Julia Douthwaite
Assistant Provost for International Studies
Professor of French

B.A., M.A. University of Washington, Certificat de Maîtrise, Université de Nantes, France; Ph.D. Princeton University

As Assistant Provost for International Studies, Douthwaite's duties include managing a staff of expert administrators (on-campus and at international sites), administering the OIS budget, maintaining working relationships with deans of colleges of Arts & Letters, Science, Business, Engineering, and Architecture, enhancing communication and collaboration on international projects among faculty and students in colleges and institutes (Nanovic, Kellogg, Keough, Kroc), and working closely with the Associate Provost and University administration.

Douthwaite was instrumental in nominating Notre Dame for recognition by NAFSA: Association of International Educators, in their competition on “Internationalizing the Campus.” Notre Dame was honored by NAFSA in 2004 for excellence in study abroad across the colleges. 

Douthwaite has served the University in administrative positions for the past nine years: in 2001-03, she was Director of the University's study abroad program in Angers, France; in 1999-2001, she was Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, and Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts. 

Douthwaite was on sabbatical in 2007, thanks to a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to work on A Literary History of the French Revolution.  A past recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Lilly Foundation, she has also secured institutional funding for Notre Dame from the Muessel-Ellison Memorial Trust Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.  She received a 2001 Presidential Award from Rev. Edward Malloy, C.S.C. 

As a Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Douthwaite teaches courses on 18th -century French literature and history, with special focus on the French Enlightenment and the Revolution. Her most recent book is The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster: Dangerous Experiments in the Age of Enlightenment (2002). An avid teacher and researcher, Douthwaite teaches one course a year: in fall semester 2008, she is teaching a new course, ROFR 40411 / ROFR 63411, "A Revolution in Fiction."

For more information, see http://www.nd.edu/~romlang/faculty/douthwaite.html

Kathleen Opel
Director
Office of International Studies

Opel earned a B.A. in English from Pennsylvania State University and a Masters Degree in Communication Arts from Fairfield University. She also completed graduate studies in Adult Education at Penn State.

Her areas of special interest include international education, second language acquisition, refugee education, and teacher training. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, she was senior training and research specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she conducted teacher training throughout the Upper Midwest. Previous work experience includes consulting and teaching English as a Second Language in Panama, Micronesia, and Alaska. Opel also spent four years in the Philippines where she was Deputy Director for Instruction in the U.S. State Department program for Southeast Asian refugees.

Opel manages the study abroad programs in Nagoya, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, and Rome.

Michael Gallager
Budget Director/Program Coordinator
Office of International Studies

Dr. Gallagher received his PhD in Higher Education with an Emphasis in Research and Accounting from the University of Toledo in December of 1998. He has been an Associate Professor of Accounting at Defiance College from January of 1994 to December of 2005.  He also served as the Chair of the Business Department and Chair of the Faculty Senate along with being the Sam Walton Fellow for the Students in Free Enterprise Club.

Gallagher is the Budget Manager and Program Coordinator in the Office of International Studies since December of 2005.  He has led summer study abroad trips to England and Ireland and presented a paper at Oxford, England in 2005 that presented the findings of a research trip to Ireland.

Joan M. Clark
Departmental Administrator
Office of International Studies

Ms. Clark provides administrative support to the Assistant Provost for International Studies, the Directors of International Study Programs, and On-Site Directors as needed.

Clark has a special responsibility related to Foreign Language Grants, IIE Open Doors Report, processing payments, monitoring and tracking expenses, employee hiring process, and tracking applications for Faculty Foreign Travel involving Students.

Julliet Mayinja
Associate Director
Office of International Studies

Julliet Mayinja received both her MA in Peace Studies and MSA from the University of Notre Dame and her B.Sc from Makerere University.

Mayinja has a primary responsibility of transforming and automating the ISP office admissions work flow, mostly recently the development of ISP's on-line application. She manages programs in Athens, Cairo, Fremantle, Jerusalem and Perth and has special responsibilities for the Innsbruck program. She has been a member of the ISP staff since 1997.

Claudia Kselman
Associate Director
Office of International Studies

Dr. Kselman received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation was on French Family Legislation 1870-1914. She lived in France from 1984-6 and co-directed the Angers Program in France in 1985-1986. She has served in the Office of International Studies since 1986 and was appointed Director in 2006.  In this capacity she establishes policies and procedures for the Office of International Studies, supervises staff in the office and manages programs at Trinity College Dublin, Paris and Puebla and Monterrey, Mexico.

