Notre Dame faculty members from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and from the departments of political science, history, sociology, psychology, and theology teach students in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program.
Political Science & Peace Studies
Eileen Botting (Ph.D., Yale University, 2001). Thomas J. and Robert T. Rolfs Associate Professor and Director of Gender Studies. Relevant expertise: Enlightenment political thought; feminist political thought; American political thought; Christian political thought.
Christian Davenport (Ph.D., Binghamton University, 1992). Professor of Peace Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. Relevant expertise: Political conflict, violence and violations of human rights, genocide, politicide, mass killing, torture, beatings, arrests for political purposes and oppression by governments
Robert Dowd, C.S.C. (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2003). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: African politics; religion and politics; ethnic conflict and peace building; political parties and party systems; comparative democratization.
Alexandra Guisinger (Ph.D., Yale University, 2005). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: International relations theory; crisis diplomacy; international political economy.
Debra Javeline (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1997). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: Soviet and post-Soviet politics and political protest; citizen responses to political violence.
Robert C. Johansen (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1968). Professor, Senior Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Relevant expertise: Peace studies; international norms and institutions; the politics of peacebuilding and human security; ethics and international relations.
Daniel Lindley (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Theory and practice of international relations; U.S. foreign and military policy; causes of war.
George A. Lopez (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975). The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Relevant expertise: International peace research; problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions and gross violations of human rights; ethics of war and peace; Catholic social teaching.
Scott Mainwaring (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1983). The Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science and Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Relevant expertise: Comparative politics; Latin American politics, political parties, democratization, international relations.
Anthony Messina (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Comparative politics; the post-September 11th international security environment; politics of immigration; ethnic relations and conflict.
A. James McAdams (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley 1983). William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Relevant expertise: Comparative politics; German government and politics; transitional justice.
Peter Moody (Ph.D., Yale University, 1971). Professor. Relevant expertise: Comparative politics, especially of China, Japan, and the Far East; comparative foreign policies and international relations.
David Nickerson (Ph.D., Yale, 2005). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Quantitative methods in social science research.
Daniel Philpott (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1996). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: International relations theory and state sovereignty; peace research; theory and practice of reconciliation in peacebuilding; faith-based preventive diplomacy; Catholic social teaching.
Naunihal Singh (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: Conflict; civil wars; genocide studies; comparative politics; African politics; economic development; quantitative approaches to politics.
Ernesto Verdeja (Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 2005). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: Large-scale political violence (genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity), transitional justice, forgiveness and reconciliation, and trials, truth commissions, apologies, and reparations.
History & Peace Studies
R. Scott Appleby (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985). Professor and John M. Regan Jr. Director, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Relevant expertise: American Catholic history; Catholic social teaching; religion, conflict, and peacebuilding; fundamentalisms.
Asher Kaufman (Ph.D., Brandeis University, 2000). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Modern Middle East, particularly historiography and national movements; colonialism; boundaries; and territoriality.
Thomas A. Kselman (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978). Professor. Relevant expertise: Religious and social history of modern Europe.
Sabine MacCormack (D.Phil., Oxford University, 1974). Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C., College of Arts and Letters Chair, jointly appointed in History and Classics. Relevant expertise: Late antiquity; colonial Latin America.
Mark A. Noll (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1975). Francis A. McAnaney Professor. Relevant expertise: American religious and cultural history.
Richard Pierce (Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996). Associate Professor and Director of Africana Studies. Relevant expertise: African-American history; American urban history.
Sociology & Peace Studies
Jorge Bustamante (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1975). The Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Arts and Letters. Relevant expertise: Sociology of immigration and border regions.
Jessica Collett (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2006). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: Social psychology; justice processes; social inequality; and research methods.
Christian Davenport (Ph.D., Binghamton University, 1992). Professor of Peace Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. Relevant expertise:
Political conflict, violence and violations of human rights, genocide,
politicide, mass killing, torture, beatings, arrests for political
purposes and oppression by governments.
Robert Fishman (Ph.D., Yale, 1985). Professor. Relevant expertise: Political sociology; comparative sociology; research methodology; and sociological theory.
Omar Lizardo (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 2006). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: Sociological theory; sociology of culture; sociology of organizations; network theory; micro sociology; world-systems analysis; philosophy of social science.
Dan Myers (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1997). Professor. Relevant expertise: Collective violence; diffusion of social processes; social movements; formal models of collective behavior; game theory; research methods.
Rory McVeigh (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1993). Associate Professor and Chair. Relevant expertise: Sociology of inequality; social movements; political sociology; race and ethnicity.
Christian Smith (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1990). Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society. Relevant expertise: Peace movements; religion and social conflict.
Erika Summers-Effler (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 2004). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Sociological theory; social movements; qualitative methods.
Samuel Valenzuela (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1979). Professor. Relevant expertise: Comparative research methodology; democratization processes; labor movements; party formation, with a primary focus on Latin America and Western Europe.
Andrew J. Weigert (Ph.D., University of Minnesota 1968). Professor. Relevant expertise: Social psychology; sociology of religion; sociological theory; environment; modern identity; Catholic social teaching.
Psychology & Peace Studies
John G. Borkowski (Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1964). The McKenna Family Professor of Psychology and Fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives. Relevant expertise: Developmental psychology.
Julie M. Braungart-Rieker (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1992). Professor. Relevant expertise: Developmental psychology.
E. Mark Cummings (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1973). Professor and the Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Psychology. Relevant expertise: Developmental psychology; the impact of violence on children; and the effects of political, community, and family conflict and conflict resolution on children.
Alexandra F. Corning (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1994). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: Counseling psychology.
George S. Howard (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, 1975). Professor. Relevant expertise: Counseling psychology.
Daniel Lapsley (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1982). Professor and Fellow in Institute for Educational Initiatives. Relevant expertise: Adolescent social, cognitive, and personality development.
Darcia F. Narvaez (Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1993). Associate Professor and Director of Center for Ethical Education. Relevant expertise: Developmental psychology; moral development; character education; raising peaceable people.
F. Clark Power (Ph.D.; Ed.D, Harvard University). Professor, Program of Liberal Studies and Concurrent Professor of Psychology. Relevant expertise: Moral development and education; psychology of religious development; character education.
Donald Pope-Davis (Ph.D., Stanford University, 1989). Vice President and Associate Provost, Professor of Psychology, Director of McNair Program. Relevant expertise: Counseling psychology.
David A. Smith (Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1991). Associate Professor and Director, Marital Therapy and Research Clinic. Relevant expertise: Counseling psychology.
Anre Venter (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1996). Assistant Professional Specialist. Relevant expertise: Quantitative psychological research.
Theology & Peace Studies
Matt Ashley (Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 1993). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Political and liberation theology; Christian spirituality; dialogue between theology and science.
Dan Groody, C.S.C. (Ph.D., the Graduate Theological Union, 2000). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Immigration; globalization; migration; Latino spirituality.
Paul Kollman, C.S.C. (Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 2001). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: African Christianity; mission history.
Margie Pfeil (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 2000). Assistant Professor. Relevant expertise: Catholic social thought; environmental ethics; spirituality of nonviolence; racial justice.
Todd Whitmore (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1990). Associate Professor. Relevant expertise: Moral theology, particularly social ethics, focusing on the ways in which theological language promotes, masks, and sometimes curbs the use of violence.
For a full list of faculty who add strength to the program by offering graduate classes or advising doctoral student research, see the Kroc Institute faculty directory and the Kroc faculty fellows list.
