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Simeon Alder
Assistant Professor of Economics & Econometrics
(PhD, University of California, Los Angeles)
715 Flanner
574-631-0373
email: salder@nd.edu
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: Economic growth and development, macroeconomics, political economy, heterogeneous agent models
Current research: Models of occupational choice and sorting to account for cross-country differences in aggregate productivity and output. The role of coordination problems in shaping institutions and in disciplining economic policy.
Samuel Amago (PhD, University of Virginia, 2003)
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Fellow, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
206 Decio Hall
574-631-0367
email: samago@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/amago-samuel/
Geographic focus: Spain and Western Europe
Thematic interests: Spanish literature and film; Immigration, the transnational and globalization in contemporary European cinemas; Spanish Civil War studies.
Selected publications: True Lies: Narrative Self-Consciousness in the Contemporary Spanish Novel (Bucknell University Press, 2006); “Narratives, Bodies and the Self in Rosa Montero’s La hija del caníbal,” Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84, 8 (2007); “Todo sobre Barcelona: Refiguring Spanish Identities in Recent European Cinema,” Hispanic Research Journal 8, 1 (2007); “Why Spaniards Make Good Bad Guys: Sergi López and the Persistence of the Black Legend in Contemporary European Cinema,” Film Criticism 30,1 (2005).
Thomas Anderson (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1998)
Associate Professor; Undergraduate Coordinator, Program in Iberian and Latin American Studies
617 Flanner Hall
574-631-8448
email: tanders6@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/anderson-thomas/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Caribbean)
Thematic interests: Hispanic Caribbean literature; postrevolutionary Cuban fiction; Afro-Cuban studies.
Selected publications: Carnival, Comparsas, and National Identity in Cuban Poetry, 1916–1961 (forthcoming); “Marcelino Arozarena’s Divergent Depictions of Afro-Cuban Carnival Ensembles,” Afro-Hispanic Review (forthcoming); Everything in Its Place: The Life and Works of Virgilio Piñera (2006); “Carnival, Cultural Debate, and Cuban Identity in ‘La comparsa’ and ‘Comparsa habanera,’” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos(Spring 2006); “Hunger and Revolution: A New Reading of Virgilio Piñera’s El flaco y el gordo,” Latin American Theatre Review (Spring 2005); “The Politics of Consumption and Excretion in “Termina el Desfile” by Reinaldo Arenas,” Caribe (2001-2002); “Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Images of Collective Suffering in the Poetry of Pedro Mir,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos (2001).
R. Scott Appleby (PhD, University of Chicago, 1985)
Professor of History; John M. Regan Jr. Director, Kroc Institute
for International Peace Studies
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).
Rev. Ernest Bartell, csc - Emeritus (PhD, Princeton University, 1966)
Professor Emeritus of Economics
211 Hesburgh Center
574-631-7816
email: ebartell@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~econplcy/faculty_staff/bartell.html
Geographic focus: Latin America
Thematic interests: Economic development; Catholic social teaching; economics of education.
Current research: Economic development, particularly in Latin America, and the economics of education.
Selected publications: Coeditor, The Child in Latin America, (2000); coeditor, Business and Democracy in Latin America (1994); “John Paul II and International Development,” in O. Williams and J. Houck, eds., The Making of an Economic Vision (1991); “Private Goods, Public Goods and the Common Good: Another Look at Economics and Ethics in Catholic Social Teaching,” in J. Houck and O. Williams, eds., The Challenge of the Common Good to US Capitalism (1986); “The United States and Third World Poor in the International Economy: Some Economic and Ethical Issues,” in J. Houck and O. Williams, eds., Catholic Social Teaching and the US Economy (1982); Catholic Higher Education: Trends in Enrollment and Finance (1982).
Viva Bartkus (DPhil, University of Oxford, 1993)
Associate Professor of Management
102 Mendoza College of Business
574-631-9997
email: vbartkus@nd.edu
http://www.business.nd.edu/mcob/faculty/faculty_bio_page.cfm?who=vbartkus
Geographic focus: International, including countries facing secessionist conflicts
Thematic interests: Business, science and government policy in the context of international relations.
Selected publications: Dynamic of Secession (Cambridge University Press).
Edward Beatty (PhD, Stanford University, 1996)
Associate Professor of History
Interim Director, Kellogg Institute
203 Hesburgh Center
574-631-7038
email: ebeatty@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/beatty-ted/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico)
Thematic interests: Mexican economy; political basis of industrialization in Mexico; technology studies; comparative socioeconomic development.
Selected publications: "Propiedad industrial, patentes e inversión en tecnología en España y México (1820-1914),” with Patricio Sáiz González, in Rafael Dobado, Aurora Gómez Galvarriato, and Graciela Márquez, eds., España y México: Historias Económicas Paralelas? (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007). “Patents and Technological Change in Late Industrialization: Nineteenth Century Mexico in Comparative Perspective,” History of Technology 24 (2002).
Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1981)
Professor of Finance
367 Mendoza College of Business
574-631-6761
email: jbergstr@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~jbergstr
Geographic focus: International Economics
Thematic interests: International trade flows; economic integration agreements; foreign direct investment and multinational firms; exchange rates and international finance.
Selected publications: “Estimating the Effects of Free Trade Agreements on International Trade Flows using Matching Econometrics,” with Scott Baier, and “Bonus Vetus OLS: A Simple Method for Approximating International Trade-Cost Effects using the Gravity Equation,” with Scott Baier, both in Journal of International Economics 77, 1 (February 2009); "Do Economic Integration Agreements Actually Work? Issues in Understanding the Causes and Consequences of the Growth of Regionalism," (with Scott L. Baier, Peter Egger, Patrick A. McLaughlin), The World Economy 31, 4 (April 2008); "Trade Costs," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed., 2008); "A Knowledge-and-Physical-Capital Model of International Trade Flows, Foreign Direct Investment, and Multinational Enterprises," (with Peter Egger), Journal of International Economics 73 (November 2007); "Free Trade Agreements In the Americas: Are the Trade Effects Larger than Anticipated?" (with Scott L Baier, Erika Vidal), The World Economy 30 (September 2007); "The New Regionalism: Causes and Consequences," (with Scott Baier, Peter Egger), Integration and Trade/Inter-American Development Bank (Winter 2007); “Do Free Trade Agreements Actually Increase Members’ International Trade?” (with Scott L. Baier), Journal of International Economics 71 (March 2007).
Susan D. Blum (PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994)
Professor of Anthropology
614 Flanner Hall
574-631-3762
email: sblum@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/blum_susan/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Asia (China) and the US.
Thematic interests: Cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, ethnicity and nationalism, multilingualism, deception and truth, childhood and education, plagiarism, food and culture, and social theory.
Selected publications: My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture (Cornell University Press, 2009); Making Sense of Language: Readings in Culture and Communication (Oxford University Press, 2009); Lies that Bind: Chinese Truth, Other Truths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 ); China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (co-edited with Lionel M. Jensen; University of Hawai'i Press, 2002); Portraits of "Primitives": Ordering Human Kinds in the Chinese Nation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001).
Catherine Bolten
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies
(PhD, University of Michigan)
317 Hesburgh Center
574-631-5099
email: cbolten@nd.edu
Geographic focus: West and Southern Africa
Thematic interests: Morality; Post-conflict development; Structural violence; Youth
Current research: Inter-generational conflict in Sierra Leone
Selected publications: “Rethinking Burgeoning Political Consciousness: Student Activists, the Class of ’99 and Political Intent in Sierra Leone,” The Journal of Modern African Studies 47,3 (2009); “The Agricultural Impasse: Creating ‘Normal’ Post-War Development in Sierra Leone,” The Journal of Political Ecology 16 (2009).
Patricio Boyer (PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Assistant Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
343 O'Shaughnessy Hall
574-631-7485
email: pboyer@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/boyer-patricio/
Geographic Focus: Spain, the Americas
Thematic interests: Literature of the Americas; Colonial Latin American Chronicles; Postcolonial Literature.
Daniel M. Brinks (PhD University of Notre Dame, 2004)
Associate Professor of Political Science
433 Decio
574-631-3807
email: dbrinks@nd.edu
Geographic focus: Latin America
Thematic interests: Law and politics; democracy; rights and justice; judicial politics and judicial institutions
Current research: New developments in the rule of law in Latin America; institutional design and judicial power; the judicial enforcement of social and economic rights in the developing world
Selected publications: The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2008); Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World (Cambridge University Press, 2008)(with V. Gauri, editors); "Diffusion Is No Illusion: Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of Democracy," Comparative Political Studies (2006) (with M. Coppedge); "Judicial Reform and Independence in Brazil and Argentina: The Beginning of a New Millennium?" Texas International Law Journal (2005); "Informal Institutions and the Rule of Law: The Judicial Response to State Killings in Buenos Aires and São Paulo in the 1990s" Comparative Politics (2003).
Allert Brown-Gort (MA, University of Texas at Austin, 1998)
Associate Director, Institute for Latino Studies
230 McKenna Hall
574-631-3787
email: abrowngo@nd.edu
http://latinostudies.nd.edu/people/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Southern Cone)
Thematic interests: Role of culture in shaping values and political systems; civil service reform; political views of Mexican nationals in the United States.
Current research: A national qualitative study of the opinions of the Mexican migrant and Mexican American communities on immigration issues, including the creation of a new guest-worker program, the possibility for amnesty for undocumented workers, and possible political consequences; an Inter-American project on civil service reform.
Jorge A. Bustamante (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1975)
Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Sociology
304 Hesburgh Center
574-631-3820
email: jbustama@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/bustamante-jorge/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico)
Thematic interests: International migration; border settlements; Mexico-US migration.
Current research: Founder and former president of El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, the prominent Mexican institute for the study of border issues.
