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Notre Dame to host academic conference on Pope Francis in Cuba

Published: October 12, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

The University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies will convene a gathering of theologians and other scholars in Havana Oct. 16-18 to discuss the impact of Pope Francis’ visits to Latin America and the United States. The colloquium, to be held in the Casa Sacerdotal (Priests’ House) of the Archdiocese of Havana, will include participants from throughout Latin America and the United States — among them, a group of Notre Dame undergraduate students enrolled in one of the institute’s theology courses.

In memoriam: Notre Dame historian Rev. Marvin R. O’Connell

Published: August 22, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News and General News

Rev. Marvin R. O’Connell, professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame, died early Friday morning, August 19, at Dujarie House in Holy Cross Village. He was 86.

Three Questions with Latino Theologian Peter J. Casarella

Published: July 28, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/136832/peter_casarella_icon.jpg(Peter Casarella)! Peter Casarella, professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and interim director of Latin American/North American Church Concerns (LANACC), is a scholar of Latino theology. Before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 2013, he served as professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University where he was director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology. In an interview, he discusses his research, Pope Francis, and the future of Latin American/North American Church Concerns, of which he is interim director.

Rev. 'Monk' Malloy, Former Notre Dame President, Concludes His Three-Volume Memoir

Published: July 22, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Catholicism, and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/47155/malloy_al_icon.jpg(Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C.)! The three-volume memoir of the University of Notre Dame’s president emeritus, Rev. Edward A."Monk" Malloy, C.S.C., will be completed next month with the publication of _Monk's Tale: The Presidential Years: 1987-2005_ by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Three Questions with Political Philosopher Patrick Deneen

Published: July 21, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Research, and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/111864/potenziani_deneen_icon.jpg(Patrick Deneen)! A member of the University of Notre Dame political science faculty since 2012, Patrick Deneen is the David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies. He teaches and writes about the history of political thought, American political thought, religion and politics, and literature and politics. Books he has published on these subjects include _The Odyssey of Political Theory_, _Democratic Faith_, _Democracy's Literature_, _The Democratic Soul_, and _Redeeming Democracy in America_.

In Memoriam: Bernard E. Doering, Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages and Literatures

Published: July 19, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/204561/bernard_doering_icon.jpg(Bernard Doering)! Bernard E. Doering, professor emeritus of Romance languages and literatures at the University of Notre Dame, died July 9. He was 91. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1965, Doering became a popular and affectionately regarded teacher and mentor. Among the pioneers of the University’s international studies programs, he played an indispensable role in establishing and developing the Notre Dame program in Angers, France.

Summer Events Continue Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival’s Celebration of the Bard's Legacy

Published: July 07, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Arts and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/185299/shakespeare400icon.jpg(Shakespeare: 1616-2016)! This summer the 2016 Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival is continuing its celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death with numerous theatrical events. Shakespearean actors of all ages from throughout the Michiana area will take the Washington Hall stage for performances of “ShakeScenes” July 16 and July 17. From July 17 through August 22, the Festival’s Young Company will perform Shakespeare’s _Pericles, Prince of Tyre_ at outdoor venues throughout Michiana. And 14 performances of Shakespeare’s _The Tempest_ will take place August 16-28 at Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.

Three Questions with Political Science Associate Professor Christina Wolbrecht

Published: June 29, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Research, and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/16210/85x/Christina-Wolbrecht-release.jpg(Christina-Wolbrecht-release)! Christina Wolbrecht, associate professor of political science, C. Robert and Margaret Hanley Family Director of the Notre Dame Washington Program, and director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame, teaches and writes about American politics, political parties, women and politics, and American political development. Now at work on a study of the first 100 years of women as voters in American politics, she is co-author, with J. Kevin Corder, of the recently published book _Counting Women's Ballots: Female Voters from Suffrage through the New Deal_.

Arts and Letters Seniors Win 24 National and International Fellowships and Scholarships

Published: May 13, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/41485/commencement_tassel_icon.jpg(tassel closeup)! Twenty-four members of the Class of 2016 who study in the College of Arts and Letters have won major national and international fellowships and scholarships, from prestigious institutions such as the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program and the National Science Foundation.

Notre Dame and Vatican Library Formalize Collaboration and Exchange Agreement

Published: May 11, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/198447/hesburgh_library_icon.jpg(Hesburgh Library)! Notre Dame and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, or Vatican Library, formalized a unique agreement of collaboration and exchange in a ceremony May 9 in the Hesburgh Room of the Morris Inn, where Notre Dame president Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and Archbishop Jean-Louis Bruguès, O.P., archivist and librarian of the Holy Roman Church, together signed a memorandum of understanding.

13 Arts and Letters Faculty Honored For Exemplary Work in Undergraduate Teaching

Published: May 04, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/69284/dome_icon.jpg(The golden dome)! Eleven faculty members from the College of Arts and Letters have won 2016 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and two have been honored with Dockweiler Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The awards are presented by the Office of the Provost, and the recipients are selected through a process that includes peer and student nominations.

Historian George Marsden Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Published: April 21, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News and General News

p(image-right). !http://news.nd.edu/assets/6598/85x/george_marsden_release.jpg(George Marsden)! George Marsden, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected a member of the 2016 class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). He will be formally inducted at a ceremony at the AAAS headquarters Oct. 8 in Cambridge, Mass.

Faculty Comment on Pope Francis' Letter, 'Amoris Laetitia'

Published: April 08, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/175032/pope_francis_icon.jpg(Pope Francis)! Pope Francis released his apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”) in Rome on April 8. The document addresses such areas of Catholic Church doctrine as the admission of divorced and remarried Catholics to the sacrament of the Eucharist, same-sex relationships and cohabitation, all issues that arose, often controversially, during the Synod of Bishops in Rome in October. Here is what some people on the Notre Dame faculty are saying and thinking about “Amoris Laetitia.”

Carter Snead, Director of Center for Ethics and Culture, Named to Pontifical Academy for Life

Published: March 09, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/52249/85x/snead_resized.jpg(O)! Carter Snead, William P. and Hazel B. White Director of the University of Notre Dame’s "Center for Ethics and Culture and professor of law, has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life, the pope’s principal advisory group on the promotion of the consistent ethic of life in the Catholic Church.Founded in 1994 by Saint Pope John Paul II, the academy meets annually, holds conferences, publishes reports and collaborates with partners in the Vatican Curia and worldwide.

Gala Premiere of Keough-Naughton Institute’s Documentary, '1916: The Irish Rebellion,' to be Held at Notre Dame

Published: February 23, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/160926/liam_neeson_icon.jpg(Liam Neeson)! The gala premiere of _1916: The Irish Rebellion_, a three-part documentary produced by the University of Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, will be held March 3 in Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Narrated by Liam Neeson, who will attend the gala premiere, the film was conceived, written, and co-produced by Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Thomas J. & Kathleen M. O'Donnell Chair of Irish Language and Literature. The first documentary to give a comprehensive account of the 1916 Rising in Dublin, the film has been made a centerpiece of the Irish government’s global centenary commemoration of the Easter Rising, and will air on 255 U.S. public television stations.

Notre Dame Named a Top Producer of U.S. Fulbright Finalists

Published: February 22, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Internationalism, Centers and Institutes, Research, Undergraduate News, General News, Graduate Students, and National Fellowships

p(image-right). !/assets/156197/fulbright_studentprod14_icon.jpg(fulbright_studentprod14_icon)! Fourteen University of Notre Dame students have been awarded Fulbright grants in the 2015-16 program, placing the University among the top-producing universities in the nation. The Fulbright program is the U.S. government’s flagship international educational exchange program. It awards a one-year postgraduate fellowship for research, study or teaching English abroad. During their fellowship, scholars will work, live and learn in their host country.

‘Stakes Are High’ in Pope’s Visit to Mexico, Experts Say

Published: February 04, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

When Pope Francis travels to Mexico Feb. 12-17, he will visit six cities—including two in the state of Chiapas, Mexico’s poorest state—and will celebrate a Mass in Ciudad Juárez across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. The first pope from Latin America, where 40 percent of the world’s Catholics live, he will be touring the country that’s home to the second largest Catholic population in the world.

Notre Dame Launches Initiative to Develop Better Catholic Preaching

Published: January 19, 2016

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Catholicism and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/134672/basilica_icon.jpg(Basilica)! Notre Dame’s John S. Marten Program for Homiletics and Liturgics has embarked on a unique project specifically designed to strengthen Catholic preaching. The Rev. William A. Toohey, C.S.C., Notre Dame Preaching Academy, a five-year initiative funded by the Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis, has enrolled its first cohort of 23 priest-participants from Notre Dame’s founding religious order, the Congregation of Holy Cross, as well as from the archdioceses of Indianapolis and Louisville, Kentucky; and the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana.

Psychologists Caution Mothers on Discussing Weight with Daughters

Published: December 22, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Research, General News, and Graduate Students

How should a concerned mother discuss issues of diet and weight with her daughter? Very carefully, according to Erin Hillard, a developmental psychology doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame. In an article recently published in the journal _Body Image_, Hillard and her colleagues reported on results from their study of a representative group of sixth- through eighth-grade girls and their mothers.

People in States That Rely Heavily on Ballot Initiatives Are Happier

Published: December 14, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Research, and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/37639/radcliff_hpcrop.jpg(Benjamin Radcliff icon)! Ballot initiatives, those petition-driven public votes on contested issues, are often disparaged by liberals and conservatives alike for their avoidance of conventional representative democratic processes and their vulnerability to manipulation by well-financed and organized special interest groups. Nevertheless, according to Benjamin Radcliff, professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, people in states that rely more heavily on such initiatives are, on average, happier than people in other states.

