Expertise

Governance; state administration; international comparative sociology; development; elite migration; classical social theory

At the Keough School

Erin McDonnell is and a concurrent associate professor in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.

Research

Erin McDonnell (PhD sociology, Northwestern University) is a Kellogg Associate Professor of Sociology. She is a theorist whose research engages organizational, political, cultural, and economic sociology.

McDonnell’s work focuses on how social organization affects economic outcomes, from consumer groups to administrative capacity in African states.