Rev. Timothy R. Scully, CSC
Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Scully is professor of political science and Kellogg Institute faculty fellow at the University of Notre Dame, where he serves as a trustee and fellow of the University and director and fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
His research and graduate teaching focuses on comparative political institutions, especially political parties. His writings include Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chile (Stanford University Press, 1992) and five coauthored volumes, including El Eslabón Perdido: Familia, Bienestar, y Modernización en Chile (Taurus, 2006), Creencias e Ilusiones: la Cohesión Social de Los Latinoamericanos (Uqbar Editores, 2008) and Democratic Governance in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 2009).
In 1993, he was awarded the Charles F. Sheedy Teaching Award for the College of Arts and Letters, and in 1994, the Frank J. O'Malley Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Notre Dame. In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by the president of the United States.
Ordained a Holy Cross priest in 1981, he served his first years of priesthood in Santiago, Chile. He holds a BA and MDiv from the University of Notre Dame and an MA and PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.
