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October 02, 2019

The Lawfare Podcast: Michael Desch on Social Science and National Security

David Priess sat down with Michael Desch, Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and the director...

September 30, 2019

Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan speaks about evidence-based anti-poverty policy

LEO was honored to cohost, with The Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, an event for University of...

September 17, 2019

The Building Bridges Mentoring Program receives the Presidential Team Irish Award

The Presidential Team Irish Award program recognizes staff teams that exemplify the University’s Core Values of integrity, accountability, teamwork, leadership in mission...

September 12, 2019

Trejo Honored for Article on Mexican Drug Wars

Guillermo Trejo, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Political Science, has received the Editorial Board Best Paper Award from...

August 30, 2019

Luis Fraga, ILS director and political scientist, awarded 2019 Norton Long Career Achievement Award for Politics

Luis Fraga, director of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies, has been selected as the 2019 Norton Long Career Achievement Award winner...

August 23, 2019

Cyber crimes unit welcomes record eight student interns

A record eight Notre Dame students will intern with the St. Joseph County Cyber Crimes Unit this year, working with...

August 23, 2019

How an internship in Ireland inspired a political science major to pursue a career in immigration law

Samantha Caesar ’14 is an immigration attorney in Washington, D.C. Here, she writes about how a Notre Dame education and experience abroad...

August 08, 2019

America’s mass shootings are a political choice

Ernesto Verdeja, Associate Professor, was quoted in the Quartz article “America’s mass shootings are a political choice.” Originally published by kroc.nd.edu...

August 05, 2019

Assistant Professor David Cortez recently wrote an opinion piece for USA Today: "I asked Latinos why they joined immigration law enforcement. Now I'm urging them to leave."

Latinos make up half of American Border Patrol agents. But it's not self-hatred driving them to work for agencies deporting...

July 11, 2019

A Leaderless Movement, or Leadership Decentralized but Coordinated?

Both local and international media have hailed the anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong as being leaderless. There seems to be...

July 11, 2019

The Limit of 'Leaderlessness' and Need for Sustainable Protest Tactics

The storming of the Legislative Council on July 1 suggests both the strength and the limit of the self-consciously leaderless...

July 11, 2019

What Hong Kong’s Student Activists Can Teach the World and What They Can Learn From Other Struggles

Hong Kong’s recent anti-extradition protests have taken on the air of the last stand against the erosion of the territory’s freedoms. In...

June 17, 2019

Professor Jimmy Gurulé to host cybersecurity conference in London

In an increasingly digital world, the routines of daily life rely upon constant connections that transcend borders and span the...

May 15, 2019

Both Sides of the Culture War Are Partially Wrong About Islam

Daniel Philpott, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, aims for an accurate picture of religious freedom in...

May 13, 2019

2019 Senior Thesis Presentation For Political Science

2019 Senior Thesis Presentation For Political Science…

May 08, 2019

Sheedy Award winner Ernesto Verdeja praised for commitment to peace and justice

For his work in the classroom, Verdeja has been selected to receive the 2018 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award —...

April 29, 2019

No Clear Way Forward: Venezuela Experts Discuss Country’s Future

When Margarita López Maya’s husband needed surgery last year, the couple faced an unexpected roadblock: finding a healthy donor for the...

April 29, 2019

Nicholas Grandpre, ND 2019, has been awarded the John Quincy Adams Society's 2019 Student Foreign Policy Essay Contest

His essay, "Conflict with China is Not Inevitable", is published in The National Interest.…

April 18, 2019

Two Notre Dame faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Declan Kiberd and Dianne Pinderhughes have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest...

April 17, 2019

Political science and economics alumnus Carlos Lozada wins Pulitzer Prize

Notre Dame faculty member and alumnus Carlos Lozada, the nonfiction book critic for the Washington Post, is the recipient of...