“I might look at how a movie depicts Iran and how that movie is then interpreted in Turkey and how that relates to foreign policy, both Turkish foreign policy but also U.S. foreign policy and Iranian foreign policy,” said the associate professor of American studies.  The title of her in-progess book, America's Wife, America's Concubine: Turkey, Iran, and the Politics...

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Through her research, Anna Haskins learned that fathers who were formerly incarcerated engaged less with their children’s school than parents who haven’t been detained. She and a team of undergraduate and graduate students are now examining why that’s the case, with a goal of creating interventions that address needs of both families and schools.

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“What I want from this book is for people to have a sense of, as the coffee machine is dripping the coffee into their pot … the long history of this beverage,” said the associate professor of history. After Kenya gained independence in 1963, Ocobock said farmers’ coffee production exploded. “We're so much more connected now to the people who...

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Reading stories about people who are like us, and not like us, develops an appreciation of what it means to be human, said Notre Dame faculty member Dionne Irving Bremyer, who authored The Islands, one of 10 books longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. “We still read Hamlet, right? And we get something out of it, not necessarily...

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The concurrent assistant professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre also makes video games, including Frack! The Game, a strategy contest that takes prompts from real-world incidents to explore the ethical, socioeconomic, and environmental landscape of injecting liquid at high pressure into the earth to force open fissures and then remove oil or gas.

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