Kselman received the Notre Dame Presidential Award in 1998.

Her professional interests include increasing the number of students going to Mexico, increasing the participation of Engineering and Science Students in Study Abroad,  and fostering broader links between the US and Mexican health communities."

Hong Zhu
Assistant Director
Office of International Studies

Hong  Zhu received her B.A. in English from Hamline University, and both her M.A. in English and her Ed.D. in Education from Virginia Tech. A native of Beijing, Zhu went to Peking University for three years before she came to the U.S. as a college Senior.

Zhu’s professional interest has always been in international education. Prior to joining the Office of International Studies, Zhu was an International Student Advisor with the Immigration Services Office at Notre Dame.  Other professional experiences include teaching English and ESL at Indiana University South Bend, teaching Chinese at Notre Dame, directing the ESL program at Indiana University South Bend and directing the South Bend English Institute.

Zhu manages the study abroad programs in Angers, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Nagoya, and Tokyo.

Sarah Baer
Program Coordinator
Office of International Studies

Baer graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BA in Spanish and Computer Applications.  She also earned a MSEd from Northwestern University in Higher Education Administration and Policy.

Baer is responsible for the creation and administration of summer programs.  She also works on the assessment of International Study Programs.

Prior to joining the OIS staff, Baer gained extensive program management experience as consultant, working for a large firm in Chicago and London.

Lesley Antonelli Sullivan
Program Coordinator
Office of International Studies

Lesley Sullivan earned a B.A. in Psychology/Philosophy from Vassar College, an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and an M.S.N. in Pediatric Primary Care from the Yale University School of Nursing.

Sullivan was a founding member of the Adolescent Clinic at the University of Missouri-Columbia Hospitals and Clinics.  She acted as Resident Head of an undergraduate residential house at the University of Chicago for four years.

Sullivan is a native of Italy, and lived in Rome until seventeen years of age.  She has lived in Japan and New Zealand as well.  As a young adult, Sullivan studied abroad in both France and Italy.

Sullivan manages the study abroad programs in Angers, Bologna, Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir), Berlin, and Rome-ICCS.

Ger Meehan
Associate Director
Office of International Studies

Dr. Meehan has a PhD in psychology and was for many years a practicing psychologist, most recently with Psychology Associates in Mishawaka, IN.  Her administrative experience is extensive as well, thanks to positions at St. John's University in Minnesota where she worked both as a staff counselor and coordinator of drug and alcohol education. 

Meehan manages the programs in London, Cambridge, and Oxford. A native of Ireland, Meehan herself studied abroad in London.

Judy Hutchinson
Assistant Director
Office of International Studies

Judy Hutchinson received her B.A. in Religious Studies and her Masters in Pastoral Studies both from Loyola University of New Orleans. 

Hutchinson was a Rector at the University of Notre Dame for seven years in Breen-Phillips Hall and then served as the on-site Rector in the London Program from 1995-97.  She has also served as Rector for the Summer London Program since 2000.

Hutchinson is the Assistant Director for the London Program and manages the Cairo program.

Peggy Weber
Assistant Director of Operations
Office of International Studies

Weber provides Administrative support to the Directors of International Study Programs and On-Site Directors.

Special responsibilities include hiring and supervising student workers and compiling statistics for students studying abroad through ISP programs. Weber also is responsible for database queries, miscellaneous reports, and she sends reports and lists of students studying abroad to ND departments, colleges, rectors, the registrar, and travel agents.

Weber also assists with the development and distribution of promotional material for all programs, and updates student files with regard to applications.

Barbara Toth
Senior Administrative Assistant
Office of International Studies

Ms. Toth provides administrative support to the Director of the Office of International Studies and works with the programs in London, Puebla, Monterrey, Paris, and the Puebla Summer program.  Responsibilities include preparing staff reviews, hiring and supervising student workers, planning meetings, supplying information to campus offices and general office assistance.

As a member of the OIS staff since 1991, her responsibilities also include preparing and supplying data information for the the London Undergraduate Program staff in London and administrative support to the Associate Directors of the London Program on campus.  Special duties include preparing and managing the database information for past, present and future applicants, processing all applications for the coming year for study abroad in London and the editing and production of prep materials for students preparing to study in London. 

Elisa Podrasky
Administrative Assistant
Office of International Studies

Elisa Landon Podrasky serves as an administrative assistant for the Office of International Studies and works with the programs in Rome, Cairo, London, Asia as well as many of the Summer programs.  She earned  her BA in Marketing from Saint Mary's College and an A.A. in Fine Art  from Indiana University South Bend.  She has worked at the University  of Notre Dame since 1994.

