R. Scott Appleby

R. Scott Appleby (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1985) "is Professor of History and Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), and editor of Spokesmen for the Despised: Fundamentalist Leaders of the Middle East (University of Chicago 1997). From 1988 to 1993 Appleby was co-director of the Fundamentalism Project, an international public policy study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. With Martin E. Marty, he co-edited the five-volume Fundamentalism Project (University of Chicago Press). He is a member of the Multi-Faith Board of Advisors of the Council on Faith & International Affairs and was a speaker at the Institute for Global Engagement's 2005 Global Leadership Forum, "Proselytism and Persecution.""


 * Multi-Faith Advisory Board, Council on Faith and International Affairs
 * Director, Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution