Julie Hawke

Peace Studies & Sociology

Julie Hawke is committed to understanding the impacts of digital technologies on conflicts and how best to leverage their use in strategic peacebuilding efforts. She brings a decade of experience in third-party conflict engagement, global youth peace education, and digital peacebuilding program design and management to her Ph.D. studies,which will center on defining conditions for positive intergroup contact in online spaces. Hawke obtained her M.A. in conflict resolution as a Luce Fellow from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and earned a B.A. in anthropology with an intercultural peacebuilding focus at BYU-Hawaii. Hawke is a Notre Dame Presidential Fellow.