General Academic
Research Spotlight Luncheon
Tue
Sep
26
The Research Spotlight Luncheon 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 the work of these scholars, learn about their work, and connect with those who have common research themes or other scholarly interests. A box lunch will be served beginning at noon, with dessert following in the Great Hall. Click below on individuals' names to learn more about them.
Speakers / Related People
Catia Batista
Catia Batista (PhD, University of Chicago), a 2017–18 Kellogg visiting fellow, is associate professor in economics at Portugal’s Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she is cofounder and scientific director of the NOVAFRICA research center...
Katherine Corcoran
Katherine Corcoran is spending 2017 and spring 2018 at Kellogg as the Hewlett Fellow for Public Policy. A journalist, she formerly worked for the Associated Press (AP), most recently serving as the bureau chief overseeing coverage in Mexico and six Central American countries. Under her leadership, the AP broke major stories, including the Mexican army massacre of at least 12 suspected criminals after they had surrendered...
Séverine Deneulin
Séverine Deneulin (DPhil, University of Oxford), a Kellogg visiting fellow for the 2017–18 academic year, is associate professor in International Development at the University of Bath, where she teaches in the MSc in International Development and Professional Doctorate in Policy Research and Practice programs...
Natalia Forrat
Natalia Forrat (PhD, Northwestern University), a 2017–18 Kellogg Visiting Fellow, is a sociologist who studies how contemporary authoritarian regimes build relationships with their societies in ways that help autocrats survive...
Peter Johannessen
Peter Johannessen (PhD, Princeton University), a 2017–18 Kellogg visiting fellow, is a political scientist who studies decentralization and the political economy of development with a regional focus on Latin America. His research draws on evidence from Brazil to explore how popular participation shapes the local policymaking process in developing countries...
Sandra Polanía-Reyes
Sandra Polanía-Reyes (PhD, University College London; PhD, University of Siena), a 2017–18 Kellogg visiting fellow, is assistant professor of economics at Pontifical Xavierian University in Bogotá, Colombia. Polanía-Reyes is an experimental economist working at the intersection of development and behavioral economics and prosocial behavior...
Gema Santamaría
Gema Santamaría (PhD, New School for Social Research), a 2017–18 Kellogg visiting fellow, is assistant professor of Latin American history at Loyola University, Chicago. Her research analyzes the history of Latin American processes of state building across the 20th and 21st centuries, with a particular attention to questions of violence, crime, justice, and the rule of law...
Luis Schiumerini
Luis Schiumerini is an assistant professor of political science at Notre Dame, where he was a postdoctoral research associate with the Department of Political Science and a former Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow. His research focuses on the political economy of citizenship in the developing world...
Pedro Vicente
Pedro Vicente (PhD, University of Chicago), a 2017–18 Kellogg Visiting Fellow, is associate professor of economics at Portugal’s Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he is also the founding scientific director of NOVAFRICA (Nova Africa Center for Business and Economic Development)...
Francisco C. Weffort
Francisco Correa Weffort (PhD, University of São Paulo), a distinguished scholar and public figure, returns to the Kellogg Institute for the fall 2017 semester as the Brazilian Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Democracy and Human Development. Weffort is professor emeritus at the University of São Paulo, where he has been a member of the Department of Political Science since 1964...
Juan Guillermo Albarracin Dierolf
I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science and a PhD Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, as well as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship...
Benjamin Denison
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Notre Dame and currently a dissertation year fellow with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. I am also a predoctoral fellow with the Notre Dame International Security Center and have served as a research fellow for the Varieties of Democracy project...
Alison Fitchett Climenhaga
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Theology Department at the University of Notre Dame. I received my M.T.S. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame in 2011, and my B.A. from Messiah College with an interdisciplinary Humanities major and minors in Religion and Peace and Conflict Studies. I study World Christianity, with a focus on the history of Christianity in Africa...
Stefanie Israel de Souza
I am a proud native of Oregon, though in recent years I have lived in Mexico, Brazil, and Philadelphia, before moving to South Bend. I received my M.T.S. in Biblical Studies from Palmer Theological Seminary in 2011 and my B.A. from Linfield College in 2006 with majors in Sociology and Religious Studies and minors in Spanish and Latin American Studies...