Peter Walshe

Peter Walshe

(B.A., Honours School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics; M.A; Ph.D. Phil., Oxford University.)   Professor of Government and International Studies; Fellow, Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Walshe focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa, specializing in the political history of South Africa , political movements and church-state relations.  His publications include The Rise of African Nationalism in South Africa (1971), Church Versus State in South Africa (1983), " Southern Africa," in The Cambridge History of Africa (1986), and Prophetic Christianity and the Liberation Movement in South Africa (1996).   A recipient of an Oppenheimer Fellowship, a Walsh-Price Fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation Grant in International Peace and Security, Walshe has lectured widely in the United States , Britain and Southern Africa.    In 1979 he received the Notre Dame Grenville Clark Award for contributions to peace and human rights, and in 2000 a Kaneb Teaching Award.  He has held Visiting Senior Fellowships at St. Anthony's, Oxford and St. Edmund's, Cambridge .

Advising specialties:

Fulbright; Marshall ; international non-governmental organizations; volunteer work

Research and teaching interests:

African politics; political economy; social justice.

Contact Information

Email: A.P.Walshe.1@nd.edu
Office: 123 Hesburgh Center
Phone: (574) 631-5099

Mailing Address:
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN  46556

On leave Fall 2006