Scott Appleby, professor of history at Notre Dame, is a scholar of global religion who has been a member of Notre Dame’s faculty since 1994. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1978 and received master’s and PhD degrees in history from the University of Chicago. From 2000-2014, he served as the Regan Director of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Appleby co-directs, with Ebrahim Moosa and Atalia Omer, Contending Modernities, a major multi-year project to examine the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and secular forces in the modern world. His research examines the various ways in which religious movements and organizations shape, and are shaped by national, regional and global dynamics of governance, deadly conflict, international relations and economic development. He co-chaired the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Task Force on Religion and the Making of U.S. Foreign Policy, which released the influential report, Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy. Appleby is the author or editor of 15 books, including the volumes of The Fundamentalism Project (co-edited with Martin E. Marty) and The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation. Most recently, Appleby co-edited The Oxford Handbook on Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding.