Director
Emmanuel Katongole is Director of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion and Professor of Theology and Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. A Catholic priest ordained by the Archdiocese of Kampala, Uganda, he is a core faculty member of the Keough School's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.
Katongole is the author of books on the Christian social imagination, the crisis of faith following the genocide in Rwanda, and Christian approaches to justice, peace, and reconciliation. His most recent book is Who Are My People? Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa (Notre Dame Press) which won first place honors from the Catholic Media Association in the category of Gender Issues–Inclusion in the Church.
Katongole’s other books include Born From Lament: On the Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa (Eerdmans, 2017); The Journey of Reconciliation: Groaning for A New Creation in Africa (Orbis, 2017); The Sacrifice of Africa: A Political Theology for Africa (Eerdmans, 2010); Stories from Bethany: On the Faces of the Church in Africa (Paulines, 2012); Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda (Zondervan, 2009); and Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, Peace and Healing (co-authored with Chris Rice, Resources for Reconciliation, 2008). Katongole also contributes research to Contending Modernities, a cross-cultural research and education initiative examining Catholic, Muslim and secular forces in the modern world.
Katongole is also a co-founder and director of Bethany Land Institute in rural Uganda. At this institute, he advances the vision of "integral ecology” as proclaimed in Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si.’ The institute offers a two-year program in regenerative agriculture and entrepreneurship aimed at addressing poverty and environmental degradation.
Katongole earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the Catholic University of Louvain, undergraduate degrees in philosophy and in theology (Urbaniana, Rome) and a diploma in theology and religious studies from Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.