The Irish Dames: A history of Kylemore Abbey’s Benedictine nuns from Ypres, Belgium, to Western Ireland
Jack Rooney explores the history of the Benedictine community at Kylemore Abbey in Ireland.
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Why I study women religious
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
The Cushwa Center is accepting applications for a 2018–2019 postdoctoral fellowship.
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Call for papers: Global History and Catholicism
Proposals are due June 1, 2018, for this 2019 conference exploring intersections between global history and the history of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Cushwa Center announces funding for 25 researchers in 2018
Funds will support travel to the University of Notre Dame Archives as well as research sites in Baltimore, New Orleans, Dublin, and Rome.
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Call for papers: 11th Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious
The Program Committee for the 11th Triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious welcomes paper proposals (deadline: June 1, 2018).
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Farrell O’Gorman on Catholicism in American Gothic Literature
Michael Skaggs revisits a November 2017 discussion of O’Gorman’s Catholicism and American Borders in the Gothic Literary Imagination (Notre Dame Press, 2017).
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New travel grant program launched for Catholic women’s history; open to scholars of any academic discipline
The Cushwa Center has launched the Mother Theodore Guerin Research Grant Program.
Five questions for Marie Curie Fellow Valentina Ciciliot
Ciciliot is at Notre Dame researching the North American origins and global influence of the Catholic charismatic movement.
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American religion in the Gilded Age
Benjamin Wetzel reviews Richard White's The Republic for Which it Stands.
Ian McBride on Catholics under the penal laws
For the 2017 Hibernian Lecture, Ian McBride shared new sources and insights on both immediate and long-term effects of Ireland's penal laws.
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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.
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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