The Institute's Visiting Fellowship annually brings to the University two scholars whose research addresses issues arising at the intersection of faith and culture. During the academic year, each Fellow takes up residence at Boston College and makes two public seminar presentations on the work produced during the period of the grant. The Institute Fellows contribute to the intellectual exchange and inquiry within the University as they advance their own research.
The 2009-2010 Visiting Fellows:
Paul Shore
Paul Shore has spent the last twelve years studying the Jesuit communities of Central Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His project “Narratives of Adversity; Jesuits Responses to Setbacks and Failure in the Habsburg East, 1640-1773” represents an effort to carry this research to higher level of analysis, and to investigate the impact of adversity on all aspects of the Jesuit enterprise including missions, schools, literature and science, as well as on the institutional culture of the Society of Jesus.
Emanuele Colombo
During the past years, Emanuele Colombo has studied the biographies of various Jesuits during the foundational period of the Society of Jesus. His project “Humanist and Counter-reformer. Antonio Possevino’s life, Mission, and Work in Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century Europe” is an attempt, first, to undergo a full-scale study on Antonio Possevino, S.J. and, second, to analyze the strategies and distinctive contribution of the Society of Jesus during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries.
Emanuele Colombo is a researcher at the University of Milan, Italy.