Undergraduate Programs
Kellogg International Scholars Program Research Night
Mon
Jan
31
If you are a first year interested in applying to the Kellogg International Scholars Program, or a Faculty Fellow of the Kellogg Institute or the Keough School of Global Affairs interested in working with the program, this event is for you! Come learn about the research current International Scholars are doing with their faculty advisers. Then network with students and faculty to get your questions answered.
Program
Welcome and Introduction of the Program – Holly Rivers, Associate Director, Kellogg Institute
Opening Comments – John O’Leary ’23 (international economics)
Research Pairs – International Scholars and Faculty Fellows
- Will Hurley ‘24 (economics and global affairs) and Eva Dziadula, Associate Teaching Professor of Economics
- Annie Foley ’22 (anthropology and global affairs) and Rachel Sweet, Assistant Professor of Politics and Global Affairs
- Trevor Lwere ’22 (economics and global affairs) and Jaimie Bleck, Associate Professor of Political Science
- Annika Barron ’24 (neuroscience & behavior and global affairs), Megan Kendall '22 (pre-health studies and sociology) and Vania Smith-Oka, Associate Professor of Anthropology
- Hind Zahour ’22 (computer science and industrial design) and Rev. Paul V. Kollman, CSC, Associate Professor of Theology
Closing Comments – Angelique Mbabazi ’24 (civil engineering)
Speakers / Related People
John O'Leary ‘23
John (Jack) O’Leary is working with Professor Alejandro Estefan, who studies human development with the goal of informing policy decision-making in Latin America and elsewhere. O’Leary has worked on a variety of projects for Prof. Estefan, from exploratory research on conditional cash transfers to assisting on a randomized control trial studying the impact of virtual training on micro-franchises...
Will Hurley ‘24
Will Hurley is a junior majoring in economics and global affairs interested in security studies and political economy. He works with Professor Eva Dziadula in the economics department focusing 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 and Jupyter 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...
Anne Foley ‘22
Annie Foley is a senior majoring in anthropology and global affairs. She has held several leadership roles at the Keough School over the past three years, including as Co-Chair for the 2021 Human Development Conference, teaching assistant for multiple undergraduate courses, and coordinator of the global affairs mentorship program. Foley is also engaged with research in various capacities, and currently works with Dr...
Rachel Sweet
Rachel Sweet is an assistant professor of politics and global affairs at the Keough School of Global Affairs, a core faculty member of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and a concurrent faculty member with the Department of Political Science...
Trevor Lwere ‘22
Trevor Lwere is a senior from Kampala, Uganda. Lwere is currently working with Professor Jaimie Bleck in the political science department to study the incentives for civil society organizations to flag corruption in Mali. Lwere is also co-authoring an introduction article to a special issue of a journal entitled, “The Future of Youth in the Sahel” to be published in the Canadian Journal of African Studies in 2022...
Jaimie Bleck
Jaimie Bleck is an associate professor of political science and the senior research advisor for the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. She also is a concurrent faculty member in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Bleck’s research interests include electoral politics, citizenship, governance, and political behavior in Africa with a focus on Mali...
Annika Barron ‘24
Annika Barron is working with Dr. Nikhit D’Sa in the Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child. Their work centers around developing and assessing social and emotional learning programs in low-resource and fragile settings. This year she will primarily work on projects relating to early childhood development in Haiti and Kenya...
Megan Kendall ‘22
Megan Kendall is a senior Arts and Letters pre-health and sociology major. Kendall’s research interests include global health, as well as medical institutions and the effect they have on marginalized populations. As a research assistant, Kendall completes data organization, transcription, and literature reviews to support Professor Smith-Oka’s projects on medical spaces, and reproductive health...
Vania Smith-Oka
Kellogg Faculty Fellow Vania Smith-Oka is Professor of Anthropology. Smith-Oka is a cultural and medical anthropologist who specializes in the effect of institutions on the behavior and choices of marginalized populations, especially women. She has explored the impact of an economic development program on the reproductive lives and motherhood of indigenous women in eastern Mexico...
Hind Zahour ‘22
Hind Zahour's interests are focused on counter terrorism through cybersecurity as well as the way that religion and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East are intertwined and shaped the history, culture and identity of many countries. Zahour is working with Rev. Paul Kollman, CSC. Zahour’s research will be focused on the translation of missionary journals in Africa from French to English...
Rev. Paul V. Kollman, CSC
Rev. Paul V. Kollman, CSC, is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology at the Unversity of Notre Dame. Kollman serves in the areas of history of Christianity and World Religions/World Church. His research focuses on African Christianity, mission history, and world Christianity, and he has carried out research in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, as well as in archives in Europe and the US...