Notre Dame Appoints Executive Director
Rev. Kevin Sandberg
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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowRev. Kevin Sandberg has been appointed Leo and Arlene Hawk executive director of the Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as acting director of the center during this academic year, while Rev. Paul Kollman has been on research leave. Father Kollman has served as the center’s executive director since 2012 and will resume full-time teaching and research in the Department of Theology on June 30.
Since joining the center in 2014, Father Sandberg has directed the Common Good Initiative, a Catholic social teaching immersion course for graduate students with sites in Haiti, Cuba, Uganda, Jerusalem and Detroit. In a previous stint at the center, he taught immersion seminars in Hispanic ministry and education. He regularly teaches a development of theology course for undergraduate students who have participated in service learning.
Sandberg is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, a member of the board of Ave Maria Press and a past board member of the Religious Education Association. He received his B.A. in economics and an M.Div. from the University of Notre Dame, an M.A. in theology from the Graduate Theological Union/Jesuit School of Theology and his doctorate in religion and education from Fordham University. His research interests include theological reflection, the principle of the common good in Catholic social teaching and the neglect of listening and its restoration through religious education.
Prior to pastoral ministry as a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross, Father Sandberg was a trust officer with the Northern Trust Bank and a financial economist with the U.S. Treasury Department. He was the founding director of Young Adult Community at St. Clement Church in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.