Selected publications: La Migración mexicana a Estados Unidos y el voto de los mexicanos en el extranjero(2006); “La construcción social de la vulnerabilidad de los Migrantes,” in Dirk Godenau and Vicente Zapata Hernández, eds., La inmigración irregular; Aproximación multidisciplinar (2005); “La Comisión de Cooperación Ecológica Fronteriza (Cocef): Un Caso de Federalismo Internacional,” Revista Integración & Comercio. Also, numerous studies on the sociology of the border region between the United States and Mexico and on US residents of Mexican-origin.
Gilberto Cárdenas (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1977)
Professor of Sociology, Julián Samora Chair in Latino Studies, Assistant Provost; Director, Institute for Latino Studies and The Inter-University Program for Latino Research (IUPLR)
230 McKenna Hall
574-631-3819
email: gcardena@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/cardenas-gil/index.shtml
Geographic focus: US-Mexico border
Thematic interests: International migration; border studies; links between Latino communities in the United States and countries of origin, art and politics.
Selected publications: La Causa: Civil Rights, Social, Justice and the Struggle for Equality in the Midwest (2004); coauthor, Health and Social Services among International Labor Migrants: A Comparative Perspective (1997); coauthor, Loz Mojados: The Wetback Story (1971). More than 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and as chapters in books.
Paolo G. Carozza (JD, Harvard Law School, 1989)
Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
321 Law School
574-631-4128
email: pcarozza@nd.edu
http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/paolo-g-carozza
Geographic focus: International; Latin America; Western Europe
Thematic interests: Human rights; international law; comparative law; European and Latin American legal traditions
Current research: Human rights in the Inter-American system; the authority of international legal institutions; the relationship between constitutional traditions, democracy, and international human rights; comparative methods and practices in human rights adjudication.
Recent publications: “Human Rights, The ‘Art’ of Democracy, and the ‘Taste for Local Freedom,’”in Marta Cartabia and Andrea Simoncini, eds., La Sostenibilità Della Democrazia Nel XXI Secolo (forthcoming); “Fundamental Rights and Self-Government in the Future of the Ideal of Europe,” in Ideas of Europe: Dialogues for a New Constitutional Process (Istituto Regionale di Ricerca della Lombardia, forthcoming); “The Catholic Church, Human Rights and Democracy: Convergence and Conflict With the Modern State,” in Peter J. Schraeder, ed., The Cross, The Crescent And The Ballot Box: Catholic And Islamic Dialogue On The Rule Of Law And International Democracy Promotion (with Daniel Philpott) (forthcoming); Comparative Legal Traditions in a Nutshell (with Mary Ann Glendon and Colin B. Picker) (West Publishing, 3rd ed., 2008); “The Priority of the Person: Some Critical Challenges Facing International Human Rights in the Next Generation,” in Vittorio Emanuele Parsi and Andrea Locatelli, eds., Key Challenges to the Global System (Vita e Pensiero, 2007); “Il traffico dei diritti umani nell’età postmoderna,” in Luca Antonini ed., Il Traffico Dei Diritti Insaziabili (Rubbettino Editore, 2007); “La perspectiva histórica del aporte latinoamericano al concepto de los derechos económicos, sociales y culturales,” in Alicia Ely Yamin ed., Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales en America Latina: Del Inventivo a la Herramienta (Centro Internacional de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, 2006); “The Universal Common Good and the Authority of International Law,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 28 (2006).
Douglass Cassel (JD Harvard University)
Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights
301-A Law School
(574) 631-7895
Email: Doug.Cassel@nd.edu
Geographic Focus: Latin America (El Salvador)
Thematic interests: international human rights, international criminal law and international humanitarian law.
Research Interest: Strengthen the Inter-American system for protection of human rights; ensuring respect for human rights in counterterrorism programs.
Recent publications: “Defending Human Rights in the ‘War’ Against Terror,” in Regent Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2006); “NATO In Kosovo: A Reply to Jurgen Habermas,” in Debating Kosovo: Contending Perspectives on the Left, Danny Postel, ed. (forthcoming 2006); “Equal Labor Rights for Undocumented Migrant Workers,” inAnne Bayefsky, ed., Human Rights and Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons and Migrant Workers: Essays in Honor of Joan Fitzpatrick and Arthur Helton (2006); “The Expanding Scope and Impact of Reparations Awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights,” in M. Bossuyt, P. Lemmens, K. De Feyter, and S. Parmentier, eds., Out of the Ashes: Reparations for Gross Violations of Human Rights (2006); “NATO In Kosovo: A Reply to Jurgen Habermas,” in Danny Postel, ed., Debating Kosovo: Contending Perspectives on the Left (2005).
Michael Coppedge (PhD, Yale University, 1988)
Professor of Political Science
Academic Office:
238 Hesburgh Center
574-631-7036
email: mcoppedg@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Venezuela, Andean countries); cross-regional
Thematic interests: Democratization, quality of democracy; Latin American parties and party systems; Venezuelan politics; Methodology of comparative politics.
Current research: Measuring dimensions of democracy; the conditions that promote stable democracy, especially in Latin America; and the factors that have shaped party systems in eleven Latin American countries, employing both case studies and quantitative analysis. Nearing completion of Approaching Democracy: Research Methods in Comparative Politics (book manuscript).
Selected publications: coauthor with Angel Alvarez and Claudia Maldonado, “Two Persistent Dimensions of Democracy: Contestation and Inclusiveness,” Journal of Politics 70:3 (July 2008); “Continuity and Change in Latin American Party Systems,” Taiwan Journal of Democracy 3:2 (December 2007); “Theory Building and Hypothesis Testing: Large- vs. Small-N Research on Democratization,” in Gerardo Munck, ed., Regimes and Democracy in Latin America, Vol. I: Theories and Findings (2007); coauthor with Daniel Brinks, “Diffusion Is No Illusion: Neighbor Emulation in the Third Wave of Democracy” Comparative Political Studies (May 2006); “Explaining Democratic Deterioration in Venezuela Through Nested Inference,” in Frances Hagopian and Scott Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (2005); “Soberanía popular versus democracia liberal en Venezuela,” in Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter, eds., Construyendo gobernabilidad democrática (2005); “Latin American Parties: Political Darwinism in the Lost Decade,” in Larry Diamond and Richard Gunther, eds., Political Parties and Democracy (2001); “The Dynamic Diversity of Latin American Party Systems,” Party Politics (October 1998); Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela (1994). Numerous articles on comparative and Latin American politics in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, The Journal of Democracy, and Studies in Comparative International Development, among others.
Kirk Doran (PhD, Princeton University)
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Econometrics
438 Flanner Hall
574-631-3289
email: kdoran@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~kdoran/
Geographic focus: International, Mexico
Thematic interests: Labor economics, development economics, applied microeconomics.
Current research: Applied microeconomics with a focus on labor markets, developing economies, and behavioral labor supply. How substitution of adult labor for child labor in rural Mexico can mitigate welfare losses from a ban on child labor.
Rev. Robert Dowd, csc (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 2003)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director, Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity
214 Hesburgh Center
574-631-4454
email: rdowd1@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/robert-dowd
Geographic focus: Africa
Thematic interests: African politics; religion and politics; ethnic conflict and peace building; political parties and party systems; comparative democratization.
Selected publication: "Muslim Women, Political Discourse and Democratization in Sub-Saharan Africa," Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures (Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming).
Amitava Krishna Dutt (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
Professor of Economics
245 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-7594
email: adutt@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~adutt
Geographic focus: Asia and developing countries
Thematic interests: Growth and income distribution; development; trade; political economy; macroeconomics.
Current research: Uneven development and North-South interaction; post-Keynesian models of growth and income distribution; macroeconomics of development; consumption and happiness; political economy of war and peace; trade, growth and the environment.
Selected publications: Coeditor, International Handbook of Development Economics, 2 vol. (Edward Elgar, 2008); “The dependence effect, consumption and happiness: Galbraith revisited,” Review of Political Economy (October 2008); coauthor, “Aggregate demand shocks and economic growth,” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (March 2007); “Aggregate demand, aggregate supply and economic growth,” International Review of Applied Economics (July 2006); coauthor, “A Decade of Reforms: The Indian Economy in the 1990s,” in Lance Taylor, ed., External Liberalization in Asia, Post-Socialist Europe and Brazil (Oxford University Press, 2006); coauthor, “Globalization and the Inequality among Nations: A VAR Approach,” Economics Letters (September 2005); coauthor, “Growth, Distribution and the Environment: Sustainable Development for India,” World Development (February 1996); Growth, Distribution and Uneven Development (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
Rev. Virgilio Elizondo (PhD, Institut Catholique de Paris, 1978)
Notre Dame Professor of Pastoral and Hispanic Theology
222 Corby
574-631-7654
email: elizondo.2@nd.edu
http://theology.nd.edu/people/all/elizondo-virgilio/index.shtml
Geographic focus: US-Mexican border region, Latin America
Thematic interests: Mestizo Christianity; mestizaje theology; liberation theology; evangelization; faith and spirituality; culture and public ritual.
Selected publications: Charity (2009); “Aparecida and Hispanics of the USA” in Robert Pelton, CSC, ed., Aparecida: Quo Vadis? (2008); “Culture, the Option for the Poor, and Liberation” in Daniel Groody, CSC, ed., Option for the Poor in Christian Theology (2008); A God of Incredible Surprises, French edition (Bayard Press, 2006) and Spanish edition (Loyola Press, 2007); Commentary in International Priest in America, Challenges and Opportunities (2006); “Creativity: The Power of Ritual: San Fernando Cathedral,” in Colloquium: Music, Worship, Arts (2006); coeditor, The Treasure of Guadalupe (2006); coeditor, Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States (2005); “The Compassion of Mary in the Struggles of the Poor,” presented at the XV International Mariological Symposium entitled The Theological Category of Compassion: Presence and Impact on Present Thinking about Mary of Nazareth (October 4-7, 2005, Rome); A God of Incredible Surprises, Jesus of Galilee (2003); editor, The Way of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in the Americas (2002); Galilean Journey: The Mexican American Promise (8th edition, 2000); The Future is Mestizo: Life Where Cultures Meet (6th edition, 2000);coauthor, San Fernando Cathedral: Soul of the City (1998); Guadalupe, Mother of the New Creation (3rd edition, 1998).
Georges Enderle (Dr. rer. pol., University of Fribourg, 1982; Dr. habil., University of St. Gallen, 1986)
Georges Enderle
John T. Ryan, Jr. Chair in International Business Ethics
393B Mendoza College of Business
574-631-5595
email:genderle@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~genderle
Geographic focus: Continental Europe; China and Pacific Rim
Thematic interests: Business ethics; comparative studies of economic ethics; ethics in international relations.
Selected publications: Coauthor, “Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility for Marketing in the Global Marketplace,” in Masaaki Kotabe and Kristiaan Helsen, eds., The SAGE Handbook of International Marketing (Sage, 2009); coauthor, "A Market Perspective and an Ethical Perspective on the Fairness of the Renminbi-Dollar Exchange Rate," in Xiaohe Lu and Deon Rossouw, eds., Freedoms and Responsibilities for Business in China: Governments, Corporations, and Civil Society Organizations (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Press, 2008; “Rediscovering the Golden Rule in a Globalizing World,” in Tze-wan Kwan, ed., Responsibility and Commitment: Eighteen Essays in Honor of Gerhold K. Becker (Edition Gorz, 2008); “The Ethics of Conviction Versus the Ethics of Responsibility: A False Antithesis for Business Ethics," Journal of Human Values 13:2 (2007). Coeditor, Arthur Rich, Business and Economic Ethics: The Ethics of Economic Systems (2006); coauthor, Developing Business Ethics in China (2006); coeditor, Improving Globalization (2004); coauthor, A Comparison of Environmental Regulations in China and the European Union (Bilingual edition in English and Chinese, 1999); editor, International Business Ethics: Challenges and Approaches (1999). Articles include “Corporate Responsibility in the CSR Debate,” in Unternehmensethik im Spannungsfeld der Kulturen und Religionen (2006); “Confidence in the Financial Reporting System: Easier to Lose than to Restore,” in Developing Business Ethics in China (2006); “The Ethics of Financial Reporting, the Global Reporting Initiative, and the Balanced Concept of the Firm,” Corporate Integrity and Accountability (2004); “Business Ethics,” in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (2003); “Integrating the Ethical Dimension into the Analytical Framework for the Reform of State-owned Enterprises in China’s Socialist Market Economy: A Proposal,” Journal of Business Ethics (April 2001), “Whose Ethos for Public Goods in a Global Economy? An Exploration in International Business Ethics,” Business Ethics Quarterly (January 2000).
Isabel Ferreira Gould (PhD, Brown University, 2004)
Assistant Professor of Portuguese; Director, Portuguese Language Program
343 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-0460
email:Ferreira.5@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/ferreira-gould-isabel/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Portugal, Lusophone Africa, and Brazil
Thematic interests: Literatures and cultures of Portugal, Lusophone Africa, and Brazil: 20th and 21st centuries; empire, colonialism, and colonial wars; comparative perspectives on dictatorships; theorizations of and Lusophone perspectives on colonialism, post-imperialism, and postcolonialism; family and intergenerational memory; migration, immigration, and exile; life-writing and theory of autobiography; the new cinema of Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Portugal.
Current research: Contemporary Portuguese narrative; colonial and postimperial Portuguese identity; family memory and genealogical consciousness; literature and medicine.
Selected publications: “Decanting the Past: Africa, Colonialism, and the New Portuguese Novel,” Luso-Brazilian Review 45, 1 (June 2008); “Mulheres coloniais no novo romance português,” Letras de Hoje 42 (June 2007); “Revisitações do Último Império: Mulheres Portuguesas em África,” Revista Lusografias 4/5 (July–August 2006); “Ficções do Eu Colonial e Pós-Imperial: Memória, Família e Identidade em O Esplendor de Portugal,” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 12 (2006, forthcoming); “Maria Isabel Barreno’s O Senhor das Ilhas: Memory and Writing at the Threshold,” Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 8 (2002).
Robert Fishman (PhD, Yale University, 1985)
Professor of Sociology
230 Hesburgh Center
574-631-8531
email: rfishman@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/fishman-robert/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Europe (especially Spain and Portugal).
Thematic interests: Democratization and the quality of democracy; social ties and politics; states and regimes; European politics and society.
Current research: Writing a comparative book on democratic practice in Portugal and Spain emphasizing the enduring legacies of those countries’ near polar opposite paths to democracy in the 1970s, and a collaborative cross-national project on social and political determinants of the evolution in priestly vocations.
Selected publications: Coeditor, The Year of the Euro: The Cultural, Social, and Political Import of Europe’s Common Currency (2006); Democracy’s Voices: Social Ties and the Quality of Public Life in Spain (2004); Working Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain (1990, recently translated into Spanish); “Rethinking State and Regime: Southern Europe’s Transition to Democracy,” World Politics (April 1990), reprinted in Geoffrey Pridham, ed., Transitions to Democracy (1995).
Rev. Patrick D. Gaffney, csc (PhD, University of Chicago, 1982)
Associate Professor of Anthropology
622 Flanner
574-631-4113
email: pgaffney@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/gaffney_patrick/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Middle East and Eastern Africa
Thematic interests: Religion and politics; social violence and peacemaking; human rights and humanitarian intervention; Islamic society and popular movements.
Current research: Religion, violence, and reconciliation in the context of strained ethnic relations and the breakdown of political and economic order in central Africa.
Selected publications: The Prophet's Pulpit: Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt, (University of California Press, 1994); coauthor, Breaking Cycles of Violence: Conflict Prevention in Interstate Crises (Kumarian 1999). Numerous articles dealing with Islamic resurgence, ethnic conflict, and interreligious relations in the Middle East and central Africa.
Andrew Gould (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1992)
Associate Professor of Political Science
219 Hesburgh Center
574-631-7674
email: agould@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~alfac/gould/
Geographic focus: Europe; cross-regional
Thematic interests: Comparative politics; research methods in comparative politics; political development; religion and politicas; political economy.
Current research: How political institutions influence decision making; politics of fiscal policy.
Selected publications: Coauthor, “Democracy and Taxation,” Annual Review of Political Science (2002); “Party Size and Policy Outcomes: An Empirical Analysis of Taxation in Democracies,” Studies in Comparative International Development (summer 2001); “German Politics and Political Development,” in J. Kopstein and M. Lichbach, eds., Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order (2000); Origins of Liberal Dominance: State, Church and Party in Nineteenth Century Europe (1999); “Conflicting Imperatives and Concept Formation,” Review of Politics (Summer 1999)
Karen B. Graubart (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2000)
Associate Professor, History (on leave AY 2009-2010)
Director, Latin American Studies Program (LASP)
219 O'Shaughnessy Hall
574-631-0377
email: kgraubar@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/graubart-karen/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Latin America
Thematic interests: Colonial Latin American history, gender and race in Latin America, the history of the Andean region, perspectives on the “other” from Iberia to the New World.
Current research: The historical sources for Iberians’ understanding of “Indians” in the New World by comparing the treatment of Muslims, Jews, and Sub-Saharan Africans under Christian rule in 15th century Seville, Spain, with the establishment of colonial rule of indigenous peoples and Africans in 16th century Lima, Peru. Understanding the similarities and differences will provide new background for the formation of theories of racial and cultural difference, which became central to the construction of societies in Latin America.
Selected publications: "The Creolization of the New World: Local Forms of Identity in Urban Colonial Peru, 1560-1640," in Hispanic American Historical Review 89, 3 (2009); With Our Labor and Sweat: Indigenous Women and the Formation of Colonial Society in Peru 1550-1700 (Stanford, 2007); “De qadis y caciques,” Bulletin del Institut Français d’Etudes Andines 37,1 (2008); “La moda colonial: aproximaciones a la etnicidad en dos ciudades peruanas coloniales,” in Tejiendo Sueños en el Cono Sur, ed. Victória Solanilla (Barcelona, Grup d’Estudis Precolombins, 2005); “Hybrid Thinking: Bringing Postcolonial Theory to Latin American Economic History,” in Postcolonial Thought and Economics, ed. S. Charusheela and Eiman Zein-Elabdin (Routledge, 2003).
Thomas Gresik (PhD, Northwestern University, 1987)
Professor of Economics and Econometrics
443 Flanner Hall
574-631-9341
email: tgresik@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~tgresik
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: Multinationals and tax competition; regulatory design; applied game theory; microeconomic theory.
Current research: Financing of foreign direct investment; delegation and bargaining.
Selected publications: "Transfer pricing in vertically integrated industries," with Petter Osmundsen, International Tax and Public Finance 15 (2008); Coauthor, “Tax competition and foreign capital,” International Tax and Public Finance (March 2003); “Rationing Rules and European Central Bank Auctions,” Journal of International Money and Finance (November 2001); coauthor, “The Strategic Effects of Batch Processing,” International Economic Review (August 2001); “Arm’s-length Transfer Pricing and National Welfare,” in Michael R. Baye, ed., Advances in Applied Microeconomics, Vol. 8 (1999); coauthor, “Competition Between Asymmetrically Informed Principals,” Economic Theory (September 1997); numerous articles in publications such as Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics,and Journal of International Economics.
