The Kellogg Institute for International Studies promotes research excellence on critical global challenges, with a particular focus on democracy and human development. Building on a core interest in Latin America and Africa, the Kellogg Institute fosters research on the developing world and beyond.
Supporting the research and educational mission of the University of Notre Dame by engaging faculty, students, and visiting scholars in a supportive intellectual community, the Institute works to project the University onto the global stage.
The Kellogg Institute forms an integral part of Notre Dame’s Catholic mission by addressing normative and scholarly concerns that embody the values reflected in Catholic social thought.
From the Director
The global impact of COVID-19 has only underscored the urgency of Kellogg’s core themes and the work of its scholars: human development, poverty and inequality, democratic political participation and governance for the common good, human dignity, and the commitment to the most vulnerable members of the human family. Precisely at the time when these needs are more acute than ever, it has been a profound challenge to maintain the dynamism of our work in the past year.
But exceptional demands often bring to the surface the real values and ideals that lie at the core of a community. Notwithstanding the massive disruptions provoked by the global coronavirus pandemic, the Kellogg Institute was able to undertake a vibrant, diverse, and fruitful array of activities in 2020-2021. The credit is due largely to the strength, richness, and resilience of our community, from staff to faculty fellows to visitors and students, both graduate and undergraduate. They were tireless in their dedication, creative in their adaptation to extraordinary constraints, and above all firm in their commitment to maintaining the distinctive sense of intellectual and human friendship and connection that makes Kellogg a special place. As I enter into the final year of my tenure as director of the Institute, I could not be more proud of belonging to this remarkable place and the group of people that give it vitality. The pandemic made their true qualities evident.
Inevitably in an Annual Review such as this, we can only highlight a small number of the many things that marked the year. But we hope that this sample below, and the attractive new format that we have adopted for the report this year, will help you get a taste of the flourishing life of the Kellogg Institute.
Table of Contents
Research Excellence
Faculty fellow innovation | Visiting fellow research | Intellectual community | Scholarly products
Educational Opportunities
Undergraduate scholarship | Undergraduate fieldwork | Graduate education
Building Linkages Around the World
Human development and the Keough School | Research and community engagement | Partnerships | Engaging the world
Support and Kellogg Community
Thanks to our donors | People | Photo credits | Contributions
Faculty Fellows Conduct Innovative Research on Global Challenges
At the center of the Kellogg Institute’s initiatives are more than 120 faculty fellows from across the University. Their research on critical global challenges – with a focus on Kellogg themes of democracy and human development – informs academic debates and policy around the world.
Faculty Fellow Abby Córdova is a native of El Salvador whose academic career was motivated in part by her family’s experience with political violence during the country’s civil war – including the kidnapping of her mother, an advocate for the poor, by the government.
Her mother was released, but the trauma of her kidnapping led Córdova to study issues of violence, gender and economic inequality, and international migration in Latin America. Her research brought her to the Kellogg Institute in 2019 as a guest scholar and then a visiting fellow, leading to a job the following year as an associate professor of global affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs.
Today, Córdova is heavily involved in several Kellogg initiatives, including the Research Cluster on Democratization Theory and the Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice (V-TJ) Lab. She also plays a key role in mentoring Kellogg-affiliated undergraduates and graduate students.
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Faculty Fellow Dianne Pinderhughes, a professor of political science and chair and professor of the Department of Africana Studies, was awarded the prestigious 2021 President’s Award by the University of Notre Dame in recognition of her role “as an outstanding ambassador for Notre Dame and its academic community.” Pinderhughes is a political scientist who studies inequality, American civil society institutions, and voting rights policy. Meet our other faculty fellows.
Visiting Fellows Advance Understanding of Democracy and Human Development
Outstanding scholars and practitioners from around the world energize our intellectual community through the signature Visiting Fellows Program. In addition to advancing independent research on Kellogg themes, visiting fellows collaborate with faculty, enrich student learning, and connect Notre Dame to an international network of scholars and institutions.
As a 2020-2021 visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute, Susan Shepler worked on a book that ties together her academic interests in math and anthropology with her decades of field research in Sierra Leone.
“Power You Can Trust”: Fractal Sovereignty in Sierra Leone examines how the nation’s power structure differs from that of the West using the concept of fractals. Shepler, an associate professor in the School of International Service at American University, argues that the complex, never-ending patterns found in nature can help explain the complicated and sophisticated political systems of Sierra Leone and other previously colonized African nations.
“My book is a study of actually existing African politics, rather than the usual approach that casts African politics as a failure measured against an ideal type,” she said. Her conception of power challenges traditional Western assumptions about Africa, as well as the idea that development “means taking these simple places and making them more like us.”
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Visiting Fellow Francisco Rodríguez, the Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy and an expert on Venezuela’s economy, taught a mini-policy course on economic sanctions in collaboration with the Keough School of Global Affairs. Rodríguez is the director and founder of Oil for Venezuela, a nonprofit that seeks depoliticized, transparent, and sustainable solutions to the country’s humanitarian crisis. Learn about our eight 2020-2021 visiting fellows and their research.
Deepening Intellectual Community
Intellectual community grows and flourishes at Kellogg in multiple individual interactions – and in distinctive gatherings designed to bring together scholars, students, and practitioners in a lively mix that sparks provocative dialogue and engenders new scholarly projects.
