Peter Schraeder
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Schraeder has served since July 2020 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His academic training from the BA to the PhD was in the interdisciplinary field of International Studies, enabling him to serve as an academic innovator who effectively works across disciplinary boundaries. Additional degrees in French civilization and language from the Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris helped launch a career equally marked by global, intercultural engagement. Schraeder is a distinguished teacher-scholar in the areas of decision-making theory, foreign policy analysis, and African politics and international relations who has received three of the highest honors a faculty member can achieve at Loyola: Faculty Member of the Year, the Sujack Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and Graduate Faculty Member of the Year. He is the author or co-author of ninety-nine peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and the author or editor of ten books, most recently Understanding Contemporary Africa (2020). This scholarly agenda has been supported by twenty internal and external grants totaling over $1.4 million, including Fulbright fellowships to Senegal and Tunisia. Schraeder is a firm proponent of shared governance, having served on numerous university bodies including as elected chair of Faculty Council. His life-long connection to Jesuit, Catholic values has made Loyola the ideal academic home.
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Schraeder has served since July 2020 as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. His academic training from the BA to the PhD was in the interdisciplinary field of International Studies, enabling him to serve as an academic innovator who effectively works across disciplinary boundaries. Additional degrees in French civilization and language from the Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute of Paris helped launch a career equally marked by global, intercultural engagement. Schraeder is a distinguished teacher-scholar in the areas of decision-making theory, foreign policy analysis, and African politics and international relations who has received three of the highest honors a faculty member can achieve at Loyola: Faculty Member of the Year, the Sujack Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and Graduate Faculty Member of the Year. He is the author or co-author of ninety-nine peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and the author or editor of ten books, most recently Understanding Contemporary Africa (2020). This scholarly agenda has been supported by twenty internal and external grants totaling over $1.4 million, including Fulbright fellowships to Senegal and Tunisia. Schraeder is a firm proponent of shared governance, having served on numerous university bodies including as elected chair of Faculty Council. His life-long connection to Jesuit, Catholic values has made Loyola the ideal academic home.