R. Scott ApplebyR. 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: The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000); editor, Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (University of Chicago Press, 1997); coeditor, The Fundamentalism Project (University of Chicago Press, 1992–95, 5 vol.); coeditor, Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America (Indiana University Press, 1995); Church and Age Unite! The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism (University of Notre Dame Press, 1992); coauthor, The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World (Beacon Press, 1992).