R. Scott Appleby


R. Scott Appleby is an American historian, focusing in global religion and its relationship to peace and conflict, integral human development, and comparative modern religion.[1] He is a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame, and currently the Marilyn Keough Dean Professor at the University of Notre Dame.

Life

Appleby graduated from Notre Dame in 1978.[2] He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985. From 1982 to 1987, he chaired the religious studies department of St. Xavier College, Chicago. From 1988 to 1993, he was co-director, with Martin E. Marty, of the Fundamentalism Project, an international scholarly public policy study of religious movements throughout the world, funded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a faculty member at Notre Dame University since 1994, where he became the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He co-directs, with Ebrahim Moosa and Atalia Omer, the Contending Modernities project, which explores the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and secular forces in the modern world.[3]

In 2011, Appleby gave the "Cole Lectures" at Vanderbilt University. Previous speakers include George Arthur Buttrick, Paul Tillich and Jim Wallis.[4]

In February 2017, he gave a lecture at the 3rd SRP Distinguished Lecture and Symposium of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.[5]

He is a board member of the George Mason University Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution.[6] He serves on the advisory board of The Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at Notre Dame.[7]

Works

Appleby is the general editor of the Cornell University Press series Catholicism in Twentieth Century America, and lead editor of the Oxford University Press book series Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding.[4]

Books
  • Transforming Parish Ministry: The Changing Roles of Clergy, Laity, and Women Religious (1989)
  • Fundamentalism Project with Martin E. Marty, five-volumes (Chicago, 1991–2004)
  • The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence, and Reconciliation, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000)
  • Church and the Age Unite!: The Modernist Impulses in American Catholicism, (University of Chicago Press)

Articles
  • "Job Description for the Next Pope", Foreign Policy Magazine, (2009)[8]

Awards

Appleby was the 2001 Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences[9] The Baptist Theological Union of the University of Chicago Divinity School named Appleby Alumnus of the Year for 2003.[10]

He was named founding dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs in 2014.[11]

References
  1. "R. Scott Appleby". scholar.google.com. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
  2. "R. Scott Appleby". nd.edu. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  3. "Profile", Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs
  4. Owens, Ann Marie Deer. "R. Scott Appleby: 2011 Cole Lectures", Vanderbilt News, October 24, 2011
  5. "SRP Distinguished Lecture by Professor R. Scott Appleby, Marilyn Keough Dean, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, at the 3rd SRP Distinguished Lecture and Symposium, RSIS, February 1, 2017
  6. Board member, GMU
  7. "Advisory Board" Cushwa Center, Univ. of Notre Dame
  8. "Job Description for the Next Pope", FP, October 28, 2009
  9. "R. Scott Appleby", The American Academy of Political and Social Sciences
  10. "R. Scott Appleby Named Alumnus of the Year 2003", University of Chicago Divinity School
  11. LaReau, Renée. "Notre Dame’s Scott Appleby honored with Religion and International Studies Distinguished Scholar Award", Notre Dame News, March 28, 2019
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