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New Economics Faculty Bring Diverse Expertise

Author: Mike Danahey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/158631/rudi_bachmann_icon.jpg(Ruediger Bachmann)! The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Economics has deepened its expertise in the areas of business cycles, healthcare, cultural assimilation, and the financial services sector with the recent hires of Ruediger Bachmann, Christopher Cronin, Felix Feng, and Eva Dziadula.

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New Psychology Hire Focuses on Anxiety and Depression

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/155760/k._lira_yoon_icon.jpg(Lira Yoon)! Associate Professor Lira Yoon has brought her expertise in social anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder to the University of Notre Dame’s Department of Psychology, where she plans to establish an experimental psychopathology lab that uses multiple methods to better understand the interface between cognition and emotion.

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History Professor Alexander Martin Wins Book Prize

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/152577/alexander_martin_icon.jpg(Alexander Martin)! University of Notre Dame Professor Alexander Martin has been awarded the 2013 Marc Raeff Book Prize for _Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762 – 1855_. The annual prize, awarded by the Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association, honors the best book in any discipline or language on the history and culture of Russia during that time period.

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Film Projects Take Notre Dame Professor Around the World

Author: Mike Danahey

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

p(image-right). !/assets/148037/donaruma_icon.jpg(William Donaruma)! Rome. Bangladesh. An abandoned island off the Irish coast. These are just a few of the locations where William Donaruma ’89 has traveled as a filmmaker and teaching professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT). “Nothing beats experience and pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone,” Donaruma said.

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Historian Catherine Cangany Explores Detroit, the Frontier Seaport

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

p(image-right). !/assets/147944/cangany_photo_icon.jpg(Catherine Cangany)! Notre Dame Historian Catherine Cangany’s first book, _Frontier Seaport: Detroit’s Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepôt_, posits that 18th-century Detroit—600 miles inland—could be seen as a coastal town. “Detroit was the seaport of the West, located in the heart of the Great Lakes,” said Cangany, assistant professor in the Department of History. “During the 18th century, it functioned in all the ways that a larger Atlantic seaport like Boston or Philadelphia did.”

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Students’ Short Documentary Honored at Sunset Film Festival

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News, Undergraduate News, Alumni, and Arts

p(image-right). !/assets/142001/nd_seniors_sunset_film_festival_icon.jpg(Suicide Disease filmmakers at Sunset Film Festival)! A heart-wrenching film from three 2014 University of Notre Dame graduates took top honors in the short documentary category at this year’s Sunset Film Festival in Los Angeles. In _The Suicide Disease_, Katie Mattie, Vincent Moore, and William Neal tell the story of Frances Shavers, who worked at Notre Dame as chief-of-staff and special assistant to University President Father John Jenkins, C.S.C., before she was diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia.

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Political Science Hires Bring Diversity, Commitment to Excellence

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science welcomed four new hires last fall and recognized the accomplishments of a faculty fellow as she entered her second year at the University. “In hiring Susan Collins, Sarah Daly, Tanisha Fazal, and Matt Hall, and by appointing Deondra Rose as a Moreau post-doctoral fellow, the Department of Political Science continues its tradition of bringing the very best scholar-teachers to Notre Dame’s intellectual community,” says Professor and Department Chair Michael Desch.

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New Sociology Hires Bring Focus to Secrecy, Social Movements

Author: Mike Danahey

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

Two recent faculty hires in Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters are generating excitement, even outside the University. David Gibson, associate professor of sociology, and Ann Mische, associate professor of sociology and peace studies, joined the faculty in the fall of 2013. Professor Rory McVeigh, chair of the Department of Sociology, says,  “I can’t tell you how many people—outside of Notre Dame—have said something along the lines of, ‘Wow, I didn’t realize David Gibson was on your faculty,’ or ‘Wow! When did Ann Mische come to Notre Dame?’

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New Psychology Hire Integrates Peace Studies, Childhood Trauma

Author: Mike Danahey

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

Laura Miller ’08 grew up in a big, loving family, but her research at Notre Dame focuses on children who were less fortunate. A new faculty hire in the Department of Psychology and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Miller says her work integrates the quantitative and qualitative evaluations of children's reactions to traumatic experiences, including exposure to violence.

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New Economics Hires Focus on Developing Nations, Healthcare

Author: Mike Danahey

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

Notre Dame’s Department of Economics has bolstered its strengths in development economics and healthcare policy with two new hires, who bring with them the invaluable experience of being advised by major figures in the field. Assistant Professor Kevin Donovan comes to Notre Dame from Arizona State University where his faculty adviser was Nobel laureate Edward Prescott, while Assistant Professor Ethan Lieber’s adviser at the University of Chicago was Steven Levitt, winner of the John Bates Clark Medal and author of Freakonomics.

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Historian Studies Impact of Mexican Immigrants in Chicago

Author: Mike Danahey

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

Growing up in Los Angeles, Mike Amezcua heard stories about how his great-grandparents emigrated from Michoacán, Mexico to find work in Chicago during the 1920s. Such stories influenced Amezcua’s academic path, inspiring him to focus on how Mexicans helped shaped Chicago’s mid-20th century history. His journey will bring him to South Bend in fall 2014 as an assistant professor of history and faculty fellow in the College of Arts and Letters’ Institute for Latino Studies.

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Historian Jon Coleman Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News, Research, and Faculty News

His two books thus far have explored American tales of wolves, bears, mountain men, and the truths behind myths. Now, Notre Dame History Professor Jon T. Coleman has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship to work on an environmental history of movement in America before the widespread use of automobiles and airplanes.

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Pascal Jean-Pierre Joins Psychology Faculty

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News and Faculty News

Anyone who has been through an ordeal with cancer knows firsthand that the disease, related stressors, and subsequent treatments take a toll not only on the body but also on the mind. Pascal Jean-Pierre—who this fall was named assistant professor of psychology and Walther Cancer Foundation Collegiate Chair in Psychology at the University of Notre Dame—has spent a good portion of his career advancing cancer-control research and working to improve psychosocial functioning and the quality of life for cancer patients and survivors.

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Political Scientist Continues Research in Post-Doc at Brown

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News and Alumni

The European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize—despite current economic woes and social unrest—for transforming most of Europe from “a continent of war to a continent of peace.” But political scientist Joshua Bandoch, who received his Ph.D. at Notre Dame this year and is now a post-doctoral fellow at Brown University, argues that the 27-member-nation European Union is trying to form too close of a union. “This is problematic because the diverse peoples of this union are more different than their leaders seem to want to acknowledge.”

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Ted Mandell: From Classroom to Stadium to Third World

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News, Alumni, Internationalism, Arts, and Faculty News

As a documentary filmmaker, a faculty member in College of Arts and Letters’ Department of Film, Television, and Theatre (FTT), and a producer for Fighting Irish Digital Media, Ted Mandell ’86 quite literally sheds light on the University of Notre Dame’s traditions of social justice and student athletics. What unites his approach to these roles, says Mandell, is a commitment to show the human side of every story—and help his students learn to do the same.

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Essaka Joshua Honored by Society for Disability Studies

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News and Faculty News

The Society for Disability Studies recently presented its Tyler Rigg Award to Essaka Joshua, a teaching professor in Notre Dame’s Department of English and the Joseph Morahan Director of the College Seminar program in the University’s College of Arts and Letters. Joshua received the accolade—given annually to the best paper in literature and literary analysis published in _Disability Studies Quarterly_—for “The Drifting Language of Architectural Accessibility in Victor Hugo’s _Notre-Dame de Paris_.”

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Alumna Honored for Redesign of Breast Cancer Procedure

Author: Mike Danahey

Categories: General News, Research, Alumni, and Arts

With her graduate thesis project, University of Notre Dame alumna Charlotte Lux, M.F.A. ’11, set out to redesign a stressful diagnostic procedure women who might have breast cancer undergo in the hopes of making it less traumatic. The resulting design has earned Lux recognition in the 2012 Core77 Design Awards, where she was named student winner in the strategy and research category.

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Historian John Deak Awarded Fellowship to Austria

Author: Mike Danahey

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

University of Notre Dame Assistant History Professor John Deak jokes that working in the largely neglected field of administrative and constitutional history he’s “the nerdy guy who stands in the corner at cocktail parties.” But his scholarship has recently earned serious attention in the form of a Richard Plaschka Fellowship from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research. The fellowship will allow him to spend most of the next year in Vienna, working on his first book, _Power and the Politics of State in Imperial Austria, 1848-1918_.

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