Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology

644 Flanner Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556

Phone: (574) 631-4113

Email: Gaffney.1@nd.edu

Rev. Patrick D. Gaffney, C.S.C., (Ph.D. University of Chicago 1982) explores questions of religion and politics, social movements and ritual authority in the Middle East with special attention to Egypt. From 1992-1994, he taught at a college in Jinja, Uganda and he has continued to pursue these interests in subsequent field trips. His publications include a number of articles and reports and the book, The Prophet's Pulpit, Islamic Preaching in Contemporary Egypt (University of California Press, 1994). His current research analyzes the history and structure of the civil turmoil centered in Rwanda and Burundi which has spread to affect eastern portions of the Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), western Tanzania and Uganda. He has particularly emphasized the role of the international community, the United Nations, external governments and NGO's; indigenous resources for reconciliation (including local religious institutions and other cultural assets); and a critique of distorted presuppositions which have often accompanied unsuccessful attempts to address the recent episodes of violence in this region. In 1996 he was an Investigator with the United Nations Commission of Inquiry for Burundi and in 1997 he wrote the study of Burundi for the project of Humanitarian Emergencies sponsored by WIDER, the United Nations University in Helsinki. He has been a fellow of the Kroc Institute since 1988.

 

 

 

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