New Fellows
Evelyn Boyden
Princeton University
James Madison Program
Evelyn Boyden is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. Her research studies early modern theories of the origin and limits of political obligation, particularly as these theories bear on the relationship between political and religious authority. Her current projects examines these themes in the thought of King James I, especially in the context of his prolonged debate with Jesuit political thinkers. Evelyn holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory (expected August 2024) from Harvard University and a B.A. from Georgetown University, where she studied Political Theory and Theology.
Greg Brown
University of Chicago
Department of Philosophy
Greg D. Brown is a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He works primarily in the philosophy of action and in ethics, with a focus on the virtue of practical wisdom. His dissertation develops a neo-Aristotelian account of practical rationality that is indebted to the work of G. E. M. Anscombe and Philippa Foot, and his interests extend to various other areas, especially to Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Aquinas, (meta)ontology, the history of analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of religion. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2024 and his B.A. in Mathematics from Swarthmore College in 2016.
Gonzalo Dona
University of Texas at Austin
Population Research Center
Gonzalo Dona is the John and Daria Barry fellow at the Population Research Center at University of Texas Austin. His research is focused on driving the improvement of social policies by critically evaluating the most important and popular of them. Additionally, Gonzalo asks the big questions about societal success and secondary effects of large welfare systems. Gonzalo received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Irvine and went on to work as postdoctoral fellow at NTNU (Norway).
Charlotte Duffee
Harvard University
Human Flourishing Program
Charlotte Duffee is a John and Daria postdoctoral fellow with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the history and philosophy of suffering in Western thought, with an eye toward medical debates over the assessment and treatment of suffering. She is currently at work on a new book project using digital humanities tools to analyze ideas about suffering across different versions of the Western canon. She completed her Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Toronto, where she also obtained a B.A. in philosophy and a M.A. in the history and philosophy of science. She holds additional M.A. degrees in philosophy and in bioethics from the New School and New York University respectively.
Djair Dias Filho
Princeton University
James Madison Program
Djair Dias Filho is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His research focuses on the intersection of Jewish, Christian and pagan traditions in Antiquity, with special interest in Philo of Alexandria. Before doing his PhD in Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity at Princeton University, Djair studied Classics at the University of São Paulo (BA) and completed graduate degrees in theology and religious studies at Oxford (PGDip), Edinburgh (MTh), and Yale (MAR). He also spent one year as an exchange student at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg.
Connor Grubaugh
Duke University
Civil Discourse Project
Connor Grubaugh is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the Civil Discourse Project at Duke University. His work ranges widely across intellectual history, with a focus on the modern reception of ancient historiography and theology. His dissertation examined the concept of hope in the political thought of John Locke and the subsequent liberal tradition. He holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jacob Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Economics
Jacob Hall is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Economics. His primary research focuses on quantitative economic history and the political economy of premodern states. His work explores the fiscal and political workings of medieval European institutions, and their transition into the modern world. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University.
Justin Hawkins
Columbia University
Center for Medical Ethics
Justin R. Hawkins is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the Columbia University Center for Medical Ethics. His research areas include virtue ethics, bioethics, disability theory, and the relationship of political theory and Christian theology. His current research project examines the history of American presidential bioethics commissions and councils to investigate whether and how they serve a significant pedagogical and advisory purpose in the development of bioethics policy. He received his PhD with distinction from Yale University. He also holds an MAR in the Philosophy of Religion from Yale Divinity School, and a BA in Government from Georgetown University.
Maria Hershey
Harvard University
Human Flourishing Program
Maria Soledad Hershey is a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. She is interested in understanding and optimizing societal well-being and health through lifestyle habits rooted in a society and an individual’s principals. She is designing a school-based intervention study using the theoretically grounded leadership intervention, The Practical Wisdom Framework™, aimed at understanding the efficacy of character and virtue education on the underlying sociocultural determinants of lifestyle behaviors. This study aims to bridge the gap between science and action with a wholistic and interdisciplinary vision for achieving flourishing societies. Her Ph.D. in Nutritional Epidemiology focused on the associations between Mediterranean lifestyle factors on chronic disease health outcomes at the University of Navarra. She recently completed a fellowship at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.
Landon Hobbs
Zephyr Institute
Landon Hobbs is Senior Fellow and Director of Academic Programs at the Zephyr Institute in Palo Alto, California. His area of academic research is Ancient Greek philosophy, especially the theoretical philosophy of Aristotle, and his current research focuses on the metaphysical principle that the cause must precontain its effect. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. in Philosophy from Pepperdine University.
Kate Jackson-Meyer
Harvard University
Human Flourishing Program
Kate Jackson-Meyer, Ph.D., is a John and Daria Barry postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. Her research focuses on issues at the intersection of fundamental moral theology and social ethics. Her current research investigates the problems of tragic dilemmas, moral distress, and moral injury in fields such as bioethics, war, and peacemaking in order to analyze the complexity of moral decision-making and the prospects for community-based moral healing. She is the author of Tragic Dilemmas in Christian Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2022). She earned a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College, a M.A.R. in ethics from Yale Divinity School, and a B.A. in biology and religion from the University of Southern California.
Nicholas Ogle
University of Pennsylvania
Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society
Nicholas Ogle is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania. His research explores the nature of human action, practical reason, and moral responsibility, with a focus on the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas and its modern reception. He has published articles in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Scottish Journal of Theology. He holds a Ph.D. and M.T.S. in Moral Theology & Christian Ethics from the University of Notre Dame, as well as a B.A. in Philosophy from George Fox University.
Dale Parker
University of Notre Dame
de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
Dale Parker teaches in the Business Ethics and Society Program at the University of Notre Dame. His teaching and research interests include the use and abuse of wealth, Cicero's philosophica, and dialectic in Plato and Aristotle. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame.
Taylor Pincin
Columbia University
Department of Philosophy
Taylor Pincin is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Scholar with the Initiative in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University. She is primarily interested in Ancient Greek philosophy, especially Plato and Aristotle’s metaphysical and scientific systems. Her current research focuses on the different modes of explanation operative in Aristotelian science, particularly in the Science of Being. Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from UT Austin, an M.St. in Ancient Philosophy from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Classics and Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley.
Matthew Reising
Princeton University
James Madison Program
Matthew K. Reising is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. His primary areas of research include classical and medieval political philosophy, American political thought, and constitutional studies. His current research project focuses on the nature of freedom and tyranny in Herodotus’s History. His articles have appeared in American Political Thought, Polis, and History of Political Thought. He holds a B.A. in Political Science, History, and Philosophy from Ashland University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Baylor University.
Jonathan Rutledge
Harvard University
Human Flourishing Program
Jonathan Rutledge is a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. He holds PhDs in philosophy (University of Oklahoma) and theology (University of St Andrews) and is currently working on various projects at the intersection of positive psychology, analytic philosophy, and narrative theology. Such projects include the process of moral and intellectual virtue development, theological doctrines of sanctification, and questions of how seeing one’s life story as bound up with a transcendent reality—such as God—affects one’s degree of hope and optimism amidst suffering.
Rosalie Stoner
Yale University
Department of Classics
Rosalie Stoner is a Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Classics at Yale University, where she teaches courses like "Roman Consolation Literature: Seneca and Boethius" and "Is Rhetoric a Good Thing? The Debate Between Rhetoric and Philosophy." Her current book project examines Quintilian’s portrayal of the ideal orator. Her wider interests include ideals and practices of education in the ancient Mediterranean world; the Roman oratorical tradition from Cato to Augustine; early Christian transformations of classical traditions; competition and tension between rhetoric and philosophy; and Platonic reception. She obtained a PhD in Classical Languages and Literatures from the University of Chicago in 2021 and an AB summa cum laude in Classics with a certificate in Medieval Studies from Princeton in 2015.