Constitutionalism and the rule of law are fundamental to advancing and preserving democracy. And the Kellogg Institute’s newest Policy and Practice Research Lab is connecting scholars and legal practitioners around the world in innovative ways to address questions – and develop answers – on matters related to constitutions, rights, and the strength and integrity of the institutions of justice. It does so with the distinctive normative emphasis that Notre Dame and the Kellogg Institute bring to global challenges.
The Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law Lab, known as CAROL, fosters substantive discussion and actionable research on issues including due process, judicial independence, human rights, and the relationship between religion and law. Led principally by Kellogg Director Paolo Carozza, with the collaboration of other Kellogg faculty fellows and colleagues in law and in political science, CAROL is developing a global and diverse network of experts in academia, law, policymaking, and civil society.
Since its inception this year, CAROL has worked on constitutional reform efforts in places as diverse as Chile and Ukraine, offered rule of law instruction to the legal community of Paraguay, and convened a major international conference on unalienable human rights. It has given unique opportunities to Notre Dame students and alumni to be involved in these efforts. CAROL also is designing an online public repository of materials, and has developed a program of judicial seminars for international jurists affiliated with international and constitutional courts from around the world, including the US Supreme Court.
More on Policy and Practice Labs
The Kellogg Institute's Policy and Practice Research Labs support high-impact, high-yield research intended to have a tangible influence on policies and practices affecting democracy and human development. The labs intentionally bridge the worlds of research and policy while maintaining a focus on rigorous scholarly inquiry. Read about our five Policy and Practice Labs.
The CAROL Lab constitutes a unique forum and platform to bring together scholars from various disciplines to decipher the functioning of rule of law in the context of diverse contexts. Through the CAROL Lab, scholars are able to study rule of law as it is contextualized in different societies, cultures, and times.
– Faculty Fellow Emilia Justyna Powell
Promoting Scholarly Creativity and Production
Scholarly production takes many forms – monographs, collected volumes, journal articles, working papers. At the Kellogg Institute, we create space and provide resources for our faculty and visiting fellows to explore new projects, bring them to fruition, and share them in the wider intellectual community.
Kellogg faculty fellows and other scholars affiliated with the Institute completed and released more than a dozen books during the 2020-2021 academic year, many of which were supported by Kellogg’s intellectual community.
Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
Carozza, Paolo G. and Clemens Sedmak, eds. The Practice of Human Development and Dignity. University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.
De Jesús Castaldi, Ligia. Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Legal Impact of the American Convention on Human Rights. University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.
Reed, Amber R. Nostalgia after Apartheid: Disillusionment, Youth, and Democracy in South Africa. University of Notre Dame Press, 2020.
Faculty Books
Berends, Mark, Ann Primus, and Matthew G. Springer. Handbook of Research on School Choice, 2nd Edition. Routledge, 2020.
Clayton, Lawrence A. and David M. Lantigua, eds. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents. University of Alabama Press, 2020.
Conchubhair, Brian Ó. Gaillimh: Díolaim Cathrach. Cló lar-Chonnacht, 2020.
Desierto, Diane A. and David J Cohen. ASEAN Law and Regional Integration: Governance and the Rule of Law in Southeast Asia’s Single Market. Routletge, 2021
Haake, Gregory P. The Politics of Print During the French Wars of Religion: Literature and History in an Age of “Nothing Said Too Soon.” Brill Publishing, 2021.
Hoffman, Michael. Faith in Numbers: Religion, Sectarianism, and Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2021.
Lantigua, David M. Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Leavitt, Charles L. IV. Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History. University of Toronto Press, 2020.
López, Magdalena and María Teresa Vera-Rojas, eds. New Perspectives on Hispanic Caribbean Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
McAdams, A. James and Anthony P. Monta, eds. Global 1968: Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America. University of Notre Dame Press, 2021.
McDonnell, Erin Metz. Patchwork Leviathan: Pockets of Bureaucratic Effectiveness in Developing States. Princeton University Press, 2020.
Shortall, Sarah, and Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, eds. Christianity and Human Rights Reconsidered. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Shortall, Sarah. Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics. Harvard University Press, 2021.
Spillman, Lyn. What is Cultural Sociology? Polity, 2020.
Trejo, Guillermo and Sandra Ley. Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico. Cambridge University Press: Studies in Comparative Politics Series, 2020.
Developing Undergraduate Scholars
Institute student programs allow exceptional undergraduates to focus and develop their international interests and scholarly abilities. Research grants, fellowships, and internships complement the Kellogg International Scholars Program, which matches students with faculty in a unique research partnership.
Through the Kellogg International Scholars Program (ISP), two students explored innovative ways to use big data – massive datasets too large or complex to be analyzed through traditional means – while working alongside their mentors, Faculty Fellows Nitesh Chawla and Ernesto Verdeja.
Attina Zhang ’21, a double major in sociology and applied and computational mathematics and statistics, was part of a team that analyzed data to study early childhood development and malnourishment in Mexico.
Timothy Burley ’21, a computer science major, developed a machine-learning analysis that allows researchers to comb through masses of data in seconds. The tool was part of a project that aims to identify the warning signs of impending genocides.
ISP pairs exceptional sophomores with Kellogg faculty fellows like Chawla and Verdeja, who work closely with students in research partnerships that typically last for the duration of their undergraduate careers. Both said the possibilities for using big data – and the future career possibilities for students who know how to gather, model, and interpret it – are endless.
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Meanwhile, two Kellogg International Scholars were awarded national fellowships – Elsa Barron ‘21, who received a Fulbright Research Grant, and Sarah Galbenski ‘21, who received a Fulbright Study Grant. Alumna Annelise Gill-Wiehl ’19, a former International Scholar and International Development Studies minor, also was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for her work that began at Kellogg. Meet other Kellogg International Scholars and learn about their research.
Engaging the World Through International Fieldwork
Fieldwork in the developing world provides students with hands-on experiences that can be transformative. Kellogg internships, fellowships, and research grants complement the International Development Studies (IDS) minor and concentration, often allowing undergraduates the opportunity to conduct independent field research.
Tatiana Silva ’21 is an aspiring obstetrician who is passionate about maternal health. Through the Kellogg International Development Studies (IDS) minor, the science business major combined her interests in global health and gender to study a topic of emerging interest worldwide: the mistreatment of women during childbirth.
Silva surveyed just over 200 Argentine women about their experiences with obstetric violence – physical or verbal abuse while receiving medical care during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum. Despite the country’s law against obstetric violence, Silva discovered that women’s experiences varied widely depending on their doctors’ training. She advocates for improved training for medical providers to help them better take patient needs into account.
Her advisor, Faculty Fellow Vanesa Miseres, said Silva’s research – conducted remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic – sheds light on obstetric violence as a global health issue: “Although this form of violence occurs worldwide, it remains largely undocumented and unspoken about.”
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Caroline Murtagh ’19, a former International Development Studies minor who co-chaired Kellogg’s Human Development Conference as a senior, was named a 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholar. Established in 2016, the Knight-Hennessy Scholars program is an international graduate-level scholarship program that cultivates and supports a highly engaged, multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate students at Stanford University in California. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Murtagh plans to pursue a doctorate at Stanford School of Medicine. Meet the senior International Development Studies students and learn about the program.
IDS has been one of my favorite parts of being at Notre Dame because I’ve met so many interesting people and (through an Experiencing the World Fellowship) been able to travel to some amazing places, like Peru, completely on my own. Through IDS, my worldview has broadened. You realize that there are so many things that you are passionate about that are bigger than yourself, and it really makes you think more outwardly.
– IDS Minor Tatiana Silva ’21
Supporting the Next Generation of Scholars
Engagement with the welcoming Kellogg community, coupled with robust research support, makes all the difference to the doctoral students affiliated with the Institute. Drawn to work with renowned Notre Dame faculty, they become an integral part of the Institute’s intellectual life.
A longstanding forum run for and by graduate students at the Kellogg Institute continued to meet virtually during COVID while focusing on its original mission: helping young scholars develop the sometimes intangible skills they’ll need on the job.
The Comparative Politics Workshop gives students the opportunity to present and discuss their papers in a format modeled after what they might encounter at a professional conference, though in a more low-key, collegial setting. The program, which bills itself as “proudly powered by PhD students at the Kellogg Institute,” is open to students of all disciplines, though most come from the field of political science.
“It gives students a friendly audience to present their work before they try to take it to a professional audience or submit it to a publication,” said Doctoral Student Affiliate Jacob Turner. “It’s a great way to meet people and try to integrate yourself into the scholarly community.”
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Former PhD Fellow Kristina Hook (anthropology and peace studies) received the second annual Kellogg Institute Award for Distinguished Dissertation on Democracy and Human Development for her research on genocide and mass violence against civilians in Ukraine. Hook, who was advised by Faculty Fellows Ernesto Verdeja and Rahul Oka, is now an assistant professor of conflict management at Kennesaw State University's School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding, and Development. Meet some of more than 90 Kellogg doctoral student affiliates and learn about their research.
The Comparative Politics Workshop has been an invaluable intellectual community that has fostered both my professionalization and growth as a scholar. It has not only expanded my breadth of knowledge in allowing me to read work outside of my field, but has also vastly improved the quality of my own research.
– Doctoral Student Affiliate Andrea Peña-Vasquez
The coronavirus pandemic forced our graduate students to make tough decisions about their work – how to continue pursuing their field projects amid travel bans and the evolving global health crisis, and whether to make significant changes to the research critical to their dissertations or take their projects in different directions.
Advancing Human Development Studies within the Keough School
As a foundational pillar of the Keough School of Global Affairs, Kellogg brings its history of rigorous research and exceptional student programming to the School’s central theme of integral human development. Among other contributions, Kellogg provides academic leadership for the Sustainable Development concentration within the Master of Global Affairs (MGA) program, student scholarships, support for the Integration Lab, and intellectual leadership on integral human development themes.
A new volume from the Kellogg Institute Book Series on Democracy and Development asks questions central to the mission of the Keough School of Global Affairs: how can international development groups promote integral human development in their work – and why should they try?
The Practice of Human Development and Dignity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), co-edited by Kellogg Director Paolo Carozza and Faculty Fellow Clemens Sedmak, a Keough School professor of social ethics, examines the meaning of “human dignity” – a term that encompasses human flourishing beyond the elimination of poverty.
