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A conversation with postdoctoral fellow Stephen Koeth, C.S.C.

Published: August 14, 2020

Stephen Koeth, C.S.C., recently completed his doctorate at Columbia University and joins the Cushwa Center as a postdoctoral fellow for 2020–2021. We caught up to discuss recent work, moving back to Notre Dame, and plans for the coming year.

Italian Studies Director Serves on Vatican Dante Centenary Committee

Published: July 21, 2020

Author: David Lummus

Ravarino Family Director of the Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, Professor Theodore Cachey, has been invited to sit on the scientific committee for the 2021 Dante centenary organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Early modern Irish women religious: A conversation with Bronagh McShane

Published: July 06, 2020

Author: Shane Ulbrich

McShane received a Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant for her project, “Irish Women Religious, c. 1530–1756: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration.”

Religion and pandemics: Five questions with Jonathan Riddle

Published: June 05, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

Philip Byers recently caught up with Riddle (Wheaton College) to discuss his research on religion and pandemics.

In review: February 2020 at the Cushwa Center

Published: May 28, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

Philip Byers surveys two Cushwa Center events held in February 2020.

The French Revolution and American Catholicism: Five questions with Mitchell Oxford

Published: May 19, 2020

Author: Peter Cajka

Oxford received a Research Travel Grant in 2019 for research contributing to his dissertation.

Reading a frontier missionary: Philippine Duchesne’s complete writings

Published: April 13, 2020

Author: Catherine O'Donnell

Catherine O'Donnell offers a review essay on the recently published, two-volume Philippine Duchesne: Pioneer on the American Frontier (1769–1852).

Friends of Cushwa news and notes

Published: April 03, 2020

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Read updates from our network.

Archives report: Redemptorist Archives of the Baltimore Province

Published: March 27, 2020

Author: Patrick J. Hayes, Ph.D.

Patrick Hayes surveys recent acquisitions at the Redemptorist Archives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Book review

Published: March 20, 2020

Author: Timothy Neary

Timothy Neary (Salve Regina University) reviews Lizabeth Cohen's book on the life and work of Ed Logue.

Cushwa in Rome: Scholars gather in fall 2019

Published: March 06, 2020

Author: Luca Codignola and Rose Luminiello

Luca Codignola and Rose Luminiello review three Cushwa events in Rome held in November.

Cushwa Center announces research funding for 2020

Published: March 04, 2020

Author: Shane Ulbrich

In 2020, the Cushwa Center is providing grants and awards to 20 scholars for a variety of research projects.

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.

Q&A with Philip Byers, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History

Published: November 18, 2019

Author: Carrie Gates

Philip Byers discusses why the role of external money in organized religion deserves some focused attention, and why Notre Dame is the right place for anyone interested in American religious history.

Five questions with Conor Donnan

Published: November 08, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Conor Donnan (University of Pennsylvania) received a Hibernian Research Award in 2019 for his dissertation, “An ‘Empire of Liberty?’ Irish Immigrants, Native Americans, and American Imperialism in the Trans-Mississippi West between 1841 and 1924.”

American Catholic history on screen: ‘Hesburgh’

Published: October 22, 2019

Author: Jerry Barca

Jerry Barca revisits the research for and public reception of a 2019 documentary film on Notre Dame's longest serving president.

Friends of Cushwa news and notes

Published: October 17, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Read updates from our network, including details on a dissertation fellowship and a new essay prize in American Catholic studies.

Searching through the Vatican Archives: Rose Luminiello presents her project on Irish religious women in the Anglophone world

Published: October 08, 2019

Author: Costanza Montanari

Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway is hosting researcher Rose Luminiello during the academic year 2019–2020.

Coming to terms with archives

Published: September 30, 2019

Author: Wm Kevin Cawley

As digital collections proliferate in and beyond institutional repositories, Kevin Cawley considers the changing use of the word "archives" in light of the purposes and standards of professional archivists' work.