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Five questions with postdoctoral fellow Peter Cajka

Published: June 14, 2019

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.

Cushwa Center announces research funding recipients for 2019

Published: March 07, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

In 2019, the Cushwa Center is providing grants and awards to 19 scholars for a variety of research projects.

The founding of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute: A conversation with Alberto Guasco

Published: August 09, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Guasco received a 2018 Hesburgh Research Travel Grant to study Father Hesburgh’s leadership in the early years of the Tantur Ecumenical Institute.

Cushwa Center names first six recipients of Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grants

Published: June 14, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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

Published: June 12, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Maggie Elmore to join Cushwa Center as postdoctoral fellow for 2018–2019

Published: June 07, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Peter Cajka and Maggie Elmore are the Cushwa Center’s postdoctoral research associates for 2018–2019.

Applications invited for postdoctoral research associate at Cushwa Center

Published: March 12, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

The Cushwa Center is accepting applications for a 2018–2019 postdoctoral fellowship.

Call for papers: Global History and Catholicism

Published: March 01, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Proposals are due June 1, 2018, for this 2019 conference exploring intersections between global history and the history of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cushwa Center announces funding for 25 researchers in 2018

Published: February 28, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Funds will support travel to the University of Notre Dame Archives as well as research sites in Baltimore, New Orleans, Dublin, and Rome.

Call for papers: 11th Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious

Published: February 23, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

The Program Committee for the 11th Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious welcomes paper proposals (deadline: June 1, 2018).

New travel grant program launched for Catholic women’s history; open to scholars of any academic discipline

Published: January 30, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

The Cushwa Center has launched the Mother Theodore Guerin Research Grant Program.

Five questions for Marie Curie Fellow Valentina Ciciliot

Published: January 23, 2018

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Ciciliot is at Notre Dame researching the North American origins and global influence of the Catholic charismatic movement.

U.S. Catholic discourse on race, gender, and sexuality, 1917–1970: A conversation with Billy Korinko

Published: November 21, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Land O’Lakes and its legacy: A lecture and panel on Catholic higher education

Published: October 12, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

In September, the Cushwa Center sponsored a lecture and discussion commemorating a landmark document for Catholic university life.

The Sisters' Survey: Preservation and access for a new generation

Published: October 09, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Millennial Catholic missionaries: A conversation with Katherine Dugan

Published: September 21, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Dugan received a 2017 Research Travel Grant to study young missionaries and their impact on Catholicism in America.

Gráinne McEvoy on Catholic social thought, U.S. immigration policy, and Father Hesburgh

Published: September 14, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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

Published: August 22, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Huey received a 2017 Research Travel Grant to study the devotional practices of German American Catholic women.

Sergio González on Latino immigration, religion, and community in Milwaukee, 1920–1990

Published: August 15, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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

Published: August 08, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Benjamin Wetzel reviews John B. Boles’ Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty (Basic, 2017).

Trans-Atlantic pipeline: Roman connections and the search for global Catholicism

Published: August 01, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Patrick J. Hayes revisits June’s three-day conference, North Atlantic Catholic Communities in Rome, 1622–1939.

Susan Ridgely on desegregation in the Diocese of Raleigh, 1953–present

Published: July 25, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Ridgely received a 2017 Research Travel Grant for her project on the generational effects of desegregation in the Diocese of Raleigh.

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

Published: July 11, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Cushwa announces postdocs for 2017–2018

Published: June 06, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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

Published: May 24, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Five questions with Eladio Bobadilla on immigration and Catholic history

Published: April 24, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Cushwa Center announces funding for 25 researchers in 2017

Published: March 03, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Video: Timothy Neary and panelists discuss Bishop Sheil’s vision for Catholic youth sports

Published: March 02, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.