Friends of Cushwa news and notes
Read updates from our network, including details on a dissertation fellowship and a new essay prize in American Catholic studies.
Applications invited for Cushwa postdoctoral fellowship
The Cushwa Center invites applications for a 2020–2021 Postdoctoral Research Associate.
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Cushwa cosponsors postdoctoral fellowship for research based in Aberdeen, Dublin, and Rome
Rose Luminiello (University of Aberdeen) will conduct archival research for the project, “Irish Religious Women in the Anglophone World, 1840–1950.”
Five questions with postdoctoral fellow Peter Cajka
Cajka discusses his research and teaching from the past two year, his book project, and the year ahead, when he’ll join Notre Dame’s Department of American Studies as visiting assistant professor.
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Cushwa Center announces research funding recipients for 2019
In 2019, the Cushwa Center is providing grants and awards to 19 scholars for a variety of research projects.
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The founding of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute: A conversation with Alberto Guasco
Guasco received a 2018 Hesburgh Research Travel Grant to study Father Hesburgh’s leadership in the early years of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute.
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Cushwa Center names first six recipients of Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grants
This year, funds will support travel to research sites throughout the Midwestern United States as well as Valence, France; Madrid, Spain; and the Tiwi Islands off the northern coast of Australia.
Five questions with 2017–2018 postdoctoral fellow Benjamin Wetzel
Ben discusses his research and teaching from the past year, the process of writing religious biography, and advice for postdocs. He will join Taylor University in August as assistant professor of history.
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Maggie Elmore to join Cushwa Center as postdoctoral fellow for 2018–2019
Peter Cajka and Maggie Elmore are the Cushwa Center’s postdoctoral research associates for 2018–2019.
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Applications invited for postdoctoral research associate at Cushwa Center
The Cushwa Center is accepting applications for a 2018–2019 postdoctoral fellowship.
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Call for papers: Global History and Catholicism
Proposals are due June 1, 2018, for this 2019 conference exploring intersections between global history and the history of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Cushwa Center announces funding for 25 researchers in 2018
Funds will support travel to the University of Notre Dame Archives as well as research sites in Baltimore, New Orleans, Dublin, and Rome.
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Call for papers: 11th Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious
The Program Committee for the 11th Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious welcomes paper proposals (deadline: June 1, 2018).
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New travel grant program launched for Catholic women’s history; open to scholars of any academic discipline
The Cushwa Center has launched the Mother Theodore Guerin Research Grant Program.
Five questions for Marie Curie Fellow Valentina Ciciliot
Ciciliot is at Notre Dame researching the North American origins and global influence of the Catholic charismatic movement.
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U.S. Catholic discourse on race, gender, and sexuality, 1917–1970: A conversation with Billy Korinko
Billy Korinko (University of Kentucky) received travel grant funds supporting dissertation research on discourse related to race, gender, and sexuality in mid-twentieth-century American Catholic media.
The Sisters' Survey: Preservation and access for a new generation
Catherine Osborne explores the history and significance of a survey of more than 130,000 women religious conducted in 1967. The survey dataset has recently been made available open access through Notre Dame.
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Millennial Catholic missionaries: A conversation with Katherine Dugan
Dugan received a 2017 Research Travel Grant to study young missionaries and their impact on Catholicism in America.
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Gráinne McEvoy on Catholic social thought, U.S. immigration policy, and Father Hesburgh
McEvoy received travel grant funds to study Father Hesburgh’s work on immigration and refugee issues.
Midwestern Catholic mothers at mid-century: A conversation with Ann Huey
Huey received a 2017 Research Travel Grant to study the devotional practices of German American Catholic women.
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Sergio González on Latino immigration, religion, and community in Milwaukee, 1920–1990
González, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received a 2017 Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center.
Thomas Jefferson, slavery, and religion: Rethinking an American icon
Benjamin Wetzel reviews John B. Boles’ Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty (Basic, 2017).
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Trans-Atlantic pipeline: Roman connections and the search for global Catholicism
Patrick J. Hayes revisits June’s three-day conference, North Atlantic Catholic Communities in Rome, 1622–1939.
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Susan Ridgely on desegregation in the Diocese of Raleigh, 1953–present
Ridgely received a 2017 Research Travel Grant for her project on the generational effects of desegregation in the Diocese of Raleigh.
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Global religious icons in the American cultural imagination: A conversation with Julie Chamberlain
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.
Cushwa announces postdocs for 2017–2018
Peter Cajka and Benjamin Wetzel will join the Cushwa Center for research appointments beginning in July.
Five questions on Catholics and suburbanization with Stephen Koeth
We recently sat down with Research Travel Grant recipient Stephen Koeth, C.S.C., about his dissertation research on the postwar suburbanization of American Catholics. Stephen, a Holy Cross priest, is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. His writing has appeared in The Journal of Church and State and U.S. Catholic Historian.
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Five questions with Eladio Bobadilla on immigration and Catholic history
Eladio Bobadilla is a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. history at Duke University. His dissertation is entitled “‘One People Without Borders’: The Chicano Roots of the Immigrants Rights Movement, 1954–1994,” and explores how Mexican Americans, long ambivalent and even opposed to undocumented immigration, came to see themselves and the undocumented as “one people.” He was awarded a 2016 Theodore M. Hesburgh Travel Grant to consult Father Hesburgh’s papers related to his work on the Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy.
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Cushwa Center announces funding for 25 researchers in 2017
The Cushwa Center is pleased to announce the recipients of its annual grants and awards. Across the center's four programs, a record 25 scholars have accepted funding offers for a variety of research projects. Funds will support travel to Notre Dame's University Archives as well as to research sites in Charlotte, Philadelphia, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Rome, Italy.
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Video: Timothy Neary and panelists discuss Bishop Sheil’s vision for Catholic youth sports
On February 10, the Cushwa Center and Play Like a Champion Today welcomed historian Timothy Neary to Notre Dame for a lecture on Bishop Bernard Sheil’s founding of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). After his presentation, a panel explored Bishop Sheil’s relevance for the mission of Catholic sports programs today. More than 30 youth sports leaders from 20 cities traveled to South Bend to participate.