All-Faculty Team
Notre Dame has a long history of outstanding student-athletes being named to All-America teams. The University also has a tradition of honoring exceptional faculty on the football field each fall.
At every home game, the provost honors a distinguished member of the faculty as part of the All-Faculty Team. These seven scholar-teachers have been chosen from across the disciplines for their transformative contributions to Notre Dame and beyond.
Videos highlighting each All-Faculty Team member's research will be added to this page shortly after the game at which she or he is being honored. We hope you’ll come back throughout the season to learn more about these truly exceptional scholars.
Meet the 2026 All-Faculty Team
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Sherif Girgis
Professor of Law
Sep 12 vs. Rice
Catholics have been thinking systematically about law and justice for 2,000 years. To join a conversation populated by intellectual and moral giants—to develop their insights and bring them to bear on the pressing questions of our own public life—is a huge honor. And to get to do it while working with colleagues and students I love and admire is really more than I deserve.
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Jennifer Schaefer
Sheehan Family Collegiate Professor of Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Sep 19 vs. Michigan State
I was inspired by the realization that new materials change lives for the better. We often take these materials and the technologies built on them for granted.
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Kevin Lannon
Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Science
Oct 10 vs. Stanford
I've always been attracted by the idea of breaking down things that seem complicated or confusing, and explaining them in terms of a small number of relatively simple pieces. I would really like to know whether we can do that for the universe as a whole: explain all of the wondrous complexity we see in the world around us in terms of a small set of fundamental building blocks.
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Dean Shepherd
Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship
Nov 07 vs. Miami
I am inspired to understand how individuals can make decisions and take actions under extreme uncertainty when established rules do not exist or do not work. Individuals who are willing and able to undertake action under uncertainty can transform people's lives.
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Sharon Yoon
Associate Professor of Korean Studies, Keough School of Global Affairs
Nov 14 vs. Boston College
Growing up in a Korean immigrant community in New Jersey, I watched my parents and our church become a lifeline for newcomers—and I also saw how easily those bonds could unravel. Those experiences inspired me to study how communities facing exclusion hold together, adapt, and create lasting social change.
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Joyelle McSweeney
William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English; Chair, Department of English
Nov 21 vs. SMU
I write with a brain full of language, I send it out like a signal and wait for it to come back changed, as from the edge of the universe, from the stars. Or I bump it through the ground like sonar to listen to the ants, or to the Dead. Then when I perform my poems, it's not just my language or my voice, it's more like a busy symphony. I try to recreate this cosmic broadcast.