Working Paper Series
The Cushwa Center’s Working Paper Series features works-in-progress presented at the American Catholic Studies Seminar, a gathering hosted at Notre Dame multiple times each year from 1975 to 2012. Electronic copies of select papers in the series may be obtained by contacting the center at cushwa@nd.edu.
2012
Monica L. Mercado, University of Chicago
“‘What a Blessing It Is to be Fond of Reading Good Books’: Catholic Women and the Reading Circle Movement in Turn-of-the-Century America”
William B. Kurtz, University of Virginia
“‘Brothers in Patriotism and Love of Country’: Northern Catholics and Civil War Memory”
2011
Eduardo Moralez, Southern Methodist University
“Praying Like the Middle Class: Ethnic Mexicans Make Church in Indiana”
Shannen Dee Williams, Rutgers University
“‘You Could Do the Irish Jig, But Anything Catholic Was Taboo’: Black Nuns and the Struggle to Desegregate U.S. Catholic Sisterhoods after World War II”
2010
Michael S. Carter, University of Dayton
“American Catholics and the Early Republic”
Katherine Moran, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
“Beyond the Black Legend: California and the Philippines, and the U.S. Protestant Attractions to Spanish Catholicism, 1880–1920”
2009
Julia Grace Darling Young, University of Chicago
“Under the Banner of Christo Rey: Mexican Exiles in the U.S., 1926–1929”
Kelly Baker, Florida State University
“Rome’s Reputation is Stained with Protestant Blood: The Klan-Notre Dame Riot of May 1924”
2008
Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University
“‘Even In Thy Sanctuary, We Are Yet Men’: Scandalous Priests, Holy Priests, and Missionary Catholicism in the Early American Church”
Kathleen Holscher, Villanova University
“Captured!: Catholic Sisters, Public Education, and the Mid-Century Protestant Campaign against ‘Captive Schools”
2007
Elaine A. Peña, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Las Guadalupanas de Querétaro: Embodied Devotional Performances and the Political Economy of Sacred Space Production”
C. Walker Gollar, Xavier University
“Drawing the Line between What Should, and What Should Not Be Told in American Catholic History—John Tracy Ellis and David Francis Sweeney’s Life of John Lancaster Spalding”
2006
Margaret Preston, Augustana College
“From the Emerald Isle to Little House on the Prairie: Ireland, Medicine, and the Presentation Sisters on America’s Northern Plains”
Diana Williams, Harvard University
“‘A Marriage of Conscience’: Interracial Marriage, Church-State Conflicts, and Gendered Freedoms in Antebellum Louisiana”
2005
Sally Dwyer-McNulty, Marist College
“In Search of a Tradition: Catholic School Uniforms”
L.E. Hartmann-Ting, Brown University
“‘A Message to Catholic Women’: Laywomen, the National Catholic School of Social Service, and the Expression of Catholic Influence during the Interwar Years”
2004
Mary Henold, Valparaiso University
“Gluttons for Dialogue: The American Catholic Feminist Movement on the Eve of Disillusionment, 1975–78”
Timothy B. Neary, Stephen F. Austin State University
“Taking It to the Streets: Catholic Liberalism, Race, and Sport in Twentieth-Century Urban America”
2003
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, Augustana College
“Crafting an American Catholic Identity: Mary’s Ministries and Barrio-Based Evangelization, 1988–2002”
R. Bentley Anderson, S.J., St. Louis University
“Father Knows Best: Prelates, Protest and Public Opinion”
2002
Jason Duncan, Coe College
“‘The Great Chain of National Union’: Catholics and the Republican Triumph”
Deirdre Moloney, St. Francis University
“Transnational Perspectives in American Catholic History”
2001
Kathryn A. Johnson, Barnard College
“Taking Marriage ‘One Day at a Time’: The Cana Conference Movement and the Creation of a Catholic Mentality”
Gina Marie Pitti, Stanford University
“‘A Ghastly International Racket’: The Catholic Church and the Bracero Program in Northern California, 1942–1964”
2000
Sharon M. Leon, University of Minnesota
“Before Casti connubii: Early Catholic Responses to the Eugenics Movement in the U.S.”
