Kevin Bustamante
Doctoral Candidate, University of Notre Dame
Kevin Bustamante is a fourth-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Bustamante is broadly interested in race and international relations theory. His dissertation investigates how racial hierarchy structures understandings of status and prestige in international politics. He is an award recipient of the APSA Diversity Fellowship (Spring 2021) and has received training at the Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (IQMR) and at the Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS). He is committed to recruiting and mentoring under-represented minorities into academia. Before attending graduate school, Bustamante worked as a high school teacher and as a research assistant investigating civil war alliances. He earned his B.A. from the University of Miami and triple majored in Anthropology, English (Creative Writing), and Political Science - graduating with departmental honors in the latter two.
