Stories
Faculty Fellowships
Professor Jennifer Forestal was selected as a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study. She joins nine other faculty fellows, drawn from top research universities across the United States, for a year of intensive collaborative research on the organizing research theme of 'Resilience.' As part of this fellowship, Forestal is working on a project on how to design resilient democratic communities by investigating the trajectory of incels in online forums.
MA Graduate Spotlight
As an MA student at Loyola University Chicago, Nahrain S. Rasho became excited about political science research and motivated to pursue a Ph.D. in political science. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the department of political science at the University of California, Davis, and a 2020-2021 Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). She studies nationalism, ethnic conflict, and state-building strategies in post-conflict settings. Her research explores how policy solutions to ethnic conflict increase conflict between ethnic groups in local societies.