Open House - Kellogg Institute for International Studies Undergraduate Student Programs
Monday, September 9
Tent on Hesburgh-Mendoza Quad
4-6pm
Food, Fun and Kellogg
Join Kellogg students, faculty and staff for food, prizes and games while learning about Kellogg student programs. Pick up Kellogg swag and submit your name for prizes that will be raffled off throughout the event. Prizes will include t-shirts, Starbuck's gift cards and a Grand Prize! (Must be present to win.)
Learn how you can be funded for international research, join the Kellogg International Scholars Program or Kellogg Developing Researchers Program and engage in global issues of today.
Faculty and students will lead games on the quad and share information about their experiences with the Kellogg Institute. Games will include bocce ball, tic tac toe on the quad, big block jenga, yard bowling, cornhole, flamingo ring toss, and more.
Learn more about the faculty who will be available that night by reading their profiles below:
Ted Beatty is professor of history and global affairs, holding a joint appointment with the Department of History and the Keough School of Global Affairs. A historian specializing in economic development in Latin America, especially Mexico, he has examined the role of institutions in economic development, the intellectual and material bases of policy formation, and the history of technological change.
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.
Brian Ó Conchubhair is a 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.
Ray Offenheiser is a professor of the practice in the Keough School of Global Affairs, and Director of the McKenna Center for Human Development and Global Business. Previously Offenheiser served as Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development from 2017 to 2023. His areas of expertise and research interests include poverty alleviation, inequality, human rights, US foreign policy, and international development.
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.
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán is the director of the Kellogg Institute and a professor of political science and global affairs, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Keough School of Global Affairs. His research focuses on democratization, the rule of law, political stability, and institutional performance among new democracies.
Steve Reifenberg is a teaching professor of international development in the Keough School of Global Affairs and a Kellogg faculty fellow. His teaching and research interests in international education, international development, and negotiations build upon work carried out in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, including more than a decade living overseas, primarily in Chile.