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

Published: January 31, 2020

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.

Q&A with Philip Byers, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History

Published: November 18, 2019

Author: Carrie Gates

Philip Byers discusses why the role of external money in organized religion deserves some focused attention, and why Notre Dame is the right place for anyone interested in American religious history.

Five questions with Conor Donnan

Published: November 08, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Conor Donnan (University of Pennsylvania) received a Hibernian Research Award in 2019 for his dissertation, “An ‘Empire of Liberty?’ Irish Immigrants, Native Americans, and American Imperialism in the Trans-Mississippi West between 1841 and 1924.”

American Catholic history on screen: ‘Hesburgh’

Published: October 22, 2019

Author: Jerry Barca

Jerry Barca revisits the research for and public reception of a 2019 documentary film on Notre Dame's longest serving president.

Friends of Cushwa news and notes

Published: October 17, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Read updates from our network, including details on a dissertation fellowship and a new essay prize in American Catholic studies.

Searching through the Vatican Archives: Rose Luminiello presents her project on Irish religious women in the Anglophone world

Published: October 08, 2019

Author: Costanza Montanari

Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway is hosting researcher Rose Luminiello during the academic year 2019–2020.

Coming to terms with archives

Published: September 30, 2019

Author: Wm Kevin Cawley

As digital collections proliferate in and beyond institutional repositories, Kevin Cawley considers the changing use of the word "archives" in light of the purposes and standards of professional archivists' work.

William Cossen on lived religion among Catholics in the Civil War

Published: September 20, 2019

Author: Peter Cajka

Cossen received a 2019 Research Travel Grant for a project examining devotional practices and spirituality among Catholic soldiers in the Civil War.

Applications invited for Cushwa postdoctoral fellowship

Published: August 29, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

The Cushwa Center invites applications for a 2020–2021 Postdoctoral Research Associate.

Podcast talks with historian Ann Little

Published: August 15, 2019

Author: Ted Fox

Ann Little discusses her research and writing with Ted Fox for "With a Side of Knowledge," a podcast produced by the Office of the Provost at the University of Notre Dame.

Studying Seton: A seminar with Catherine O’Donnell

Published: July 23, 2019

Author: Maggie Elmore

Maggie Elmore summarizes the Cushwa Center’s spring 2019 Seminar in American Religion.

Finding what’s true in the stories of women religious

Published: July 19, 2019

Author: Eileen Markey

Eileen Markey reflects on the study of women religious and the process of writing her 2016 book, A Radical Faith.

Global History and Catholicism: Highlights and insights

Published: July 18, 2019

Author: John McGreevy

John McGreevy revisits the Cushwa Center’s April 2019 conference, Global History and Catholicism.

Cushwa cosponsors postdoctoral fellowship for research based in Aberdeen, Dublin, and Rome

Published: July 11, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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

Published: June 14, 2019

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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.

Historian: In quest for holy heroes, American Catholics find tensions between national, religious identities

Published: May 02, 2019

Author: Amanda Skofstad

In new research, Kathleen Sprows Cummings chronicles how canonization, or the intricate process of naming someone a saint, prompted a minority religious group to define, defend and celebrate its American identity.

Apostles in the desert: How Catholic advocates once led the fight to help Mexican immigrants

Published: March 28, 2019

Author: Maggie Elmore

Maggie Elmore explores the history of advocacy services sponsored by the Catholic Church since the 1920s on behalf of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Preserving our story

Published: March 26, 2019

Author: Patricia Wittberg, S.C.

Patricia Wittberg, S.C., offers sociological perspective on the preservation of religious congregations' archival collections as many communities anticipate downsizing, mergers, or completion in the years ahead.

Book review: Karen Johnson's One in Christ

Published: March 21, 2019

Author: Peter Cajka

Peter Cajka reviews Karen Johnson's One in Christ: Chicago Catholics and the Quest for Interracial Justice.