Ethan Chiang ‘27

Ethan Chiang is a junior with a double major in business analytics and global affairs and a minor in European studies. He is working with Professor Victoria Tin-bor Hui to conduct archival research on the Jesuit cartography of the Chinese empire and early transmissions between Europe and Asia. He is also supporting the development of her new course funded by Notre Dame's Democracy Initiative called "Democracy Defenders in Exile."

Additionally, Chiang is an Ethics Research Fellow with the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, a EURO Fellow and Diplomacy Fellow with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and a Poverty Research Fellow with the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. Through these fellowships, he's had the opportunity to travel to and engage in research in Berlin, London, the Hague, Brussels, and Dublin. He has also worked as a research assistant for the Nanovic Institute and Klau Institute on projects surrounding human rights, racial and religious equality, and refugee protection. In the summer of 2025, he completed internships with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Ireland, as well as Notre Dame Law School's Global Human Rights Clinic. In 2024, Chiang received the Hesburgh Library Research Award for his research paper on the efficacy of power-sharing agreements in ethnically plural post-conflict societies.