The Cushwa Center is pleased to announce that it is providing funding to 19 scholars for a variety of research projects in 2019. Funds will support travel to the University of Notre Dame Archives, as well as to archives in New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; St. Louis, MO; Washington, DC; Madrid, Spain; and Paris, France. The next application deadline for each of the Cushwa Center's five research funding programs is December 31, 2019.
Research Travel Grants
Research Travel Grants assist scholars from a variety of academic disciplines who wish to visit the University of Notre Dame Archives or collections elsewhere at Notre Dame’s Hesburgh Libraries for research relating to the study of Catholics in America. The following scholars received grants for 2019:
William S. Cossen
The Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
“Soldiers and Sacraments: The Lived Catholic Civil War”
Elisabeth Davis
University at Buffalo
“The Centralization Controversy: Nuns, Bishops, and the Development of the American Catholic Church, 1800–1865”
M. A. Davis
Hampton University
“Faith in Flight: Albert Zahm and the Wright Brothers”
Elsa B. Mendoza
Georgetown University
“Maryland Slaveholding and the Expansion of Jesuit Higher Education, 1789–1865”
Nicholas Rademacher
Cabrini University
“Catholic Women and Race in the United States, 1931–1965”
Mitchell Edward Oxford
William & Mary
“Monarchal Bishops, Jacobinized Trustees, and Unruly Sisters: The French Revolution and the Making of an American Catholicism”
Kelly Schmidt
Loyola University Chicago
“‘We heard sometimes their earnest desire to be free in a free country’: Enslaved People, Jesuit Masters, and Negotiations for Freedom on American Borderlands”
Ryan G. Tobler
Harvard University
“American Worship: Religion and the Politics of Worship in the Early United States”
Andrew Walker-Cornetta
Princeton University
“The Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd and the Religious History of Intellectual Disability in Postwar America“
Tisa Wenger
Yale University
“Settler Secularism: The Production of American Religion”
Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grants
The Cushwa Center recently launched Guerin Research Travel Grants for scholars whose research projects feature Catholic women more prominently in modern history, supporting research travel both in and outside the United States.
Christine Croxall
Cornell University
“The Limits of Sisterhood: Gender and Black Catholicism in the Mississippi River Valley”
Monica Mercado
Colgate University
“The Young Catholic: Girlhood and the Making of American Catholicism, 1836–1911”
Joseph Mannard
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“America’s First Runaway Nun: The Two Lives of Sr. Ann Gertrude Wightt, 1799–1867”
Bronagh Ann McShane
National University of Ireland, Galway
“Irish Women Religious, c. 1530–1756: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration”
Gemma Betros
The Australian National University
“Sacred Liberty: the Nuns of Paris, the French Revolution, and Napoleon”
Hibernian Research Awards
Funded by an endowment from the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Hibernian Research Awards support the scholarly study of Irish and Irish American history. The following scholars have received awards for 2019:
Christopher M.B. Allison
University of Chicago
“Jane McCrea: Martyr for a New Nation”
Conor Donnan
University of Pennsylvania
“An ‘Empire for Liberty?’ Irish Immigrants, Native Americans, and American Imperialism in the trans-Mississippi West between 1841 and 1924”
Eileen Markey
Lehman College
“When Markievicz, Skeffington and Kearns Came to Butte: Irish Radical Women in the International Struggle”
Hesburgh Research Travel Grants
These grants support research projects that consider the life and work of the late Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1987.
Edward P. Hahnenberg
John Carroll University
“Theodore Hesburgh: Priest for a Priestly People”