The book’s nearly two dozen contributors include several Kellogg and other Keough faculty. They argue that relationships, community, and spirituality are central to wellbeing and point to a key conclusion: that the future of development work stands and falls with the proper consideration of human dignity in practice.
“Our hope is that it helps us deepen our awareness of the meaning and implications of the Keough School’s commitment to integral human development as its core operative principle,” Carozza said.
Contributors
* Paolo G. Carozza (editor), director of the Kellogg Institute
* Clemens Sedmak (editor), professor of social ethics at the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kellogg faculty fellow
Maria Sophia Aguirre, professor of economics at Catholic University of America
Simona Beretta, professor of international economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan, Italy) and former Kellogg visiting fellow
Matt Bloom, associate professor of management at the University of Notre Dame
* Catherine E. Bolten, associate professor of anthropology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame and Kellogg faculty fellow
Luigino Bruni, professor of political economy at Libera Università Maria SS. Assunta (Rome, Italy)
Dominic Burbidge, research director at the University of Oxford and director of the Canterbury Institute
Martha Cruz-Zuniga, associate clinical professor of economics at Catholic University of America
Séverine Deneulin, associate professor of international development at the University of Bath and former Kellogg visiting fellow
* Robert A. Dowd, CSC, assistant provost for internationalization at the University of Notre Dame; associate professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs; and Kellogg faculty fellow
Tania Groppi, professor of public law at the University of Siena (Siena, Italy)
Deirdre Guthrie, research advisor and translator with the Wellbeing Project (Paris, France); owner of Spore Studios Consulting; director of Wellbeing Programs at Fernwood Botanical Gardens; and former Kellogg staff member
* Elizabeth Hlabse, former research project manager at the Kellogg Institute
Travis J. Lybbert, professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis
* Paul Perrin, director of monitoring and evaluation at Notre Dame's Pulte Institute for Global Development; concurrent associate professor of the practice at the Keough School of Global Affairs
Giada Ragone, junior research fellow at Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)
* Steve Reifenberg, associate professor of the practice of international development and co-director of the Integration Lab at the Keough School of Global Affairs; and Kellogg faculty fellow
Rev. Monsignor Martin Schlag, Alan W. Moss Endowed Chair for Catholic Social Thought, professor of Catholic studies and ethics and business law, and director of the John A. Ryan Institute at the University of St. Thomas (St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota)
* Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee, research assistant professor with the Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity and Kellogg faculty member
Lorenza Violini, professor of constitutional law at Università degli Studi di Milano (Milan, Italy)
Bruce Wydick, professor of economics at the University of San Francisco and Kellogg distinguished research affiliate
* denotes Keough School-affiliated scholars
Community Engagement Informs Research Conducted by the Ford Program
What works and why? The Kellogg Institute aims to make a difference in the world by linking lessons learned in community-based research to people grappling with real-world issues in other communities across the globe.
An applied microeconomist with extensive experience in economic development and collaborative international research is the new director of the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity.
Faculty Fellow Patrizio Piraino, an associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs whose work focuses on determinants of socioeconomic disadvantage and issues of global socioeconomic mobility, assumed the position in February 2021. He replaced inaugural director Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, who became the assistant provost for internationalization at Notre Dame International.
“Patrizio brings to the Ford Program the ideal combination of first-rate research that makes valuable contributions to the field, a multidisciplinary and practice-oriented orientation, and a keen sensitivity to the normative commitments of the Ford Program to advancing integral human development,” Kellogg Director Paolo Carozza said. “I am excited to see how the Program will thrive under his leadership.”
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Despite the challenges posed by COVID, the local Ford Program research team in Nairobi completed an ambitious survey in the spring of 2021 that explored the long-term effects of the treatment of women during childbirth. By assessing the quality of Person-Centered Maternity Care (PCMC) in and around the slum of Dandora, the team – led by Faculty Fellow Laura Miller-Graff – hopes to determine the intergenerational effects of PCMC on women and their babies and improve the overall quality of maternal care in Kenyan hospitals. Learn about the Ford Program's innovative research projects.
The Ford Program is a unique initiative that combines academic rigor with a sincere and proven commitment to human dignity and community engagement. I hope to continue the excellent work of Fr. Bob in supporting opportunities for Notre Dame faculty to embark on research that advances the Program’s mission.
– Ford Program Director Patrizio Piraino
Innovative Partnerships Take Lessons to the World
Engaging and building partnerships around the globe amplifies many times over the effects of the Institute's work on core themes of democracy and human development. Teaching and learning goes full circle when scholars and students from the Kellogg community engage with policymakers and change agents elsewhere in the world.
Kellogg’s partnerships with Fulbright Commissions in various countries continue to expand, bringing visiting researchers to the Institute for a semester to study aspects of democracy and development.
This year’s first Kellogg Institute Chilean Fulbright Chair in Democracy and Human Development, Visiting Fellow Fernando Alvarado studied what his country’s “new normal” might look like in the post-pandemic world.
“The discussion in Chile at this moment is how to improve democracy and human development and how to be a model again for the rest of the region,” said Alvarado, a political scientist at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. While at Kellogg, he examined issues surrounding Chile, including the violent 2019 protests against economic and social inequality, the rewriting of its constitution, and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Kellogg's Fulbright Chair program has previously brought scholars to Kellogg from Brazil and will do so from Mexico beginning in the fall of 2021.
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The Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice (V-TJ) Lab partnered with Universidad Icesi, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in May to organize “Militarization and Police Brutality in Latin America: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It.” The online conference explored the causes and consequences of police violence and public order through the state armed forces, as well as possibilities for security sector reform. Learn about our research projects that are enriched by partnerships.
Kellogg has a depth of expertise on Chile and this Fulbright chair adds a new dimension to developing future collaboration. It also underscores the University of Notre Dame, and particularly the Kellogg Institute, as a place for exceptional scholarship on the challenges to democracy that are affecting Latin America today.
– Kellogg Executive Director Donald Stelluto
Engaging the World
COVID and Democracy Panel
A panel of Kellogg experts discussed how the coronavirus pandemic was challenging democracies in the virtual panel “Democracies in the COVID-19 Crisis.” Held in August 2020 and moderated by Faculty Fellow Dianne Pinderhughes, discussants examined case studies from the United States, West Africa, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, and Sweden. The event featured Notre Dame’s Jeff Harden, visiting fellows Sara Niedzwiecki and Susan Shepler, and Faculty Fellow Samuel Valenzuela, and was co-sponsored by the Kellogg Institute and its Research Cluster on Democratization Theory. Learn more and see a video of the virtual event.
Undergrad Winter Term Projects
Nineteen Kellogg undergraduates took part in a new program offering virtual international projects during the University of Notre Dame’s 2020-2021 winter session. Through Kaya Responsible Travel, students collaborated on projects related to microfinance, health, and education with organizations in Uganda, South Africa, and Ecuador. Though the winter term program was initiated in response to pandemic travel restrictions, it proved so successful that Kellogg will continue virtual programming as part of its regular offerings for undergraduates. Read more.
US Election-Asia Panel
The Kellogg Institute partnered with two groups in New York City in October 2020 to host a virtual panel on “The US Presidential Election and Asia Policy.” The collaboration with New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and the Notre Dame Club of New York City brought together academics and members of the general public, as well as active Notre Dame students and alumni, to focus on interrelated issues of national politics and foreign relations. “Never before have the United States’ relations with Asian countries been as important, both in absolute and in relative terms, as they are now,” said panelist and Faculty Fellow Joshua Eisenman. Read more.
Immigration Conference
The Kellogg Institute and the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity were among the cosponsors of the 2020 Catholic Immigrant Integration Initiative Conference, an annual international event that seeks to understand, expand, and strengthen the work of Catholic institutions with immigrant communities. With a theme of “Building Communities of Hope and Belonging,” the October 2020 conference was held virtually and featured the Ford Program’s Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, and Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee and Faculty Fellows Clemens Sedmak and Rev. Daniel Groody, CSC. The Center for Migration Studies of New York was the primary sponsor of the event. Learn more about the event.
Thank You to Our Donors
The generous financial support of our contributors makes possible the breadth and depth of Kellogg Institute programs and initiatives at Notre Dame and around the world. We are grateful.
Designated Endowments
Bokhari Family Endowment for Excellence (Zulfiqar Bokhari and Paulita A. Pike)
Dorini Family Endowment (Donald K. Dorini)
Ford Family Endowment (Doug and Kathy Ford)
Helen Kellogg Endowment
Johnson Family Endowment for Excellence (J. Kenneth Johnson)
Latin American Indigenous Language Learning Endowment (Sabine G. MacCormack)
O’Connell Family Fund for Excellence (Jamie and Mary Joel O’Connell)
Sullivan Endowment (Frank E. Sullivan)
Ubuntu Endowment for Excellence (Rick and Chelsea Buhrman)
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Endowment
Gifts*
Santiago Aranguren and Maria Vergara
John J. and Angela Beckham, Jr.
Peter Coccia and Nena Couch
W. Douglas and Kathy Ford
Kevin and Eileen Heneghan
Tara Kenney and Gary T. Grassey
F. Joseph and Deborah Loughrey
Carl and Margarita Muñana
Mary Joel O'Connell and John O’Connell
Dr. Theodore X. and Fran O’Connell
Alberto M. Piedra II and Jane Fraser
Catherine M. Reidy Kress and Michael A. Kress
Barbara Walters Doehrman and Stephen Doehrman
*Reporting gifts of $500 and above.
Grants
The Henry Luce Foundation
Directors
Paolo G. Carozza, Director
Donald Stelluto, Executive Director
Holly Rivers, Associate Director
Denise Wright, Assistant Director
Patrizio Piraino, Director, Ford Program (as of February 2021)
Institute Staff
Pamela Byrne, Staff Accountant
Karen Clay, Communications Manager
Jennifer D’Ambrosia, Data Manager
Guadalupe Gómez (pictured), Gifts & Grants Project Manager
Therese Hanlon, Events Program Manager
Eniko Janko, Office Coordinator
Karen Joseph, Administrative Assistant for Events
Jackline Oluoch-Aridi, Regional Research Programs Manager for East Africa
Guadalupe Ramirez, Senior Institute Coordinator
Andre Ratasepp, IT Solutions Specialist
Ashley Rowland, Writer/Editor
Heather Saunders, Hesburgh Center Administrative Coordinator
Carrie Shoemaker, Multimedia Communications Specialist
Rachel Thiel, Program Coordinator, Undergraduate Student Programs
Kristi Wojciechowski, Business Manager
Africana Studies
Dianne M. Pinderhughes, President's Distinguished Professor and Professor of Africana Studies and Political Science and Department Chair
Anthropology
Maurizio Albahari, Associate Professor
Susan D. Blum, Professor
Catherine Bolten, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies
Mark Golitko, Assistant Professor
Vania Smith-Oka, Associate Professor
Architecture
John Onyango, Associate Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Tracy L. Kijewski-Correa (Faculty Committee), Leo E. and Patti Ruth Linbeck Associate Professor and Co-director, Integration Lab, Keough School of Global Affairs
Marc Müller, Assistant Professor
Robert Nerenberg, Professor
Alexandros Taflanidis, Professor
Computer Science & Engineering
Nitesh Chawla, Frank Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director, Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature and Director, Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies
Lionel M. Jensen, Associate Professor
Economics
Taryn Dinkelman, Associate Professor
Kirk Doran, Associate Professor
Eva Dziadula, Associate Teaching Professor
William N. Evans, Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics
A. Nilesh Fernando, Assistant Professor
John Firth, Assistant Professor
Thomas Gresik, Professor
Lakshmi Iyer (pictured; Faculty Committee), Associate Professor of Economics and Global Affairs
Robert Johnson, Associate Professor
Joseph Kaboski (Faculty Committee), David F. and Erin M. Seng Foundation Professor of Economics
Michael Pries, Associate Professor and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences
Cesar Sosa-Padilla, Assistant Professor
Zachary Stangebye, Assistant Professor
English
Ernest Morrell, Coyle Professor in Literacy Education and Director, Notre Dame Center for Literacy Education
Sarah Quesada, Assistant Professor
Mark Sanders, Professor of English and Africana Studies
Film, Television, and Theatre
Anne García-Romero, Associate Professor
Anton Juan, Senior Professor of Directing and Playwriting/Theatre and Social Concerns
German and Russian Languages & Literatures
William Donahue, Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities
History
Ted Beatty, Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs
Liang Cai, Associate Professor
Karen B. Graubart, Associate Professor
Patrick Griffin, Madden-Hennebry Professor of Irish-American Studies and Director, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies
Katie Jarvis, Carl E. Koch Associate Professor of History
Elisabeth Köll, Professor and William Payden Collegiate Chair
Semion Lyandres, Professor
Nikhil Menon, Assistant Professor
Paul Ocobock, Associate Professor
Jaime Pensado (pictured), Associate Professor
Sarah Shortall, Assistant Professor
Thomas Tweed, Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies
Institute for Educational Initiatives
TJ D’Agostino, Assistant Professor of the Practice and Faculty Program Director, International Education Research Initiative
Institute for Latino Studies
Karen Richman, Director of Undergraduate Academic Programs
Irish Language and Literature
Brian (Breen) Ó Conchubhair, Associate Professor and Director, Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures
Keough School of Global Affairs
Ellis Adjei Adams, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Policy
Abby Córdova, Associate Professor of Global Affairs
Joshua Eisenman, Associate Professor of Politics
Alejandro Estefan, Assistant Professor of Development Economics
Tamara Kay, Professor of Global Affairs and Sociology
Julia Kowalski, Assistant Professor of Global Affairs
Magdalena López, Adjunct Associate Professional Specialist
Mahan Mirza, Professor of the Practice and Executive Director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
Thomas Mustillo, Associate Professor of Global Affairs
Raymond Offenheiser, Distinguished Professor of the Practice and Director, Pulte Institute for Global Development
Rahul Oka, Research Associate Professor
Susan Ostermann, Assistant Professor of Global Affairs
Patrizio Piraino, Associate Professor of Global Affairs and Director, Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity
Steve Reifenberg (Faculty Committee), Associate Professor of Practice and Co-director, Integration Lab and Senior Strategic Advisor, Kellogg Institute for International Studies
Ilaria Schnyder von Wartensee, Ford Family Research Assistant Professor
Clemens Sedmak (Faculty Committee), Professor of Social Ethics and Interim Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Rachel Sweet (pictured), Assistant Professor of Global Affairs
Law School
Roger P. Alford, Professor
Paolo G. Carozza, Director, Kellogg Institute and Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Political Science
Diane Desierto (Faculty Committee), Professor of Law and Global Affairs and Faculty Director, LL.M. Program in Human Rights
Nicole Stelle Garnett, John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law
Mendoza College of Business
Viva Bartkus, Paul E. Purcell Associate Professor of Management & Organization and Director, Meyer Business on the Frontlines Program
Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (Faculty Committee), Professor of Finance
Martijn Cremers, Bernard J. Hank Professor of Finance and Martin J. Gillen Dean, Mendoza College of Business
Music
Carmen-Helena Téllez, Professor of Conducting and Director, Choral Conducting Graduate Programs
Peace Studies
Gary Goertz, Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies
Caroline Hughes (pictured), Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Chair in Peace Studies
Asher Kaufman, Professor of History and Peace Studies and Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies
Ernesto Verdeja, Associate Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies
Political Science
Jaimie Bleck (Faculty Committee), Associate Professor and Senior Research Advisor, Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity
Michael Coppedge, Professor
Michael C. Desch, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Science and Brian and Jeannelle Brady Family Director, Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC)
Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC (Faculty Committee), Associate Professor and Assistant Provost for Internationalization
Amitava Krishna Dutt, Professor of Economics and Political Science
Andrew Gould, Associate Professor
Michael Hoffman, Assistant Professor
Victoria Tin-Bor Hui, Associate Professor
Debra Javeline, Associate Professor
Karrie Koesel, Associate Professor
Scott Mainwaring, Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science
A. James McAdams, William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (Faculty Committee), Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs
Daniel Philpott, Professor of Political Science
Emma Planinc, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Program of Liberal Studies
Emilia Justyna Powell, Associate Professor
Luis Schiumerini, Assistant Professor
Timothy R. Scully, Retired Professor
Jazmin Sierra, Assistant Professor
Guillermo Trejo (pictured; Faculty Committee), Professor
Susanne Wengle, Associate Professor
Psychology
Laura Miller-Graff, Associate Professor of Psychology and Peace Studies
Romance Languages and Literatures
Pedro Aguilera-Mellado, Assistant Professor of Modern Spain
Thomas Anderson, William M. Scholl Professor of Latin American Literature and Department Chair
Rev. Gregory Haake, CSC, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Carlos A. Jáuregui, Associate Professor of Latin American Literature
Charles Leavitt, Associate Professor of Italian
Vanesa Miseres, Associate Professor of Spanish
Marisel Moreno, Associate Professor of Latino/a Literature
María Rosa Olivera-Williams, Professor of Latin American Literature
Sonja Stojanovic, Assistant Professor of French
Juan Vitulli, Associate Professor of Iberian and Latin American Literature and Culture
Sociology
Mark Berends, Professor
Terence McDonnell, Associate Professor
Erin Metz McDonnell (Faculty Committee), Notre Dame du Lac and Kellogg Associate Professor of Sociology
Ann Mische, Associate Professor of Sociology and Peace Studies
Lyn Spillman, Professor
J. Samuel Valenzuela, Professor
Theology
Rev. Daniel Groody, CSC, Associate Professor of Theology and Global Affairs and Vice President and Associate Provost
Fr. Emmanuel Katongole, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies
Rev. Paul V. Kollman, CSC, Associate Professor
David M. Lantigua, Assistant Professor
Rev. Paulinus I. Odozor, CSSp, Professor of Theology and Africana Studies
Todd Walatka (pictured), Associate Teaching Professor
Visiting Fellows
Fernando Alvarado (Spring 2021), Researcher and Faculty of Economic and Administrative Science, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, and Chilean Fulbright Chair in Democracy and Human Development, “The Post-Pandemic ‘New Normal’ in Chile and Beyond”
Paula Alonso (Spring 2021), Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, The George Washington University, “The Politics of Democracy. Argentina and the Atlantic World, 1860-1946”
Candelaria Garay (Spring 2021), Senior Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard University, “Labor Coalitions in Unequal Democracies”
Denisa Jashari (pictured, Fall 2020), Assistant Professor of Latin American History, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Cartographies of Conflict: Political Culture and Urban Protest in Santiago, Chile, 1872-1994”
Sara Niedzwiecki (Academic Year 2020-2021), Assistant Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Immigrants’ Access to Social Protection in Latin America”
Francisco Rodríguez, Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy (Academic Year 2020-2021), Director and Founder, Oil for Venezuela, “The Unraveling of Venezuela’s Populist Experiment: 2013-2019”
Susan Shepler (Academic Year 2020-2021), Associate Professor, School of International Service, American University, “‘Power you Can Trust’: Fractal Sovereignty in Sierra Leone”
David Smilde (Academic Year 2020-2021), Charles A. and Leo M. Favrot Professor of Human Relations, Tulane University, “Venezuela's Transition to Illiberalism, Vol. 1: Hugo Chávez and 21st Century Socialism”
Guest Scholars
Jeffrey Erbig, Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Visitors
Balázs Tárnok (January - December 2021), National University of Public Service
Verónica Viteri (June 2021 - August 2021), Universidad de Navarra, Spain
PhD Fellows
2020-2025
William Kakenmaster (political science)
2020-2024
Jorge Barrera (law)
2019-2024
Ivoline Budji Kefen (anthropology)
Khawla Wakkaf (law)
2018-2023
Tomás Gold (sociology)
Natán Skigin (political science)
Dissertation Year Fellows
Alejandro Castrillón (political science)
Bernardo Pulido Marquez (pictured, law), 2020-21 Kellogg Institute for Outstanding Doctoral Student Contributions Award Recipient
Esteban Salas (history)
Kellogg International Scholars
Class 2021
Elsa Barron, biological sciences, peace studies