Evelyn S. Sterne, University of Rhode Island
“‘To Protect Their Citizenship’: Constructing a Catholic Electorate in 1920s Providence”
1999
Angelyn Dries, O.S.F., Cardinal Stritch College
Panel Discussion of The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History
Michele Dillon, Yale University
“The Possibilities for a Pluralistic Catholicism”
1998
Seamaus Metress
“The American Catholic Church and the Irish: A Bibliographic Survey”
Eugene McCarraher, University of Delaware
“The Technopolitan Catholic: Michael Novak, Catholic Social Thought, and Post-Industrial Liberalism, 1960–1975”
Mary Lethert Wingerd, Cushwa Center
“Revisiting ‘Great Man’ History, or How the Irish Captured the City of St. Paul”
1997
Kathleen M. Joyce, Duke University
“Medicine, Markets, and Morals: The Catholic Church and Therapeutic Abortion in Early 20th-Century America’’
Peter R. D’Agostino
“‘Fascist Transmission Belts’ or Episcopal Advisors? Italian Consuls and American Catholicism in the 1930s—Spring 1997”
1996
James O’Toole, University of Massachusetts-Boston
“Passing: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820–1920”
Steve Rosswurm, Lake Forest College
“Manhood, Communism, and Americanism: The Federal Bureau of Investigation and American Jesuits, 1935-1960”
Christopher Vecsey, Colgate University in New York
“Pueblo Indian Catholicism: The Isleta Case”
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University
Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920
1995
Gene Bums
“Axe’s of Conflict in American Catholicism.”
Thomas A. Tweed, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill
“Diaspora Nationalism and Urban Landscape: Cuban Immigrants at a Catholic Shrine in Miami”
Roberto R. Trevifio
“Faith and Justice: The Catholic Church and the Chicano Movement in Houston”
1994
Paul Robichaud, C.S.P., Catholic University of America
“Regionalism and Nationalism in Victorian American Writing: Stoddard, Guiney, Tabb and Shea”
Ellen Skerrett, Independent Scholar
“Chicago’s Neighborhoods and the Eclipse of Sacred Space”
Patrick Allitt
“America, England, and Italy: The Geography of Catholic Conversion”
Peter Steinfels
‘‘How the Media Cover Catholicism: Reflections of a Perpetrator”
1993
John L. Ciani, S.J., Georgetown University
“Metal Statue, Granite Base: Jesuits’ Woodstock College, Maryland, 1869–1891”
Timothy Matovina, Catholic University of America
“Tejano Lay Initiatives In Worship, 1830–1860”
John McGreevey, Lilly Fellow at Valparaiso University
“‘Race’ and Twentieth Century Catholic Culture”
Thomas G. Kelliher, Jr., University of Notre Dame
“Mexican Catholics and Chicago’s Parishes, 1955–1976”
1992
David Klatzker, America Holy Land Project
“American Catholics and the Holy Land: Report of a Consultation”
Allan Figueroa Deck, S.J., Loyola Marymount University
“The Challenge of Evangelical/Pentecostal Christianity to Hispanic Catholicism in the United States”
Sally A. Witt, C.S.J. and Anthony P. Joseph, Jr.
