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Mickens selected as inaugural recipient of Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize

Published: February 25, 2021

Leah Mickens has been named the inaugural recipient of the Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize for her book project, “In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II.”

American Christianity and oil: A conversation with Darren Dochuk

Published: December 14, 2020

Author: Peter Cajka

Peter Cajka corresponded with Dochuk about his most recent book, Anointed with Oil: How Christianity and Crude Made Modern America (Basic, 2019).

Holy Cross history: A conversation with James T. Connelly, C.S.C.

Published: December 10, 2020

Author: Todd C. Ream

Todd C. Ream (Taylor University) interviewed Father James T. Connelly, C.S.C., about the process of writing his latest book, The History of the Congregation of Holy Cross (Notre Dame Press, 2020).

In review: Fall 2020 at the Cushwa Center

Published: December 08, 2020

Author: Philip Byers and Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C.

Speakers at Cushwa's fall events included Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Colin Barr, Heath Carter, and Kathryn Gin Lum.

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.

Breaking our silence: A primer for research on clergy sexual abuse

Published: November 16, 2020

Author: Brian Clites

Brian Clites (Case Western Reserve University) offers an interdisciplinary overview of literature on clergy sex abuse.

Friends of Cushwa news and notes

Published: November 13, 2020

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Read recent updates from our network.

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).

New prize launched for research projects on the Black Catholic experience

Published: September 23, 2020

Author: Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C., and Shane Ulbrich

The Cushwa Center has partnered with the American Catholic Historical Association to launch the Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize.

A conversation with postdoctoral fellow Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C.

Published: August 14, 2020

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Rev. Stephen M. Koeth, C.S.C., recently completed his doctorate at Columbia University and joins the Cushwa Center as a postdoctoral fellow for 2020–2021. We caught up to discuss recent work, moving back to Notre Dame, and plans for the coming year.

Italian Studies Director Serves on Vatican Dante Centenary Committee

Published: July 21, 2020

Author: David Lummus

Ravarino Family Director of the Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, Professor Theodore Cachey, has been invited to sit on the scientific committee for the 2021 Dante centenary organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture.

Early modern Irish women religious: A conversation with Bronagh McShane

Published: July 06, 2020

Author: Shane Ulbrich

McShane received a Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant for her project, “Irish Women Religious, c. 1530–1756: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration.”