Daniel G. Groody, csc (PhD, Theological Union, 2000)
Assistant Professor of Theology
Director of the Center for Latino Spirituality and Culture, Institute for Latino Studies
229 Malloy Hall
574-631-3233
email: dgroody@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~dgroody/
Geographic focus: Latin America, particularly Mexico; Europe, particularly EU borders
Thematic interests: Migration and the US-Mexican Border
Selected publications: The Option for the Poor in Christian Theology (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008); A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration (coedited, University of Notre Dame Press, 2007); Globalization, Spirituality and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace (Orbis Books, 2007); Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit (Rowman and Littlefield Press, 2002)
Selected Films: One Border, One Body: Immigration and the Eucharist, Executive Producer (Groody River Films, 2008);Strangers No Longer, Executive Producer and Project Director (Groody River Films, 2006); Dying to Live: A Migrant’s Journey, Executive Producer and Project Director (Groody River Films, 2005)
Alexandra Guisinger (PhD, Yale University, 2005)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
444 Decio
574-631-3846
email: aguising@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~aguising
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: International relations; crisis diplomacy; international political economy; globalization.
Current research: Banking and currency crises and the IMF; Institutional design and capital regulation; How emerging markets signal “credibility”
Selected publication: “Exchange Rate Proclamations and Inflation-Fighting Credibility,” International Organization (forthcoming); “Determining Trade Policy: Do Voters Hold Politicians Accountable?” International Organization (forthcoming); "Honest Threats: The Interaction of Reputation and Political Institutions in International Crises," Journal of Conflict Resolution (April 2002).
Rev. Gustavo Gutiérrez, OP (PhD, Université Catholique de Lyon, 1985)
John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Theology
331 Malloy Hall
574-631-5366
email: ggutierr@nd.edu
http://theology.nd.edu/people/all/gutierrez-gustavo/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Latin America
Thematic interests: Human dignity and life; oppression in Latin America and the Third World.
Current research: The historical background and continuing theological relevance of the preferential option for the poor.
Selected publications: A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation; We Drink From Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of A People; On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent; The Truth Shall Make You Free; The God of Life; and Las Casas: In Search of the Poor of Jesus Christ. His essays have appeared in Theological Studies, La Revista Latinoamericana de Teología, and Páginas. He has also published in and been a member of the board of directors of the international journal, Concilium.
Frances Hagopian (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Associate Professor of Political Science
237 Hesburgh Center
574-631-8529
email: fhagopia@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/francis-hagopian/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Brazil, Southern Cone)
Thematic interests: Democratization; political economy; religion and politics; comparative politics and political development.
Current research: Economic liberalization and political representation in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico; Pluralist challenges to Catholicism in Latin America
Selected publications: Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America (editor, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009); The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (coeditor, Cambridge University Press, 2005); Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1996), which was named a Choice outstanding book in Comparative Politics; numerous articles in World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, and other journals and books, including “From Patronage to Program: The Emergence of Party-Oriented Legislators in Brazil” (with Carlos Gervasoni and Juan Andres Moraes), Comparative Political Studies 42, 3 (2009); “Latin American Catholicism in an Age of Religious Pluralism: A Framework for Analysis,” Comparative Politics 40, 2 (2008); “Parties and Voters in Emerging Democracies,” in Carles Boix and Susan Stokes, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics (2007); and “Derechos, representación, y la creciente calidad de la democracia en Brasil y Chile,” Política y Gobierno 12, 1 (2005).
Ben Heller (PhD, Washington University, St. Louis)
Associate Professor
205 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-6886
email: bheller@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/heller-ben/
Geographic focus: Latin America; Caribbean
Thematic interests: 19th- and 20th-century Spanish American and Caribbean literatures; literary theory and translation
Current research: Modern Spanish American and Caribbean literatures.
Selected publications: "Multiculturalism, Caribbean Space, and Identity at the Margins: Two Cases." Research in African Literatures 28.4 (Winter 1997): 71-84; "Paternal Anxiety, Sexuality, and the Archive of Latin American Narrative--or, Up River with Tiresias." The Journal of Narrative Technique 27.1 (1997): 4-24; "Suturando espacios: comunidad, sexualidad y pedagogía en José Martí." La Torre: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, special issue, "El Modernismo," 1.1-2 (1996): 33-54; "Landscape, Femininity, and Caribbean Discourse." MLN 111 (Hispanic Issue, 1996): 392-418.
Victoria Tin-bor Hui (PhD, Columbia University, 2000)
Assistant Professor
405 Decio Hall
574-631-7570
email: thui@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/tin-bor-victoria-hui/
Geographic focus: Asia and Europe
Thematic interests: Comparative history of Asia and Europe, transformation of world politics, the emerging world order in the post-Cold War era, international security, state formation and state-society relations, contentious politics and resistance movements, political culture, Asian and Confucian values, Chinese politics.
Selected publications:"How China Was Ruled?" The American Interest (March/April, 2008); "Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History," with William C. Wohlforth, Richard Little, Stuart J. Kaufman, David C. Kang, Charles L. Jones, Arthur Ecksten, Daniel H. Deudney, and William Brenner, European Journal of International Relations 13, 2 (2007); "The Triumph of Domination in the Ancient Chinese System," in Stuart J. Kaufman, Richard Little, and William C. Wohlforth, eds., The Balance of Power in World History (Palgrave, 2007); War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2005); "Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics," International Organization 58 (2004); "The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights" in The Journal of Political Philosophy 9, 4 (2001); and "Problematizing Sovereignty" in the edited volume International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World (Sharpe, 2003).
Kristine Ibsen (PhD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1991)
Michael Grace II Professor of Latin American Studies
161 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-7563
email: kibsen@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/ibsen-kristine/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico)
Thematic interests: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century historical narrative; women in colonial Spanish America; feminist studies.
Current research: Cultural representations of the Mexican Second Empire.
Selected publications: Books include Author, Text and Reader in the Novels of Carlos Fuentes (1993); The Other Mirror (1997), about contemporary Mexican women writers; Women's Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America (1999); Memoria y deseo: Carlos Fuentes y el pacto de la lectura (2003); and Maximilian, Mexico and the Invention of Empire (forthcoming).
Debra Javeline (PhD, Harvard University, 1997)
Associate Professor of Political Science
217 O’Shaughnessy Hall
574-631-2793
email: javeline@nd.edu
http://al.nd.edu/resources-for/faculty-and-staff/faculty-list/bio/javeline/
Geographic focus: Russia; Eastern Europe
Thematic interests: Comparative politics; mass political behavior; survey research; the politics of post-Soviet and other post-communist regimes.
Selected publications: “Who Sues Government? Evidence from the Moscow Theater Hostage Case,” Comparative Political Studies (coauthor, July 2007); "The Persuasive Power of Russian Courts,” Political Research Quarterly (coauthor, 2007); Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages (2003); “The Role of Blame in Collective Action: Evidence from Russia,” American Political Science Review (February 2003); “Response Effects in Polite Cultures: A Test of Acquiescence in Kazakhstan,” Public Opinion Quarterly (Spring 1999); “Suffering Without Protest in Kazakhstan,” Central Asia Monitor (1998).
Lionel M. Jensen (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1992)
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages
Concurrent Associate Professor of History
205 O'Shaughnessy
574-631-8874
email: ljensen@nd.edu
http://eastasian.nd.edu/directory/lionel-jensen/
Geographic focus: China
Thematic interests: Official and unofficial Chinese religion; folklore and popular culture; new media and contemporary urban culture; US-China relations; Chinese nationalism.
Current research: “Fictions and Fractures of Time and Place,” a critical investigation into the mythic qualities of historical “fact” in China; “Webs of Rope,” examining the limits of political freedom in the explosive generation of cyber communities; a manuscript-length exploration of the ecumenical convergence of natural science, native religious traditions, and nationalism in the work of the political reformer, Tan Sitong (1866–1898).
Selected publications: Editor (with Timothy B. Weston) China's Transformations: The Stories beyond the Headlines (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); editor (with Susan D. Blum), China Off Center: Mapping the Margins of the Middle Kingdom (University of Hawai'I Press, 2002); Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization (Duke University Press, 1997), recognized in 1998 as the Best First Book in the History of Religions by the American Academy of Religion.
Richard A. Jensen (PhD, Northwestern University, 1980)
Professor and Chair, Economics and Econometrics
Concurrent Professor of Finance
444 Flanner
574-631-7698
email: rjensen1@nd.edu
http://econometrics.nd.edu/directory/jensen_richard/index.shtml
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: International trade; industrial organization; microeconomic theory; environmental economics.
Current research: Innovative pioneering and innovation diffusion; the trade-off between basic and applied research; the Bayh-Dole Act and behavior of university technology transfer officers; trade, deforestation, and debt-for-nature swaps; and transboundary
Selected publications: Numerous articles in American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Ecological Economics, Review of Economic Studies, International Journal of Industrial Organization, International Economic Review, Management Science, and Journal of Economic History, among others.
Robert C. Johansen (PhD, Columbia University, 1968)
Professor of Political Science
114 Hesburgh Center
574-631-6971
email: rjohanse@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/robert-johansen
http://kroc.nd.edu/people/directory/faculty/robert-c-johansen
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: Ethics and international relations; United Nations peacekeeping; peace and world order studies; multilateral efforts to increase compliance with international laws prohibiting genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes.
Selected publications: A United Nations Emergency Peace Service (2006); The Constitutional Foundations of World Peace (1993); Toward an Alternative Security System: Moving Beyond the Balance of Power in the Search for World Security (1983); The National Interest and the Human Interest: An Analysis of US Foreign Policy (1980). Articles have appeared in World Politics, the Journal of Peace Research, Global Governance, Third World Quarterly, Human Rights Quarterly, World Policy Journal and Mershon International Studies Review. More popular articles on public policy have appeared in the Atlantic, Harper’s, the New
Kwan S. Kim (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1967)
Professor of Economics
O-220 Hesburgh Center
574-631-5179
email: kkim@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~econplcy/faculty_staff/kim.html
Geographic focus: Asia (Japan, South Korea, Thailand); Sub-Saharan Africa; Latin America (Mexico)
Thematic interests: Development economics; international trade and finance; econometrics.
