Special Event
Kellogg International Scholars Program Research Night
Mon
Feb
06
If you are a first-year student 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 attend the reception to get your questions answered and network with students and faculty.
Program
Welcome and Introduction of the Kellogg Institute – Holly Rivers, Associate Director, Kellogg Institute
Introduction of the Program - Rachel Thiel, Program Manager, Kellogg Institute
Opening Comments - Luke Schafer '23 (economics/global affairs)
Research Pairs – International Scholars and Faculty Fellows
- Dan Krill '24 (computer science) and Michael Coppedge, Professor of Political Science
- Anna Lee '23 (anthropology and pre-health) and Rahul Oka, Research Associate Professor of Global Affairs
- Isa Sheikh '25 (history and political science) and Susan Ostermann, Assistant Professor of Global Affairs
- Anna Kulczycka '24 (business analytics and design) and Terry McDonnell, Associate Professor of Sociology
- Angelique Mbabazi '24 (civil engineering) and Tracy Kijewski-Correa, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Closing Comments - Halle Keane '25 (economics/Spanish)
Speakers / Related People
Luke Schafer ‘23
This profile was current as of May 2023, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Luke Schafer is a senior from Williamston, Michigan double majoring in economics and global affairs with a minor in constitutional studies. He formerly researched alongside Professor John Firth of the economics department and focused on development economics on the Indian Subcontinent...
Daniel Krill ‘24
This profile was current as of May 2024, when he was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Dan Krill is a senior majoring in computer science in the College of Engineering with minors in French and Francophone studies and engineering corporate practice. Krill is assisting Professor Michael Coppedge in his research on the contagion of democracy across online mediums...
Michael Coppedge
Michael Coppedge is professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research interests include democratization and the quality of democracy; Latin American parties and party systems; Venezuelan politics; and comparative politics methodology. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 1995...
Anna Lee ‘23
This profile was current as of May 2023, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Anna Lee is a senior majoring in anthropology and pre-health. Lee is currently working on a project with Rahul Oka, Ph.D. studying the parallels of social insects and human societies...
Rahul Oka
Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow Rahul Oka is a research associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs. Oka is an economic anthropologist and his research interests include the anthropology of urbanism, social network analysis, the development of complex socio-economic systems, applications of agent-based simulation modeling techniques to anthropology and archaeometry/materials analysis...
Isa Sheikh ‘25
Isa Sheikh is a junior from Sacramento, California studying political science and history. He is currently working with Professor Susan Ostermann on her research pertaining to the 2018 merger of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan, and its implications on the Weberian definition of the state as well as what it means for the understanding of coercion...
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. She has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2018...
Anna Kulczycka ‘24
This profile was current as of May 2024, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Anna Kulczycka is a senior working with Professor Terence McDonnell to write a thesis surrounding the evolution of fast fashion and how consumer behaviors contribute to the phenomenon...
Terence McDonnell
Terry McDonnell is associate professor of sociology and the department chair and a concurrent faculty member of the Keough School of Global Affairs. He is a cultural sociologist (Ph.D. 2009, Northwestern University) who studies objects and media in everyday life. McDonnell has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2011...
Angelique Mbabazi ‘24
This profile was current as of May 2024, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Angelique Mbabazi is pursuing a Civil Engineering degree at Notre Dame. For the past 2 years, Mbabazi has worked with Professor Tracy Kijewski-Correa on the earthquake that took place in Haiti in August, 2021...
Tracy L. Kijewski-Correa
Tracy Kijewski-Correa is the William J. Pulte Director of the Pulte Institute for Global Development in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where she also serves as Academic Director of the School’s Integration Lab (i-Lab)...