Twenty-five years ago, much of Latin America was mired in political repression. In the US, the Reagan administration was engaged in an ambivalent policy of support for both democratic and authoritarian regimes. The Vatican was growing increasingly concerned about the clergy who were giving voice to liberation theology.

Read more: Looking Back at the Founding of Kellogg

In the spring semester of 1983, the Kellogg Institute hosted its first class of Visiting Fellows. Back then, the goals of the program were very much as they are today: to support scholarship related to Kellogg's research agenda, while enriching the academic life of the Institute.

On Kellogg's 25th anniversary, we look back at what happened to several of those first Visiting Fellows.

Read more: The First Fellows

In the mid-1970s REV. EDMUND "NED" JOYCE, CSC, Executive Vice President of the University and right-hand man to then-President REV. THEODORE HESBURGH, CSC, had been cultivating a relationship with Helen Kellogg regarding an endowment to Notre Dame, possibly to start an international institute at the University.

Read more: Who Was Helen Kellogg?

In the Economics and Econometrics Department at Notre Dame, the work of four Kellogg Faculty Fellows tackles some key issues in the developing world:free trade, exchange rates, environmental policy, and tax and monetary policy.

Read more: By the Numbers