Research Houses

Each Research House is a community of scholars — senior fellows, research fellows, junior fellows, visiting scholars, and research associates — working on shared questions from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Houses have their own research agendas, regular seminars, and publications, while contributing to the Institute’s broader mission.

Crucially, fellows may inhabit multiple houses. A philosopher working on economic thought might inhabit both the House of Social Thought and the House of Political Economy. A demographer studying household economics inhabits both the House of Family and Population and the House of Political Economy. This cross-pollination is not a complication — it is a feature that reflects how scholarship actually works and what makes IHE distinctive. Our houses are interdisciplinary communities, not departmental silos.

The Catholic University of America already has strong departments and schools organized by discipline. Our houses, by contrast, bring scholars from different disciplines into conversation around the fundamental questions of human ecology.