Undergraduate Programs
Kellogg International Scholars Program Research Night
Mon
Feb
05
First-years
Become a part of a 21-year history at the University of Notre Dame. Interact with students and faculty who conduct research on the critical issues of today. Network with the ISP community and learn how you can apply to be a part of this competitive program.
Join us for a brief information session and reception.
Program
Welcome and introduction to Kellogg – Holly Rivers, Associate Director, Kellogg Institute
Introduction of the Program – Rachel Thiel, Program Manager, Kellogg Institute
Opening Comments – Audrey Feldman ’24 (economics and global affairs)
Research Pairs – International Scholars and Faculty Fellows
- Abigail Keaney '24 (global affairs and political science) and Brian Ó Conchubhair, Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature
- Anna Mittag '24 (chemical engineering) and Ellis Adjei Adams, Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Policy
- Chizoma Duru '25 (economics and gender studies) and Lakshmi Iyer, Professor of Economics and Global Affairs
- Will Hurley '24 (economics and global affairs) and Eva Dziadula, Teaching Professor of Economics
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James Thompson ‘26 (peace studies and sociology) and Atalia Omer, Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies
Questions and Answers - Rachel Thiel
Speakers / Related People
Audrey Feldman ‘24
Audrey Feldman has a research interest in human capital development. She is working with Professor TJ D’Agostino, director of the International Education Research Initiative, to research best practices in improving educational outcomes. Feldman is working on a collaboration between Notre Dame and USAID on implementation research for early grade literacy interventions in international developing contexts...
Abigail Keaney ‘24
Abigail Keaney is a political science and global affairs major assisting Professor Brian Ó Conchubhair in his work on Irish language and literature. She supports his research on the contemporary and historic linguistic and cultural politics of Northern Ireland, specifically the conception of a post-Brexit Northern Ireland. She has also assisted with work on anthologies of medieval Irish poetry and Irish short stories...
Brian Ó Conchubhair
Brian Ó Conchubhair is Associate Professor of Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on cultural nationalism; language revitalization; language politics; Irish-language fiction; the European fin de siècle; and modernism. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2017...
Anna Mittag ‘24
Anna Mittag is a senior studying chemical engineering and poverty studies with research interests in sustainability, environmental justice, public health, and human rights. Through ISP, Mittag works with Professor Ellis Adjei Adams of the Keough School of Global Affairs on research surrounding human-water interactions in the global south...
Ellis Adjei Adams
Ellis Adjei Adams is an associate professor of geography and environmental policy at the Keough School of Global Affairs. He is affiliated with the University of Notre Dame’s Environmental Change Initiative and the Eck Institute for Global Health. Adams has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2020...
Chizoma Duru ‘25
Chizoma Duru is a junior studying economics, with minors in sustainability and French, from Lagos, Nigeria. For the past two years, Duru has worked with Professor Lakshmi Iyer on the impacts of women's suffrage on women's political participation in the United States of America, specifically on the local level...
Lakshmi Iyer
Lakshmi Iyer is Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary research fields are development economics and political economy, with a special emphasis on property rights and the distribution of political power within societies...
Will Hurley ‘24
Will Hurley is a senior majoring in economics and global affairs interested in security studies and political economy. He works with Professor Eva Dziadula in the economics department with a focus on immigration. Currently, they are working on a project that creates a global-scale migration model centered on neoclassical economic migration theory and leveraging Python as the base modeling platform...
Eva Dziadula
Eva Dziadula is a teaching professor in economics who studies migration choices and immigrant assimilation. Her work focuses on how people acquire citizenship, and her research encompasses labor economics, health economics, and development economics, as well as economic demography. Dziadula has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2019...
James Thompson ‘26
James Thompson is a sophomore who studies sociology and peace studies. As a Kellogg International Scholar he works with Atalia Omer on issues surrounding religious engagement concerning Palestine/Israel. Specifically, Thompson is interesting in Black and Latin American engagement with and opposition of Christian Zionism...
Atalia Omer
Atalia Omer is professor of religion, conflict, and peace studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She specializes in the study of religion, nationalism, and peace-building; diasporas and conflict transformation and peace; multiculturalism; conflict transformation and justice; and theories and methods in the study of religion...
Holly Rivers
Holly Rivers is the Associate Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where she develops and administers all undergraduate programs. She has 20 years’ experience creating and developing programs for undergraduate students interested in research and development. In the past two decades she has worked to develop programs that are responsive to the needs and interests of our students and faculty...