Paula Worhatch
Administrative Assistant
Office of International Studies

Ms. Worhatch provides administrative support to the directors of International Study programs.  She is responsible for database queries, miscellaneous reports, and sends reports and lists of students studying abroad to ND departments, colleges, rectors, the registrar, and travel agents.  Paula also assists with the distribution of promotional material and maintains student files.

Paula earned a B.A. in Political Science from Duquesne University and has worked in Catholic education for over a decade.

Thomas M. Kellenberg
Executive Director for Washington Program

Kellenberg received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his law degree from Harvard Law School.

In the years between completing law school and joining the Notre Dame faculty, Professor Kellenberg clerked for two federal judges, practiced law at a major law firm, and taught law school at Catholic University and the University of Washington. He has published various articles on legislative and judicial ethics.

Kellenberg serves as the Executive Director of the University of Notre Dame Washington Program. His courses include "Theoretical Foundations of Law and Public Policy," "American Institutions," and "Capital Punishment Litigation."

Liz Murdock LaFortune 

Assistant Director

Office of International Studies and Washington Program

Liz Murdock LaFortune serves as Assistant Director for the Office of International Studies and the Washington Program.  She works with student recruiting, orientation, and research of internship opportunities for students, and is the on-campus administrator for the Washington Program.   Liz is also the program coordinator overseeing the restart of the Summer Jerusalem Program in Summer, 2009.

LaFortune earned her Bachelor in Liberal Arts and a Masters in Theology/Religious Education from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas, and has served as an educator and administrator in Catholic educational institutions in Texas, Ohio, and Indiana.  Her special interests include Catholic Social Teaching and political responsibility, U.S. and Middle East politcs, experiential education, and safety and security abroad.

Thomas R. Swartz
Director for the Summer London Programme

TR Swartz earned his BA in economics from LaSalle College in 1960, his MA in economics from Ohio University in 1962, and his Ph.D. in economics from Indiana University in 1965. That same year he came to the University of Notre Dame, where he remained for his entire professional career, which spanned forty plus years.  He currently serves the University as an Emeritus Professor of Economics and the Director of the London Summer Programme.

During the forty-two years he was an active member of the University’s Teaching and Research Faculty, he served as a fiscal consultant with Federal agencies, the State of Indiana, and a number of local governments. He has authored, co-authored, or co-edited many books, book chapters and professional articles. Some titles dealing with urban issues are: The Changing Face of Fiscal Federalism, Urban Finance Under Siege, America's Working Poor. Eleven editions of one book, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Economic Issues, which he co-edited with Frank Bonello, stayed in print for well over twenty years.

He is very honored to have received a number of teaching awards, including the Madden Teaching Award, the Sheedy Teaching Award, and the Kaneb Teaching Award.  However, above all things Swartz is pleased with his work with the London Summer Programme, which he has directed since its inception in 2001, and the years he spent teaching large lecture sections of microeconomic theory and small interdisciplinary seminars.  Because it was not uncommon for him to teach four or five hundred students a year, over the course of his career he as taught more than ten percent of all living Notre Dame alumni.

Liz Reagan
Sr. Administrative Assistant
Summer London Programme

Reagan has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, IN. She is responsible for campus logistical arrangements, monitoring stateside expenditures, participant applications, liaison with registrar/participant registration, and general administrative support services in South Bend.

Kay Henderson
On-Site Administrative Assistant
Summer London Programme

Henderson is responsible for coordinating all performance course arrangements, monitoring London side budget, coordinating all on and off-campus non-class activities, scheduling examinations, and general administrative support in London.

Laura Holt
Deputy Director, London Program
Concurrent Associate Professional Specialist, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame

An art history major at Vassar College who spent over ten years directing international studies programs before resuming her academic career, Laura Holt earned both her Master's degree and Ph.D. in Theology at the University of Notre Dame with specialties in the history of Christianity and liturgical and systematic theology.  Her research interests include St. Augustine, the early centuries of Christianity, and the development of Christian doctrine.  A frequent speaker on the early Church, her articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of Early Christian Studies , Augustinian Studies , Church History , Heythrop Journal, and Religious Studies Review , as well as Augustine Through the Ages, An Encyclopedia (Eerdmans, 1999).  She is a member of the North American Patristics Society and the American Society of Church Historians.

