Daniel Philpott is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. He took his doctorate at Harvard in 1996 and writes on religion and global politics, religious freedom, and reconciliation after conflict.
His books include Revolutions in Sovereignty (2001), The Politics of Past Evil (2006), God's Century (2011, with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah), Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (2012) and Religious Freedom in Islam (2019). He has worked as a reconciliation activist in Kashmir, in the Great Lakes region of Africa, and within the Catholic Church on clerical sexual abuse.
