People

Executive Director, Faculty, and Staff

  • Mahan Mirza

    Executive Director

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  • Alexander Hsu

    Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor

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  • Lisa Phillips

    Temporary Office Coordinator

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  • Charles Powell

    Adjunct Assistant Teaching Professor

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Faculty Fellows Committee

  • Emmanuel Katongole

    Professor of Theology and Peace Studies

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  • Timothy Matovina

    Professor of the History of Christianity

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  • Mun’im Sirry

    Assistant Professor of World Religions and the World Church

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  • Kathleen Sprows Cummings

    Director, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism

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  • Thomas Tweed

    Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and Professor of History

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Faculty Fellows

  • Kraig Beyerlein

    Associate Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for the Study of Religion and Society

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  • Liang Cai

    Associate Professor of History

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  • Peter Cajka

    Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of American Studies

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  • William Collins Donahue

    Professor of European Studies; Cavanaugh Professor of the Humanities; Professor of German

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  • Robert Dowd

    Associate Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs

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  • Daniel Groody

    Associate Professor of Theology and Global Affairs; Vice President and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs

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  • Perin Gurel

    Associate Professor of American Studies

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  • Karrie Koesel

    Associate Professor of Political Science

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  • Paul Kollman

    Associate Professor of Theology

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  • Paulinus Odozor

    Professor of Christian Ethics and the Theology of the World Church; Professor of Africana Studies

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  • A. Rashied Omar

    Associate Teaching Professor of Islamic Studies and Peacebuilding, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

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  • Margaret Pfeil

    Associate Teaching Professor of Theology

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  • Daniel Philpott

    Professor of International Relations and Political Theory

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  • Emilia Justyna Powell

    Professor of Political Science; Concurrent Professor of Law

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  • Gerard Powers

    Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

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  • Gabriel Reynolds

    Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology

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  • Maura Ryan

    John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Theology

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  • Clemens Sedmak

    Professor of Social Ethics; Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies

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  • Sarah Shortall

    Assistant Professor of History

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Affiliated Faculty

Advisory Board Members

Nasr Book Prize External Advisor

  • Anantanand Rambachan

    Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies, St. Olaf College; Co-President, Religions for Peace

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Master of Global Affairs Fellowship Recipients

  • Muhammad Shahzad Hussain

    Master of Global Affairs ’23

    Muhammad Shahzad Hussain, a madrasa graduate, has research expertise in blasphemy law and sectarian violence in Pakistan. He and his collaborators’ work was published by Engage, a nonprofit organization, and is titled The Untold Truth of Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law

    For his MPhil degree research, Muhammad focused on an eleventh-century Muslim scholar’s views on takfīr (excommunication) and its modern application by ISIS and other extremist groups. Muhammad is a graduate of the Notre Dame-based Madrasa Discourses project. Before coming to the Keough School, he worked as a secondary school teacher for Idraak, an online institute he co-founded with the goal to reduce sectarianism through education. As a master of global affairs student, Muhammad is the recipient of an Ansari Institute Fellowship.