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 creative 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 (Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot)
🏢 University of Notre Dame
📍 Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot