Expertise

Global religion, focusing on its relationship to peace and conflict and integral human development

At the Keough School

Scott Appleby (PhD University of Chicago, 1985) is the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Courses

• Introduction to Global Affairs and Integral Human Development (foundational course for undergraduate major in global affairs)

Biography

Scott Appleby is professor of history and the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. Previously he 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 fifteen 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 (PhD, University of Chicago) is the recipient of five honorary degrees.

Recent Work

• Engaging religions for the common good: Pope Francis’ radical peacebuilding proposition (keynote address for 2023 Rome Summer Seminars)