Berkley Center

Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo is a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Notre Dame and a summer 2016 doctoral fellow with the Religious Freedom Project. His research and teaching interests are on the topics of religion and politics, voting behavior, political psychology, and social networks. He is also interested in methodology, especially experimental methods and computational statistics. Sumaktoyo’s doctoral research considers how religious social networks influence levels of religious tolerance in Muslim-majority countries. He examines the diversity of social networks in these countries and how diversity relates to democratic attitudes such as tolerance toward non-Muslims. Before coming to Notre Dame, Sumaktoyo obtained a master’s degree in social psychology from Loyola University Chicago with funding from the Fulbright scholarship. He completed his undergraduate degrees in his home country of Indonesia, where he obtained dual degrees in computer science and statistics.