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Why I study women religious

Published: March 15, 2018

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: Catherine R. Osborne

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.

Land O’Lakes and its legacy: A lecture and panel on Catholic higher education

Published: October 12, 2017

Author: Peter Cajka

In September, the Cushwa Center sponsored a lecture and discussion commemorating a landmark document for Catholic university life.

The Sisters' Survey: Preservation and access for a new generation

Published: October 09, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Catherine Osborne explores the history and significance of a survey of more than 130,000 women religious conducted in 1967. The survey dataset has recently been made available open access through Notre Dame.

Millennial Catholic missionaries: A conversation with Katherine Dugan

Published: September 21, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

Dugan received a 2017 Research Travel Grant to study young missionaries and their impact on Catholicism in America.

Gráinne McEvoy on Catholic social thought, U.S. immigration policy, and Father Hesburgh

Published: September 14, 2017

Author: Shane Ulbrich

McEvoy received travel grant funds to study Father Hesburgh’s work on immigration and refugee issues.