International Development Studies Meeting

International Development Studies Meeting
The focus of the meeting will be the field research projects and several faculty as well as seniors will be at the meeting to talk about your ideas, share advice and answer questions. This is a networking event so you will have the opportunity to move around the room and meet with faculty and students you think could be helpful to you for your project. All IDS students should attend. Dinner will be provided.
All IDS students must register for this event.
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Irla Atanda ‘20
Irla Atanda is a senior IDS Minor majoring in American Studies with additional minors in business economics and theology. Atanda won a 2019-2020 Kellogg/Kroc Undergraduate Research Grant for her project, “The Venezuelan Migrants: Encountering Social Barriers in the Labor Market...
Colleen Ballantyne ‘20
Colleen Ballantyne is a senior IDS Minor majoring in biological sciences. Ballantyne won a 2019-2020 Kellogg/Kroc Undergraduate Research Grant to spend eight weeks in Haryana, India, conducting her project, “When 'Number Two' is Public Enemy Number One: A Study on How Women Experience the Consequences of Open Defecation in Rural North India.” She continues this research as her IDS capstone project.
Marie Donahue
Marie Collins Donahue is the Notre Dame Haiti Program Director in the College of Science, an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Biological Sciences, and a faculty member at the Eck Institute for Global Health. She has spent the last eleven years working in global health programs in nine African countries...Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC
Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, '87, Vice President and Associate Provost for interdisciplinary initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, is an Africanist whose research interests include religion, development, and political culture...
Deborah Durham
This profile was current as of 2020, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Deborah Durham is a cultural anthropologist. She specializes in the study of youth and identity, both in Botswana and worldwide, and she has also studied aging and the middle class in Turkey. Her recent research has focused on complaints voiced around the world about obtaining adulthood and the meaning of adulthood...
Kevin Fink ‘14
Kevin Fink works as a program manager II within Pulte Institute's Innovation and Practice Division. He provides proposal development and project management for global development programs, with a particular interest in programs that leverage scientific and/or engineering innovations to tackle the world’s toughest challenges...
Bernard Nahlen
Dr. Bernard Nahlen is the Director of the Eck Institute for Global Health. His career is dedicated to addressing diseases that disproportionately impact people in low- and middle-income countries. From 2007-2017, he served as the Deputy Coordinator of the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)...
Susan Ostermann
Susan Ostermann is an assistant professor of global affairs at the University of Notre Dame and an expert in comparative politics in South Asia, regulatory compliance, and environmental regulation. Her work seeks to understand why actors comply with regulations in unlikely circumstances, such as when states are weak or actors have strong incentives to break the law...
Susan D. Page
Susan D. Page began her foreign affairs career at the US Department of State in 1991 and has served in a range of key roles internationally, including as the first US ambassador to the new nation of the Republic of South Sudan from 2011 to 2014...
Patrizio Piraino
Patrizio Piraino is the director of the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity at the Kellogg Institute and an associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs. His research focuses on the intersection of education and development, including human capital and labor market policies in developing regions, and the broader determinants of socio-economic disadvantage...
Steve Reifenberg
Steve Reifenberg is the senior strategic advisor of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also a teaching professor of international development and co-director of the Integration Lab (i-Lab) in the Keough School of Global Affairs and a Kellogg faculty fellow...