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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Olivia August ’17 (environmental engineering)
On Sunday, June 19…
Susan Morand ’18 (pre-health studies/psychology)
On Friday, June 24…
“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.
Faculty Fellow Lionel Jensen on an ongoing South China Sea dispute with China (Manila Times Online)
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!
Faculty Fellow Victoria Tin Bor Hui says Hong Kong's young people think it is dying (Hong Kong Free Press)
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.
Faculty Fellow Michael Desch on financial instability in Europe and US (WNDU)
Faulty Fellow Nelson Mark on the local fallout from Brexit (ABC57 News)
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 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)
Faculty Fellow Bill Evans on the Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), which he cofounded (ISQ)
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.
Kellogg Dissertation Year Fellow Nara Pavão has won the 2016 Eli J. and Helen Shaheen Graduate School Award, the highest honor bestowed on Notre Dame graduate students.
Faculty Fellow Rahul Oka on the refugee dilemma facing Kenya
Five undergraduates affiliated with the Kellogg Institute have won prestigious national awards for international study, research, and teaching. Three were named Fulbright Finalists and two were awarded Boren Scholarships.
“We could not be more delighted,” says Assistant Director Holly Rivers, who manages Kellogg undergraduate programs. “Our students have done exceptional work.”
Two long-time Kellogg partner organizations, the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI) and Partners In Health, will serve as hosts for the postgraduate fellowships.
PhD Fellow Kristina Hook (anthropology and peace studies) has been awarded a five-year fellowship from the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP).
Executive Director Steve Reifenberg on the co-creation of an advanced development course (Linked In)
Faculty Fellow Jeffrey Bergstrand explains value of free trade (South Bend Tribune)
Faculty Fellow Jorge Bustamante's research on cross-border migration is highlighted (SanDiegoUnionTribune.com)
Faculty Fellow Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC, has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Portland in recognition of his exemplary career as a “noted filmmaker, scholar, author, theology professor, and globetrotter” and lifelong commitment of service to Latin America and the Latin American Church.
Kellogg International Scholar Christa Grace Watkins ’17, a philosophy major and PPE minor known for her advocacy on issues of sexual violence and women’s well-being, has been named a 2016 Truman Scholar.
Four Kellogg International Scholars have won major prizes from Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science for their outstanding theses in the fields of comparative politics and political theory.
Executive Director Steve Reifenberg on the recent visit of Paul Farmer to Notre Dame (Notre Dame Magazine)
Kellogg Visiting Fellow George Tsebelis of the University of Michigan has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
On Wednesday, the Academy announced its 213 new members, who include some of the world’s most accomplished scholars, scientists, writers, and artists, as well as civic, business and philanthropic leaders.
During her visit to the Institute last month, the Kellogg Institute community had the opportunity to engage on several levels with Virginia Dandan, the UN Human Rights Council’s independent expert on human rights and international solidarity.
Based in Geneva, Dandan holds a mandate from the UN Human Rights Council to draft and present to the UN a declaration of the international right to solidarity.
Kellogg International Development Fellow Christopher Newton ’15 has been awarded a USAID Research and Innovation Fellowship (RIF) to conduct an analysis of the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system of the Association of Volunteers in International Service (AVSI) in South Sudan, using the organization’s multiyear health services project as a case study.
Sandra Botero, a 2009–14 Kellogg PhD fellow, has received the Law and Society Association’s 2016 dissertation prize for “Courts that Matter: Judges, Litigants, and the Politics of Rights Enforcement in Latin America.”
“It is truly an honor to have been selected for this very competitive international prize,” said Botero, who received her PhD in 2015 and is now assistant professor of politics at Willamette University in Oregon.
"The church doesn't give explicit economic advice," says Faculty Fellow Joe Kaboski. (CNN Money)
Kellogg Advisory Board member Ray Offenheiser on Oxfam study of corporate tax dodging. (New York Times)
Faculty Fellow Christopher Ball has won a 2016 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship that will allow him to study the local history and culture of an indigenous tribe in Brazil through connections between the local language and nearby rivers.
A linguistic and cultural anthropologist, Ball will spend time next year on and around the Xingu River in northern Brazil with the Wauja, an indigenous tribe that lives in a protected part of the rainforest.
Instructional materials from the March 2016 workshop, "Varieties of Democracy Data: Incorporating Measurement Uncertainty," are now available online for use by researchers wishing to learn the intricacies of dealing with measurement error when using Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) data.
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.
Faculty Fellow Emmanuel Katongole provides a vivid accounting of the Rwandan genocide (America magazine)
Faculty Fellow Susan Blum interviewed on her new book, I Love Learning; I Hate School. (Inside Higher Ed)
Renowned physician and anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer, widely known for his pathbreaking work on global health, human rights, and the consequences of social inequality, will deliver the lecture “Taking up the Challenges of Poverty: Why Accompaniment Matters” on Tuesday, April 19 at 7 p.m.
Faculty Fellow Marisel Moreno blogs on the transformative potential of community-based learning pedagogy. (Huffington Post)
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.
Faculty Fellow Michael Desch comments on images of Castro and Obama during historic visit. (New York Times)
“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.
Environmental and legal experts gathered at George Washington University Law School in Washington, DC, on Friday, March 18 to discuss the implications of a new transoceanic canal that Nicaragua proposes to build in an agreement with a Chinese investor.
Kellogg Institute for International Studies Director Paolo Carozza has announced the results of the Institute’s annual Visiting Fellowship competition. In this year’s highly selective process, one journalist and eight scholars—representing anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology—were named 2015–16 visiting fellows out of a pool of more than 100 applicants.
“We are especially delighted by the breadth and depth of next year’s new cohort of visiting fellows,” said Carozza.
Faculty Fellow Christian Smith on the distinction between the religious and non-religious (Christian Science Monitor)
Faculty Fellow Michael Desch says many US Christians, not just evangelicals, feel a responsibility to protect fellow Christians in the Middle East. (Christian Science Monitor)
Faculty Fellow Maurizio Albahari on prospects for increased human-trafficking (Bloomberg Business)
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.
Faculty Fellow Marisel Moreno recounts her experience listening to migrants on the US-Mexico border. (Notre Dame Magazine)
Faculty Fellow Victoria Hui on a new player in Hong Kong politics (Voice of Hong Kong)
Faculty Fellow Emily Block explains findings from her recent study of how employer giving affects employees. (Business News Daily)
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.
The power to lead is the power to transform. We're proud to celebrate two Kellogg faculty fellow women—Tracy Kijewski-Correa (engineering) and Mary Ellen O'Connell (law)—whose scholarship and leadership are leaving an indelible imprint on the global community this International Women's Day.
Faculty Fellow Maurizio Albahari explains how European countries are discouraging asylum-seekers (AP)
Faculty Fellow Maurizio Albahari was quoted in the Associated Press article "Iraqi migrants return after Europe disappoints" on Mar. 7, 2016
Faculty Fellow George Lopez says the focus is on diplomacy in the "multifaceted and complex" resolution passed by the Security Council. (Fox News opinion)
This article details the influence of Faculty Fellow Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP, on the thinking of Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners In Health. Farmer will be at Kellogg in April for a series of events focusing on the role of accompaniment in aid and development work.
A new report from the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies (ILS) examines how gender affects Latino men’s and women’s savings for retirement and concludes that there is a need to develop programs to empower lower-income women and men to save for retirement.
Former Visiting Fellow Joe Wright shows that about half the time, coups lead to autocratic regimes. (The Monkey Cage, Washington Post)
“Modern Latin America is both notably violent and notably religious,” writes editor Alexander Wilde in the introduction to his edited volume, Religious Responses to Violence: Human Rights in Latin America Past and Present, recently published in the Kellogg Institute Series with the University of Notre Dame Press.
Peace negotiations between the Colombian government and the country’s principal leftist guerillas had come to a standstill yet again. One of the longest and bloodiest civil wars in modern history hung in the balance. A month earlier, the rebels had killed 11 soldiers at an army camp. The government retaliated, killing more than 20 guerillas, who ended their unilateral ceasefire.
Faculty Fellow Victoria Hui blogs on the power of nonviolence in the aftermath of Hong Kong protests. (Voice of Hong Kong)
Faculty Fellow George Lopez on impact of sanctions (CSMonitor.com)
Faculty Fellow Peter Casarella predicts the pontiff’s first trip to Mexico will be “historic encounter.”
Faculty Fellow Daniel Philpott comments on a previously elusive meeting (Washington Post)
Faculty Fellow Doug Cassel says US support "fundamental" to success of "Peace Colombia" (Reuters)
Faculty Fellow Paul Ocobock, a historian of 20th-century Africa, and International Scholar Bright Gyamfi ’16 understand very well the demands and rewards of good mentoring.
Faculty Fellow Emily Block's research highlighted (Times of India)
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Karen Graubart has received the 2015 James Alexander Robertson Prize for her article "Learning from the Qadi: The Jurisdiction of Local Rule in the Early Colonial Andes," Hispanic American Historical Review 95, 2 (2015).
