Mary Gallagher

Mary E. Gallagher is the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. She was previously the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization and Human Rights at the University of Michigan and the director of the International Institute. She was the director of the Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies from 2008 to 2020.

Gallagher is the author or editor of five books, including “Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Over the course of her career, Gallagher has received multiple honors for her research, including two Fulbright awards and grants from the National Science Foundation and the Luce Foundation. She is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a consultant for the World Bank, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Labor and many other nongovernmental and international organizations.