Fr. Dan Groody, C.S.C.
Listen as Vice President and Associate Provost Fr. Dan Groody, CSC tells about the many migrations in his own life, his special love for people in transition, and the consistency of his vocation throughout various roles as one who serves and tends to matters of the heart.
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Friday, April 5, 2024 12:00 pm
“God is not just someone to make intellectual assent to in our minds but someone to encounter into the depths of our heart. And if we are not able to make that migration, then we would never really know God.” -Fr. Dan Groody, C.S.C.
Listen as Vice President and Associate Provost Fr. Dan Groody, C.S.C. tells about the many migrations in his own life, his special love for people in transition, and the consistency of his vocation throughout various roles as one who serves and tends to matters of the heart.
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View EventMeet the Faculty: Fr. Dan Groody, C.S.C. '86
Father Dan Groody, C.S.C. ’86 , professor of theology and global affairs, is the vice president and associate provost for undergraduate education. His major responsibilities include advancing undergraduate teaching, research, and outreach, as well as overseeing Academic Services for Student-Athletes, the Center for University Advising, the Flatley Center for Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement, the Moreau First Year Experience course, the Transformational Leaders Program, and the work of the Core Curriculum Committee. He also provides leadership for the student accommodations process and chairs the Advisory Committee on the Academic Code and Policy, the University Committee on the Honor Code, and the Valedictorian and Salutatorian Selection Committee.
In addition to his role in the provost’s office, Father Groody serves as a Fellow and Trustee of the University and is the adviser for discernment and discovery for Notre Dame’s Inspired Leadership Initiative.
An internationally recognized expert on migration and refugee issues whose papers and books have been translated into seven languages, he is the author of Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice: Navigating the Path to Peace and Border of Death, Valley of Life: An Immigrant Journey of Heart and Spirit. He has edited or co-edited four books on poverty, justice, and migration.
Father Groody’s expertise in and passion for refugee and migration issues has also been applied as executive producer of several acclaimed films and documentaries, including One Border, One Body: Immigration and the Eucharist , and Dying to Live: A Migrant’s Journey.
Father Groody has worked with the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the World Council of Churches, the Vatican, and the United Nations on issues of theology, globalization, migration, and refugees. In 2007–08, he was a visiting research fellow at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre.
A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 2000, Father Groody is a faculty fellow of the University’s Kellogg Institute, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Institute for Educational Initiatives, Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.
Father Groody earned his bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame, a master of divinity degree and a licentiate in sacred theology from the Jesuit School of Theology, and his doctorate in theology from the Graduate Theological Union.