Notre Dame’s “1.5 founder”: 2017 Cushwa Center Lecture evaluates the legacy of John A. Zahm, C.S.C.
Benjamin Wetzel revisits the 2017 Cushwa Center Lecture by Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C.
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U.S. Catholic discourse on race, gender, and sexuality, 1917–1970: A conversation with Billy Korinko
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
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
The fall 2017 Seminar in American Religion discussed Ulrich’s A House Full of Females.
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Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C., to deliver 2017 Cushwa Center lecture
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.
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Five questions for research travel grant recipient Barry McCarron
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.
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Land O’Lakes and its legacy: A lecture and panel on Catholic higher education
In September, the Cushwa Center sponsored a lecture and discussion commemorating a landmark document for Catholic university life.
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The Sisters' Survey: Preservation and access for a new generation
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.
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Millennial Catholic missionaries: A conversation with Katherine Dugan
Dugan received a 2017 Research Travel Grant to study young missionaries and their impact on Catholicism in America.
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Gráinne McEvoy on Catholic social thought, U.S. immigration policy, and Father Hesburgh
McEvoy received travel grant funds to study Father Hesburgh’s work on immigration and refugee issues.
Catholic university presidents to reflect on 50-year Land O’Lakes legacy
The Cushwa Center in collaboration with the Office of the President at Notre Dame will host five Catholic university presidents on Sept. 5 for a lecture and panel to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the drafting and signing of the Land O’Lakes Statement.
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Midwestern Catholic mothers at mid-century: A conversation with Ann Huey
Huey received a 2017 Research Travel Grant to study the devotional practices of German American Catholic women.
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Sergio González on Latino immigration, religion, and community in Milwaukee, 1920–1990
González, a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received a 2017 Research Travel Grant from the Cushwa Center.
Thomas Jefferson, slavery, and religion: Rethinking an American icon
Benjamin Wetzel reviews John B. Boles’ Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty (Basic, 2017).
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Trans-Atlantic pipeline: Roman connections and the search for global Catholicism
Patrick J. Hayes revisits June’s three-day conference, North Atlantic Catholic Communities in Rome, 1622–1939.
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Susan Ridgely on desegregation in the Diocese of Raleigh, 1953–present
Ridgely received a 2017 Research Travel Grant for her project on the generational effects of desegregation in the Diocese of Raleigh.
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Global religious icons in the American cultural imagination: A conversation with Julie Chamberlain
Chamberlain received a 2016 Research Travel Grant to study American Catholics’ interest in contemporary “religious icons” the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Desmond Tutu, and Elie Wiesel.
Meet Research Travel Grant recipient Rebecca L. Davis
Davis received funding for research for her book in progress, American Converts: Religion and Identity Since World War II. She recently visited the Notre Dame Archives to consult materials on Clare Boothe Luce, Dorothy Day, and Thomas Merton.
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Cushwa announces postdocs for 2017–2018
Peter Cajka and Benjamin Wetzel will join the Cushwa Center for research appointments beginning in July.
Five questions on Catholics and suburbanization with Stephen Koeth
We recently sat down with Research Travel Grant recipient Stephen Koeth, C.S.C., about his dissertation research on the postwar suburbanization of American Catholics. Stephen, a Holy Cross priest, is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. His writing has appeared in The Journal of Church and State and U.S. Catholic Historian.
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