Kellogg Visiting Fellows and Dissertation Year Fellows Research Spotlight

The Research Spotlight offers a unique opportunity to learn about the projects of the Kellogg Institute's fall Visiting Fellows and current Dissertation Year Fellows. Each will give two-minute overviews of their research, then be available individually for questions and conversation in the Great Hall. This is an occasion to support these scholars, learn about their work, and connect with those who have common research themes or other scholarly interests. Reception and poster presentations to follow in the Great Hall. Click below on individuals' names to learn more about each.

Betsey Behr Brada
Betsey Behr Brada (PhD, University of Chicago) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College. A specialist of southern Africa, her research investigates how individuals and institutions take up, negotiate, and transform aspects of biomedical education and treatment in the context of global health and humanitarian interventions...
Maria Paula Bertran
This profile was current as of 2018 when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Maria Paula Bertran (PhD, University of São Paulo School of Law) will join the Kellogg Institute for the fall 2018 semester as the Brazilian Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Democracy and Human Development...
Maximilian Goedl
Maximilian Goedl is an economist and visiting assistant professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and public finance, focusing on the interaction among government debt, financial markets, and the real economy...
M. Tahir Kilavuz
This profile was current as of 2019, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Tahir is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include authoritarian regimes, regime change and democratization, survey analysis, political Islam and Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) politics, concentrating on Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia...
Will Jianyu Lu
This profile was current as of 2019, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Will Jianyu Lu is broadly interested in development, trade, and macroeconomics. His current research studies the impact of transportation infrastructure on firm dynamics in China. He is also working on another project analyzing the relationship between labor market flows and development...
Victoria Paniagua
Victoria Paniagua is a 2018-2019 Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow whose research lies at the intersection of comparative and international political economy. Her research investigates the historical and contemporary drivers of development and redistribution in developing countries with a regional focus on Latin America...
Diego Sanchez-Ancochea
Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (PhD, New School for Social Research), a 2018-2019 Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow, is a political economist whose research is focused on income inequality, social policy, and the political economy of development in Latin America. While at Kellogg, Sanchez-Ancochea will continue his research on the relationship between economic and political inequality...
Lucia Tiscornia
Lucía Tiscornia is an external research affiliate of the Kellogg Institute's Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab (V-TJLab). Tiscornia is an assistant professor in international studies at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) whose research focuses on conflict termination, security sector reform, and criminal violence...
Ignacio Walker
Ignacio Walker, the Kellogg Institute’s Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy in fall 2018, is an academic and former politician. Both a scholar and practitioner of politics in Latin America, Walker is the senior research fellow at Corporación de Estudios para Latinoamérica (CIEPLAN), a center for the study of Latin America in Santiago...