Stephen S. Smith Center

Smith Faculty Fellowship

The Smith Faculty Fellowship Program serves to support Xavier faculty in scholarly projects that contribute to the Center's intellectual capital on a breadth of interdisciplinary topics impacting society, such as: freedom and individualism, public philosophy, ethics and law; economic and political history, the rule of law, capitalism and collectivism, economic policy and global economic issues.

Smith Faculty Fellows

Dr. David Zoogah, WCB

Studies the performance differences between natural resource cursed countries and natural resource blessed countries.

Dr. Kan Yue, WCB

Studies the relationship between income and world market share.

Dr. Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher, WCB

Studies the medical marijuana laws and the pharmaceutical gifting.

Dr. Paul Collela, CAS

Re-structuring of PHIL-200 for Smith Scholars to a rigorous "tutorials" format patterned after the Oxford model.

ALL FELLOWS 2020 - 2021

NAME TITLE FOCUS
Paul Colella, CAS Re-structuring of PHIL 200 for Smith Scholars to a rigorous "tutorials" format patterned after the Oxford model Pedagogical
Tom Strunk, CAS Christian thinkers on the question of social and economic inequality Research/Scholarship
Thomas Lebesmuehlbacher, WCB Medical marijuana laws and pharmaceutical gifting Research/Scholarship
Michael Sweeney, CAS Catholic political philosophy and capitalism: a debate between Michael Novak and Patrick Deneen Research/Scholarship
Kan Yue, WCB The relation between income and world market share Research/Scholarship
David Zoogah, WCB Performance differences between natural resources cursed countries and natural resource blessed countries Research/Scholarship
Alan Jin, WCB Coronavirus, global supply chain risks, and mitigation, social media Research/Scholarship