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Book review: Authentically Black and Truly Catholic

Published: October 02, 2018

Catherine R. Osborne reviews Matthew J. Cressler's Authentically Black and Truly Catholic: The Rise of Black Catholicism in the Great Migration

The Spanish language in the U.S. Catholic Church: A conversation with Antonio Medina-Rivera

Published: August 14, 2018

Author: Peter Cajka

Medina-Rivera visited the Notre Dame Archives in June 2018 to research Spanish language usage in the U.S. Catholic Church during the 20th century.

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.

Patricio Flores and liberation theology: A conversation with Gabriela Perez

Published: July 30, 2018

Author: Peter Cajka

Research Travel Grant recipient Gabriela Perez recently visited the Notre Dame Archives to study the life and work of Archbishop Patricio Flores.

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.

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).