Research religion’s influence on human development, ecology, or politics as a full-time, in-person fellow at Notre Dame’s Keough School.

The Ansari Institute fellowship offers a scholar time, community, and institutional connections to advance a research agenda on religion’s global significance. Projects may examine human dignity, migration, artificial intelligence, sustainability, environmental justice, peacebuilding, diplomacy, religious freedom, or related questions. Work should take religious traditions seriously while engaging lived communities, institutions, practices, or public life.

Key Responsibilities:

- Advance an innovative research agenda toward publication
- Contribute to one of three broad research areas
- Participate actively in Institute intellectual activities




- Engage the Contending Modernities research initiative
- Develop connections across relevant academic units

Requirements:

- Research agenda treating religion as globally significant
- Explicit connection to human development, ecology, or politics
- Innovative, rigorous scholarship with transparent potential
- Interest in interdisciplinary and multifaith intellectual work
- Track record planning and implementing programs

Apply interdisciplinary religious scholarship to global affairs while advancing research on integral human development, ecology, politics, and repair.

📌 Religion Research Fellow Human Development Ecology Politics (Notre-Dame)
🏢 University of Notre Dame
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