Current research: Financial and economic integration in East Asia; US–China trade relations; Globalization, distribution and poverty; Global poverty gap.
Selected publications: “Possibilities and Challenges for Financial Integration in East Asia," EconoQuantum 2, 1 (2005); “Globalization and Labor: Issues of Income Polarization," Journal of Global Awareness 4, 1 (2003); The Political Economy of Income Inequality (coedited, 2000); Growth, Distribution and Political Change: Asia and the Wider World (coedited, 1999); Economic Cooperation and Integration: East Asian Experience (coedited, 1997); El Ecuador en el Mercado Mundial (coauthored, 1997); "Income Distribution and Poverty: An Interregional Comparison," World Development 25, 11 (1997); Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies: Lessons from the Japanese Experience (coedited, 1995); The State, Markets and Development (coedited, 1994); Estrategias de Desarrollo para el Futuro de México (1989); Debt and Development in Latin America (coedited, 1985); Política Industrial y Desarrollo en Corea del Sur (1985); Korean Agricultural Research: The Integration of Research and Extension (coauthored, 1982); Papers on the Political Economy of Tanzania (coedited, 1979).
Rev. Paul V. Kollman, csc (PhD, The Divinity School, University of Chicago, 2001)
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
231 Malloy Hall
574-631-3873
email: pkollman@nd.edu
http://theology.nd.edu/people/all/kollman-paul/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Africa
Thematic interests: Christianity in Africa; history of Christian missions; inter-religious dialogue; world Christianity
Current research: History of Christianity in eastern Africa; Christianity in Africa; Benedict XVI and Mission
Selected Publications: The Evangelization of Slaves and Catholic Origins in Eastern Africa (Orbis, 2006); “Remembering Evangelization: The Option for the Poor and Mission History,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research (2009); “Service-Learning at Catholic Universities: Challenges and Opportunities,” New Theology Review (2009), “The Promise of Mission History for US Catholic History,” US Catholic Historian (2006)
Daniel H. Lende (Ph.D., Emory University)
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
616 Flanner Hall
574-631-7758
email: lende.1@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/lende_daniel/index.shtml
http://neuroanthropology.net/
Geographic focus: Colombia
Thematic interests: Medical and biocultural anthropology with a focus on behavioral health problems, particularly substance use and abuse.
Selected publications: “Embodiment and breast cancer among African-American women,” with A. Lachiondo, in Qualitative Health Research 19 (2009); “Community approaches to prevention of mother-to-child HIV/AIDS transmission: Perspectives from rural Lesotho,” with M. S. Towle, in African Journal of AIDS Research 7, 2 (2008); “Evolution and modern behavioral problems,” in Evolutionary Medicine and Health: New Perspectives, Wenda Trevathan, E. O. Smith, & James J. McKenna, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2007); “Functional methamphetamine use: The insiders’ perspective,” with T. Leonard, C. E. Sterk & E. Elifson, in Addiction Research and Theory 15, 5 (2007); “Wanting and drug use: A biocultural analysis of addiction” in Ethos 33, 1 (2005); “Biocultural dialogues: Biology and culture in psychological anthropology,” with Daniel Hruschka and Carol Worthman, also in Ethos 33, 1 (2005); “Evoluzione, uso di sostanze e dipendenza” in Medicina Darwiniana (Apeiron, 2004); “Evolution meets biopsychosociality: An analysis of addictive behavior,” with Euclid O. Smith, in Addiction 97, 4 (2002); and “El viaje de un muchacho—caso particular” in Adolescencia y Toxicomania: Hacia un Proceso de Reinserción (El Greco Impresores, 1996).
Rev. William M. Lies, csc (PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 2003)
Concurrent Associate Professional Specialist; Executive Director,
Center for Social Concerns
117 Center for Social Concerns
574-631-3002
email: wlies@nd.edu
http://socialconcerns.nd.edu/about/staff/lies.shtml
Geographic focus: Latin America
Thematic interests: Religion and politics; Pentecostal growth and religious freedom; democratic stability; human rights and justice; community-based learning and Catholic social thought.
Current research: Latin America’s widening religious freedom; Pentecostal growth and its impact on the Catholic Church’s relationship to the state; the politics of poverty and Catholic social tradition.
Selected publications: “The Chilean Church: Declining Hegemony?” in Paul Christopher Manuel, Clyde Wilcox, and Lawrence C. Reardon, eds., The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives (2006); “A Clash of Values: Church-State Relations in Democratic Chile,” in Silvia Borzutzky and Lois Hecht Oppenheim, eds., After Pinochet: The Chilean Road to Democracy and the Market (2006).
Molly Lipscomb
Assistant Professor of Economics & Econometrics
(PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder)
442 Flanner
574-631-1369
email: mlipscomb@nd.edu
Geographic focus: International; India, Brazil
Thematic interests: Development economics, environmental economics, international trade
Current research: Product choice in response to changes in environmental regulations; water quality and inter-jurisdictional pollution; negotiation over public goods; the impact of access to infrastructure.
George A. Lopez (PhD, Syracuse University, 1975)
(on leave AY 2009-2010)
Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Chair in Peace Studies
Professor of Political Science
115 Hesburgh Center
574-631-6972
email: glopez@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/george-lopez
Geographic focus: Latin America; Iraq
Thematic interests: Economic sanctions; human rights; conflict resolution.
Current research: Gross violations of human rights and other forms of state violence, especially economic sanctions; peace research and peace studies
Selected publications: Uniting Against Terror (coedited with David Cortright, MIT Press, 2007); Sanctions and the Search for Security: Challenges to UN Action (coauthored, Lynne Reinier, 2002); articles in Chitty's Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, International Studies Quarterly, The International Journal of Human Rights, the Journal of International Affairs, The Annals, Peace & Change, and The Journal of Peace Research. Other articles coauthored with David Cortright appear in The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s (Rienner, 2000) and Lopez and Cortright, eds., Smart Sanctions: Toward Effective and Humane Sanctions Reform (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).
Semion Lyandres (PhD, Stanford University, 1992)
Associate Professor of History
453 Decio
574-631-3853
email: slyandre@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/lyandres-semion/
Geographic focus: Russia; Eastern Europe
Thematic interests: Modern Russian history; politics and intellectual origins of modern revolutions; dynamics of post-communist societies; the relation of democratization in post-Soviet Russia to modern political constitutions and market-based economics.
Current research: The problem of legitimacy in late Imperial and early revolutionary Russia, especially as it relates to the origins and politics of the Provisional (revolutionary) Government.
Selected publications: The Bolshevik's German Gold Revisited: An inquirs into the 1917 Accusations (The Carl Beck Series in Russia and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh,1995); co-Author, A Chronicle of the Civil War in Siberia and Exile in China: The Diaries of Petr Vasil'evich Vologodskii, 1918-1925 (Hoover Institution Press: Stanford, CA, 2002), in 2 volumes., compiled, edited and introduced in collaboration with Dietmar Wulff.
Sabine G. MacCormack (DPhil, Oxford University, 1975)
Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, CSC, Professor of Arts and Letters;
Member of the American Philosophical Society; Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (2001).
312 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677
574-631-9303
email: sgm@nd.edu
http://history.nd.edu/people/all/maccormack-sabine/
Geographic focus: Latin America; Europe
Thematic interests: Roman empire and late antiquity. The Andean region in the 16th and 17th centuries. Interaction between Andean and European cultures and religions.
Current research: Conflict and accommodation between Andean and Spanish political and religious ideas and practices in the early modern period; Christianity and classical culture in the writings of St. Augustine of Hippo. Instrumental in establishing the Latin American Indigenous Language Learning (LAILL) program at Notre Dame.
Selected publications: On the Wings of Time: Rome, the Incas, Spain and Peru (Princeton 2006); Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1981); The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine (Berkeley, 1998); Religion in the Andes: Vision and Imagination in Early Colonial Peru (Princeton University Press, 1991); and Art and Ceremony in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 1981). Numerous articles and book chapters, including "Ethnography in South America: The First Two Hundred Years," in F. Salomon and S. Schwartz, eds., Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume III, 1 South America (Cambridge University Press, 1999); "Conciencia y práctica social: pobreza y vagrancia en España y el temprano Perú colonial," Revista Andina 35 (Cuzco, July 2002); "Grammar and Virtue: The Formulation of a Cultural and Missionary Program by the Jesuits in Early Colonial Peru," in John O'Malley and Frank Kennedy, eds., The Jesuits II (University of Toronto Press, 2006); "A House of Many Mansions: Aspects of Christian Experience in Spanish America," in James Boyd White, ed., How Should We Talk about Religion. Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006); “Augustine Reads Genesis. The Saint Augustine Lecture 2007,” in Augustinian Studies 39, 1 (2008).
Scott P. Mainwaring (PhD, Stanford University, 1983)
Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science
Director, Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies
130G Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677
574-631-8530
email: smainwar@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~smainwar
Geographic focus: Latin America (Brazil, Southern Cone, Andean region)
Thematic interests: Democratic institutions and democratization; political parties; the Catholic Church in Latin America.
Selected publications: Coeditor, The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes (2006); coeditor, The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (2005); coeditor, Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Conflict and Regime Change (2003); Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil (1999); coeditor, Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (1997); coeditor, Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (1995); and The Catholic Church and Politics in Brazil, 1916-1985 (1986). Articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, British Journal of Political Science, and many other journals.
Nelson Mark (PhD, University of Chicago, 1983)
Alfred C. DeCrane Jr. Professor of International Economics
Concurrent Professor of Finance
442A Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
574-631-0518
email: nmark@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~nmark
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: International finance and open economy macroeconomics; aggregate asset pricing; macroeconomics.