Based in London, she was appointed Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies in London in 2001 and Deputy Director in 2005.  She assists the Director of the London Program in any way necessary to ensure the smooth operation of the program (including deputizing for him whenever he is absent from the London Centre), and specifically in the following areas: supervising course registration and examination arrangements; academic advising; and liaising with British and US faculty, and with ND alumni in London. In addition, each semester she teaches one course in theology.

Cornelius O'Boyle
Associate Director London Program

B.A. London University ; M.Phil., Ph.D. Cambridge University ; Research Fellow, Cambridge University .

From 1990 to 1998 he was an assistant professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame, and was also appointed a fellow of the Reilly Centre, a fellow of the Medieval Institute, a faculty member of the Graduate Program in History and Philosophy of Science, and a concurrent assistant professor in the History Department. In 1999, he took up two-year visiting lectureship at University College London (UCL). In 2001, he was awarded a three-year Wellcome Trust research fellowship at UCL. An intellectual historian specializing in medieval natural philosophy and medicine, his recent publications include: The Art of Medicine: Medical Teaching at the University of Paris, 1250-1400 (Brill, 1998); Learning Medieval Medicine: The Boundaries of Classroom Practice , (edited volume of Dynamis , 2000); “Discussions on the Nature of Medicine at the University of Paris, ca.1300-1330”, in Learning Institutionalized: Teaching in the Medieval University , ed. J. Van Engen (Notre Dame, 2000); Astrology and Medicine in Later Medieval England: The Calendars of John Somer and Nicholas of Lynn”, Sudhoffs Archiv , 2005.

Having j oined the teaching staff of the London Program in 2001, in 2005 he was appointed the Associate Director of the Program, with special responsibility for developing undergraduate internships, promoting the London Centre as a venue for academic meetings, and generating publicity for the Program and the Centre.

Alice Tyrell
Librarian
London Program

After gaining her B.A. in English and Ancient History at the University of Wales, Alice Tyrell returned to London to train in library work, completing her postgraduate studies with a full scholarship at University College London. She has worked for The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, the London Library, and the UK Friends of the New Alexandrian Library before joining the Notre Dame London Undergraduate Program in 1999 as their first professional librarian. She was awarded full chartered status with the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in 2003.

Ms. Tyrell is responsible for all aspects of the management and collection development of the London Undergraduate Program Library, as well as liaison with faculty about the resources they need, the coordination of student access to other library services in London, the organisation of the textbook loan and sale programs and the maintenance of the London Undergraduate Program and London Centre's web pages.

Ms Tyrell is a born-and-bred Londoner, and is very happy to answer questions about her city, as well as your studies. She maintains a London-focused blog as Miss Alice

Craig Thomson
IT Technical Support Officer
London Program

Craig Thomson joined the London Program in June 2006, currently commutes into London from Surrey and has been an IT professional for over 10 years.

Thompson provides first-level IT support for all academic programs operating at the London Centre, including maintaining, updating, and replacing hardware and software, server administration and user support.

R. P. Whaite
Assistant Rector
London Program

Ric Whaite joins us from serving in parochial pastoral ministry in London. Prior to that he taught history of science and religion at the Universities of Oxford, London and Manchester. In these roles, he also worked in student welfare and adminstration. Whilst completing his doctorate in philosophical theology, he spent time in the USA studying at universities in New Jersey and Connecticut.

As Assistant Rector for the London Program, he works closely with the Rector using his own familiarity with academic and social life in London and studying transatlantically to facilitate the integration of Notre Dame students into the London Program and its residential community.

Kristiana Dahl
Rector
London Program

Kristiana Dahl was born in Tokyo, Japan. After a brief time living in Chicago, she grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has a BA from Washington University in St Louis with a double major in Archaeology and Medieval Studies, and she spent her junior year studying in the UK at Oxford University. Kristiana has an MA in Medieval Studies from the University of York, and spent two years studying at the Centre for Medieval Studies at Notre Dame. She has worked as a substitute teacher in Salt Lake City, as well as for Oxfam and the Health and Safety Directorate of Coventry City Council in England.

As Assistant Rector for the London Program, she helps the students settle into London life and adjust to the cultural differences they face in Britain .

Mrs. Rowenna Bradshaw
Administrative Assistant
London Program

Rowena Bradshaw is responsible for arranging visits to the theatre and concert performances, museums, art galleries, and other locations required by the London academic courses. She also maintains student accounts related to these activities.

