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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.”

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.

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.

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).

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.”

Rome, the United States, and postwar liberal democratic culture: An interview with Susanna De Stradis

Published: December 03, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

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

Published: October 07, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

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

Published: June 05, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

Philip Byers recently caught up with Riddle (Wheaton College) to discuss his research on religion and pandemics.

In review: February 2020 at the Cushwa Center

Published: May 28, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

Philip Byers surveys two Cushwa Center events held in February 2020.

Slavery, Jesuits, and freedom on American borderlands: An interview with Kelly Schmidt

Published: January 31, 2020

Author: Philip Byers

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

Published: November 22, 2019

Author: Philip Byers

Cushwa research fellow Philip Byers revisits events featured at the center from September to November 2019.