Rev. Patrick D. Gaffney, csc

Associate Professor of Anthropology
(PhD, University of Chicago, 1982)
622 Flanner
574-631-4113
email: pgaffney@nd.edu
www.nd.edu/~anthro/faculty/Gaffney.html

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.