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Daniel Philpott

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Dan Philpott
Office
2034 Jenkins and Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-0573
Email
philpott.1@nd.edu

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Biography

Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from Harvard University and specializes in religion and global politics, focusing on religious freedom, reconciliation, the political behavior of religious actors, and Christian political theology. His books include Revolutions in Sovereignty (Princeton, 2001), God’s Century: Resurgent Religion in Global Politics (Norton, 2011, coauthored with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah), Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, 2012) and Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World (Oxford, 2019). Currently he is writing a book that sets forth a political theology based on a Christian concept of justice. He has promoted reconciliation as an activist in Kashmir, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, and the Catholic Church with respect to clerical sex abuse. He is married to Diana Philpott and has three children, Angela, James, and Peter

Research Interests

Theology and politics, religion and global politics, political reconciliation, religious freedom, peacemaking

Affiliated Centers and Institutes

  • Kellogg Institute for International Studies
  • Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
  • Nanovic Institute for European Studies
  • de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture
  • Jacques Maritain Center

Awards/Honors/Grants

  • Visiting Fellow, DeNicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, July 2024-June 2025.
  • Visiting Fellow, Institute For Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, August 2009
    -December 2009.
  • Research Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in residence at Hertie School of
    Governance and Social Science Research Center, Berlin, Germany, August 2006-August 2007.
  • Faculty Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University, September
    2005-May 2006.
  • Religion and International Studies Distinguished Scholar Award 2021, International Studies
    Association.

Publications