In 2014, Raouf Mazou, the representative in Kenya for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, invited Faculty Fellow Rahul Oka, an economic anthropologist and the Ford Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology, to speak at a workshop on refugee issues.
“Representatives were there from the World Bank, UNDP (United Nations Development Program), UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund)—all the acronyms were there,” Oka said.
Faculty Fellow Michael Desch on the human cost of multiple troop deployments (CNN.com)
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.
Five new visiting fellows bring their diverse backgrounds and academic pursuits to the Kellogg Institute this semester. With disciplines ranging from political science and economics to theology and law, the new fellows will conduct independent and collaborative research related to core Kellogg themes of democracy and human development.
Two former International Scholars have recently published the results of research conducted at Kellogg in scholarly journals.
“I wanted to let you know that the paper that Kellogg played such a key role in helping me produce has now been released,” Peter Cummings ’14 reported recently.
Faculty Fellow George Lopez on latest Congressional action ( Christian Science Monitor)
Faculty Fellow Marisel Moreno reflects on the border's "constant struggle between life and death."
Faculty Fellow Lionel Jensen on extra-legal detentions in China
China detains Swedish human rights worker on suspicion of 'endangering state security' (LA Times)
China detains Swedish national who worked on legal aid (Reuters)
Faculty Fellow George Lopez on possibility of sanctions by China (Bloomberg Politics)
In a milestone for the study of democracy, the complete Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset, covering some 15 million data points across 173 countries from 1900 to the present, has been made public for use by researchers and citizens around the world.
The largest and most comprehensive dataset of its kind, it enables for the first time a vast research agenda on hundreds of aspects of democracy as well as nuanced descriptive analyses that are comparable across time and space.
Faculty Fellow Michael Desch on Arab Shia in Middle East politics (Fox News Opinion)
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Faculty Fellow Guillermo Trejo and Visiting Fellow Sandra Ley's research on violence in Mexico highlighted (Quartz)
Faculty Fellow Peter Casarella on the theology of the Las Posadas tradition (Washington Post)
International Scholars Program student Magdalena Guzman writes about her opportunity to attend the second part of a yearlong forum on US-Mexico relations held in Mexico City, Mexico.
In a new book, Education and Empowered Citizenship in Mali (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015), Faculty Fellow Jaimie Bleck explores the relationship between schooling, political knowledge, and political participation in Mali, where access to education nearly tripled in the two decades following the country’s 1991 transition to multiparty democracy.
Faculty Fellow Michael Desch’s opinion piece on CNN.com
Aaron Tarnasky (Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics/Biological Sciences) ‘16
On Wednesday, July 29th…
Commentary by Faculty Fellow Mary Ellen O’Connell: "Wars on terror don't work” (CNN)
Faculty Fellow Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, on the importance of Africa to Catholic Church (New York Times)
Faculty Fellow Jaimie Bleck on the importance of good governance to Mali (The Monkey Cage, Washington Post)
Kellogg International Scholar Emily Mediate ’15 has been selected to the American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2016. A native of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Mediate was one of 32 Rhodes Scholars selected from a pool of 869 candidates endorsed by their colleges and universities.
An international conference held at the Kellogg Institute in October brought together social scientists, philosophers, and development practitioners to deepen an ongoing investigation of the role of human dignity in human development theory and practice begun at a 2014 conference.
“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.
Advisory Board member Raymond Offenheiser of Oxfam America named leading climate change thinker (Origin)
Faculty Fellow Mary Ellen O’Connell’s opinion piece (Fox News)
Faculty Fellow Gilberto Cardenas leads roundtable on Latino Artists as political activists (NBC news)
Bolivian economist L. Enrique García Rodríguez, chief executive officer of the CAF Development Bank of Latin America, will deliver a lecture at 5 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 12) in the Hesburgh Center auditorium at the University of Notre Dame.
Global human development advocate Amina Mohammed will receive this year’s Ford Family Notre Dame Award for Human Development and Solidarity at a campus ceremony at 12 noon on Monday, November 16, in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium.
Faculty Fellow Lionel Jensen on cultural shift in China (The New York Times)
Faculty Fellow Maurizio Albahari quoted on Syrian immigrant migration process to the U.S. in Time Magazine.
Kellogg Distinguished Research Affiliate Aníbal Pérez-Liñán has been named editor-in-chief of Latin American Research Review (LARR), the official scholarly journal of the Latin American Studies Association. He will assume the position on January 1 and supervise issues published after 2016.
Pope Francis’ July 5–13 journey to South America takes him through countries and among people who already knew him well before he became the leader of all the world’s Catholics, according to Faculty Fellow Peter J. Casarella.
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., will speak at the Kellogg Institute in November at the launch of the newly published book, Italian Constitutional Justice in Global Context (Oxford University Press), coauthored by Kellogg Director and Professor of
Faculty Fellow Lionel Jensen says prize dishonors Confusius’s memory (CS Monitor)
Faculty Fellow Mike Desch on the way forward in Syria (Fox News)
Bishop Matthew H. Kukah, a noted Nigerian advocate for justice, democracy, and human development, will speak at the Kellogg Institute on Thursday, October 29. His lecture, “Religion, Human Development, and Democracy in Africa: Lessons from Nigeria,” which is free and open to the public, will be held at 4 p.m. in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium. All are welcome.
Faculty Fellow Marisel Moreno on using art to understand immigration from Central America (Huffington Post)
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.
Faculty Fellow Victoria Tin-Bor Hui on the battle against autonomy for Hong Kong (Hong Kong Free Press)
Political scientist Guillermo Trejo, a Kellogg faculty fellow, has received an honorable mention for best article published in 2014 from the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
Faculty Fellow Susan Blum discusses strategies to prevent cheating (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
The persistence of hunger, poverty, and extreme inequality in an increasingly wealthy world is the great paradox of our time, said the organizers of an “Ethics for Development” event held at the United Nations in New York on Monday. Kellogg Institute Director Paolo Carozza represented academia on a panel that included speakers from government, civil society, and the UN itself.
Faculty Fellow Maurizio Albahari was quoted on EU and refugees in the Associated Press article “Tip of the Iceberg: No End in Sight to Migrant Wave.”
A new book coedited by former Visiting Fellow Gabriela Ippolito-O’Donnell and Martin D’Alessandro presents an in-depth analysis of Kellogg founding academic director Guillermo O’Donnell’s many scholarly works on democracy, the state, and society.
Faculty Fellow Doug Cassel’s role in the negotiations (Miami Herald)
Distinguished economist Daron Acemoğlu delivered the second annual Guillermo O’Donnell Memorial Lecture—“State Building: A Political Economy Perspective”—at Notre Dame on September 30. A week later, faculty members and graduate students were still debating his provocative, cross-disciplinary knitting together of big themes of democracy and human development.
Faculty Fellow Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC, calls schools a “civic asset.” (International Business Times)
Faculty Fellow Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC, on the value of Catholic schools (Fox News op-ed)
Faculty Fellow Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC, says Catholic schools benefit disadvantaged (Catholic News Service)
Faculty Fellow Douglass Cassel on the landmark peace announcement (El Día)
Faculty Fellow Douglass Cassel “played a crucial role in the peace talks” (NBC)
Faculty Fellow Jeff Thurk on policy differences between US and Europe (CNBC)
The agreement announced in Havana Wednesday, September 2, between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) could bring to an end that country’s 51-year war. The parties have now committed to an immediate, bilateral cease-fire and to sign a final peace agreement within six months; the FARC have committed to disarm within 60 days thereafter; and both sides have agreed to provisions on justice for war crimes.
Kellogg Faculty Fellow Ann Mische (PhD, New School for Social Research), a scholar of social movements in Brazil and around the world, has an intense interest in how citizens in a democracy debate their futures and engage in collective efforts to bring about social and political change.
Faculty Fellow Joe Kaboski expects the Pope to challenge Americans (Philly Voice)
Faculty Fellow Joseph Kaboski on the “global north and global south” (Marketplace)
Faculty Fellow Douglass Cassel describes the breakthrough he helped to negotiate (New York Times)
Faculty Fellow Douglass Cassel on the pope’s role in moving talks forward (New York Times)
Faculty Fellow Maurizio Albahari quoted on current Mediterranean migrations by the Associated Press.
Renowned economist Daron Acemoğlu, whose acclaimed, far-reaching research addresses why some countries are rich and others poor, will deliver the second annual Guillermo O’Donnell Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by the Kellogg Institute, the lecture is open to the public and will be held in the McCartan Courtroom of the Eck Hall of Law on the Notre Dame campus.
Faculty Fellow Guillermo Trejo reflects on state and society in Mexico after new revelations in case of 43 missing students (El País)
Faculty Fellow Joseph Kaboski’s thoughtful commentary on Pope Francis’s views on economics (CNBC)
A new book examining the life and work of recently beatified Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador will be launched with a panel discussion and reception on Thursday, September 17 at 4 pm in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium. Hosted by Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC), the event is free and open to the public.
