The Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights welcomed five new faculty fellows on Jan. 1.
The new fellows represent expertise in global affairs, development and global health, economics, and Asian studies, among other fields.
“We are thrilled that these five outstanding scholars have joined the Klau Institute’s multidisciplinary group of faculty fellows,” said Jennifer Mason McAward, an associate professor of law and director of the Klau Institute. “Our fellows form the core of a vibrant intellectual community focused on issues of civil and human rights, and they help to build a campus culture at Notre Dame that prioritizes justice and human dignity in the United States and around the world.”
Meet the new fellows below.
Abby Córdova is an associate professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs.
Her research examines the consequences of inequality and marginalization for democracy, integrating topics related to crime and violence, gender inequality, economic inequality, and international migration in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean. She seeks to identify public policies that can improve the well-being of disadvantaged citizens and in this way advance democratic consolidation across the world.
As an expert on survey research methodology, Córdova’s work relies extensively on public opinion and elite survey data.
Eva Dziadula is a teaching professor in the Department of Economics.
Her research focuses on the area of migration choices and immigrant assimilation in the United States, specifically focusing on marriage, divorce, fertility, and citizenship acquisition. Moreover, she studies policy impacts on the undocumented immigrant population in the United States, fertility policies in China, and costs associated with child labor in Nepal.
Dziadula also applies behavioral economics to pedagogy in higher education, evaluating the role of commitment devices and social accountability in students’ academic success.
Outside of Notre Dame, she is a fellow at the Global Labor Organization.
Santosh Kumar Gautam is an associate professor of development and global health in the Keough School and director of the sustainable development concentration in the Master of Global Affairs program.
An applied microeconomist, Gautam's research focuses on the economics of global health and economic development in low- and middle-income countries. His research examines the causal association between child and maternal health, human capital, and poverty.
He uses experimental and quasi-experimental research methods and has extensive experience collecting survey data in India, Bhutan, and Albania.
Dory Mitros Durham is the assistant dean of academic affairs and an associate teaching professor in the Keough School. She also acts as the school’s diversity and inclusion officer and is a member of the dean’s cabinet.
Durham previously served as associate director of the Klau Institute, where she developed the Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary course and online lecture series. Prior to joining the Klau Institute, she served the federal judiciary as a career law clerk to Hon. Kenneth Ripple of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
She is a 2001 graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a 2006 graduate of Notre Dame Law School.
Sharon Yoon is an associate professor of Korean studies in the Keough School.
An ethnographer, Yoon has spent many years conducting in-depth fieldwork in Korean diasporic communities in Seoul, Beijing, and Osaka. Before coming to Notre Dame, Yoon was an assistant professor at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.
Yoon's first book, “The Cost of Belonging: An Ethnography of Solidarity and Mobility in Beijing’s Koreatown,” was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. Her second book is based on seven years of participant observation, following the lives of postcolonial Korean (“zainichi”) social activists who sought to outlaw the surge of extremist hate parades targeting the Koreatown in Osaka between 2013 and 2015.
The Klau Institute’s faculty fellow program supports fellows’ teaching and scholarship, and organizes extracurricular programming on core civil and human rights issues.
Fellows are encouraged to elevate issues of civil and human rights within their home departments and the University more broadly, and to consider joint projects with each other, building cross-campus partnerships on civil and human rights initiatives. In addition, fellows are connect to Klau Institute student affiliates, with opportunities for substantive engagement and mentorship.