In review: Fall 2021 at the Cushwa Center
The Cushwa Center hosted both online and in-person events during fall 2021. Each of the public events reviewed here is available to view on the center’s YouTube channel.
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Rerum novarum in the Anglosphere: An interview with Alice Gorton
Alice Gorton (Columbia University) specializes in modern British social and cultural history. She won a Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center for her project, “Ethics and Industry: Rerum novarum and Catholic Social Teaching in the Anglosphere.”
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Kathleen Sprows Cummings, 2021 Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient, lauded for making history ‘come alive with connections from today’
Cummings was recently announced as the winner of the 2021 Sheedy Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor in the College of Arts & Letters.
Deanna Witkowski on Mary Lou Williams and soul friendships
Deanna Witkowski (University of Pittsburgh) received a Guerin Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2021 for her research on jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams.
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The modern faith of Margaret Mead: A conversation with Elesha Coffman
In spring 2020, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancellation of several Cushwa Center events, including a planned lecture on what was, at that time, a forthcoming book. While elapsed time and other factors required some alterations to format, after 18 months the center welcomed Professor Elesha Coffman (Baylor University) to campus to join the center's Seminar in American Religion and also to discuss her now-published book,…
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The ‘priestly’ duchess and the lay foundations of the American church
Drawing on recent research supported by a Guerin Grant from the Cushwa Center, Bronwen McShea surveys the life of Marie de Vignerot, the Duchesse d'Aiguillon (1604–1675), and her significance for the early founding of the Catholic Church in the Americas.
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Archives in neutral: What should we preserve?
Kevin Cawley reflects on how long-valued practices of archival neutrality and preservation serve the integrity of cultural memory, particularly when it comes to controversial subjects.
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Book review
Paula M. Kane reviews Mary Oates' Pursuing Truth: How Gender Shaped Catholic Education at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland (Cornell 2021).
The ‘Gender, Sex, and Power’ project: A closer look with James O’Toole
In 2020, James O’Toole (Boston College) joined the Cushwa Center project “Gender, Sex, and Power: Towards a History of Clergy Sex Abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church,” as a researcher. O’Toole recently spoke with Cushwa fellow Rev. Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C., about clericalism, priestly formation, Boston, and the place of clergy sex abuse within surveys of U.S. Catholicism.
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A conversation with postdoctoral fellow Jacqueline Willy Romero
Jacqueline Willy Romero has joined the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center as a postdoctoral research associate for the 2021–22 academic year.
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In review: Spring 2021 at the Cushwa Center
In spring 2021, the Cushwa Center hosted events online in keeping with ongoing pandemic restrictions. Each of the public events reviewed here is available to view on the center’s YouTube channel.
An American, Catholic university: Thomas Blantz's history of Notre Dame
University archivist Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C., looking through a card catalog in the reading room of the Notre Dame Archives on the sixth floor of Memorial Library (later Hesburgh Library), February 11, 1975. Image from the University of Notre Dame Archives.…
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Father Hesburgh as mediator: A conversation with Todd C. Ream
Ream is the author of Hesburgh of Notre Dame: The Church’s Public Intellectual (Paulist, 2021).
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Archives report: Archival research into Notre Dame history
Kevin Cawley surveys resources at the Notre Dame Archives for researching the University's history.
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Book review
Anna Holdorf (University of Notre Dame) reviews Peter J. Thuesen's TORNADO GOD: AMERICAN RELIGION AND VIOLENT WEATHER (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Cornell University Press publishes final volume in Cushwa Center series
The Cushwa Center is pleased to announce the publication of PURSUING TRUTH: HOW GENDER SHAPED CATHOLIC EDUCATION AT THE COLLEGE OF NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND (Cornell University Press, 2021), by Mary J. Oates, C.S.J.
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Catholics and Vietnam resistance: An interview with Michelle Nickerson
Michelle Nickerson received a Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2020 for her project “Catholic Resistance: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial.”
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Katherine Moran on the San Francisco Magdalen Asylum
Katherine Moran (Saint Louis University) received a Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2020 for her project “California Magdalens: Catholic Sisters, Female Penitents, and the Carceral State, 1850–1940.”
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