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Greg Downey, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, will be continuing working with Rachel Tomas-Morgan to provide students returning from the International Summer Service Learning Program and from other internships and study abroad programs in the developing world with a re-entry course. This course, "Cultural Difference and Social Change," allows students to follow up their international experiences with focused research, reflection, and public presentations to future generations of participants in these programs. Downey's primary research interests are in Brazil and the United States, where he studies such subjects as social movements, human rights, interpersonal violence, physical education, and development.
Rev. Robert S. Pelton, CSC is the Director of Latin American/North American Church Concerns at the Kellogg Institute and Concurrent Professor of Theology. His work with the Center will focus on deepening the research opportunities for students and faculty in and on issues pertaining to Cuba. He is the architect behind Notre Dames's annual Archbishop Oscar Romero lecture series that celebrates the memory and the message of this assassinated champion for the marginalized. Father Pelton also leads student-faculty trips to Cuba that afford a rare glimpse of the relationship between Castro's regime and the Catholic Church. Father Pelton's publications include his book From Power to Communion, which centers on the challenges of social justice and spiritual leadership in Latin America.
Rabbi Michael A. Signer is Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture in the Department of Theology and Director of the Notre Dame Holocaust Project. As Faculty Fellow, Rabbi Signer will develop with the Center new activities to advance inter-religious dialogue, including educational opportunities for students to focus on the Jewish roots of social justice and to engage in civic participation involving the sharing of diverse religious experiences and heritages. Rabbi Signer is the author and editor of five books on topics that range from Medieval Latin biblical commentaries to contemporary Jewish-Christian relations. Betty Signer, Project Coordinator of the Notre Dame Holocaust Project, will also be working iwth the Center on these projects.
