R. Scott Appleby

Professor of History; John M. Regan Jr. Director, Kroc Institute
for International Peace Studies
(PhD, University of Chicago, 1985)
107 Hesburgh Center
574-631-5665
email: rappleby@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/appleby-scott/

Geographic focus: United States and comparative (Middle East, South Asia)

Thematic interests: Comparative religion and politics; roots of religious violence; role of religion in peacebuilding; Roman Catholicism in international affairs.

Current research: American Catholic history and world fundamentalism.

Selected publications: Author, "Church and Age Unite!" The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism (Notre Dame, 1992); coauthor, The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World (Beacon Press, 1992); coeditor, The Fundamentalism Project (University of Chicago Press, 1992–95, five volumes).