Faculty in Public Policy - Archive
2009-10
R. Scott Appleby cochaired a Chicago Council of Global Affairs task force examining the positive role that religions and people of faith can have in global relations. Including academics, policymakers, lawyers, and religious leaders, the group released the report “Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for US Foreign Policy.”
Jeffrey Bergstrand helped to provide the European Commission with a large-scale analysis of the effects of reducing non-tariff measures (NTMs) on EU-US international trade and investment. The study was the first systematic analysis of its kind.
He also gave an invited lecture at the Directorate General for Trade at the European Commission in Brussels in April. “Measuring the Impact of Free Trade Agreements on International Trade Flows” discussed a methodology that he developed with Scott Baier (partially funded by the Kellogg Institute) and published in the Journal of International Economics 77, 1 (2009).
Daniel Brinks advised senior legal staff of international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on how to improve their evaluations of the developing world’s legal systems at a high-profile roundtable in Washington, DC in March 2010.
Jorge Bustamante visited Japan in March in his capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants.
Paolo Carozza, a member of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), observed the human rights situation in Honduras on an IACHR fact-finding mission in August. The delegation released a preliminary report at the mission’s conclusion.
Doug Cassel took part in an October 22 briefing for Congress, “Honduras: More than a Coup, a Challenge to US Policy in Latin America,” asserting that there was no legal basis for the coup d’état in Honduras.
In May 2010, Cassel was also one of ten experts from around the world invited by UNESCO and the Spanish Association for International Human Rights Law to help draft a proposed universal declaration of the human right to peace.
Michael Coppedge was appointed to the American Political Science Association (APSA) Gabriel A. Almond Award Committee and the APSA President’s Task Force on Democracy Audits and Governmental Indicators.
Rev. Daniel Groody, CSC, was one of seven academic experts selected to participate in the Vatican’s sixth World Congress on the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees.
George Lopez testified on December 15 before the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, arguing against the imposition of severe economic sanctions on Iran in an effort to halt its nuclear weapons program.
Semion Lyandres coedits the Journal of Modern Russian History and Historiography and was appointed commentator for Radio Liberty/Radio Europe in summer 2009.
Scott Mainwaring was appointed to the International Advisory Board of the AmericasBarometer.
Juan Rivera and former Visiting Fellow Adrian de Leon Arias gave an invited presentation on the social venture model and sustainability of the Kellogg Institute’s successful Notre Dame–University of Guadalajara TIES partnership at the conference “Tools for Building Sustainable Partnerships,” organized by USAID and Higher Education for Development (HED) and held in Veracruz, Mexico, in October.
Stephen E. Silliman was an invited panelist on energy and sustainability at the international engineering conference “Alternative Energy Applications: Option or Necessity,” held in Kuwait City, Kuwait in November.
Rev. Thomas Streit, CSC met with former President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Carter in October 2009 to brief them on Notre Dame’s social and health initiatives in Haiti. The meeting came in conjunction with the former president’s visit to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to urge political leaders in both countries to work together to rid Hispaniola, the island they share, of both malaria and lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis or LF).
J. Samuel Valenzuela published three op-ed articles in the Chilean press on inter-American and Chilean political affairs.
2008–09
Jefferey H. Bergstrand is one of four members of an Academic Advisory Board to the European Commission for a study evaluating the effects of non-tariff barriers on international trade and investment between the United States and the European Union. Bergstrand is preparing a paper on the theoretical and econometric methodology for the study and overseeing its empirical implementation. He is also advising the Swiss government’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs on methodology to evaluate the impact of potential Swiss free trade agreements.
Jorge Bustamante, special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants for the United Nations, took part in the UN’s Durban Review Conference, “United against Racism: Dignity and Justice to All,” held in Geneva April 20–24, 2009. Bustamante also undertook UN official missions to Romania and the United Kingdom in July.
Allert Brown-Gort was interviewed on the PBS “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” when President Obama visited Mexico in April, providing context for new policy directions on border issues.
Gilberto Cárdenas was appointed by President Bush to a seven-member commission to study the potential creation of a National Museum of the American Latino.
Daniel Lende received the 2009 Rodney F. Ganey, PhD, Faculty Community-Based Research Award. The $5,000 award, presented by the University’s Center for Social Concerns, honors a Notre Dame faculty member whose research addresses a need in the local community, placing learning “at the service of society.”
George A. Lopez reported on “The Efficacy of US and UN Sanctions on Iraq” for the United States General Accounting Office in spring 2008.
Monika Nalepa was asked by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Justice, Freedom, and Security to prepare an expert “National Report” on Poland as part of the EC’s project “How the memory of crimes committed by totalitarian and/or other repressive regimes in Europe is dealt with in the member states.”
María Rosa Olivera Williams received the Las Estrellas del Año 2008 Award for education at South Bend’s first annual Latino Community Service Awards Ceremony. Olivera Williams was honored for her long-standing work with the South Bend schools as well as with Latino students at the University of Notre Dame. Among the 34 northern Indiana leaders nominated for the awards were Kellogg faculty fellows Allert Brown-Gort and Gilberto Cárdenas.
Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC, directed an educational tour to Chile in spring 2009. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Alumni Association, the tour had as its theme “Chile, the Delicate Balance Between Church and State.”
Dianne Pinderhughes was named to the National Advisory Committee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, which fosters the development of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology. The committee is composed of 13 nationally recognized experts in social science and health policy.
Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC, received a 2008 Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the highest honors the president can confer upon a civilian. The award recognizes US citizens who have performed exemplary deeds of service for the nation. He also received the 2008 Voyager Award from the Diocese of Dallas, TX, for contributions to Catholic education, and was appointed to the Catholic School Board of Advisors of the Archdiocese of Chicago (2008–11).
Lyn Spillman was named to the Editorial Board of the Sociological Forum and to the Executive Committee of the Social Science History Association.
Vania Smith-Oka is the president-elect of the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, an international organization working to build strong and active networks among scholars interested in the anthropology of reproduction.
Christopher J. Waller was named senior vice president and director of research for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. With research interests that include monetary theory, political economy, and macroeconomic theory, he was a visiting scholar at the St. Louis Fed in 1994–95. Waller, who began his appointment in July 2009, has picked a challenging time for public service. Among other responsibilities, the Federal Reserve system is charged with managing the nation’s supply of money and credit and regulating certain banking institutions to ensure their safety and soundness.
2007–08
Paolo Carozza was unanimously elected chairman (2008) of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the principal international body responsible for the protection and promotion of human rights in the Western hemisphere. An associate professor at Notre Dame’s Law School, Carozza is serving a four-year term on the commission, where he serves as an independent expert rather than a representative of the US government.
Rev. Virgilio P. Elizondo, Notre Dame Professor of Pastoral and Hispanic Theology, was awarded the 2007 Community of Christ International Peace Award at the 2007 Peace Colloquy in Independence, MO for his work in advocating full inclusion and justice for immigrants. Fr. Elizondo and his corecipient, Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers Union, both gave keynote addresses.
Rev. Gustavo Gutirrez, OP, the John Cardinal O’Hara Chair in Theology, received the Sophia Award, presented on November 17, 2007 by the Washington Theological Union, Washington, DC, for his significant contributions to ministry.
Victoria Tin-Bor Hui was named an external reviewer for the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, in Taipei. Hui was also appointed academic advisor to the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, an educational foundation based in Washington, DC.
Kwan S. Kim will serve on the advisory board of the International Banking, Economics, and Finance Association (IBEFA) for 2009–10.
George Lopez provided expert testimony on “The efficacy of US and UN sanctions on Iran,” for the United States General Accountability Office on April 18, 2007.
Mary Ellen O’Connell testified before Congress in November 2007 as part of an expert panel on “Preserving America’s Global Leadership through International Law and Justice.”
Guillermo O’Donnell gave the keynote speech for the international forum “Democracy after the Third Wave,” organized in Taipei in summer 2008 by Taiwan Thinktank to discuss the problems and challenges faced by new democracies.
Rev. Robert Pelton, CSC, and Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC, joined President Jimmy Carter at a ceremony commemorating the 30th anniversary of the United States’ return of the Panama Canal to Panama in 1977. Panamanian graduates of Notre Dame honored both men’s commitment to inter-American relations with gifts of huaca—pre-Colombian artifacts of gold, which were traditionally buried with their owners to ensure that they escaped the conquistadors’ melting pots. He was inducted into Notre Dame’s Monogram Club for having established varsity swimming at the University 50 years ago. The Monogram Club gives varsity letters to athletes.
Dianne M. Pinderhughes was installed as president of the American Political Science Association on September 1, 2007.
Rev. Timothy R. Scully, CSC, gave an address at the April 2008 “White House Summit on Inner-City Children and Faith-Based Schools,” where the president lauded Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE).
J. Samuel Valenzuela, professor of sociology, saw his research inform a Chilean presidential commission on pension reform, resulting in a proposal for a universal pension system that was enacted into law by the Chilean Congress in early 2008. In El eslabón perdido: familia, modernización y bienestar en Chile (Taurus, 2006), which he coedited with Rev. Timothy Scully, CSC, and former Visiting Fellow Eugenio Tironi, Valenzuela showed that a universal pension system would aid, rather than hinder, economic development in Chile. Mario Marcel, appointed by President Bachelet of Chile to lead a presidential commission on pension reform in 2006, used Valenzuela’s arguments, as laid out in the book, to convince commission members to support universal coverage.
