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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.

African American religious traditions in the early 20th century: A seminar with Judith Weisenfeld

Published: May 31, 2018

Author: Benjamin J. Wetzel

The spring 2018 Seminar in American Religion featured Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming.

Conversations and conversions: The Bob Pelton interviews

Published: March 21, 2018

Author: Peter Cajka

Peter Cajka reflects on five interviews he conducted with Father Bob Pelton, C.S.C., from October 2017 to January 2018.

The Irish Dames: A history of Kylemore Abbey’s Benedictine nuns from Ypres, Belgium, to Western Ireland

Published: March 20, 2018

Author: Jack Rooney

Jack Rooney explores the history of the Benedictine community at Kylemore Abbey in Ireland.

Why I study women religious

Published: March 15, 2018

Author: Marie Marmo Mullaney

For the forthcoming spring issue of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Marie Mullaney (professor of history at Caldwell University) reflects on her research and teaching on American Catholic women religious.

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).

Farrell O’Gorman on Catholicism in American Gothic Literature

Published: February 16, 2018

Author: Michael Skaggs

Michael Skaggs revisits a November 2017 discussion of O’Gorman’s Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination (Notre Dame Press, 2017).

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.

American religion in the Gilded Age

Published: January 18, 2018

Author: Benjamin J. Wetzel

Benjamin Wetzel reviews Richard White's The Republic for Which it Stands.

Ian McBride on Catholics under the penal laws

Published: December 04, 2017

Author: Peter Cajka

For the 2017 Hibernian Lecture, Ian McBride shared new sources and insights on both immediate and long-term effects of Ireland's penal laws.

Notre Dame’s “1.5 founder”: 2017 Cushwa Center Lecture evaluates the legacy of John A. Zahm, C.S.C.

Published: November 28, 2017

Author: Benjamin J. Wetzel

Benjamin Wetzel revisits the 2017 Cushwa Center Lecture by Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C.

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.

French Catholicism in the early American West: A conversation with Gabrielle Guillerm

Published: November 16, 2017

Author: Benjamin J. Wetzel

Guillerm received a Research Travel Grant in 2017 to study the intersection of French Catholicism, state building, and popular devotion in the early republic.

Polygamy, women’s rights, and Mormonism: A seminar with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Published: November 07, 2017

Author: Benjamin J. Wetzel

The fall 2017 Seminar in American Religion discussed Ulrich’s A House Full of Females.

Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C., to deliver 2017 Cushwa Center lecture

Published: October 31, 2017

Author: Amanda Skofstad

Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C., professor of history emeritus at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the 2017 Cushwa Center Lecture on Nov. 3 (Friday), at 2 p.m. in McKenna Hall Auditorium.

Five questions for research travel grant recipient Barry McCarron

Published: October 24, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

McCarron received funds to study the stance of Irish Americans and the Catholic Church toward Chinese immigrants and the anti-Chinese movement that culminated in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.