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Book review: Authentically Black and Truly Catholic

Published: October 02, 2018

Catherine R. Osborne reviews Matthew J. Cressler's Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration

Five questions for research travel grant recipient Barry McCarron

Published: October 24, 2017

Author: Catherine R. Osborne

McCarron received funds to study the stance of Irish Americans and the Catholic Church toward Chinese immigrants and the anti-Chinese movement that culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.

Global religious icons in the American cultural imagination: A conversation with Julie Chamberlain

Published: July 11, 2017

Author: Catherine R. Osborne

Chamberlain received a 2016 Research Travel Grant to study American Catholics’ interest in contemporary “religious icons” the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.

Meet Research Travel Grant recipient Rebecca L. Davis

Published: June 29, 2017

Author: Catherine R. Osborne

Davis received funding for research for her book in progress, American Converts: Religion and Identity Since World War II. She recently visited the Notre Dame Archives to consult materials on Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton.