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Institute for Latino Studies celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month with lectures, performances

Published: September 20, 2017

The Institute for Latino Studies at Notre Dame will host a series of events in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

Researchers find sharp decline in poverty in the US despite report from Census Bureau

Published: September 12, 2017

Brittany Collins Kaufman

Looking at poverty patterns in the U.S. from the early 1960s to 2015, the researchers found contradictory results to studies that have shown little improvement in poverty over time or that antipoverty measures have been ineffective.

Political science professor wins prestigious book award for research on women's suffrage

Published: September 01, 2017

Emily McConville

In the nearly 100 years since women won the right to vote, a conventional wisdom about the aftermath of the 19th Amendment developed. Christina Wolbrecht believed that conventional wisdom needed to be challenged.

Six faculty members awarded inaugural Greater China Collaboration Grants

Published: August 17, 2017

Joya Helmuth

Notre Dame International is building, sustaining, and encouraging academic and research collaboration with leading universities in the Greater China region, including mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This grant program is part of the University’s broader international strategy to engage Greater China by building upon existing academic partnerships and strengthening opportunities for research, scholarship, and graduate student training. ...

NDIGD researcher’s paper on clean cookstoves in Uganda wins Rural Sociological Society competition

Published: August 02, 2017

Luis Ruuska

“This award encourages me to continue working with disadvantaged people in developing countries, especially in rural areas, to improve their lives,” said Lila Kumar Khatiwada, a monitoring and evaluation specialist at the University of Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development.

Nanovic and Mendoza host European Catholic university officials for executive education program

Published: July 17, 2017

Notre Dame News

The Catholic Leadership Institute is a management training program for higher education professionals that has been internationalized to serve those working in former Soviet bloc countries.

‘Trying to Say God’ rejuvenates conversation on Catholic literary culture

Published: June 30, 2017

Amanda Skofstad

More than 250 writers, artists and lovers of literature convened at the University of Notre Dame June 22-24 for “Trying to Say God: Re-enchanting the Catholic Literary Imagination.”

New frontiers: First female dean expanded Notre Dame’s global footprint

Published: May 12, 2017

Carrie Gates

Isabel Charles wanted others to see the world as a bigger place than they’d known — and to see that they had a place in it.

Majority of persecuted Christian communities build resilience through adaptive strategies, study finds

Published: April 19, 2017

Amanda Skofstad

Under Caesar’s Sword is the first systematic and global investigation into how Christian communities respond to severe violations of religious freedom. The collaborative, three-year research endeavor involves a team of 17 scholars and partnerships with Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, the Religious Freedom Institute and Georgetown University’s Religious Freedom Research Project.

Notre Dame International announces Luksburg Foundation Grant for faculty collaborations in Chile

Published: March 30, 2017

Joya Helmuth

The Luksburg Foundation will contribute $100,000 a year for each of the next five years to support an exchange program through which faculty, Ph.D. students, and representatives from Notre Dame can travel to Chile to work, study, and collaborate with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). The priority will be on promoting faculty exchange and collaborative research work between...

Spanish and Italian Ph.D. programs build strong reputation with dissertation-focused approach

Published: September 20, 2017

Josh Weinhold

From the beginning, there’s an end in sight. For students in Notre Dame’s new Ph.D. in Italian and Ph.D. in Spanish programs — each of which launched in 2016 — the focus is on ensuring students complete their dissertations and earn their degrees within five years.

Fighting to Walk Again

Published: September 11, 2017

Office of Strategic Content

Together, a Notre Dame researcher and the Ohio State University are working to understand the difficulties humans experience when relearning to walk after incomplete spinal cord injury.

Remembering our darker past

Published: August 22, 2017

Robert E. Norton

After last month’s violence in Charlottesville and its disturbing political repercussions, towns across the nation are pulling down their Confederate statues and monuments, while debate over their meaning and place in American culture continues. Removing these statues is an understandable approach. But is it the right one?

Thomas Jefferson, slavery, and religion: Rethinking an American icon

Published: August 08, 2017

Shane Ulbrich

Benjamin Wetzel reviews John B. Boles’ Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty (Basic, 2017).

Adjunct Professor John Gallo to lead Chicago’s largest legal aid organization

Published: August 01, 2017

Kevin Allen

Formerly known as the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago, LAF helps thousands of people obtain justice and start moving out of poverty every year.

Ernest Morrell appointed director of new Center for Literacy Education in joint Arts and Letters hire

Published: July 13, 2017

Theo Helm

Ernest Morrell — expert in critical educational theory, social movement theory, English education and African diaspora popular culture — has been appointed Coyle Professor in Literacy Education and inaugural director of the Center for Literacy Education in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives.

Notre Dame theologian and Holy Cross priest addresses U.S. bishops on refugees and migration

Published: June 13, 2017

Amanda Skofstad

While Groody seeks to understand the different responses to the refugee and migration crisis, he is particularly interested in analyzing those responses in light of Catholic social teaching and the Gospel message.

Inked with signs of faith

Published: April 28, 2017

Robert O. Smith

My experience of Holy Week in Jerusalem this year was marked by deep tragedy and profound compassion, tied together by . . . tattoos. The tattoo design was Coptic; it’s from Razzouk Tattoo, a family that has been inking Christian pilgrim tattoos in Jerusalem for close to 700 years.

Theology and peace studies professor wins Luce Fellowship for research on sub-Saharan Africa

Published: April 11, 2017

Tom Coyne

Rev. Emmanuel Katongole will begin a yearlong study in January aimed at looking at ethnic, religious and ecological violence in African countries south of the Sahara.

Faculty fellow, Jennifer Jones on understanding race relations

Published: March 29, 2017

Todd Boruff

Jennifer Jones is an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her research uses qualitative methods to explore increasing migration, the growing multiracial population, and shifting social relations between and within racial groups. In this video, she discusses her work on how race relations are changing and what race...

Historian of modern European Catholicism joins Arts and Letters faculty

Published: September 14, 2017

Tom Coyne

An intellectual and cultural historian of modern Europe, Sarah Shortall joins the Department of History this fall as an assistant professor. She recently finished a junior research fellowship at Oxford University, is working on a book tentatively titled Soldiers of God in a Secular World: The Politics of Catholic Theology in Twentieth-Century France. The book examines the impact of Catholic theology...

Letter from Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. to U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Published: September 09, 2017

Notre Dame News

The following letter was sent from University president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein in response to the senator's line of questioning of Notre Dame faculty member Amy Barrett during a confirmation hearing on September 6, 2017.

ND Trail Pays Respect to Native Americans

Published: August 21, 2017

Daily Domer Staff

On Sunday, the 32 pilgrims visited Prophetstown State Park in West Lafayette. John P. Warren, chairman of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, accompanied them, holding a morning ceremony at the Circle of Stones.

Professor wins NEH grant to encourage teaching philosophy as a way of life

Published: August 08, 2017

Josh Weinhold

Faculty will spend half of the institute studying the key teachings of Stoicism, Buddhism, Kantianism and other major movements in sessions led by nationally recognized senior scholars. The remainder will be dedicated to finding effective and innovative ways to help undergraduate students “try out” these teachings.

Notre Dame and Girls Who Invest partner to build pipeline of women asset managers

Published: July 28, 2017

Carol Elliott

The University of Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing (NDIGI) and the Mendoza College of Business are announcing a new partnership with Girls Who Invest, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in portfolio management and executive leadership in the asset management industry.…

Eck Institute for Global Health to study Zika in Belize

Published: July 10, 2017

Jessica Sieff

The University has announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic, the Belize Ministry of Health and the Belize Vector and Ecology Center aimed at strengthening the country’s ability to respond to Zika virus and other arboviruses.

Expert in comparative politics in South Asia appointed assistant professor of global affairs

Published: June 07, 2017

Renée LaReau

Ostermann and Tamara Kay, associate professor of global affairs and sociology, are developing and will co-teach “Global Actors and Institutions” — a core course for students in the Master of Global Affairs program, which begins in August.

In Memoriam: Adam Arnold, first African-American faculty member

Published: April 24, 2017

Dennis Brown

Most of his professional life was spent at Notre Dame, where he became the first African-American appointed to the faculty in the Department of Finance in 1957 and the first to receive tenure. He served as the faculty advisor to the League of Black Business Students, and in 2003 received the William P. Sexton Award from the Notre Dame Alumni...

Vision and Action panel honors women faculty pioneers and looks to the future

Published: April 04, 2017

Amanda Skofstad

A panel of six notable University of Notre Dame women — all with successful careers in higher education and beyond — reflected on past and present experiences and also paid tribute to the earliest Notre Dame women faculty, several of whom were in attendance.

This land is their land

Published: March 25, 2017

Rasmus Jorgensen

They walked in as foreigners. Now they are Americans, by choice.

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