Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C.

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Rev. Timothy Richard Scully, C.S.C.
Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies and 
Department of Political Science
University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN 46556

Degrees

B.A., economics, University of Notre Dame

M.Div., University of Notre Dame

M.A., political science, University of California-Berkeley

Ph.D., political science, University of California-Berkeley

Honors/awards

Distinguished Service Award, Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools, Feb. 21, 2010.

Presidential Citizens Medal, The White House, Dec. 10, 2008.

St. Elizabeth Seton Award, on behalf of the University of Notre Dame and the Alliance for Catholic Education, Nov. 6, 2008.

Bishop Dunne 100 Voyager Award, on behalf of the Alliance for Catholic Education, Oct. 29, 2008.

Champion of Catholic Education Medal by the Fulcrum Foundation, Feb. 1, 2008.

Crystal Apple Award, a Tribute to Outstanding Educators, made possible by D. Forrest-Pressley in memory of Michael Pressley, The College of Education, Michigan State University, Oct. 26, 2007.

Samuel Valenzuela, Timothy R. Scully, and Nicolás Somma, “The Enduring Presence of Religion in Chilean Ideological Positionings and Voter Options.” Comparative Politics 40, 1 (Oct. 2007). Winner of the “Federico Gil Prize” of the Chilean Political Science Association for the best paper presented in the field of Comparative Politics at its Eighth Annual Meeting held in Santiago, Nov. 15-17, 2006.

Daniel A. Lord, S.J. Award, for distinguished service in the cause of youth, awarded by the Loyola Academy Community, Loyola Academy, Wilmette, Illinois, Nov. 5, 2004.

Educational research interests

Values and higher education, spirituality and education

Select publications

Democratic Governance in Latin America, (co-edited with Scott Mainwaring), Stanford University Press, 2010.

“Cast Your Nets Deeper,” (coauthored with Rev. Lou DelFra, C.S.C.) in John Watzke, ed., Beyond Alternative Teacher Education: Integrating Community, Spirituality, and Leadership, Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Press, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2007.

“Epilogue: A Community of Educators,” (coauthored with Lou DelFra, C.S.C. and Sean McGraw, C.S.C.) in John Watzke, ed., Beyond Alternative Teacher Education: Integrating Teaching, Community, Spirituality and Leadership, Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Press, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 2007.

“Building ACE: Improvising on Providence,” in Michael Pressley, ed., Teaching Service and Alternative Teacher Education, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, pp. 15-34.

“Come and You will See: Spirituality in ACE,” in Michael Pressley, ed., Teaching Service and Alternative Teacher Education, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, pp. 184-213.

Select papers, lectures, and conferences

“Educating Experiences,” presented at XXXI Rimini Meeting of Communion and LIberation, Rimini, Italy, Aug. 2010.

Keynote address, Third District Mission Assembly of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, St. Mary’s College. Moraga, California, Aug. 2, 2010.

Panelist, “Who Will Teach and Lead America’s Urban Catholic Schools?” at “Head of the Class: Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence,” a conference sponsored by The Philanthropy Roundtable and Associated Grant Makers, Boston, MA, Sept. 11, 2008.

Keynote address, White House Summit on Inner-City Children and Faith-Based Schools, The White House, Washington, DC, April 24, 2008.

Bio

Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, a Fellow and Trustee of the University of Notre Dame, a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, and currently serves as director of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, where he oversees the work of the Alliance for Catholic Education, the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, and other education-related programs. He is also a Trustee and a Fellow of the University of Notre Dame, and a member of the Foundation Board at Trinity College, Dublin.

In 1993 Father Scully founded the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), Notre Dame’s signature program which provides hundreds of talented and committed Catholic school teachers and leaders every year to scores of underserved communities across the United States, as well as overseas. Since its beginning, ACE has grown to include a wide array of resources and services to underserved faith-based schools throughout the United States, becoming the nation’s premier provider of talent and energy to strengthen and sustain these schools.

His research and graduate teaching focuses on comparative political institutions, especially political parties. His writings include Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Chile (Stanford, 1992) and five coauthored volumes: Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (Stanford, 1995); Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts (Stanford, 2003); El Eslabón Perdido: Familia, Bienestar, y Modernización en Chile (Taurus, 2006), Creencias e Ilusiones: la Cohesión Social de Los Latinoamericanos (Santiago, Uqbar Editores, 2008) and, most recently, Democratic Governance in Latin America (Stanford, 2010).

Among his professional affiliations, Father Scully is a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Inter-American Dialogue, the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Advisory Board, the Pacific Council for International Relations, the American Political Science Association, the Latin American Studies Association, and the school board for the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools. At Notre Dame he is a member of the Advisory Boards of the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Institute for Latino Studies, the Law School’s Center for Civil and Human Rights, and the Alliance for Catholic Education, which he chairs.

Father Scully has received many teaching- and education-related awards. He was awarded the 2007 Crystal Apple Award, a Tribute to Outstanding Educators, from the College of Education at Michigan State University. In 2008 he was awarded the Champion of Catholic Education Medal by the Fulcrum Foundation, the Bishop Dunne 100 Voyager Award, and the Diocese of Worcester’s most prestigious education recognition, the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Award. In addition, Father Scully was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by the President of the United States during a ceremony in the Oval Office in Dec. 2008. Most recently he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools in Feb. 2010.

Ordained a Holy Cross priest in 1981, he served his first years of priesthood in Santiago, Chile. He earned master’s and doctoral degrees in political science from the University of California-Berkeley, after graduating summa cum laude from Notre Dame in 1976 and receiving his master of divinity degree in 1979.