Dory Mitros Durham

At the Keough School

Dory Mitros Durham is assistant dean of academic affairs and associate teaching professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and a core-affiliated faculty member of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights.

Courses

• Contemporary Issues in Race and U.S. Law (undergraduate elective; civil and human rights minor requirement)

Biography

In her capacity as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Dory Mitros Durham is responsible for oversight of the academic programs at the Keough School at the undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral level, working in partnership with colleagues in the dean’s office and the school’s nine institutes and centers.  

Prior to her appointment, Durham also served as was the associate director of the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights where she remains a faculty fellow. While at the Klau Institute, she developed, hosted, and moderated a guest lecture series through which experts in historical and contemporary racial justice issues from the United States and around the globe visited the Notre Dame community. The resulting 70+ lectures and conversations have been viewed more than 20,000 times online and more than 300 Notre Dame students have taken her related courses.

Before returning to Notre Dame, Durham served the federal judiciary as a career law clerk to Hon. Kenneth Ripple. She previously held a Skadden Fellowship at Indiana Legal Services, providing holistic legal services to immigrant victims of violence throughout the state and training local law enforcement agencies on issues concerning immigrant communities. Durham also taught the Judicial Externship course at Notre Dame Law School. Durham is a 2006 summa cum laude graduate of Notre Dame Law School, where she held the Fr. Michael D. McCafferty, C.S.C., Fellowship in Law and was the executive production editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. Durham earned her BA in the Program of Liberal Studies, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 2001, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Before attending law school, Durham worked for the Office of Government Liaison at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and for the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center. In both positions, she focused on issues relating to particularly vulnerable immigrant populations, including unaccompanied children, asylum seekers, refugees, and victims of human trafficking and other forms of violence.