Saint Xavier University to honor Scott Appleby | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › Saint Xavier University to honor Scott Appleby Saint Xavier University to honor Scott Appleby Published: April 26, 2017 Author: Renée LaReau Scott Appleby Scott Appleby, professor of history and the Marilyn Keough Dean of the University of Notre Dame’s Keough School of Global Affairs, will receive an honorary degree May 6 from Saint Xavier University in Chicago. He also will deliver the commencement address to graduates of Saint Xavier’s College of Arts and Sciences. Appleby is a scholar of global religion who has been a member of Notre Dame’s faculty since 1994. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1978 and received his master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Chicago. His research examines the ways in which religious movements and organizations shape, and are shaped by, national, regional and global dynamics. He co-directs Contending Modernities, a major multi-year project to examine the interaction among Catholic, Muslim and secular forces in the modern world. Appleby co-chaired the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy, which in 2010 released the influential report “Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy.” From 2000 to 2014, he served as the John M. Regan Jr. Director of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In 2014 he was appointed the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School — Notre Dame’s first new college or school in nearly a century — which will open its doors to students in August. From 1988 to 1993, Appleby was co-director of the Fundamentalism Project, an international public policy study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author or editor of 15 books, including the widely cited volumes of “The Fundamentalism Project” (co-edited with Martin E. Marty and published by the University of Chicago Press) and “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation.” He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and he is the recipient of three other honorary degrees, from Fordham University, Scranton University and St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Saint Xavier also will confer an honorary degree on Carolyn Woo, former Martin J. Gillen Dean of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and she will address the graduates of SXU’s Graham School of Management. Posted In: International Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related September 30, 2022 Nanovic Institute to welcome former President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović September 29, 2022 Notre Dame, Ukrainian Catholic University launch three new research grants September 27, 2022 Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin engineers join to advance novel treatment for cystic fibrosis September 14, 2022 Apostolic nuncio to Great Britain to deliver the 2022 Keeley Vatican Lecture September 12, 2022 Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street … in different countries? For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn