Research & Initiatives
Research
Hank Fellowships in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
The Hank Center fellowships encourage and support graduate students in their exploration of the Catholic intellectual tradition in its many disciplinary and creative forms—in theology and philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences, social movements and culture, pedagogy and pastoral life.
Undergraduate Research Fellowship
The Hank Center, in support of the Catholic Studies Minor, funds a year-long fellowship to undergraduate students who are currently enrolled in the Catholic Studies Minor program. This fellowship supports undergraduate students to work on research projects in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Undergraduate fellows can apply either to work as research assistants for faculty-led projects, or may apply to work on their own project, mentored by a faculty mentor of their choosing. The fellowship includes a $2500 award (applied to fellows' student accounts), and up to $500 in travel funding and/or research supplies.
Research Projects
Loyola University Chicago’s Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH) supports research by full-time Loyola University faculty on topics concerned with or connected to the Catholic intellectual heritage. The primary purpose of this support is to facilitate advanced scholarly study of Catholic thought as it touches upon the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Course Development
Loyola University Chicago’s Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage (CCIH) encourages the development of undergraduate and graduate courses connected to the broad range of Catholic thought. It does this by offering full-time Loyola faculty a stipend of up to $4,000 (pre-tax) for the development of these courses.
Jesuit Studies
The Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage hosts its Catholicism and the Arts Series every spring. It is designed to promote cultural productions, both classical and contemporary, theatrical, musical, or pictural, that illuminate the rich heritage of art in Catholic culture.
Initiatives
Catholic Thought, Citizenship, and the Common Good
This event series focuses on how Catholic thought impacts civic duty, public good, and our world as a whole.
Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellowship
The Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellowship in Catholic Studies is a visiting fellowship in the fall semester for invited scholars from across disciplines and from around the world, whose work intersects with the rich intellectual, artistic, and historical tradition of Roman Catholicism.
The Initiative on Peace & Restorative Justice
A series focusing on how Restorative Justice plays a role in our society and how we can approach this topic from the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Initiative on Faith, Science & Technology
The Initiative on Faith and Science series analyzes of how Catholic Thought and Scientific advancement coincide in our world.
Workshops & Seminars
Faculty Seminar
Loyola University Chicago’s Jesuit, Catholic heritage is an essential component of its mission in higher education. This faculty seminar is a semester-long course that studies in a systematic way the educational enterprise of Loyola University through the prism of the Catholic intellectual heritage and the contemporary applications of Ignatian pedagogy. The seminar’s goal is twofold: to engage faculty more deeply with the university’s Catholic heritage as a reference point and resource for social justice; and to invite faculty reflection on the interplay of faith, reason, and justice as it pertains to their teaching, scholarship, and participation with the community here at Loyola and beyond.