Cushwa Center // University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to interpret the American Catholic experience.

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Cushwa launches "Gender, Sex, and Power: Towards a History of Clergy Sex Abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church."

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CHWR 2019

Eileen Markey reflects on papers from the 11th Triennial CHWR.

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Apply by December 31 to one of Cushwa's five grant programs.

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American Catholic Studies Newsletter

46, no. 2 (Fall 2019)

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Latest News

Slavery, Jesuits, and freedom on American borderlands: An interview with Kelly Schmidt

Published: January 31, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

Kelly Schmidt (Loyola University Chicago) received a grant from Cushwa in 2019 to support archival research for her dissertation. Philip Byers caught up with Kelly in the fall to discuss the project.

Fall 2019 at the Cushwa Center

Published: November 22, 2019

Author: Philip Byers

Cushwa research fellow Philip Byers revisits events featured at the center from September to November 2019.

Upcoming Events

Cushwa Center Lecture: "Practicing Radical Hospitality: Sanctuary in the American Midwest"

Feb 27

4:00PM - 5:00PM

Eck Visitors Center Auditorium

The Holy See and the US in Pius XII’s Archives: The State of the Question and the Archives

Mar 5

All Day

Rome Global Gateway

The Holy See and the US in Pius XII’s Archives: The State of the Question and the Archives

Mar 6

All Day

Rome Global Gateway

Lecture: "The Modern Faith of Margaret Mead"

Apr 16

4:00PM - 5:00PM

242 O'Shaughnessy Hall