Category: 24-25-year-in-review

PERSPECTIVES Jay Brandenberger ’78 PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICEDIRECTOR FOR ASSESSMENT AND ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP The Institute for Social Concerns is a home for justice research and education for scholars at any stage of their academic career, from undergraduate students to seasoned professors. Jenifer Solano Becerra is a junior at Notre Dame, majoring in neuroscience and behavior […]

PERSPECTIVES Suzanne Mulligan PROFESSOR OF THE PRACTICE The Institute for Social Concerns is a home for justice research and education for scholars at any stage of their academic career, from undergraduate students to seasoned professors. Jenifer Solano Becerra is a junior at Notre Dame, majoring in neuroscience and behavior with a minor in chemistry. Amandhi […]

PERSPECTIVES Amandhi Mathews 2025–26 GRADUATE JUSTICE FELLOW The Institute for Social Concerns is a home for justice research and education for scholars at any stage of their academic career, from undergraduate students to seasoned professors. Jenifer Solano Becerra is a junior at Notre Dame, majoring in neuroscience and behavior with a minor in chemistry. Amandhi […]

PERSPECTIVES Jenifer Solano Becerra JUNIOR NEUROSCOENCE AND BEHAVIOR MAJOR The Institute for Social Concerns is a home for justice research and education for scholars at any stage of their academic career, from undergraduate students to seasoned professors. Jenifer Solano Becerra is a junior at Notre Dame, majoring in neuroscience and behavior with a minor in […]

GRADUATE JUSTICE FELLOWS Finding Scholarly Purpose in Justice Graduate and professional students come to Notre Dame because of its commitments to both academic excellence and the pursuit of the common good. Through the Institute’s graduate programs, these students develop a strong sense of purpose in whatever discipline they pursue, thereby creating an interdisciplinary community around […]

SPIRE: SCHOLARSHIP IN CATHOLIC SOCIAL TRADITION Addressing the Signs of the Times Through SPIRE: Scholarship in Catholic Social Tradition, the Institute is addressing the most urgent signs of the times—from growing religious nationalism and the national housing crisis to global migration, rising authoritarianism, and threats to democracy—by drawing from the deep resources of Catholic social […]

NOTRE DAME JUSTICE LABS Collaborating on Research, Discovering Community Solutions Social concerns—from child hunger, to human trafficking, to housing shortages, to climate change—foil and frustrate well-meaning interventions, leaving our thorniest problems to fester. Now, through Notre Dame Justice Labs, the Institute offers a new model of engaged research and problem-based education, rooted in the principles […]

VIRTUES & VOCATIONS Cultivating Character Virtues & Vocations is a grassroots character movement committed to our shared flourishing through the cultivation of virtue in professions. This aspirational, cross-professional learning community understands thriving professions are the backbone of thriving societies and knows professional excellence requires both competence and character. Virtues & Vocations is rooted in the […]

PROXIMITIES SEMINARS Justice Up Close Proximities seminars are a creative, new spin on one of the Institute’s founding convictions: that the best way to learn about and engage the work of justice is to get proximate with those most affected by injustice—and those working in their communities to undo it. As Pope Francis once noted, […]

FROM THE DIRECTOR “How do you ever know for certain you are doing the right thing?” All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (2014) Each summer the new McNeill Justice Fellows read Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel All the Light We Cannot See. Doerr’s exquisite novel is the World War II story of […]