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Executive Director, Faculty, and Staff
Faculty Fellows Committee
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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Peter Cajka
Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of American Studies
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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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Paulinus Odozor
Professor of Christian Ethics and the Theology of the World Church; Professor of Africana Studies
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Gerard Powers
Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
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Clemens Sedmak
Professor of Social Ethics; Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies
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Susan St. Ville
Director, International Peace Studies, Master of Global Affairs; Associate Teaching Professor
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Affiliated Faculty
Advisory Board Members
Nasr Book Prize Steering Committee
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
Elizabeth Boyle
Master of Global Affairs ’22
Elizabeth Boyle graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2020, earning a bachelor’s degree in political science and international peace studies. As a student she studied and worked on interreligious peacebuilding, served as student body president, fought for the rights of sexual assault survivors with the nonprofit organization Know Your IX, and was the recipient of the Yarrow Award in Peace Studies.
Elizabeth’s religious peacebuilding and civil rights work has led to internships at Religions for Peace, the US Commission on Civil Rights, USAID, and the US Department of State. She has traveled to Nepal, Qatar, and Oman, engaging in scriptural reasoning and interreligious dialogue through the Kroc Institute’s Madrasa Discourses research initiative and other Notre Dame opportunities. She is the recipient of an Ansari Institute Fellowship.
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.