The Institute for Ethics and the Common Good (ECG) awards 6-8 residential Faculty Fellowships annually to researchers whose work addresses the Institute’s yearly Research Theme.
During the 2025-26 academic year, ECG is sponsoring research projects that investigate The Future of Virtue Ethics: Strengthening Foundations and Exploring Applications.
The Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good aims to catalyze and develop new work in virtue ethics with a series of 6-8 residential faculty research fellowships during the 2025-26 academic year.
These fellowships will bring together ethicists from across many disciplines—including philosophers, theologians, humanities scholars, social scientists, policy analysts, and legal scholars—to discern future directions of virtue ethics.
Note that while the term “virtue ethics” has come to have a specific meaning in philosophy and theology, it should be understood broadly here to include topics such as integral human development; holistic human flourishing; character development; and the political, social and institutional structures that best foster such development. Researchers working on these topics from any disciplinary perspective are welcome to apply.
Applications for Faculty Fellowships on The Future of Virtue Ethics are due by Monday, October 14, 2024,
Faculty Fellowships are open to scholars in any discipline who are conducting research related to virtue ethics.
Faculty Fellows typically have a faculty appointment at their home institution, but the fellowships are also open to independent researchers, public practitioners, postdoctoral scholars, those who have recently received their Ph.D. (or equivalent terminal) degree, those who are pursuing the creative arts, and faculty from Notre Dame. Scholars from outside the U.S. are welcome to apply—there are no citizenship requirements for these fellowships.
Current graduate students are eligible to apply only if they will receive their terminal degree by August 1, 2025.