We’re delighted to share the list of participants for our 2017 Summer Seminar, “Virtue, Happiness, and Self-Transcendence“, who hail from all corners of the globe and will convene at the University of Chicago for a week this June. These young researchers will participate in intensive workshop sessions with our faculty to deepen their own research  through conversations with a network of fellow collaborators in the areas of Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology/Religious Studies.

The accepted participants for the 2017 Summer Seminar, “Virtue, Happiness, & Self-Transcendence” are:

Alberto Arruda, University of Lisbon

Samuel Baker, University of South Alabama

Maureen Bielinski, University of St. Thomas, TX

Sarah Bixler, Princeton Theological Seminary

Andrew Christy, Texas A&M University

Ellen Dulaney, DePaul University

Marta Faria, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome

Andrew Flynn, University of California – Los Angeles

Madison Gilbertson, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology

Craig Iffland, University of Notre Dame

Anne Jeffrey, University of South Alabama

Jane Klinger, University of Waterloo

David McPherson, Creighton University

Samantha Mendez, University of the Philippines- Diliman

Elise Murray, Tufts University

Omowumi Ogunyemi, Institute of humanities of the Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos

Cabrini Pak, The Catholic University of America

Carissa Phillips-Garrett, Rice University

Timothy Reilly, University of Notre Dame

James Dominic Rooney, Saint Louis University

Jennifer Rothschild, University of Florida

Theresa Smart, University of Notre Dame

Joseph Stenberg, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Sanaz Talaifar, University of Texas at Austin

Andrea Yetzer, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs