenty books, in particularabout the Catholic Enlightenment. Enlightened Monks(Oxford UP: 2011), The Catholic Enlightenment (OxfordUP: 2016; German and Lithuanian translation 2018 ),God Is Not Nice (Ave Maria Press: 2017; Spanish andGerman translation 2019) 

Calvin Zimmerman - Ph.D., University of PennsylvaniaAssistant ProfessorZimmermann's research expertise is in the sociology ofrace and education. He is interested in the ways thatracial ideologies and structures shape children'seducational experiences and outcomes, particularly inearly childhood. His research primarily focuses on howinstitutional racism shapes the earliest schoolexperiences of African American girls and boys.Zimmermann, Calvin Rashaud. 2018. “The Penalty ofBeing a Young Black Girl: Kindergarten Teachers’Perceptions of Children’s Problem Behaviors andStudent-Teacher Conflict by the Intersection of Raceand Gender.” The Journal of Negro Education 87(2): 154-168.

Visiting Faculty

East Asian Languages and CulturesHaibo Hu - M.A., Beijing Normal UniversityVisiting Assistant Teaching Professor

Jin Zhang - M.A., Nankai UniversityVisiting Assistant Teaching Professor

American StudiesPeter Cajka - Ph.D., Boston College Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor

Joshua Specht - Ph.D., Harvard UniversityVisiting Assistant Professor

FellowsNotre Dame Institute for Advanced

Study (NDIAS)Philip Bess - University of Notre DameProfessor of ArchitectureEileen Hunt Botting - University of Notre DameProfessor of Political ScienceFaisal Husain - Pennsylvania State UniversityAssociate Professor of HistoryDebra Javeline - University of Notre DameAssociate Professor of Political ScienceHeather Keenleyside - University of ChicagoAssociate Professor of EnglishRobert Latiff - George Mason UniversityResearch Professor in EngineeringJin Lu - Purdue University Northwest Professor of FrenchCasey Martina Lurtz - Johns Hopkins UniversityAssistant Professor of HistoryJonathan Marks - University of North Carolina atCharlotte - Professor of AnthropologyJanne Haaland Matláry - University of Oslo Professor of Political ScienceYulia Minets - Princeton University Postdoctoral Research AssociateEvan Ragland - University of Notre DameAssistant Professor of History Joshua Stuchlik - University of St. ThomasAssociate Professor of PhilosophyClaire Wendland - University of Wisconsin-MadisonProfessor of Anthropology, Obstetrics and Gynecology

Jeff Campbell - Ph.D., Northwestern UniversityVisiting Associate Professor

Economics

Medieval InstituteMichael Heil - Ph.D., Columbia UniversityVisiting Assistant Professor, Mellon FellowNicole Paxton Sullo - Ph.D., Yale UniversityByzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellow

Program of Liberal StudiesEric Bugyis - Ph.D., Yale UniversityVisiting Assistant Professor

Nanovic Institute for European Studies- Keough School for Global Affairs

Pavol Hurbanek - Catholic University in Ruzomberok,SlovakiaVolodymyr Turchynovskyy -  Ukrainian CatholicUniversityJela Kehoe - Catholic University in Ruzomberok,SlovakiaRaúl Madrid - Stanford UniversityAbby Córdova - Vanderbilt UniversityAdela Cedillo - University of Wisconsin-MadisonDeborah Durham - University of ChicagoVirginia Oliveros - Columbia UniversityElizabeth Sperber - Columbia University

German and Russian Languages andLiteratures

Maureen Gallagher- PhD, University of Massachusetts,AmherstVisiting Assistant Teaching Professor

Katlyn Carter - Ph.D., Princeton University Visiting Assistant Professor

History