Kenneth Scheve

Dr. Kenneth ScheveKenneth Scheve, the Dean Acheson Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs and the dean of social science at Yale University, has been appointed the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at University of Notre Dame.

Scheve, who will also hold a tenured faculty position in the Department of Political Science, begins a five-year term as dean on July 1.

An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Scheve studies the domestic and international governance of modern capitalism — seeking to explain how politics succeeds and fails in contributing to shared prosperity. His research examines inequality and redistribution, the politics of globalization, the social and political consequences of long-run economic change, and climate politics.

Scheve began his faculty career as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Yale. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Michigan and Stanford University, where he served in a number of leadership roles, including director of The Europe Center. He returned to Yale in 2020, where he served as deputy director for academic affairs at the Jackson Institute (now the Jackson School) for Global Affairs, leading faculty recruitment and curricula development for a new master's in public policy in Global Affairs degree.

Scheve received a B.A. with highest honors in Economics from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD from Harvard University.