Kevin Bustamante

Prior to coming to CISAC, Kevin was a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the Notre Dame International Security Center in 2023-2024. He completed his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Notre Dame in August 2024. Before graduate school, Kevin was a high school teacher for the Miami-Dade County Public School system where he taught English, World History, and Ethics.

Kevin has published in Security Studies and the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. His research focuses on racism and international security and he is interested in the structural causes of racial equality and inequality in the international system including how interstate competition affects patterns of racial domination. A significant part of his research focus is concerned with how racism shapes our understanding of nuclear politics.