Fellows Spotlight: Meet the Kellogg Visiting and Dissertation Year Fellows

Please join the Kellogg Institute in our annual tradition that introduces research of our new Visiting Fellows and Dissertation Year Fellows in an informative and inviting atmosphere.
- Learn firsthand why Kellogg has invested in the work of these fellows from brief, two-minute research overview presentations in the Hesburgh Center Auditorium
- Delve deeper into research that interests you during an informal poster reception in the Hesburgh Center Great Hall following the Auditorium presentations
- Connect one-to-one with scholars and potential collaborators while you enjoy refreshments and conversation
Click below on individuals' names to learn more about our Visiting and Dissertation Year Fellows and their projects.

Sebastian Elischer
Sebastian Elischer is an associate professor of political science at the University of Florida whose work analyzes the interplay between identities and institutions. His research encompasses political Islam, violent extremism, and ethnicity, how identities shape and affect procedural democratization in sub-Saharan Africa, and the nature and effect of religious regulation in areas of weak statehood...
César Estrada
This profile was current as of 2021, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. César Estrada is a lecturer at the Department of Sociopolitical and Legal Studies at the Western Institute of Higher Education (ITESO), the Jesuit University of Guadalajara, where he teaches courses on criminal violence in Mexico...
Laura García Montoya
This profile was current as of 2021, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Laura García Montoya is an Assistant Professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto. García Montoya studies the political economy of inequality and political violence in Latin America...
Julio Juárez Gámiz
This profile was current as of 2021, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Julio Juárez Gámiz is an associate professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Sciences and Humanities at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) with expertise in political psychology, strategic communication and social behavior research...
Jordi Paniagua
Jordi Paniagua is a professor of economics at the University of Valencia (Spain) and a Distinguished Research Affiliate at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame...
Moumouni Soumano
This profile was current as of 2022, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Moumouni Soumano is assistant professor of administrative and political sciences University of Bamako (Mali) and the Kellogg Institute’s 2021-2022 Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy. He studies development cooperation in fragile and conflict-affected states, with a focus on linking research and policy reform...
Francisco Urbina
Francisco J. Urbina joined the Law School in December 2022 and became a Kellogg faculty fellow in 2023. Urbina was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute and a concurrent visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School during the spring of 2022. His primary areas of work are human rights, jurisprudence, and constitutional law...