Undergraduate Programs
Research Networking Session
Mon
Nov
13
For the first time, the two undergraduate research programs of the Kellogg Institute will come together for a networking session. Students of the Kellogg International Scholars Program and Kellogg Developing Researchers Program have the opportunity to join with Kellogg faculty to learn about their research and discuss the work they're doing on the themes of global development and democracy. Faculty will present their work, and then will be available at the reception to meet and answer questions about research.
Networking Tips
- Prepare a brief introduction about yourself for peers and faculty — A few key questions that your spiel should answer are: Who are you? What do you study? What are your research interests? Are you doing research with faculty? If so, what is that research?
- Learn more about the faculty fellows who will be attending prior to the event — Make use of the profiles on the web to determine which faculty fellows and peers you would like to connect with based on similar interests.
- Put yourself out there and be authentic — One of the best ways to start small-talk is to display genuine interest in the faculty fellow’s or student’s field of study and research.
- Approach the event with an open mind — Remain open to exploring new ideas, interacting with new students, and meeting new faculty fellows and peers even if they weren’t already on your list.
- Maintain your networks — Express your gratitude and/or continued interest in getting to know more about the faculty fellows and your peers through a follow-up email or invitation to coffee.
Speakers / Related People
Edward (Ted) Beatty
A historian specializing in economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Ted Beatty served as interim director of the Kellogg Institute from 2007 to 2009 and associate dean in the Keough School of Global Affairs from 2015 to 2022. His research has examined the role of institutions in economic development and the history of technological change in Mexico...
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...
Joshua Eisenman
Joshua Eisenman ( 马 佳 士 ) is a professor of politics at the Keough School of Global Affairs and a senior fellow for China studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. His research focuses on the political economy of China's development and its foreign relations with the United States and the developing world – particularly Africa. Eisenman has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2019...
Lakshmi Iyer
Lakshmi Iyer is Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Her primary research fields are development economics and political economy, with a special emphasis on property rights and the distribution of political power within societies...
Rithika Kumar
This profile was current as of 2024, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Rithika Kumar is a postdoctoral visiting fellow with the Kellogg Institute whose research contributes to scholarship on gender and politics, comparative political behavior, the politics of migration and urbanization, and South Asian politics. During her time at Kellogg, she will work to turn her dissertation into a book...
Santosh Kumar
Santosh Kumar is associate professor of development and global health economics in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He also is an affiliate of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health and has been a faculty fellow of the Kellogg Institute since 2023...
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...
Jaime M. Pensado
Jaime M. Pensado is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. Pensado’s main interests include modern Mexican history with a particular emphasis in student politics, youth culture, and the Cold War. He has been a Kellogg Institute faculty fellow since 2008...