Stories
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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.
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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.