A new book by Faculty Fellow Terence McDonnell examines why expensive media campaigns that try to harness the power of culture to change beliefs or behavior often fail. Using AIDS campaigns in Ghana as his central case study, he lays out an argument that carries important implications for diverse types of media campaigns around the world.
Visiting Fellow Amy Erica Smith has received the Award for Early Achievement in Research from the Iowa State University (ISU) College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where she is assistant professor of political science.
The award, which was formally presented at ISU on September 14, recognizes Iowa State faculty who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in research unusually early in their professional career, including national and international recognition in the academic community and evidence of a positive impact of their research on their discipline.
Kellogg Institute Director Paolo G. Carozza, professor of law and concurrent professor of political science, has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences by Pope Francis.
“There is so much we still need to learn about how wars are fought,” says Visiting Fellow Ana Arjona (PhD, Yale University). The assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University spent spring 2016 at Kellogg conducting research on the legacies of war and how civilians make decisions in wartime.
Over the past several years, the Kellogg Institute has partnered with scholars, practitioners, and the global health pioneer Partners In Health (PIH) to consider how the notion of “accompaniment” might inform—and even transform—the practice of international development and aid delivery.
When the 8th annual ICT4D, “From Innovation to Impact,” opened this spring in Nairobi, the Ford Program was there, along with a lively contingent of others affiliated with Notre Dame. The international conference, which brings together information and communications technology (ICT) professionals active in international development, focused this year on using technology to achieve the UN’s new sustainable development goals.
Faculty Fellow Jonathan Noble recently spoke in Beijing at the 7th annual US-China Consultation on People-to-People Exchange (CPE), a conference to promote and strengthen ties between the United States and China in the fields of education, culture, health, science and technology, sports, and women’s issues. This year’s CPE was cochaired by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong.
Faculty Fellow George A. Lopez has been named to serve as an evaluating judge for a newly launched competition that will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet.
Long-time Faculty Fellow Scott Mainwaring, the Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science, is the recipient of the Kellogg Institute’s 2016 Undergraduate Mentoring Award, which recognizes one faculty fellow each year for excellence in mentoring undergraduate student research.
Selected from nominations made by students, the honor is presented to a faculty member who has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to advising undergraduates in the Institute’s undergraduate programs.
Two doctoral students affiliated with the Kellogg Institute have won prestigious national awards, including the Fulbright Study/Research Grant and the USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship.
Faculty Fellow Lionel Jensen on an ongoing South China Sea dispute with China (Manila Times Online)
Faculty Fellow Victoria Tin Bor Hui says Hong Kong's young people think it is dying (Hong Kong Free Press)
Faulty Fellow Nelson Mark on the local fallout from Brexit (ABC57 News)
Faculty Fellow Christian Smith on what his research says about the "not religious" and those "seriously committed" to religion (Christian Science Monitor)
Faculty Fellow Bill Evans on the Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), which he cofounded (ISQ)
Executive Director Steve Reifenberg on the co-creation of an advanced development course (Linked In)
In a new book, I Love Learning; I Hate School: An Anthropology of College (Cornell University Press, 2016), Faculty Fellow Susan D. Blum explores a conundrum: why students who love to learn may still find their educational experiences difficult and unsatisfying.
In her new book, Faculty Fellow Sarah Zukerman Daly analyzes the trajectories of armed groups following peace accords, using Colombia as her central case study.
In summer 2014, Kendra Reiser ’15 received a Kellogg Summer Internship to teach English with WorldTeach at a community center in Casablanca, Morocco. She cites the experience as “the summer I found my vocation: teaching English as a new language to foreign students.” Now, Reiser is living out that vocation after being awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship (ETA) in Indonesia.
“Unless you have a conversation to really understand culture, you can’t make effective change.”
That’s what Emily Campbell ’17 learned during her Experiencing the World fellowship (ETW) this past summer. Her experience in Rwanda focused her future academic work, affirmed her career goals, and motivated her to make lasting international development change.
