Book review
Philip Byers (University of Notre Dame) reviews Petra Goedde's The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History (Oxford, 2019).
News
New prize launched for research projects on the Black Catholic experience
The Cushwa Center has partnered with the American Catholic Historical Association to launch the Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize.
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A conversation with postdoctoral fellow Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C.
Rev. Stephen M. 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.
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Italian Studies Director Serves on Vatican Dante Centenary Committee
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.
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Early modern Irish women religious: A conversation with Bronagh McShane
McShane received a Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant for her project, “Irish Women Religious, c. 1530–1756: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration.”
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Religion and pandemics: Five questions with Jonathan Riddle
Philip Byers recently caught up with Riddle (Wheaton College) to discuss his research on religion and pandemics.
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In review: February 2020 at the Cushwa Center
Philip Byers surveys two Cushwa Center events held in February 2020.
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The French Revolution and American Catholicism: Five questions with Mitchell Oxford
Oxford received a Research Travel Grant in 2019 for research contributing to his dissertation.
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Reading a frontier missionary: Philippine Duchesne’s complete writings
Catherine O'Donnell offers a review essay on the recently published, two-volume Philippine Duchesne: Pioneer on the American Frontier (1769–1852).
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Friends of Cushwa news and notes
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Archives report: Redemptorist Archives of the Baltimore Province
Patrick Hayes surveys recent acquisitions at the Redemptorist Archives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Book review
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
Luca Codignola and Rose Luminiello review three Cushwa events in Rome held in November.
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Cushwa Center announces research funding for 2020
In 2020, the Cushwa Center is providing grants and awards to 20 scholars for a variety of research projects.
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Slavery, Jesuits, and freedom on American borderlands: An interview with Kelly Schmidt
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
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
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.
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Five questions with Conor Donnan
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’
Jerry Barca revisits the research for and public reception of a 2019 documentary film on Notre Dame's longest serving president.
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Friends of Cushwa news and notes
Read updates from our network, including details on a dissertation fellowship and a new essay prize in American Catholic studies.