Read our spring newsletter! News from Haley Bowen, Center for Research on Global Catholicism, Matthew J. Cressler (@mjcressler.bsky.social), Rick Garnett🇮🇱, Ulrich L. Lehner 🟦, Dr Carmen M. Mangion, Prof Deirdre Raftery, et al. CARA’s Sr Pat Wittberg engages Stephen Bullivant. Fall-in-review w/ Lerone A. Martin, @KKdumez, Julie Morrissy. cushwa.nd.edu/publications/a…

The Church Properties Initiative, an interdisciplinary project of Notre Dame’s Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate, is accepting applications (due April 15) for a postdoctoral fellowship. Learn more about this opportunity and the initiative’s focus areas: churchproperties.nd.edu/postdoc

Thanks Shaun Blanchard, Stephen Bullivant, Ulrich L. Lehner 🟦, & all for a great discussion yesterday. More this a.m. with Ruth Braunstein & D. Campbell, along with a book sale featuring many authors in this weekend’s audience, incl. D G Hart, John McGreevy, Jana Riess, @PeterjThuesen.

For our next ACS NEWSLETTER, Julia Young interviewed Jaime Pensado about his new book, LOVE AND DESPAIR: HOW CATHOLIC ACTIVISM SHAPED POLITICS AND THE COUNTERCULTURE IN MODERN MEXICO (@UCPress, 2023): cushwa.nd.edu/news/the-mexic…

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This Friday & Saturday! The Dolan Seminar in American Religion convenes to discuss VATICAN II by Shaun Blanchard & Stephen Bullivant, then Bullivant’s NONVERTS. With K. Belcher, Ruth Braunstein, D. Campbell, Ulrich L. Lehner 🟦, S. Shortall and T. Tweed. Learn more: cushwa.nd.edu/events

The Cushwa Center is looking forward to hosting #chwr2025 , Lives and Archives, in June 2025 at the University of Notre Dame. Read (and share!) the call for papers: cushwa.nd.edu/chwr2025.

History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, GlobalSistersReport, American Catholic Historical Association, ISHWRA, The Nuns, Communicators4Nuns, CHWR

Catholic Modernity in the Americas: Land, Culture, Politics—the Cushwa Center’s 50th anniversary conference—is scheduled for April 10–12, 2025, at Notre Dame. Read the call for papers and submit proposals by Sept 15: cushwa.nd.edu/cma2025.

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Join us! This Wednesday we’ll welcome Jonathan Ebel to ND for a lecture, “From Dust They Came: Migration, Sanitation, and Missionary Modernity in New Deal California.” 4:30pm in Geddes Hall. Cosponsored by ND American Studies, ND Social Concerns & ND History Dept.. More: cushwa.nd.edu/events/2024/03…

Congratulations to the Cushwa Center’s grant and award recipients for 2024! Funds will support a record 31 researchers this year, including Robert Ventresca, Erica Moretti, Miguel A. Valerio, Ella Hadacek, Brenna Moore, Dr Eilish Gregory, Brian Mueller.

Learn more: cushwa.nd.edu/news/cushwa-ce…

Join us TOMORROW (Thurs 2/29) at 4:30 p.m. in McKenna Hall. Garry Sparks will deliver the 2024 Cushwa Center Lecture, “Five Hundred* Years of Mayanized Christianity: An Ethnohistory of the Americas’ First Theology, the Theologia Indorum.” Learn more: cushwa.nd.edu/events/2024/02…

Join Cushwa’s spring events, beginning next week with the 2024 Cushwa Center Lecture by Garry Sparks, “Five Hundred* Years of Mayanized Christianity: An Ethnohistory of the Americas’ First Theology, the Theologia Indorum.” Thurs 2/29 @ 4:30pm. Learn more: cushwa.nd.edu/events.

The Curran Center invites submissions for its New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas. The best essay published or accepted for publication between 2.15.23 and 2.15.24 will receive a $1500 award. Learn more and apply by February 15: fordham.edu/academics/cent…

With heavy hearts we share news of the passing of distinguished historian and Laetare medalist J. Philip Gleason. He was 96. A funeral Mass will take place this Thursday, Jan. 25 at 2:30 p.m. here at Notre Dame. Read more about Gleason’s life and legacy: cushwa.nd.edu/news/in-memori…

New Scholar Essay Prize, Catholic Studies in the Americas-- Due Feb 15!!! $1500 prize. ABD or PhD 2017 or later. Curran Center Raúl E. Zegarra Brian J. Clites Kelly L. Schmidt Tuan Hoang fordham.edu/academics/cent…

Merry Christmas from the Cushwa Center!

Two important reminders ahead of the new year:

– Applications are due by December 31 for the Cushwa Center's research grants and awards (cushwa.nd.edu/grants)
– The deadline to apply for a Cushwa postdoc fellowship is January 15 (cushwa.nd.edu/postdocs)

Hoping to travel for research in 2024? Cushwa Center grants have supported hundreds of researchers’ travel to Notre Dame, Rome, and many other destinations across the U.S. and beyond. Learn more and apply by December 31 at cushwa.nd.edu/grant-opportun….

The Sangalli Institute invites applications by Dec 10 for its third winter seminar in Rome, Jan 22–6, “The Archives of the Holy See and Roman Catholicism: Instructions for Use and New Research Perspectives.” Learn more and apply at: istitutosangalli.it/en/announcemen…