Anthropologists’ Research Finds Emotionally Supportive Relationships Linked to Lower Testosterone

Published: November 11, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Research, and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/23807/campus_dome_icon.jpg(campus_dome)! Science and folklore alike have long suggested that high levels of testosterone can facilitate the sorts of attitudes and behavior that make for, well, a less than ideal male parent. It has long been known that among humans (and some other species as well), males who cooperate amicably with their female mates in raising and nurturing offspring often have lower testosterone levels than their more aggressive and occasionally grumpy counterparts. But two University of Notre Dame anthropologists are looking beyond the nuclear family for such effects.

Three Questions with Political Scientist Rev. Robert Dowd

Published: October 26, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Research, and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/94657/dowd_icon.jpg(Rev)! Rev. Robert Dowd, C.S.C., assistant professor of political science, is a fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and director of its Ford Family Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity. A popular teacher and scholar of religion’s impact on development and political institutions, he has conducted extensive research on communities and societies throughout Africa. His recently published book, _Christianity, Islam and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa_, provocatively argues that religious diversity in Nigeria and other African countries actually encourages, rather than inhibits, religious tolerance.

Theologians to Speak on Life of Blessed Oscar Romero

Published: September 15, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/68955/seal_85_x_111.jpg(Notre Dame seal)! Five theologians will discuss the life and work of Blessed Óscar Romero of El Salvador in a presentation titled "Archbishop Romero and Spiritual Leadership in the Modern World" at 4 p.m. Sept. 17 in the Hesburgh Center for International Studies Auditorium.

Notre Dame Experts Await Pope Francis

Published: September 11, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/175032/pope_francis_icon.jpg(Pope Francis)! When Pope Francis lands at Andrews Air Force Base on September 22, it will be the first time in a short pontificate and a long life that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, of Argentina, has ever set foot in the United States. His visit promises to be unprecedented in numerous other ways, and several University of Notre Dame scholars have been speculating on how.

Three Questions with Theologian Timothy Matovina

Published: September 10, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/58679/matovina_1_icon.jpg(Timothy Matovina)! Pope Francis is due to arrive in America Sept. 22, his first trip to North America. He's expected to address the growing influx of Latinos in the U.S. Catholic church while he's here, including delivering several talks in Spanish. Timothy Matovina, professor of theology and co-director of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, says Latinos have much to offer in the Church. Matovina teaches and studies Latino theology and Catholic history in America.

Institute for Latino Studies to Co-host Event Featuring Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

Published: August 13, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Centers and Institutes and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/163982/ils_logo2_icon.jpg(ILS logo)! A public conversation with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will be held from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Sept. 2, an event co-sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies. The event, also sponsored by the Office of the President and Notre Dame Law School, is free and open to the public. Doors open one hour before the event.

Three Questions with Gabriel Said Reynolds, Quran Scholar

Published: August 10, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News, Internationalism, and Research

p(image-right). !/assets/71019/reynoldsicon.jpg(Gabriel Said Reynolds)! Notre Dame theologian "Gabriel Said Reynolds":https://theology.nd.edu/people/faculty/gabriel-said-reynolds/ studies the Quran and the interactions between Christians and Muslims. Academic courses taught by Reynolds include Foundations of Theology, Islam and Christian Theology, The Qur’an and Its Relation to the Bible, The Holy Land, and Islamic Origins. He is the author of the forthcoming book _The Qurʾan in Conversation with the Bible: The Qurʾan Translation of Ali Quli Qaraʾi Annotated with Biblical Texts and Commentary._

White House Report on Juvenile Offender Diversion Programs Highlights Project with LEO Ties

Published: July 20, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Centers and Institutes, Research, and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/139749/leo_icon.jpg(leo_icon)! A White House Council of Economic Advisers report released July 14 includes an account of Reading for Life, a local juvenile diversion program that is being evaluated by the University of Notre Dame’s Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. The report, "Economic Costs of Youth Disadvantage and High-Return Opportunities for Change," features the RFL program, which has been used at the St. Joseph County Juvenile Justice Center since 2007.

Theologian Describes Pope Francis’ South American Journey as Renewal of Acquaintances

Published: July 06, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

Categories: Faculty News and General News

p(image-right). !/assets/136832/peter_casarella_icon.jpg(Peter Casarella)! Pope Francis' July 5-13 journey to South America will take him through countries and among people who already knew him well before he became the leader of all the world's Catholics, according to Peter J. Casarella, an associate professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame who just returned from a year sabbatical in Chile at the Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago.

Faculty React to Pope’s Encyclical on Climate Change

Published: June 22, 2015

Author: Michael O. Garvey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/168051/pope_francis_icon.jpg(Pope Francis)! University of Notre Dame faculty members continue to comment on the new encyclical _Laudato Si_, issued by Pope Francis in Rome on June 18. In an op-ed in Wednesday’s Chicago Tribune, Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., writes that, “It is characteristic of this pope to speak as the Catholic leader but to seek to build bridges to all people who promote friendship and cooperation serving the good of all.”