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R. Scott Appleby
Strategic Religious Engagement Hub Advisory Board Member
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R. Scott Appleby is the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs and a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He co-directs, with Ebrahim Moosa and Atalia Omer, the Contending Modernities project, which explores the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and secular forces in the modern world. He was also a 2025-2026 member of the Strategic Religious Engagement Hub Advisory Board, an initiative hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Appleby is a graduate of Notre Dame and has both his master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.