Scott Appleby
Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs; Interim Director, Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion
- Office
- Jenkins Nanovic HallsUniversity of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN 46556
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - Phone
- (574) 631-5665
- rappleby@nd.edu
Expertise
Global religion, focusing on its relationship to peace and conflict and integral human development
Biography & Research
Scott Appleby is the Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Global Affairs and a core-affiliated faculty member of the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.
From 2014 to 2024 he served as as the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School. As the school’s founding dean, he lead the establishment and growth of Notre Dame’s first new school in a century.
Previously, Appleby directed Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and the Keough School's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. The author or editor of 15 books, Appleby examines the ways religions and religiously inspired actors shape and are shaped by modern ideas, institutions, practices and conflicts. His publications include "The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation," "The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding," and the five volumes of the "The Fundamentalism Project "(University of Chicago Press), which he edited with Martin E. Marty. Appleby has also written extensively about American religious history, Catholicism in the United States, and strategic peacebuilding around the world. Among other media appearances, he was called to offer public commentary on 9/11 and on the clergy sexual abuse crisis in Roman Catholicism. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Appleby is the recipient of five honorary degrees. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
Recent Work
- Engaging religions for the common good: Pope Francis’ radical peacebuilding proposition (keynote address for 2023 Rome Summer Seminars)
News & Media
- Video: "Leadership and Legacy of Pope Francis" (Politically Speaking, PBS/WNIT)
- "Martin E. Marty, Influential Religious Historian, Dies at 97" (The New York Times)
- As founding dean steps down, Keough charts its progress (Notre Dame Magazine)
- Scott Appleby to step down as founding dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs after a decade of service (Notre Dame News)