Notre Dame names dean of Keough School of Global Affairs
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A University of Michigan leader and expert in Chinese domestic politics has been named the new dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
Mary Gallagher will also hold a tenured faculty position when she begins her five-year term as the Marilyn Keough dean on July 1. She will succeed Scott Appleby, who is stepping down June 30 after serving as founding dean of the Keough School over the past decade.
“Mary Gallagher is a leading political scientist with deep expertise in China and a strong commitment to integral human development, interdisciplinary research and policy impact,” Notre Dame President the Rev. John Jenkins said in a news release. “She will be an outstanding addition to our senior leadership team and University community.”
At the University of Michigan, Gallagher serves as the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Chair in Democracy, Democratization and Human Rights and the director of the International Institute, where she manages 17 centers and programs focused on global regions and themes as well as academic degree programs in international studies.
“I was drawn to Notre Dame’s distinctive mission as a leading global Catholic research university, and to the Keough School’s focus on research and teaching that address global challenges through the lens of integral human development and shape future generations of global leaders,” Gallagher said in the news release. “I’m excited and honored to lead the Keough School into its second decade.”
As dean of the Keough School, Gallagher will lead nine centers and institutes, 70 faculty members, 200 undergraduate majors and about 80 graduate students from more than 60 countries.
Gallagher is the author or editor of five books on the domestic politics and economy of China and has received multiple honors for her research, including two Fulbright awards and grants from the National Science Foundation and the Luce Foundation. Her experience includes teaching at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing and visiting professorships at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai and at the KoGuan School of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the news release said.
Gallagher also is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a consultant for the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Department of Labor, among other organizations.
She received a doctorate in politics from Princeton University and a bachelor’s degree in government and East Asian studies from Smith College in Massachusetts.