2008
Front row (l-r): Guillermo O'Donnell, Helen Kellogg Professor of Government at University of Notre Dame and prominent theorist on democratization theory in Latin America; Andre Sapir, Brussels-based economist and expert in European convergence and globalization; Helen Caldicott, Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1985 for her campaigning on nuclear disarmament; Prime Minister of Spain Mr. Jose Luis Zapatero; Joseph Stiglitz, Economics Nobel Prize Winner in 2001 and former Chief Economist and Vice-President of the World Bank; Barbara Probst-Solomon, US writer and columnist; Sir. Nicholas Stern.- Former Chief Economist and Vice-President of the World Bank, present holder of the IG Patel Chair at the London School of Economics and author of the widely-praised Stern Review on the economic cost of climate change.
Back row (l-r): Torben Iversen, Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University; Jesus Caldera, Spain's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and Coordinator of the 2008 Presidential Campaign; Wolfgang Merkel, Professor of Political Sciences at the University of Heidelberg; George Lakoff, Linguistics Professor at the University of California, Berkeley; Jeremy Rifkin, Founder and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends in the US; Maria Joao Rodriguez. Portuguese Economics Professor
PAOLO CAROZZA serves as one of just seven elected members of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an international body that promotes the observance and defense of human rights for 35 nations in the Western Hemisphere. Carozza, halfway through his four-year term, is helping the commission process more than 800 cases brought by individuals or NGOs alleging human rights abuses. (more...)
GUILLERMO O'DONNELL serves on the advisory board of International Progressive Intellectuals of PSOE - Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Workers' Socialist Party of Spain) (see photo above). The board will help draft a strong and coherent manifesto for 2008 as well as future government policy.
MICHAEL COPPEDGE taught a one-week workshop on “Applied Research Methods” at the Institute for Development Studies in Brighton, England, in June.
TIN-BOR VICTORIA HUI has been named an external reviewer for the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica, in Taipei.
GEORGE LOPEZ provided expert testimony on “The efficacy of US and UN sanctions on Iran,” for the United States General Accountability Office on April 18, 2007. From March to October, he served as an external reviewer for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Program in Science, Technology, and Security. In addition, in an interview broadcast November 5, Lopez discussed his new book Uniting Against Terrorism on Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview.
MARY ELLEN O’CONNELL testified before Congress in November as part of an expert panel on “Preserving America’s Global Leadership through International Law and Justice.” Later in the month, she gave the invited presentation “Responsibility to Peace” at the international symposium “The ‘Responsibility to Protect’: Progress, Empty Promise, or a License for ‘Humanitarian’ Intervention?” in Bonn.
GUILLERMO O’DONNELL gave the keynote speech for the international forum “Democracy after the Third Wave,” organized in Taipei in July by Taiwan Thinktank to discuss the problems and challenges faced by new democracies.
DIANNE M. PINDERHUGHES was installed as president of the American Political Science Association on September 1, during the association’s annual meeting in Chicago.
2007
Jorge A. Bustamante addressed the UN General Assembly in October as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.
Michael Coppedge gave invited testimony, “Keeping Democracy on Track: Hotspots in Latin America,” before the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee of the House International Relations Committee on September 28, 2005. Also in Washington, he served as discussant when “The Effects of US Foreign Assistance on Democracy Building: Results of a Cross-National Quantitative Study,” a report prepared for USAID by Steven Finkel, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Mitchell Seligson and Dinorah Azpuru, was presented at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He also presented “[Venezuelan] Domestic Politics Defined” at the conference “Hugo Chávez’s Prospects at Home and Abroad,” sponsored by the Office of External Research, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, US Department of State.
Georges Enderle lectured on “Corporate Responsibility in the CSR Debate” for the seminar “La responsibilidad social corporativa: entre la ética y la strategia,” organized by the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. He also participated in the keynote session “Business Ethicists Between All Frontiers” at the European Business Ethics Network conference in Bonn, Germany.
Richard A. Jensen participated in a panel discussion at “The 25th Anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act,” at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).
Kwan S. Kim presented the keynote “Global Poverty Gap” at the Foreign Policy Lecture Series organized by the World Affairs Council in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and also spoke on “Safeguarding Against Crisis: East Asian Financial Cooperation” at the joint session of the Western Economic Association and the North American Economic and Finance Association.
Miriam Kornblith participated in the panel “The Influence of Political Reforms on Democratic Governability” and presented the paper “The Recall in Venezuela: Context, Content and Assessment” at the conference “Governability and Political Reform: New Challenges for Democracy,” held in Guatemala City and attended by members of political parties and NGOs involved in political affairs in Guatemala. The conference was sponsored by the Program on Democratic Values and Political Management of the OAS office
in Guatemala and by the office of the Vice-
Presidency of Guatemala.
George Lopez, with David Cortright, provided expert testimony to the UN Security Council Sanctions Working Group on “Innovations of the 1990s in UN Sanctions.” He was also interviewed about the UN’s Oil-for-Food program by Chicago Public Radio’s Worldview and NPR’s Marketplace.
Guillermo O'Donnell has been appointed member of the International Committee of the International Forum for Peace and Civilization. The Forum is institutionally located in the Academy of Korean Studies, Korea.
