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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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Cushwa Center announces research funding for 2021
In 2021, the Cushwa Center is providing grants and awards to 18 scholars for a variety of research projects.
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Call for papers: Conference on the History of Women Religious
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers and panels that address the conference theme, “Diversity and Dignity Across Time and Place.”
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Mickens selected as inaugural recipient of Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize
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.”
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American Christianity and oil: A conversation with Darren Dochuk
Peter Cajka corresponded with Dochuk about his most recent book, Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (Basic, 2019).
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Holy Cross history: A conversation with James T. Connelly, C.S.C.
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).
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In review: Fall 2020 at the Cushwa Center
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
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.
Breaking our silence: A primer for research on clergy sexual abuse
Brian Clites (Case Western Reserve University) offers an interdisciplinary overview of literature on clergy sex abuse.
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Book review
Philip Byers (University of Notre Dame) reviews Petra Goedde's The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History (Oxford, 2019).
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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