Marie Bond, civil engineering
Timothy Burley, computer science
Samuel Cannova, program of liberal studies
Kaitlyn Cox, psychology, pre-health studies
Cindy Emenalo, science preprofessional studies, Spanish
Mary Fitzgerald, political science
Madeline Foley, program of liberal studies
Sarah Galbenski, Spanish, global affairs
Yuanmeng He, philosophy
Lisa Huang, electrical engineering
James Luk, political science
Patrick McCabe, political science, Arabic studies
Emily Meara (pictured left; 2021 Human Development Conference Cochair), Spanish, pre-health studies
Courtney Mitchell, anthropology, pre-health studies
María Paul Rangel, political science, economics
David Phillips, English
Ellen Pil, political science, pre-health studies
Marissa Plante, political science
Matthew Riss, environmental engineering, Chinese
Lillian Rodriguez, civil engineering
Aimee Umunyana, science-business
Natalie Ying, political science, economics, Japanese
Jingjing Yu, political science, economics
Xueheng Zhang, sociology, applied and computational mathematics and statistics
Class 2022
Graciela Abinader, political science, marketing
Camila Antelo Iriarte, political science, economics
Alix Basden, international economics
Yanlin Chen, philosophy
Juliana Couri, anthropology, science preprofessional studies
Anne Foley (pictured, far left; 2021 Human Development Conference Cochair), anthropology, global affairs
Lingxiao Gao, history
Talia Harb, civil engineering
Juliette Kelley, economics, applied and computational mathematics and statistics
Megan Kendall, sociology, pre-health studies
Kelsey Kennedy, chemical engineering
Sophia Kics, Spanish, pre-health studies
Alexander Lewis, neuroscience and behavior, Spanish
Meredith Lochhead, civil engineering
Isabelle Lukau, biochemistry
Trevor Lwere, economics, global affairs
Katherine Mansourova, finance, political science
Jackson Oxler, anthropology, political science, global affairs
Gabriella Perez, business analytics
Luke Reifenberg, philosophy, mathematics
Abigail Sticha, applied and computational mathematics and statistics
Hope Suleiman, political science, economics
Zachary Thapar, political science, global affairs
Xinyi Ye, political science, applied and computational mathematics and statistics
Xiaosong Yu, mathematics, philosophy, political science
Hind Zahour, art history, design
Class 2023
Rose Benas, political science, global affairs
Alexandra DeAngelis, biological sciences, Spanish
Luis Elizondo Gracia, economics, global affairs
Madeline Foley, anthropology, pre-health studies
Jaqueline Glago, political science, global affairs
Mary Kate Godfrey, political science, global affairs
Lucie Kneip, political science, global affairs
Anna Lee, anthropology, pre-health studies
John O'Leary, international economics
Natalia Ruiz, management consulting, global affairs
Luke Schafer, economics, global affairs
Jingyao Shan, philosophy, economics
Ashley Straub, architecture
Aisha Tunkara, international economics
Monica Turner, economics, political science
Juliet Webb, anthropology, peace studies
Caroline Whelan, international economics (French), political science
Meredith Wilson, anthropology, global affairs
Justin Witt, political science, global affairs
Distinguished Research Affiliates
Mary Ann Glendon (2019-21), Law School, Harvard University
David Hollenbach, SJ (2020-22), Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor, Walsh School of Foreign Service; Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Affiliated Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University
Leonard Wantchekon (2019-21), Department of Political Science, Princeton University
Bruce Wydick (2019-21), Department of Economics, University of San Francisco
Advisory Board
Joe Loughrey (Chair), Former Vice Chairman of the Board and President/COO, Cummins Inc.
Santiago Aranguren, Director for Business Development, Arancia Industrial
John Beckham, Chief Investment Officer, MicroVest
Zulfiqar Bokhari, Partner, Latham & Watkins
Daniel Brinks, Professor and Chair, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Augusto de la Torre, Adjunct Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, New York
Eowyn Powell Ford, Health Policy Analyst, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services
Matthew R. Ford, Partner, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP
Clark Gibson, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
Magdalena Guzman, Monitoring & Evaluation, Via Educación (NGO); Monterrey, Mexico
Wendy Hunter, Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Tara Kenney, Senior Vice President, Boston Common Asset Management
Scott Mainwaring, Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Alvaro Martinez-Fonts, Former Vice-Chairman, J. P. Morgan Private Bank
F. James Meaney, Managing Director for Latin America, Compass PLC
Carl F. Muñana, Former CEO, Inter-American Investment Corporation
Mary Joel O’Connell, Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer, American Express Company
Raymond C. Offenheiser (pictured), Distinguished Professor of the Practice, Keough School of Global Affairs and Director, Pulte Institute for Global Development
Susan D. Page, Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Alberto M. Piedra, II, Managing Member, Ignite D2K
Catherine Reidy Kress, Vice President: Advisor to the Chairman, BlackRock Investment Institute; New York, NY
Timothy Scully, Retired Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Photo Credits
Photos not otherwise credited are by or through the courtesy of: Matt Cashore, Eunseo (Stella) Cho ’22, Barbara Johnston, Kaya Responsible Travel, Andrea Peña-Vasquez, Jaime Pensado, Patrizio Piraino, Susan Shepler, Carrie Shoemaker, Tatiana Silva ‘21, Steve Toepp, Katie Whitcomb, Emma Winters, Denise Wright, Marco Zuccarello
Contributions
Writer/Editor: Ashley Rowland; Design Coordination: Carrie Shoemaker; Other contributors: Karen Clay, Jennifer D'Ambrosia, Lupe Gómez, Therese Hanlon, Holly Rivers, Kristi Wojciechowski, Denise Wright