New Visiting Fellows Join the Kellogg Institute Community
August 23, 2011
As the 2011–12 academic year begins, eight visiting fellows from Latin America, Africa, and the US have taken up residence at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. With fellowships for the fall semester and the academic year, the fellows will conduct independent and collaborative research related to Kellogg themes of democracy and human development.
The Kellogg Visiting Fellows Program, internationally recognized for research excellence, boasts a long list of distinguished former fellows.
According to Institute Director Scott Mainwaring, “Visiting fellows play an integral role in the Institute’s research agenda and in Notre Dame’s ambitions for internationalization. The quality of their work is outstanding, and we welcome their involvement in our scholarly community.”
John Gerring, professor of political science at Boston University, is this year’s Hewlett Visiting Fellow for Public Policy. With Faculty Fellow Michael Coppedge, Gerring is a principal investigator on “Varieties of Democracy,” an ambitious collaborative project to compile a new set of democracy indicators for 201 countries around the globe.
In addition to four political scientists, the new group of fellows includes two anthropologists, a sociologist, and an ethnohistorian. Their research includes work on political parties and political behavior in Latin America; court systems in new democracies; state collapse and the informal economy in Africa; social inequalities in Uzbekistan; and the paleography of colonial Peru. Seven of the visiting fellows will teach undergraduate or graduate courses at Notre Dame.
The Institute also welcomes several guest scholars who have received outside funding to support their research at Notre Dame. For a complete list of the 2011–12 visiting fellows and guest scholars click here.