International Scholars Program (ISP) junior Bridget Galassini, an international economics major, views climate change as more than a center of political debate or the focus of her research—it is what she describes as “the most pressing issue of our generation.” In fact, her research on the subject has provided her far more opportunities, frustrations, and dialogues than she had imagined when initially aiming to merge her interests in public health and policy as a freshman.
The attention and concern of the world was focused on Haiti following its Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake. As is often the case, as time went on, the focus on Haiti became less intense as the world moved on.
Kellogg PhD Fellow Stefanie Israel (sociology) reports from Rio de Janeiro where she is conducting pre-dissertation field research on slum “pacification” with an Institute graduate research grant.
Today I ate pineapple for lunch, wore a pair of worn-out flip flops that have absolutely no sole left, and walked back from class at about a third of my normal pace.
Kellogg Institute PhD Fellow Sandra Botero has won two prestigious fellowships to support her research on the policy outcomes of judicial decisions in Colombia and Argentina.
Botero received an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and a Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for her project, “High Courts and Socioeconomic Rights in Latin America.”
Quinn Brown ’18 (science-business)
On Tuesday, July 5…
International Scholar Emily Mediate ’15 spent her first year out of Notre Dame on a Kellogg Institute postgraduate International Development Fellowship with the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI) in Uganda. Her work evaluating a USAID-funded program that aims to improve the well-being of vulnerable households built directly on her Kellogg-funded research (more here).
Yizhi Hu ’19 (asian studies/political science)
On Tuesday, June 7…
I am starting to understand what is universal. Even though I always considered myself progressive and open-minded, I realized that I was much influenced by my early life experience and was very conservative when it comes to democracy and human rights. Through meeting and interacting with Taiwanese students, I have a much stronger appreciation and attention for Chinese culture, politics and universal values.
Luke Maillie ’18 (physics-in-medicine)
On Friday, June 10…
I only settled in Shirati on Tuesday so I haven’t had the chance to do any interviews yet, but I should have at least a couple scheduled for next week. The reason I didn’t get to Shirati until Tuesday was because I was staying with an oncologist from Duke Medical school, Dr. Kristin Schroeder. She runs a non-profit called ICCARE which treats pediatric cancer patients and makes sure they can afford their treatment by paying the costs that families can’t cover.
Moira Horn ’17 (gender studies/pre-health)
On Friday, May 27…
Katie Eilert ‘18 (marketing)
On Tuesday, June 7th…
Annie Richelsen ‘18 (marketing/peace studies) and I have settled in well to our new temporary home in Cape Coast, Ghana. We had a great time working with the Google team in the capital city of Accra for a week and are grateful to Global Mamas co-founder Renae Adam for giving us such a warm welcome into Ghana and into her own home. At the same time, we were ready to leave the busy and at times overwhelming city of Accra for the much quieter town of Cape Coast!
Thanks to the support of the International Scholars Program, Daniel Olivieri and Lily Kang, a sociology and IT management major, had the opportunity to attend the 2016 Winter Youth Assembly at the United Nations from February 17th to February 18th at the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
“I’ve never been closer to what is going on in Mexico,” says International Scholar Magdalena (“Maggie”) Guzman ’16, a native of Monterrey, Mexico and a passionate student of politics and economics.
In Guzman’s first week on campus four years ago, she discovered that Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a Mexican politician she had long admired, would be a visiting fellow at Kellogg that spring and teach a class on the history of modern Mexico.
International Scholars Program student Geraldine Mukumbi writes on her experience attending Great Lakes Place-Based Education conference. She presented on the Engaging Youth Engaging Neighborhoods (EYEN) project.
On Sunday, June 12…
I received five new refugee cases by the end of May (18 cases in all). Ten of these cases required me to send e-mails and make phone calls to different courts, the Department of Home Affairs, and non-profit organizations in order to help our clients to receive certificates, protection orders, or additional assistance that our office cannot provide.
As Colombia’s October 2 plebiscite nears, PhD Fellow Juan Albarracín Dierolf reflects on the country’s peace accord and the road forward.
Bernadette Miramontes ’17 (anthropology/biology)
On Friday, August 19…
My last bit of time in Pune was especially fruitful and provided me with plenty to reflect on.
In the last week in Pune, I interviewed 25 more HIV+ women. This brings my total to 45 interviews with women, but in many of those interviews the husband was also present; therefore, I was able to interview over 65 patients.
Olivia August ’17 (environmental engineering)
On Sunday, June 19…
Susan Morand ’18 (pre-health studies/psychology)
On Friday, June 24…
Aaron Tarnasky (Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics/Biological Sciences) ‘16
On Wednesday, July 29th…
In the summer of 2015, Robert Graveline (civil engineering) '16 traveled to Tacloban, Philippines, with a Kellogg Institute Summer Research Grant. From Monday, June 22, he shares....
Mark Brahier, a biological sciences major with an International Development Studies minor, received a Kellogg Summer Research Grant to travel to Granada in the summer of 2015 to research barriers to healthcare in garbage dump communities in Granada, Nicaragua.
Week 4
During the Summer of 2015, Shannon Bugos ’16 (english/peace studies) received a grant from the Kellogg/Kroc Research Grants Program to study the impact the Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre Productions had on the 1998 peace agreement.
In the Summer of 2015, Emma Cooper ’17 (biological sciences) received an Experiencing the World Fellowship to gather data and research what the effects of defining a person as autistic are for their quality of life in Laos. It is very recent in Laos that anyone has been diagnosed as autistic. Lao doctors cannot actually diagnose someone as autistic, so parents must take their children to Thailand in order to be diagnosed.
David Altman (Fall ’12) was awarded the 2012 Carlos Real de Azúa National Political Science Prize for best book by the Uruguayan Political Science Association. |
José Murilo de Carvalho (Spring ’02) published The Formation of Souls: Imagery of the Republic in Brazil (University of Notre Dame Press, 2012).
Visiting Fellow Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell (2013) was instrumental in organizing a forum on the work of Guillermo O’Donnell to commemorate the first anniversary of the distinguished political scientist’s death. Held in Buenos Aires on November 29, 2012, the event took the form of a debate focusing on a theme dear to Guillermo’s heart—the future of democracy in Argentina. |
Joseph Ramos (Spring ’07), professor of economics and business administration at the University of Chile, published: |
Arie Kacowicz (1997–98), the Chaim Weizmann Chair in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also on the Georgetown University faculty, published Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth: The Latin American Experience, 1982–2007 (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Patience Kabamba (2011–12), assistant professor of international studies at Marymount Manhattan College, published a paper he completed as a Kellogg visiting fellow: “A Tale of Two Cities: Urban Transformation in Gold-Centred Butembo and Diamond-Rich Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo,” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 30, 4 (2012).
Maxwell Cameron (Fall ’96), professor of political science and director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia, coedited (with Eric Hershberg and Kenneth E. Sharpe) New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012).
Timothy Power (Fall ’05), director of the Latin American Centre’s Brazilian Studies Programme and university lecturer in Brazilian studies at the University of Oxford, published “Elite Preferences in a Consolidating Democracy: The Brazilian Legislative Surveys, 1990–2009” (with Cesar Zucco Jr.) in Latin American Politics and Society 54, 4 (2012). Power, a 1993 Notre Dame PhD, initiated this survey research as a student in 1990.
Luis Pásara (Fall ’85, ’00) published “International Support for Justice Reform in Latin America: Worthwhile or Worthless?” in the Woodrow Wilson Center Update on the Americas series (September 2012). Now retired from the University of Salamanca, Pásara was a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow in 2011–12.
Noor O’Neill Borbieva (2008), assistant professor of anthropology at Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, contributed “Empowering Muslim Women: Independent Religious Fellowships in the Kyrgyz Republic” to Slavic Review 71, 2 (2012).