Selected publications: Author, International Macroeconomics and Finance: Theory and Empirical Methods (Blackwell Publishers, 2001); co-author, The Relative Importance of Political and Economic Variables in Creditworthiness Ratings, with N. Haque and D. Mathieson; co-author, Ratings of Sovereign Creditworthiness: An Econometric Analysis, with N. Haque, D. Mathieson, and S. Sharma; co-author, Cointegration Vector Estimation by Panel Dynamic OLS and Long-Run Money Demand, with D. Sul; co-author, Dynamically Seemingly Unrelated Cointegrating Regression, with M. Ogaki and D. Sul; co-author, Continuous-Time Market Dynamics, ARCH Effects, and the Forward Premium Anomaly, with Y.K. Moh; book reviewer, The Economics of the Dollar Cycle (MIT Press, 1990) and On Exchange Rates (MIT Press, 1993); contributor, Fundamentals of the Real Dollar-Pound Rate 1871-1994 in Ronald MacDonald and Jerome Stein, eds., Equilibrium Exchange Rates (Kluwer Press, 1999); book review editor, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (1991-94); has served as referee for over 20 publications
A. James McAdams (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1983)
William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs and Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
211 Brownson Hall
574-631-5253
email: amcadams@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~amcadams/
Geographic focus: Germany, Great Britain; Eastern Europe
Thematic interests: Democratization; transitional justice; politics and technology; comparative foreign policy, philosophies of dictatorship.
Current research: The Rise and Fall of World Communism.
Selected publications: The Crisis of Modern Times (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007); coauthor, Introduction to Comparative Politics (2006); coauthor, Rebirth: A History of Europe (2002); Judging the Past in Unified Germany (2001); editor, Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies (1997); Germany Divided: From the Wall to Unification (1993 and 1994); East Germany and Détente: Building Authority After the Wall (1985). Articles have appeared in The Review of Politics, Foreign Affairs, World Politics, Comparative Politics, and other journals.
Rev. Sean D. McGraw, CSC (PhD, Harvard University, 2009)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
416 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7655
E-mail: mcgraw.4@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/all/DepartmentofPoliticalScienceUniversityofNotreDame.shtml
Geographic focus: Ireland and Europe
Thematic interests: Comparative politics, party competition, electoral politics, civil society and social capital, and Catholic education
Current research: Electoral strategies in modern Ireland; relationship between civil society and social capital and the role of religion
Selected publications: “Managing Change: Party Competition in the New Ireland,” Irish Political Studies 23, 4 (2008); with Kevin Whelan, “Daniel O’Connell in Comparative Perspective 1800–1850,” Eire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 40, 1 & 2, (2005); “Building ACE: Improvising on Providence,” in Michael Pressley, ed., Teaching Service and Alternative Teacher Education (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002)
Anthony M. Messina (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984)
Associate Professor of Political Science
204 Hesburgh Center
574-631-3968
email: amessina@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/anthony-messina/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Western Europe
Thematic interests: Politics of immigration and ethnicity in Europe; British politics; European integration; political parties in comparative perspective.
Current research: Book project: European Pathways from September 11th: Migration Politics, Policy, and State Sovereignty
Selected publications: Author: The Logics and Politics of Post-World War II Migration to Western Europe (2007); Race and Party Competition in Britain (1989); coeditor: The Migration Reader (2006); The Year of the Euro (2006); Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the Advanced Industrial Democracies (1992); editor: West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century (2002). Articles have appeared in Journal of Common Market Studies, Parliamentary Affairs, Political Studies, Policy Studies Journal, The Review of Politics, West European Politics, World Politics, and other scholarly journals and anthologies.
Marisel Moreno (PhD, Georgetown University, 2004)
Assistant Professor of Spanish (on leave AY 2009-2010) (on leave AY 2009-2010)
Romance Languages and Literatures
172 Decio
574-631-6737
email: Moreno-Anderson.1@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/moreno-anderson-marisel/
Geographic focus: Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic and the US
Thematic interests: Latino/a literature and culture, with a particular interest in the production of Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican authors in the US.
Current research: Puerto Rican women authors, on both the island and the US mainland.
Selected publications: “Debunking Myths, Destabilizing Identities: A Reading of Junot Díaz’s ‘How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or Halfie,’” Afro-Hispanic Review 26, 2 (Fall 2007); “‘More Room:’ Space, Woman, and Nation in Judith Ortíz Cofer’s Silent Dancing,” Hispanic Journal 22, 2 (Fall 2001).
Monika Nalepa (PhD, Columbia University, 2005)
Political Science (on leave AY 2009-2010)
439 Decio
574-631-6828
email: mnalepa@nd.edu
Geographic focus: Post-Communist Europe
Thematic interests: Transitional justice, post-communist legislatures; Game theoretic approaches to institutions of transitional justice and democratization.
Current research: Civil Service Reform and game theoretic approaches to bureaucracy
Selected publications: Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming); coeditor, “A Special Issue on Transitional Justice,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 3 (2006); “Punish All Perpetrators or Protect the Innocent? Comparing Systems of Transitional Justice,” Journal of Theoretical Politics 20, 2 (2008); coauthor, “Judging Transitional Justice: A New Criterion for Evaluating Truth Revelation Procedures,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 3 (2006); coauthor, “Strategic and Normative Aspects of Transitional Justice,” Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 3 (2006).
Jonathan Scott Noble (PhD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2003)
Provost’s Advisor for Asia Initiatives
Associate Director, Center for Asian Studies; Codirector, Business and Culture Program in China
505 Main Building
574-631-1786
E-mail: jnoble@nd.edu
Geographic focus: Asia (China)
Thematic interests: Contemporary Chinese culture, media, film, theatre, and performance; Chinese language
Current research: Chinese cultural production, performance and visual cultures, and popular culture, specializing in film and theater; contemporary Chinese literature; cultural criticism, including performance theory and transnational issues
Selected publications: “Blind Shaft: Performing the ‘Underground’ on and beyond the Screen.” In Chinese Films in Focus II, ed. Chris Berry (Palgrave, 2008); “Foreword: Culture Matters—A Report from the Field of U.S.-China Relations,” in China’s Transformations, ed. Timothy Weston and Lionel Jensen (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006); “Wang Shuo and the Commercialization of Literature” and “Cao Yu and Thunderstorm” in The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature, ed. Joshua Mostow (Columbia University Press, 2003); “Titanic in China: Transnational Capitalism as Official Ideology?” Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 12, 1 (Spring 2000). Translations include: “Foreword” by Dai Jinhua in Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China by Xiaomei Chen, 2nd ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002); “Gender and Narrative: Women in Contemporary Chinese Film” by Dai Jinhua in Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua, ed. Jing Wang and Tani Barlow (Verso, 2002); seven chapters in The Development of Business Ethics in China, ed. Lu Xiaohe and Georges Enderle (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
Carolyn R. Nordstrom (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1986)
Professor of Anthropology
623 Flanner
574-631-5072
email: cnordstr@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/nordstrom_carolyn/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Africa, South Asia, global flows
Thematic interests: Globalization; social and cultural anthropology; anthropology of war and peace; global criminal networks; gender; justice and human rights.
Selected publications: Global Outlaws: Crime, Money and Power in the Contemporary World (2007); Shadows of War: Violence, Power and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century (2004); A Different Kind of War Story (1997); Girls and Warzones—Troubling Questions (1997); coeditor, Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (1995); coeditor, The Paths to Domination, Resistance and Terror (1992). Chapters in numerous books and articles in journals, including: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism; Theory, Culture and Society; Public Culture; Development; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Social Analysis; Journal of Aggressive Behavior; and International Feminist Journal of Politics.
Mary Ellen O'Connell (JD, Columbia University of Pennsylvania, 1985)
Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law
345 Law School
574-631-7953
email: Mary.E.O'Connell.55@nd.edu
http://law.nd.edu/people/faculty-and-administration/teaching-and-research-faculty/mary-ellen-oconnell
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: International law; international dispute resolution.
Selected publications: Enforcing International Law (Forthcoming). International Dispute Resolution, Cases and Materials (Carolina, 2005). International Law and the Use of Force, Cases and Materials - Documentary Supplement and Teacher’s Manual (Foundation, 2005). Redefining Sovereignty, The Use of Force After the Cold War (with M. Bothe and N. Ronzitti, eds., Transnational, 2005). International Dispute Settlement, Library of Essays in International Law (Ashgate/Dartmouth, 2003).
Guillermo O'Donnell (LLB, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires, 1958; PhD, Yale
University, 1987)
Professor Emeritus, Senior Fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies
219 Hesburgh Center
574-631-6580 or home at 616-683-9856
email: godonnel@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/guillermo-odonnell/
Geographic focus: Latin America; cross-regional
Thematic interests: The state; democracy; new democracies.
Current research: Democratic and state theory, and new democracies.
Selected publications: O’Donnell has published extensively on authoritarianism, democratization, and democratic theory. His books include Modernization and Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism , Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism, A Democracia no Brasil , Transitions from Authoritarian Rule, Development and the Art of Tresspassing (co-edited), Issues in Democratic Consolidation (co-edited), and Poverty and Inequality in Latin America (co-edited). With Notre Dame Press, he has published a collection of essays, Counterpoints, Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (1999), The (Un )Rule of Law and New Democracies in Latin America (coedited, 1999), and Dissonances: Democratic Critiques (2007), another collection of essays. He is presently working on a book on the state and democracy.
Rahul Oka
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
(PhD, University of Illinois Chicago and Field Museum, 2008)
611 Flanner
574-631-8853
email: roka@nd.edu
Geographic focus: East Africa (coastal and northern Kenya, Sudan, Uganda); West Coast of India
Thematic interests: Economic anthropology; ethnography of traders and trade; disaster commerce; development economies; trade and urbanism; cultural ecology and political economy; social network analysis, agent-based simulation and modeling of economic behavior; complex adaptive systems; African anthropology; African Diaspora in Asia; South Asian Anthropology.
