Mary Gallagher

Mary E. Gallagher is the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. She received her Ph.D. in politics in 2001 from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College in 1991. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, U.S.-China relations and Chinese state-society relations, especially labor politics and labor law. Gallagher’s most recent book is “Authoritarian Legality in China: Law, Workers and the State,” published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. She was previously the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor 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.