Publications

The Cushwa Center has a long history of sponsoring publication efforts both in-house and with university presses. 

 American Catholic Studies Newsletter

American Catholic Studies Newsletter

Published twice a year by the Cushwa Center since 1975, the American Catholic Studies Newsletter reviews recent publications and center programming, relevant archival holdings, and other news and developments.

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Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America

Cornell University Press published the series Cushwa Center Studies of Catholicism in Twentieth-Century America, comprising nine volumes published between 2002 and 2021.

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Notre Dame Press Books and Series

The Cushwa Center has worked with the University of Notre Dame Press to publish the Notre Dame Studies in American Catholicism series (1980–1994), the Notre Dame History of Hispanic Catholics in the U.S. series (1994),  and several other volumes, including most recently Matteo Binasco’s Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism, 1763–1939 (2018).

Volumes published with other presses from Cushwa conferences and projects include Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience (Orbis, 2009) and Catholics in the Vatican II Era: Local Histories of a Global Event (Cambridge, 2017). 


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Working Paper Series

From 1975 to 2012, the Cushwa Center’s Working Paper Series featured works-in-progress presented at small seminars hosted at the University of Notre Dame.

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