Current research: Trading systems and networks in the disaster economies of western and northern Kenya and southern Sudan and relationship to development issues; violence and scapegoating of merchant and other transient groups; relationships between commercial groups and political regulatory institutions.
Selected publications: Coauthor, “Where Others Fear to Trade: Modeling Adaptive Resilience in Ethnic Trading Networks to Famines, Maritime Warfare and Imperial Stability in the Growing Indian Ocean economy, ca. 1500–1700 CE,” in The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters, Arthur Murphy and Eric Jones, eds. (Altamira Press, 2009); coauthor, “The Archaeology of Trading Systems, Part 1: Towards a New Trade Synthesis,” Journal of Archaeological Research 16, 4 (2008); coauthor, “Domesticated Landscapes: The Subsistence Ecology of Plant and Animal Domestication,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 10, 4 (2003).
María Rosa Olivera-Williams (PhD, Ohio State University, 1983)
Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures
265 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-7268
email: molivera@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/olivera-williams-maria-rosa/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Southern Cone)
Thematic interests: Spanish American literature and culture of the 19th and 20th centuries; women's writings; feminist studies.
Selected publications: El salto de Minerva: Intelectuales, género, Estado en América Latina, coedited with Mabel Moraña (Madrid: Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2005); "La imaginación salvaje: Entrevista a Marosa Di Giorgio." Hispanic Poetry Review 3.2 (2001): 82-105; "La poética de Chesed: Juan Gelman," in La página. Juan Gelman: Poesía y Coreje; La poesía gauchesca de Hidalgo a Hernandez (1986); numerous studies of other Spanish American authors, including Cristina Peri-Rossi, Juan Carlos Onetti, José Emilio Pacheco, and Armonía Somers.
Rev. Robert Pelton, csc - Emeritus (STD, St. Thomas University, Rome, 1952)
Concurrent Professor, Theology; Director Emeritus, Institute for Pastoral and Social Ministry; Director, Latin American/North American Church Concerns
215 Hesburgh Center
574-631-8528
email: rpelton@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~theo
Geographic focus: Latin America
Thematic interests: The Catholic Church; ecclesial base communities; liberation theology; the Cuban Church.
Research interests: The Catholic Church; the Fifth General Conference of the Latin American Bishops in Aparecida, Brazil 2007.
Selected publications: Aparecida: Quo Vadis? (general ed., University of Scranton Press, 2008); Archbishop Romero (University of Scranton Press, 2006); Monsignor Romero: A Bishop of the Third Millennium (ed., University of Notre Dame Press, 2004); The Future of our Past (coauth., Diamond Communications, South Bend, 2001); Small Christian Communities: Imagining Future Church (ed., Notre Dame Press, 1997); From Power to Communion (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
Jaime Pensado (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2008)
Assistant Professor, History
469 Decio Hall
574-631-1538
email: jpensado@nd.edu
http://al.nd.edu/resources-for/faculty-and-staff/faculty-list/bio/jpensado/
Geographic focus: Mexico; 20th-century Latin America.
Thematic interests: Contemporary Mexican history; student movements; youth culture; the Cold War.
Current research: My current work examines the role competing powerbrokers played to quell growing student unrest and mediate youth conflict in postrevolutionary Mexico vis-à-vis the employment of agent provocateurs and student intermediaries. In addition, my work delves into the impact of the Cuban Revolution on Mexican leftist and ultraconservative student politics.
Selected publications: "The (Forgotten) Sixties in Mexico." In The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture 1, 1 (May, 2008): 83-90; "Student Politics in Mexico at the Wake of the Cuban Revolution," in Robert Clarke et. al., eds., New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness (Toronto/New York: Between the Lines & Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).
Dianne M. Pinderhughes (Ph.D. University of Chicago)
Professor, Africana Studies and Political Science
158 Decio Hall
574-631-7129
email: Dianne.M.Pinderhughes.1@nd.edu
http://africana.nd.edu/about/faculty-staff/Pinderhughes.shtml
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/all/pinderhughes-bio/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Americas
Thematic interests: Issues of inequality with a focus on racial, ethnic and gendered political participation, and she brings a comparative perspective to the development of race and civil society in the Americas.
Selected publications: Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics: A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory (University of Illinois Press, 1987); and The Evolution of Civil Rights Organizations in the Twentieth Century: African American Politics and Voting Rights (forthcoming). Articles and book chapters include: “Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 Presidential Nomination Campaign,” Black Scholar 38, 1 (2008); "The Renewal of the Voting Rights Act," in The State of Black America 2005, edited by Lee A. Daniels (National Urban League, 2005).
Karen Richman (PhD, University of Virginia, 1992)
Director of Migration and Border Studies
Institute for Latino Studies
230 McKenna Hall
574-631-8146
email: krichman@nd.edu
http://latinostudies.nd.edu/people/directors.php
Geographic focus: Mexico, the Caribbean (Haiti), and the United States.
Thematic interests: Religion, migration, transnationalism, performance, gender, production and consumption.
Current research: Migration and religious conversion and an ethnographic biography of a Mexican immigrant woman.
Selected publications: Migration and Vodou (New Diasporas Series of the University Press of Florida, 2005); “Innocent Imitations? Mimesis and Alterity in Haitian Vodou Art, Tourism and Anthropology,” Ethnohistory (2008); “‘Call us Vote People’: Citizenship, Migration and Transnational Politics in Haitian and Mexican Locations” in Citizenship, Political Engagement, and Belonging: Immigrants in Europe and the United States, D. Reed-Danahay and C. Brettell, eds. (Rutgers University Press, 2008); “Peasants, Migrants and the Discovery of African Traditions: Ritual and Social Change in Lowland Haiti, ” Journal of Religion in Africa (2007); and “Simplemente Maria: Naming Workers, Placing People and the Production of Hospitality,” Review of International American Studies (2007).
Juan M. Rivera (PhD, University of Illinois, 1975)
Associate Professor of Accountancy
347 Mendoza College of Business
574-631-5195
email: jrivera@nd.edu
web2.business.nd.edu/Faculty/faculty_bio_page.cfm?who=jrivera
Geographic focus: Latin America and Mexico
Thematic interests: International accounting; foreign exchange transactions; foreign reporting and disclosures; agribusiness and development; NAFTA
Current research: International Financial Reporting Standards (seed grant from Pricewaterhouse Coopers PwC, 2009)
Selected publications: NAFTA and the Campesinos: The Impact of NAFTA on Small Agricultural Producers in Mexico (coedited with Scott Whiteford and Manual Chávez, University of Scranton Press, 2008); "Inflation Accounting and 20-F Reports: The Case of Mexico," in P. Y. Davis-Friday and Gary K. Meek, eds., Development Studies in International Accounting: Americas and the Far East (2002); "International Business Budgeting: Being Global Requires Rigor," Management Accounting Quarterly (with Ken Milani, Fall 2002).
Jaime Ros (Diploma in Economics, University of Cambridge, 1978)
Professor of Economics
319 Hesburgh Center
574-631-7009
email: ros@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~econplcy/faculty_staff/ros.html
Geographic focus: Latin America (Mexico)
Thematic interests: Development economics; trade and macroeconomic policies and problems in developing countries.
Selected publications: Coauthor, Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective (2009); Coeditor, International Handbook of Development Economics (2008); “La desaceleración del crecimiento económico en México desde 1982,” El Trimestre Económico 299 (2008); Coauthor, “Unemployment and the Real Exchange Rate in Latin America,” World Development (April 2006); Coauthor, “Aggregate demand shocks and economic growth,” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 18, 1 (March 2007); “Changing Growth Constraints in Northern Latin America,” in Andrés Solimano, ed., Vanishing Growth in Latin America: The Late Twentieth Century Experience (2006); “Divergence and Growth Collapses: Theory and Empirical Evidence,” in José Antonio Ocampo, ed., Beyond Reforms. Structural Dynamics and Macroeconomic Theory (2005); coeditor, Development Economics and Structuralist Macroeconomics: Essays in Honor of Lance Taylor (2003); Development Theory and the Economics of Growth (2000).
Rev. Timothy Scully, csc (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1989)
Professor of Political Science
Director, Institute for Educational Initiatives
216 Hesburgh Center
574-631-9002
email: tscully@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/timothy-scully/
Geographic focus: Latin America (Chile)
Thematic interests: Comparative parties and party systems; democratization; aggregate data analysis.
Selected publications: Coauthor, Vínculos, Creencias e Ilusiones: la Cohesión Social de Los Latinoamericanos (Uqbar Editores, 2008); coauthor, El Eslabón Perdido: familia y bienestar en Chile, (2006); coeditor, Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Conflict and Regime Change (2003); Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chile (1992); coauthor, Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (1995).
Stephen E. Silliman
Professor, Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(574) 631-5332
silliman.1@nd.edu
Geographic focus: Africa (Benin and Uganda) and the United States
Thematic interests: Groundwater (flow and chemical quality); water resources in developing countries; international collaboration on water resource characterization and protection
Current interests: Management of salt-water intrusion in coastal regions of Benin; management of groundwater quality in rural regions of Benin; groundwater hydraulics in the vadose zone
Selected publications: "Sampling Strategies for Estimation of Parameters Related to Ground Water Quality," in Ground Water (coauthored, forthcoming, 2009); “International Collaborations and Incorporating the Social Sciences in Research in Hydrology and Hydrologic Engineering,” Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 13, 1 (coauthored, 2008); “Observations on Element Concentrations of Groundwater in Central Benin,” Journal of Hydrology 335, 3-4 (coauthored, 2007); “Observations from a Project to Encourage Multiple-year, International Collaboration on Research for Undergraduates,” Proceedings of the 2007 Annual ASEE Conference, Paper AC 2007-257 (2007).
