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Making Connections Beyond the History Classroom

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News

Students in the Department of History aren’t leaving their learning to chance. Through a program called History Beyond the Classroom (HBC), undergraduates like Carly Anderson are signing up to immerse themselves more fully in the rich intellectual life at Notre Dame.

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Italian Major Pursues Passion for Language and Meaning

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News and Internationalism

Anna Michelle Martinez-Montavon’s passion for languages began well before she came to Notre Dame. Her parents grew up in Mexico and South America, and she grew up in the United States speaking Spanish at home as her first language. She learned English while in daycare and then studied French in middle school. Now in college, she’s fallen in love with yet another language.

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Student Play Explores Migrant Issues, Energizes London Community

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Centers and Institutes, Internationalism, and Arts

This past semester, students studying abroad at Notre Dame’s London Centre brought the mission of the University to life in a local school play that was far from the typical gymnasium fare. Led by Anton Juan, professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, the undergraduates helped bring to the stage the stories of migrant families as seen from the perspective of the children at Sacred Heart Primary School.

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Notre Dame Awarded Mellon Grant for Study on Influence of Religion

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Research, Centers and Institutes, Catholicism, and Faculty News

Given the secular nature of many aspects of society, scholars often neglect the role that religion has played—and still plays—in the development of virtually every aspect of civilization. It is impossible to look at world history, politics, or culture without taking into consideration the impact religion has had over the centuries. Now, with a $657,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project called “Religion Across the Disciplines,” faculty and graduate students at Notre Dame, along with other leading scholars from around the world, will “examine and report on how religious knowledge can be integrated into the study and teaching of their academic disciplines.”

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Notre Dame to Host International Students for Fulbright Orientation

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Centers and Institutes, and Internationalism

For the past five years, recent college graduates from around the world have traveled to Notre Dame as part of the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program. In mid August, the latest cohort will arrive—65 students from more than 25 countries around the world, who will convene on campus to prepare to live and teach their native languages to students across the United States.

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Four Arts and Letters Scholars Awarded ACLS Fellowships

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Research, Internationalism, and Faculty News

Two University of Notre Dame faculty members and two graduate students recently were awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), a private, nonprofit federation of 70 national scholarly organizations and the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences.

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Scholars of Violence and Religion to Gather at Notre Dame

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Research, Centers and Institutes, and Internationalism

Scholars from around the globe will gather at the University of Notre Dame June 30–July 4 for the meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R). The theme of the conference is “Transforming Violence: Cult, Culture, and Acculturation.” More than 150 scholars from 14 countries are expected to attend.

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John Van Engen Wins Gründler Book Prize in Medieval Studies

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Research, Centers and Institutes, Internationalism, and Faculty News

John Van Engen, Andrew V. Tackes Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded the 2010 Otto Gründler Book Prize for _Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages_ (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008). The honor is given each year to an author whose work in any area of medieval studies is judged to be an outstanding contribution to the field.

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Brian Ó Conchubhair Honored for Book on Irish Fin de Siècle

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Research, Internationalism, and Faculty News

Brian Ó Conchubhair, associate professor in the Department of Irish Language and Literature, has won an award for his book, _Fin de Siècle na Gaeilge: Darwin, an Athbheochan, agus smaointeoireacht na hEorpa_ (_The Irish Fin de Siècle: Darwin, the Language Revival, and European Intellectual Thought_), from the American Conference for Irish Studies. The award, Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana Fhoras na Gaeilge, is bestowed for the best book of the year written in the Irish language.

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Sebastian Rosato Says Worse Times Ahead for European Union

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Internationalism, and Faculty News

Though the recent collapse of the Greek financial system shook the European Union, that financial crisis was only a symptom of a much deeper issue, according to University of Notre Dame political scientist Sebastian Rosato, author of Europe United: Power Politics and the Making of the European Community (Cornell University Press, 2011).

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Two Notre Dame Undergraduates to Study History of NYC

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, and Research

Two Notre Dame students with a passion for history are taking to the streets this summer: Rising seniors Justine Murnane and Sam Fisher have been accepted into an educational program hosted by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and will be heading to New York City in June to get first-hand experience investigating the history of the United States.

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Senior Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Grant

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: National Fellowships, General News, Undergraduate News, Research, and Internationalism

The dynamic, sometimes contentious, relationship between religion and democracy has long fascinated Michael Hoffman, a class of 2010 political science major. And now, thanks to the National Science Foundation (NSF), he will be able to continue the research he started with his senior thesis as one of a select group of students to receive an award from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Founded in 1952, the program funds projects with the potential to have lasting, beneficial effects on society and the environment.

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Student Awarded State Department Scholarship to Study “Critical Language”

Author: Joanna Basile

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Centers and Institutes, and Internationalism

Each summer, some of the best students in the nation are selected to travel to countries around the world to learn what the U.S. Department of State calls “critical-need languages.” Among their ranks this year will be Notre Dame’s Kevin Godshall, who will study Punjabi in Chandigarh, India, through the department’s Critical Language Scholarship Program (CLS).

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