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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).

Friends of Cushwa news and notes

Published: April 06, 2021

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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Archives report: Archival research into Notre Dame history

Published: March 30, 2021

Author: Wm Kevin Cawley

Kevin Cawley surveys resources at the Notre Dame Archives for researching the University's history.

Book review

Published: March 22, 2021

Author: Anna Holdorf

Anna Holdorf (University of Notre Dame) reviews Peter J. Thuesen's TORNADO GOD: AMERICAN RELIGION AND VIOLENT WEATHER (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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.”

Cushwa Center announces research funding for 2021

Published: March 04, 2021

Author: Shane Ulbrich

In 2021, the Cushwa Center is providing grants and awards to 18 scholars for a variety of research projects.

Call for papers: Conference on the History of Women Religious

Published: March 01, 2021

Author: Margaret McGuinness

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers and panels that address the conference theme, “Diversity and Dignity Across Time and Place.”

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

Published: February 25, 2021

Author: Shane Ulbrich

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

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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.