Robert Scott Appleby (born 1956) is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...

, focusing in global religion and its relationship to peace and conflict, integral

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, and comparative modern religion. He is a

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of history at the

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, and currently the Marilyn Keough Dean of th
Keough School of Global Affairs

Life

Appleby graduated from Notre Dame in 1978. He earned his PhD from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chicago is consistently ranked among the b ...

in 1985. From 1982 to 1987, he chaired the religious studies department of Saint Xavier College, Chicago. From 1988 to 1993, he was co-director, with

Martin E. Marty Martin Emil Marty (born on February 5, 1928) is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on religion in the United States. Early life and education Marty was born on February 5, 1928, in West Point, Nebraska, and raised ...

, of the

Fundamentalism Project The Fundamentalism Project was an international scholarly investigation of conservative religious movements throughout the world, funded by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The project began in 1987, directed by Martin E. Marty and R. Sc ...

, 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 the

since 1994, where he became the John M. Regan Jr. Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He co-directs, with

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and Atalia Omer, the Contending Modernities project, which explores the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and secular forces in the modern world. In 2011, Appleby gave the "Cole Lectures" at

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. Previous speakers include

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, and

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.Owens, Ann Marie Deer. "R. Scott Appleby: 2011 Cole Lectures", ''Vanderbilt News'', October 24, 2011
/ref> In February 2017, he gave a lecture at the 3rd SRP Distinguished Lecture and Symposium of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at

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in Singapore. He is a board member of the

George Mason University George Mason University (George Mason, Mason, or GMU) is a public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia with an independent City of Fairfax, Virginia postal address in the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area. The university was origin ...

Center for World Religions, Diplomacy, and Conflict Resolution. He serves on the advisory board of The Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at Notre Dame.

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. Appleby co-edited wit
Atalia Omer
''The Oxford Handbook on Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding'' (Oxford University Press, 2015).

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 Notre Dame Press, 1992) *''Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology, Ethics and Praxis'' (Orbis, 2010) *''Catholics in the American Century'' (Cornell University Press, 2012)

Articles

* "Job Description for the Next Pope", ''Foreign Policy'', (2009)

Awards

Appleby was the 2001 Mahatma M.K. Gandhi Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences The Baptist Theological Union of the University of Chicago Divinity School named Appleby Alumnus of the Year for 2003. He was named founding dean of the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs in 2014. In 2019 Appleby was honored with the Religion and International Studies Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association.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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References

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