In review: Spring 2021 at the Cushwa Center
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.
Father Hesburgh as mediator: A conversation with Todd C. Ream
Ream is the author of Hesburgh of Notre Dame: The Church’s Public Intellectual (Paulist, 2021).
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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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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.
Book review
Philip Byers (University of Notre Dame) reviews Petra Goedde's The Politics of Peace: A Global Cold War History (Oxford, 2019).
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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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.