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Sheedy Teaching Award

The Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award is presented annually to an outstanding teacher in the College of Arts and Letters.

The Sheedy Award was founded in 1970 in honor of Rev. Charles E. Sheedy, C.S.C., who served as dean of the College from 1951–69, and acknowledges a faculty member who has sustained excellence in research and instruction over a wide range of courses. This individual must also motivate and enrich students using innovative and creative teaching methods and influence teaching and learning within the department, College, and University.

2018 Award Recipient

Associate Professor Ernesto Verdeja

Ernesto Verdeja holds a joint appointment in the Department of Political Science and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His areas of expertise include political violence, transitional justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation. 

His first book, Unchopping a Tree: Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Political Violence, was published by Temple University Press in 2009. Verdeja has since co-edited three collections of essays: Genocide Matters: Ongoing Issues and Emerging Perspectives (2013), Responding to Genocide: The Politics of International Action (2013), and Globalization, Social Movements, and Peacebuilding (2013). The subjects of his numerous articles include moral bystanders to violence, the politics of reconciliation and forgiveness, and the causes of mass violence. He is currently finishing a book project on the logic and dynamics of modern genocide. 
 
Verdeja is director of undergraduate studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, faculty fellow at the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, faculty affiliate at the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide (New York City). 

He will be honored at a faculty reception at 3:30 p.m. on May 7, 2019, in the McKenna Hall Auditorium at the Notre Dame Conference Center. 

Previous Award Recipients