Faculty Stories
Faculty at Notre Dame come from communities and cultures all over the world. They conduct research and scholarship on topics and issues that span numerous academic disciplines. They share with students not just their areas of expertise but also their questions and concerns about the enduring issues and latest developments that shape our times.
But their role in broadening and sharpening the lenses through which we understand ourselves and the world around us extend well beyond individual research projects, classroom lectures, course syllabi, or a list of academic programs.
The selection of stories below helps illustrate the many other ways Notre Dame faculty foster diversity, support inclusion, and enliven the entire Notre Dame community.
“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
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
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
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
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
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...
Ansari family’s $15 million gift to Notre Dame aims to unite global religions
The Rafat and Zoreen Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion will be a part of Notre Dame’s new Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs.
University of Notre Dame convenes African theology conference in Rome
Theologians, Catholic Church leaders, graduate students and lay men and women from around Africa and North America gathered March 23-25 at the University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway.
Activist reflects on civil rights movement experience
Diane Nash led the first successful campaign to desegregate lunch counters, was a part of the Selma voting rights movement and co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
2017 Women Lead
Tomorrow belongs to the bold. Notre Dame is proud to celebrate women whose scholarship and leadership are empowering change in the global community.
Adjunct Professor John Gallo to lead Chicago’s largest legal aid organization
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
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
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
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
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
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...
No St. Paddy’s Day for the Fighting Irish
At Notre Dame, the home of the Fighting Irish, the University’s founder, Father Edward Sorin, CSC, actually banned observance of St. Patrick’s Day.
Notre Dame International provides new opportunities for faculty collaboration in Mexico, China, Global Gateways
“We aim to support Notre Dame faculty in extending the impact of their research and scholarship, and to establish long-term collaborations with pre-eminent research universities across the globe,” says Warren von Eschenbach, associate vice president and assistant provost for internationalization.
Increasing diversity among faculty and graduate students
Part of Pamela Nolan Young’s efforts include conducting workshops on a variety of topics related to diversity and inclusion, including cultural competency and issues related to race, class and gender.
Timothy Neary and panelists discuss Bishop Sheil’s vision for Catholic youth Sports
Under Sheil, the CYO not only allowed for participation from a variety of ethnic and national backgrounds but also actively promoted itself as a “melting pot.”
Notre Dame and Girls Who Invest partner to build pipeline of women asset managers
The University of Notre Dame Institute for Global Investing (NDIGI) and the Mendoza College of Business are…
Eck Institute for Global Health to study Zika in Belize
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
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
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
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
They walked in as foreigners. Now they are Americans, by choice.
Statement by Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame
The bells of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart will ring out in celebration and welcoming of immigrants from around the world.
Remarks from Interfaith Prayer Service for Respect and Solidarity
An excerpt of Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C.'s remarks at an interfaith prayer service to pray for peace for the nation, wisdom for leaders and care for the most vulnerable.
ILS collaborates in launching the area's first Spanish-English Immersion program at Holy Cross Grade School
Around the country, a growing number of schools are beginning these programs of “two-way immersion.” In the two-way immersion model, children from two distinct languages come together to form a learning community in which each benefits from the others’ linguistic and cultural assets.
Tuesdays at Tantur brings religious experts to the Jerusalem Global Gateway
Weekly event seeks to establish a community of conversation.