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A conversation with postdoctoral fellow Jacqueline Willy Romero

Published: July 20, 2021

Jacqueline Willy Romero has joined the University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center as a postdoctoral research associate for the 2021–22 academic year.

In review: Spring 2021 at the Cushwa Center

Published: June 17, 2021

Author: Philip Byers

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

Published: June 01, 2021

Author: Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C.

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.…

Father Hesburgh as mediator: A conversation with Todd C. Ream

Published: May 25, 2021

Author: Philip Byers

Ream is the author of Hesburgh of Notre Dame: The Church’s Public Intellectual (Paulist, 2021).

Friends of Cushwa news and notes

Published: April 06, 2021

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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Archives report: Archival research into Notre Dame history

Published: March 30, 2021

Author: Wm Kevin Cawley

Kevin Cawley surveys resources at the Notre Dame Archives for researching the University's history.

Book review

Published: March 22, 2021

Author: Anna Holdorf

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

Published: March 15, 2021

Author: Philip Byers

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.

Catholics and Vietnam resistance: An interview with Michelle Nickerson

Published: March 11, 2021

Author: Philip Byers

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.”

Katherine Moran on the San Francisco Magdalen Asylum

Published: March 09, 2021

Author: Philip Byers

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.”

Cushwa Center announces research funding for 2021

Published: March 04, 2021

Author: Shane Ulbrich

In 2021, the Cushwa Center is providing grants and awards to 18 scholars for a variety of research projects.

Call for papers: Conference on the History of Women Religious

Published: March 01, 2021

Author: Margaret McGuinness

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers and panels that address the conference theme, “Diversity and Dignity Across Time and Place.”

Mickens selected as inaugural recipient of Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize

Published: February 25, 2021

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Leah Mickens has been named the inaugural recipient of the Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize for her book project, “In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II.”

American Christianity and oil: A conversation with Darren Dochuk

Published: December 14, 2020

Author: Peter Cajka

Peter Cajka corresponded with Dochuk about his most recent book, Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (Basic, 2019).

Holy Cross history: A conversation with James T. Connelly, C.S.C.

Published: December 10, 2020

Author: Todd C. Ream

Todd C. Ream (Taylor University) interviewed Father James T. Connelly, C.S.C., about the process of writing his latest book, The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Notre Dame Press, 2020).

In review: Fall 2020 at the Cushwa Center

Published: December 08, 2020

Author: Philip Byers and Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C.

Speakers at Cushwa's fall events included Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Colin Barr, Heath Carter, and Kathryn Gin Lum.

Rome, the United States, and postwar liberal democratic culture: An interview with Susanna De Stradis

Published: December 03, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

De Stradis is one of the first external researchers to engage newly available sources from the pontificate of Pius XII. Philip Byers recently corresponded with her for an update on her work.