Rev. Bob Dowd, C.S.C. (theology) received a Kroc Faculty Research Grant to conduct fieldwork in Senegal to examine the extent to which participation in Christian and Islamic religious communities encourages or discourages participation in economic development, social welfare, and the wider political community.
Rev. Paul Kollman, C.S.C. (theology) received a Kroc Faculty Research Grant to visit early sites of evangelization in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania to examine the historical roots of contemporary Christian realities in East Africa.
Dan Lindley (political science) published Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes (Princeton University Press, 2007), which explores the idea that peacekeeping institutions such as the United Nations can reduce the risk of war by increasing transparency between adversaries. Lindley completed research for the book while he was a Kroc faculty associate.
Maura Ryan (theology) was awarded a Kroc Faculty Associate Fellowship. She is exploring the intersection of gender, health, and armed conflict as an issue in Christian bioethics, drawing on epidemiological studies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Naunihal Singh (political science) received a Kroc Faculty Research Grant to compile a dataset on military coup attempts since 1945 as part of a larger research project exploring why some coup attempts succeed and others fail.