Kevin Whelan
Director
Dublin Undergraduate Programme

Professor Whelan has overall responsibility for the Dublin Programme, including academic standards, course selection, linkages with UCD and Trinity, adjunct faculty, and the general well-being and safety of students in Ireland. Whelan is also the liaison point between Notre Dame and its Irish Partners.

Caroline Moloney
Senior Administrator
Dublin Undergraduate Programme

Dublin born, Moloney studied design and typography in Dublin and London. She was previously consultant in project management and exhibition design to the Office of Public Works, and the National Museum of Ireland.

Moloney's role with the Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre for the past five years, is in administration.  Also responsible for the organisation of the annual post-graduate Keough Institute of Irish Studies, Irish Seminar and she coordinates the Keough Institute Irish Interns programme annually in Dublin.  In addition she designs all the Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre publicity material:  books, booklets, corporate ID, invitations, Christmas cards, etc.

Courtney Wahle
Academic & Programme Coordinator
Dublin Undergraduate Programme
       
Wahle, a 2006 graduate of Notre Dame, hails from the South Shore of Boston. With a major in English, Courtney was also an Irish Studies minor and participated in Notre Dame’s study abroad program at UCD in the spring of her junior year.

With over fourteen years of experience as an Irish dancer, Courtney is thrilled to join the staff at the Keough Naughton Notre Dame Centre where she continues to learn about the country which has become her new home.

Prof. Maureen Boulton (Director)
Director Stage Université Notre Dame de France
Professor of French

(Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania; M.Litt. University of Oxford)

Professor Boulton is a medievalist with particular interests in the areas of religious literature, textual criticism, manuscript studies and the relations between lyric poetry and medieval romance. She has edited two fourteenth-century texts, the Old French Evangile de l'Enfance and a related text in Anglo-Norman, the Enfaunces de Jesu Crist . Her third book, The Song in the Story , a study of lyric quotations in 13th and 14th-century romances, was published in 1993. Her most recent book, completed in collaboration with Ruth J. Dean, is Anglo-Norman Literature. A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts , which appeared in 1999.

Professor Boulton regularly offers courses on medieval literature, both French and comparative, and medieval culture, including "From Roland to the Holy Grail: Medieval French Literature 1100-1300," "Love & War in Late Medieval France," "Arthurian Literature," "Lyric & Narrative in Medieval French Literature," "King Arthur in History & Literature," and "Medieval Latin Paleography."

In March 2002, Professor Boulton was awarded the PRIX CHAVÉE from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres for her book Anglo-Norman Literature. A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts (London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2000).

Prof. Jonathan Boulton
Associate Director Stage Universite Notre Dame de France
Professional Specialist and Concurrent Associate Professor of History

(D.Phil., Oxford University, 1976; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1978)

Interests

Comparative Latin Christian social, cultural, and institutional history, ca. 1150 - 1550, especially of France and England; royal and nobiliary institutions, especially lordship, knighthood, and courts; heraldry, sigillography, and diplomatic history. Publications

Publications

• The Knights in the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Late Medieval Europe, 1326-1520 , second edition, revised and exanded (Boydell and Brewer, 2000)

Gernot O. Gürtler
Director and Academic Coordinator of the University of Notre Dame - Innsbruck International Study Program;
Visiting Professor in the Department of History at Notre Dame (Fall Semester 1996/97).

Prof. Gürtler teaches Modern European History in the Department of History, University of Innsbruck/Austria , and European/Austrian History and Civilization I/II for the UND (Innsbruck Program); he is a member of the Royal Stuart Society ( London ), the Catholic Record Society ( Oxford ) and the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society (Carlisle/GB).

Curriculum vitae:
born: 02/16/1955 (Schwaz/Tyrol - Austria ) (Roman Catholic)
married to: Anita M. GÜRTLER, M.A. (Roman Catholic)
1974-1981: History, Political Science and English/American Literature/Linguistics at:
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck / Austria
Institute of Historical Research/University of London
London School of Economics and Political Science
1980: M.A.
1981: Ph.D. (Innsbruck/London LSE)
1997-present: Director and Academic Coordinator of the University of Notre Dame - Innsbruck International Study Program;

S. Lisette Monterroso
Student Life Coordinator Puebla Program

Monterosso received her Bachelor´s in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Puebla and is a M.A. candidate in Finances, with a pending thesis, from the Universidad de las Americas, in Puebla. She had done studies on Econometric and Enviromental Science.

Currently the Coordinator of the Notre Dame Program in Puebla, Mexico, Monterosso is responsable for overseeing all aspects of the Puebla Program, advising and mentoring students and help them to integrate into their new enviroment."