“A Beginning Reference On Religious Communities in the Diocese of Pittsburgh”
Brigid Merriman, O.S.F., Mount Angel Seminary
“Called to be Holy: Dorothy Day and the Retreat Movement”
Colleen McDannell, University of Utah
“Lourdes Water and Catholic Devotionalism, 1870–1896”
1991
Mary Ann O’Ryan, OSB, Loyola University-Chicago
“John Carroll, First Bishop of Baltimore, and his Views on Women”
Timothy Kelly, Chatham College
“The Promise of A Popular Church: the Laity and the 1971 Pittsburgh Synod”
James Davidson, Purdue University
“Religion Among America’s Elite: Persistence and Change in the Protestant Establishment”
Robert Orsi, Indiana University
“Hopeless Cases: The Women Who Prayed To St. Jude, 1929–1965”
1990
Sandra Yocum Mize, Saint Mary’s College
“Defending Roman Loyalties and Republican Values: The 1848 Revolution in American Catholic Popular Literature”
Margaret McGuinness, Cabrini College
“A Puzzle with Missing Pieces: Catholic Women and the Social Settlement Movement”
Ana Maria Diaz-Stevens, Rutgers University
“American Catholicism’s Encounter With the Religion of the Puerto Rican People”
1989
Cyprian Davis, St. Meinrad’s School of Theology
“Christ’s Image in Black: the Black Catholic Community Before the Civil War”
Anita Gandolfo, West Virginia University
“Prophetic Vision: Contemporary Women Novelists and the American Catholic Experience”
Eugene Schmidtlein, Stevens College
“Relations Between the Vatican and the Truman Administration”
1988
Lynn Dumenil, Claremont-McKenna College
“The Tribal Twenties: The Catholic Response to Anti-Catholicism”
Steven J. Ochs, Georgetown Preparatory School
“Desegregating the Altar: The Struggle for Black Catholic Priests, 1854–1960”
Dale Light, Pennsylvania State University
“The Social Perspectives of Catholic Associations in Antebellum Philadelphia”
Paula Kane, Texas A&M
“Catholicism and the Control of Culture in Boston, 1900–1920”
1987
Margaret Susan Thompson, Syracuse University
“To Serve the People of God: Nineteenth-Century Sisters and the Creation of An American Religious Life”
Robert Moats Miller, University of North Carolina
“Catholic-Protestant Tensions in Post-World War II America: The Experience of Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam”
1986
Mary Schneider, Michigan State University
“The Transformation of American Sisters: The Sister Formation Conference as Catalyst for Change, 1954–1964”
William Dinges, Catholic University of America
“In Defense of Truth and Tradition: Catholic Traditionalism in America, 1964–1974”
Robert Kress, University of San Diego
“The People’s Church: From Established State Church to Voluntary Free Church: The Transformation of Roman Catholicism in the United States”
1985
Mark Noll, Wheaton College
“The Eclipse of Old Hostilities Between—and the Potential for New Strife Among—Catholics and Protestants Since Vatican II”
Edward Kantowicz, Chicago, Illinois
“The Golden Age of Catholic Church Architecture in Chicago, 1891–1945”
Leslie TentIer, University of Michigan
“Women in the American Catholic Church: An Historical Assessment”
1984
Alden Brown, Queens College
“Women in the Lay Apostolate: The Grail Movement in the United States, 1940–1962”
David J. O’Brien, College of the Holy Cross
“Isaac Hecker as Symbol and Myth”
Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J., University of Virginia
“Vatican-American Relations, 1940–1984”
1983
Mary Cygan, Northwestern University
“Ethnic Parish as Compromise: Spheres of Clerical and Lay Authority in a Polish American Parish, 1911–1930”
Ann Taves, University of Chicago
“‘External’ Devotions and the Interior Life: Popular Devotional Theologies in Mid-nineteenth century America”
Arnold Sparr, Northland College
“Frank O’Malley, Thinker, Critic, Revivalist”
Scott Appleby, St. Xavier University
“American Catholic Modernism: Dunwoodie and the New York Review, 1895–1910”
1982
William Wolkovich-Valkavicius, U.S. Lithuanian Immigrant Studies
“The Yankee, the Celt and the Klan”
Jeffrey Bums, University of Notre Dame
“The Christian Family Movement”
James Connelly, Indiana Province Archives Center, Congregation of Holy Cross
“Legitimate Reasons for Existence: The Beginning of the Charismatic Movement in the American Catholic Church, 1967–1971”
Thomas A. Kselman, University of Notre Dame
“Our Lady of Necedah: Marian Piety and the Cold War”
Ronald Hoffman, University of Maryland
“A Worthy Heir: The Role of Family and Religion in the Formation of Charles Carroll of Carrollton: The Formative Years, 1748–1764”
1981
Randall M. Miller, St. Joseph’s University
“Catholics in the Old South: Some Speculations on Catholic Identity.”
Ellen Skerrett, Chicago, Illinois
“The Irish Parish in Chicago, 1880-1930.”
Joseph Chinnici, Franciscan School of Theology
“Politics and Theology: From Enlightenment Catholicism to the Condemnation of Americanism.”
Anne Klejment, SUNY at Plattsburgh
‘‘‘As In a Vast School Without Walls’: Race in the Social Thought of Daniel and Philip Berrigan, 1955-1965.”
Mary J. Oates, Regis College
“Learning to Teach: Professional Preparation of Massachusetts Parochial School Faculty, 1870-1940.”
1980
Albert Raboteau, University of California, Berkeley
“Religion and the Slave Family in the Antebellum South.”
William D’Antonio, University of Connecticut
“Religion and the Family: Exploring a Changing Relationship.”
James F. Smurl, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis
“The Family and Social Justice: CFM and Culture.”
Barbara Misner, Catholic University of America
“Highly Respectable and Accomplished Ladies: Early American Women Religious, 1790-1850.”
Peter W. Williams, Miami University at Oxford, Ohio
“Catholicism Militant: The Public Face of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1900-1960.”
Patrick Blessing, University of Tulsa
“Religion, Culture and the Vigilance Movement, San Francisco 1856.”
1979
Josef Barton, Northwestern University
“Land, Labor and Community in Nueces: Czech Farmers and Mexican Laborers in South Texas, 1880-1930.”
Russell Blake, University of Notre Dame
"‘The Private Sanctuary of Home': Evangelical Protestantism in the Shaping of Antebellum Planter Family Life.”
Joan Aldous, University of Notre Dame
“Religion and the Family: The Tragic Linkage.”
Maris Vinovskis and Gerald Moran, University of Michigan
“The Puritan Family and Religion: A Critical Reappraisal.”
Thomas Curran, St. John’s University
“The Irish Family in Nineteenth-century Urban America: the Role of the Catholic Church.”
Thomas Werge, University of Notre Dame
“Images of Eden: The Family as Sacrament and the Pain of Loss in Mark Twain.”
1978
Richard Jensen, Newberry Library
“Party Coalitions in America, 1820s-1970.”
Jeffrey M. Burns, University of Notre Dame
“The Ideal Child: Images from Catholic Textbooks, 1875-1912.”
Mary Ewens, Rosary College
“Removing the Veil: The Liberated American Nun in the Nineteenth Century.”
Robert E. Kennedy, Jr., University of Minnesota
“Selective Migration in the Acculturation of Immigrants: The Overseas Irish.”
Stanley Hauerwas, University of Notre Dame
“The Moral Value of the Family.”
Philip Greven, Rutgers University
“Reflections on Religion and Family History.”
1977
Anthony J. Kuzniewski, Jesuit School of Theology at Chicago
“Wenceslaus Kruska and the Fight for a Polish Bishop.”
Kathleen Neils Conzen, University of Chicago
“Foundations of a Rural German Catholic Culture: Farm and Family in St. Martin, Minnesota, 1867-1916.”
Margaret Ripley Wolfe, East Tennessee State University
“Aliens in Southern Appalachia: Catholics in the Coal Camps, 1900-1940.”
John Coleman, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
“American Catholicism and Strategic Social Theology.”
James Sanders, Richmond College
“Nineteenth Century Boston Catholics and the School Question.”
Patrick Carey, Gustavus Adolphus College
“A National Church: Catholic Search for Identity, 1800-1829.”
1976
Mel Piehl, Valparaiso University
“The Liberal Wing of the Catholic Worker Movement.”
Josef Barton, Northwestern University
“Italian Catholic Communities and Cultural Change 1890-1950.”
Nelson Callahan, Cleveland, Ohio
“R. L. Burtsell: His Diary, His Life, His Times.” 1800-1829.”
1975
Philip Gleason, University of Notre Dame
“From an Indefinite Homogeneity: The Beginnings of Catholic Higher Education in the U.S.”
Donald Kemper, University of Missouri/Visiting Professor at Notre Dame
“The St. Louis Trauma: Integrating the ‘Colored’ in Archdiocesan Schools, 1930-1950.”
Charles Shanabruch, Chicago, Illinois
“The Edwards Law: A Study of Religion and Ethnicity in Illinois Politics, 1889-1894.”
Barry Gross, Michigan State University
“The Catholic Imagination of F. Scott Fitzgerald.”