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Ann-Marie Conrado
Assistant Professor
Art, Art History, and Design
Industrial Design
Ann-Marie Conrado is assistant professor in Industrial Design of the Department of Art, Art History, and Design. Conrado’s research focuses on using design to address social and humanitarian concerns. She has worked primarily in Nepal with fair trade artisans to design and develop products more in line with contemporary lifestyles. Her interventions have significantly increased demand and sales for traditional handicraft and artisan communities struggling to compete in the global marketplace. At Notre Dame, Conrado brings that ethos to the classroom, engaging students in social design projects and bringing students to Nepal to work on various research projects. She was recently awarded the inaugural Young Educator of the Year Award by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) for her significant contributions to educating the next generation of designers in realizing the potential of design to advance the common good.
As faculty fellow, Professor Conrado will further develop her work in Nepal working with Rachel Tomas Morgan and the Center’s International Summer Service Learning Program (ISSLP). Their collaboration will make sustainable discipline- based ISSLP placements for students in the Design Program.
John M. Duffy
Francis O'Malley Director of the University Writing Program
Associate Professor English
John Duffy studies and writes about the convergences of rhetoric, literacy, ethics, disability, and education. He is the author of the award-winning book, Writing from These Roots, which charted the development of writing in a Hmong refugee community in Wisconsin, and he has published essays and editorials on a variety of topics in academic journals, newspapers, and on-line publications. He is the co-editor of the forthcoming book of essays, Literacy, Economy, and Power, and edited the special issue of the Disability Studies Quarterly on rhetoric and disability. He serves on the editorial boards of Written Communication and the Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and he is a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives. Duffy is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C., Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He teaches courses in rhetoric, writing, and literature.
As a Faculty Fellow, Professor Duffy will work closely with Connie Mick and Annie Cahill-Kelly on community-based writing projects, looking at ways to develop, assess, and promote these.
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Each year, the Center for Social Concerns invites two or more faculty members to be its Faculty Fellows. In general, the role of the Faculty Fellows is to link their disciplinary or multidisciplinary expertise with the Center’s mission. To this end, they will be assisting the Center to bring community-based learning and scholarship, civic participation, and Catholic social thought into university departments and programs. Fellow activities may take the form of the following, among others:
Fellows are paired with a program director to work jointly on the chosen projects. Alternatively, they might work exclusively with the Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Research (ADAAR). They are chosen for two-year periods, with renewal possible.
In addition to the above involvements, the Fellows will be asked to: meet a minimum of twice yearly with the ADAAR and other Center staff for the purposes of offering advice on Center activities typically related to the Faculty and information sharing; participate in post-Urban Plunge, International Summer Service Learning Program and domestic Summer Service Learning Program student reflections; and attend occasional events (staff meetings, dinners, etc.) at the Center. At the end of each year, each Fellow, in collaboration with the Center affiliate with whom he or she has been working, is asked to write up a description (one to two pages) of his or her efforts over the year and results.
As a small sign of appreciation for the Fellow's contributions to the Center mission, $500 will be given to each as income. The Fellow, in conjunction with the ADAAR or program director with whom he or she is working, may also make use of $2000 over the course of the two-year term toward his or her project. Likely uses of this money would be hiring student assistants, lunch meetings, books and other supplies, and conference attendance. The Fellows will be selected by the ADAAR, in consultation with the Center's Education Committee members and with input from appropriate program directors.
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