Co-President: Evan Bursch
Year: 2024
Majors: Physics, Philosophy, Theology
Hometown: Caledonia, MI
Contact: ebursch@nd.edu
Co-President: Madeline Murphy
Year: 2025
Majors: Vocal Performance, Theology
Minor: Constitutional Studies
Hometown: Davenport, IA
Contact: mmurph64@nd.edu
Vice President: Giancarlo Donahue
Year: 2025
Majors: Political Science
Minor: Constitutional Studies, Theology, Business Economics
Hometown: Park Ridge, IL
Contact: gdonahu2@nd.edu
Secretary: Maddie Kosobucki
Year: 2024
Major: Math
Minor: Constitutional Studies
Hometown: Libertyville, IL
Contact: mkosobuc@nd.edu
Media & Graphics: Catalina Scheider Galiñanes
Year: 2025
Majors: Economics, Political Science
Minor: Constitutional Studies
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Contact: cscheid2@nd.edu
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Philpott is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. in 1996 from Harvard University and specializes in religion and global politics, focusing on religious freedom, reconciliation, the political behavior of religious actors, and Christian political theology. His books include Revolutions in Sovereignty (Princeton, 2001), God’s Century: Resurgent Religion in Global Politics (Norton, 2011, coauthored with Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah), Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation (Oxford, 2012) and Religious Freedom in Islam: The Fate of a Universal Human Right in the Muslim World (Oxford, 2019). Currently he is writing a book that sets forth a political theology based on a Christian concept of justice. He has promoted reconciliation as an activist in Kashmir and the Great Lakes Region of Africa.
Contact: jphilpot@nd.edu
