Timothy Scully, CSC

Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Scully is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute, and currently serves as the director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, where he oversees the work of the Alliance for Catholic Education, and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.

He also serves as a fellow and trustee of the University of Notre Dame, and served as executive vice president of the University of Notre Dame from 2000–03. Previously, he served the university as vice president and senior associate provost.

His research and graduate teaching focus on comparative political institutions, especially political parties. He is author or coauthor of a number of scholarly publications, including three volumes from Stanford University Press.

Among other awards, Scully has received the C. Albert Koob Award for educational innovation from the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA), the Blessed Pauline Award for service to inner-city education in Chicago, and the Daniel A. Lord Award for distinguished service in the cause of youth.

Ordained a Catholic priest in 1981, he earned masters and PhD degrees in political science from the University of California-Berkeley, after graduating in economics summa cum laude from Notre Dame in 1976 and receiving his MDiv in 1979.