Naunihal Singh (Ph.D. Harvard University, 2005)
Assistant Professor, Political Science
411 Decio Faculty Hall
574-631-6795
email: nsingh1@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/naunihal-singh/
Geographic focus: Africa
Thematic interest: Conflict; Civil-Military Relations; Civil Wars; Democratization
Selected publication: monograph, Civil Military Relations in Ghana (The Center for Democracy and Development - Ghana); software, "Amelia : A Program for Missing Data (Windows version)."
Vania Smith-Oka (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago)
Nancy O’Neill Assistant Professor of Anthropology
649 Flanner
574-631-7269
email: vsmithok@nd.edu
http://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-staff/smith-oka_vania/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Mexico
Thematic interests: Globalization; reproductive health; indigenous women's knowledge; ethnobotany; formal and informal health systems.
Current research: How marginal peoples around the world respond to the impact that globalization has on their health needs and local knowledge by looking at how the least powerful members of a community, i.e. women, are responding to this globalization.
Selected publications: "Plants Used for Reproductive Health by Nahua Women in Northern Veracruz, Mexico" (Economic Botany 2008); The History of the Incas, editor (University of Texas Press, 2007); “The Disease Factor: The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the People of Tsavo” in Ecology, Economy, and Culture: Human Interactions in the Tsavo Region, Kenya, coauthor (Africa World Press, forthcoming).
Lynette Spillman (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1991)
Associate Professor of Sociology
737 Flanner
574-631-8067
email: lspillma@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/spillman-lyn/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Australia, United States, settler nations
Thematic interests: Cultural sociology; social theory; economic sociology; comparative historical sociology; qualitative methods; political sociology.
Current research: Trade Associations and Economic Governance
Selected publications: “Political Centers, Progressive Narratives, and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937–1979” (with Xiaohong Xu), inMikyoung Kim and Barry Schwartz, eds., North East Asia’s Difficult Past: Studies in Collective Memory (Palgrave MacMillan, forthcoming); “A Special Camaraderie with Colleagues: Business Associations and Cultural Production for Economic Action,” in Isaac Reed and Jeff Alexander, eds., Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology, Yale Series in Cultural Sociology (Paradigm Press, 2009); “Texts, Bodies, and the Memory of Bloody Sunday” (with Brian Conway) Symbolic Interaction 30, 1 (2007); “Cultural Sociology at the Crossroads of the Discipline” (with Mark Jacobs) Poetics 33, 1 (2005); “Nations,” (with Russell Faeges), in Julia Adams, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Ann Shola Orloff, eds., The Making and Unmaking of Modernity: Politics and Processes in Historical Sociology (Duke University Press, 2005); “Causal Reasoning, Historical Logic, and Sociological Explanation,” in Jeff Alexander, Gary Marx, and Christine Williams, eds., Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in the Sociological Thought of Neil J. Smelser (University of California Press, 2004); “When Do Collective Memories Last? Founding Moments in the United States and Australia,” in Jeffry K. Olick, ed., States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection (Duke University Press, 2003); editor, Cultural Sociology (Blackwell, 2002); “Enriching Exchange: Cultural Dimensions of Markets,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58 (1999); “‘Neither the Same Nation Nor Different Nations’: Constitutional Conventions in the United States and Australia,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 38 (1996).
Rev. Tom Streit, CSC (PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1994)
Research Assistant Professor
351 Galvin Life Science Center
574-631-3273
email: tstreit@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~biology/streit.shtml
Lawrence E. Sullivan (PhD, University of Chicago, 1981)
Professor of Theology; Concurrent Professor of Anthropology
323 Malloy Hall
574-631-6418
email: lsulliv3@nd.edu
http://theology.nd.edu/people/all/sullivan-lawrence/index.shtml
Geographic focus: South America, Central Africa, Japan
Thematic interests: Native religions; ritual in post-colonial settings; religious beliefs and practices centered on health and healing; arts and performances associated with ritual.
Selected publications: Stewards of the Sacred (2003); Nature and Rite in Shinto (2002); The Cosmos and Wisdom of Taoism (2002); The Religious Tradition of Judaism (2002); The Theses of Protestantism (2002); The Religious Spirit of the Navajo (2002); associate editor, Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 1988, which was awarded the Dartmouth Medal from the American Library Association).
Lee A. Tavis (DBA, Indiana University, 1969)
C. R. Smith Emeritus Professor of Finance
389A Mendoza College of Business
574-631-7617
email: ltavis@nd.edu
www.business.nd.edu/Faculty/faculty_bio_page.cfm?who=ltavis
Geographic focus: Latin America; Africa; Asia
Thematic interests: Business planning models; potential contribution of multinationals to development.
Current research: Asian and Latin American Apparel Production; The Interaction Between US Agribusiness and Mexican Ejidos in the Mexican Countryside.
Selected publications: Coauthor with Timothy M. Tavis, Values-Based Multinational Management: Achieving Enterprise Sustainability through a Human-Rights Strategy, Volume VI in series on Multinational Managers and Developing Country Concerns (University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming); Review of Ethics in Finance, by John R. Boatright, in Business Ethics Quarterly (October 2001); "Economic Advantage and Moral Issues in Corporate Governance," in Die Zukunft des Wissens: XVIII, Deutscher Kongress fur Philosophie (Verlag, 2000); coauthor, "A Balanced Concept of the Firm and the Measurement of Its Long-term Planning and Performance," Journal of Business Ethics (August 1998); "Actualizing the Developmental Response of Multinational Corporations: The Case of Agribusiness in the Mexican Countryside," University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Economic Law (1997).
J. Samuel Valenzuela (PhD, Columbia University, 1979)
Professor of Sociology
210 Hesburgh Ctr
574-631-6410
email: jvalenzu@nd.edu
http://sociology.nd.edu/faculty/all/valenzuela-samuel/index.shtml
Geographic focus: Latin America; Europe
Thematic interests: Historical and political sociology; democratization; comparative labor movements; religion; development.
Current research: Transitional justice, development and welfare state issues, and religion in Latin America.
Selected publications: Coauthor or coeditor of numerous publications, including El eslabón perdido: familia, modernización y bienestar en Chile (Taurus, 2006) [The Missing Links: Families, Modernization and Welfare Institutions in Chile]; Chile: A Country Study (Federal Research Division, Library of Congress, 1994); Issues in Democratic Consolidation (University of Notre Dame Press, 1992); Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986). The now classic study of 19th century elections Democratización vía reforma: la expansión del sufragio en Chile (IDES, 1985) [Democratization through Reform: T he Expansion of Suffrage in Chile] will appear in an expanded second edition ( Editorial Universitaria, forthcoming). Also the author or coauthor of over 70 scholarly articles in collected works and journals including, most recently: “The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options,” Comparative Politics (October 2007). Two chapters on religious identities and the impacts of religion on social life in Latin America are forthcoming in a coauthored book ( CIEPLAN, Santiago).
Juan Vitulli
Assistant Professor of Iberian and Latin American Literature
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
343 O'Shaughnessy Hall
574-631-7129
email: jvitulli@nd.edu
http://romancelanguages.nd.edu/people/vitulli-juan/
Geographic focus: Spain, Peru, Mexico (16th and 17th centuries)
Thematic interests: Baroque culture; literatures and ideologies; transatlantic studies; national identities; canon formation; the notion of “Criollo” as a floating signifier in Latin America
Current Interests: Baroque culture in the Hispanic world (Spain and Latin America) and its social/political/ideological implications
Selected publications: Coedited with David Solodkow, Poéticas de lo criollo. La transformación del concepto “criollo” en las letras hispanoamericanas (siglos XVI al XIX) (Editorial Corregidor 2009); “Sin tener ojos para ver, haya ojos para llorar: en torno al concepto de representación en la Oración fúnebre a las reales exequias de Carlos II (1701) de Rodrigo de Castro y Mena,” in Fiesta y religión en la América colonial (siglos XVI-XVIII) (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2009); “Polifemo reformado: imitación, comentario y diferencia en la poética de Góngora,” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 41, 1 (2007); “Amar su propia muerte: el drama de la representación criolla,” Bulletin of the Comediantes 58, 1 (2006); “Máquina de penitencia: Don Quijote y la imitación en Sierra Morena,” Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 2 (2005).
Christopher J. Waller (PhD, Washington State University, 1985)
Gilbert Schaefer Professor of Economics (on leave AYs 2009-2011)
441 Flanner Hall
574-631-4963
email: cwaller@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~cwaller/
Geographic focus: International
Thematic interests: Monetary theory, dollarization; political economy of central banking.
Selected publications: Coauthor, “Money, Credit and Banking,” Journal of Economic Theory (July 2007); coauthor, “Heterogeneity and Lotteries in Monetary Search Models,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 39 (2007); coauthor, “The Distribution of Money Balances and the Non-neutrality of Money,” International Economic Review (May 2005); coauthor, "Currency Competition in a Fundamental Model of Money," Journal of International Economics (December 2004); coauthor, “Central Banking in General Equilibrium,” Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (February 2004); “Policy Boards and Policy Smoothing,” Quarterly Journal of Economics (February 2000); coeditor, Regional Aspects of Monetary Union (1999).
Vineeta Yadav (PhD, Yale University, 2007)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
460 Decio
574-631-7214
email: Yadav.2@nd.edu
http://politicalscience.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/vineeta-yadave/index.shtml
Geographic focus: India, China, Brazil, International
Thematic interests: Comparative politics, international economics, and the political economy of economic development.
Current research: Comparative and International Political Economy, Interest Group Behaviour, Comparative Business-Government Relations, Indian and Chinese Politics
Selected publication: "Business Lobbies and Policymaking in Developing Countries Today: From Clientalism To . . .? A Study of India and China" in a special issue of the Journal Of Public Affairs focusing on Interest Groups, Lobbying And Lobbyists In Developing Democracies (forthcoming).
