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Rerum novarum in the Anglosphere: An interview with Alice Gorton

Published: December 09, 2021

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.”

Kathleen Sprows Cummings, 2021 Sheedy Award for Excellence in Teaching recipient, lauded for making history ‘come alive with connections from today’

Published: November 29, 2021

Author: Beth Staples

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

Published: November 11, 2021

Author: Philip Byers

Deanna Witkowski (University of Pittsburgh) received a Guerin Grant from the Cushwa Center in 2021 for her research on jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams.

The modern faith of Margaret Mead: A conversation with Elesha Coffman

Published: October 26, 2021

Author: Cushwa Center

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,…

The ‘priestly’ duchess and the lay foundations of the American church

Published: October 11, 2021

Author: Bronwen McShea

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.

Friends of Cushwa news and notes

Published: October 07, 2021

Author: Cushwa Center

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Archives in neutral: What should we preserve?

Published: October 05, 2021

Author: Wm Kevin Cawley

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.

Book review

Published: September 30, 2021

Author: Paula M. Kane

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

Published: September 23, 2021

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

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.

A conversation with postdoctoral fellow Jacqueline Willy Romero

Published: July 20, 2021

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.”

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