The Cushwa Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the Center's annual grants.
Research Travel Grants
These awards assist scholars who wish to use the University of Notre Dame’s library and archival collection in Catholic Americana.
Northwestern University
“Critical Mass: The Fall and Rise of Latin in the Long U.S. Catholic Liturgical Movement”
Max Forrester
Washington University in St. Louis
“Competing Destinies: Religious and Political Conflict in the Southwest Borderlands, 1803–1848”
Mississippi State University
“Catholics in the Confederacy during the American Civil War”
Taylor University / Baylor University
“Your Reporter Was Faithfully Near: The Life of Francis Wallace”
University of Missouri—Columbia
"A Call to Citizenship: Anti-Klan Activism in Missouri’s ‘Little Dixie,’ 1921–1928”
University of Iowa
“‘The Shadow of a Cross’: Odawa Catholicism in Waganakisi, 1765–1825”
Stephen R. Thompson
Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
“Swords into Plowshares: Why Denominations Stop Supporting U.S. Foreign Interventions”
Michael A Weeks
University of Colorado, Boulder
“Industrializing a Landscape: Northern Colorado and the Making of Agriculture in the 20th Century”
Francesca Cadeddu
Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose “Giovanni XXIII,” University of Cagliari
“Suicide or Sacrifice? Allen LaPorte’s Self-Immolation and the Catholic Debate over the Vietnam War”
Federico Ruozzi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
“The Arrival of Television in U.S. and Italy: A New ‘Holy Crusade’”
2015 Hibernian Research Awards
Funded by an endowment from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, this annual award provides travel funds to support the scholarly study of the Irish in America. The following scholars received awards for 2015:
Howard Lune
Hunter College, CUNY
“Unfriendly Societies: Know Nothings, the AOH, and the Fight for Authentic Cultural Identity”
University of Notre Dame (Rome Global Gateway)
“Roman Sources for Global Irish Catholicism”