Leadership &
Executive Council
ACHA Officers and Executive Council Members
University of Dayton
- Notable Publications:
The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2010.
Saint Louis University
President (2025)
Mount St. Mary’s University
- Research Interests: U.S. in the World, U.S. Religious History, History of Built Environment, Global Catholicism, Southern Africa
- Notable Publications:
“Missionary Empire: American Catholics in Belize and Guatemala, 1941-1961,” American Catholic Studies Vol. 130, No. 3, (Fall 2019); “’Quest for the Holy Grail’: Central American War, Catholic Internationalism, and United States Public Diplomacy in Reagan’s America,” U.S. Catholic Historian, vol. 33, no. 1 (Winter 2015), 163-197; “God Save the Boer: Irish American Catholics and the South African War, 1899-1902,” U.S. Catholic Historian, vol. 26, no. 4 (Fall 2008), 1-26.
Louisiana State University
Research Interests:
- History of Religion in the United States, American Catholic History, Environmental Humanities
Notable Works:
- Water Like Stone: A Portrait of a Louisiana Fishing Village (documentary film) (producer)
- Religion in America: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 2016.
- Gods of the Mississippi. Editor. Religion in North America Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States,1789-1870. Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
University of Scranton
Pepperdine University
Notable Publications:
- “‘Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart Will Prevail’: Vietnamese Marianism and Anticommunism, 1940–1975,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 17.2–3 (2022): 126–157.
- “The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Religious, Priests, and Seminarians in the United States, 1975–1977,” U.S. Catholic Historian 37.3 (2019): 99–122.
St. Norbert College
Research Interests:
- American Catholic history, sacred space, and the Virgin Mary
Notable Publications:
American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism, co-edited with Katherine Dugan, Ph.D., Fordham University Press (forthcoming, 2023)
Baylor University
Executive Council, 2022-24
Research Interests:
- Catholicism in the American South
University of Maryland
Executive Council, 2023-25
Research Interests:
Religion and Literature, Critical and Post-critical Theories, 20th Century Latin, American Literature, Southern Cone Literatures, Modernismo and Avant-garde, Periodical publications, First Wave Feminism, Latin American and Latinx Religions
Archives of the Archdiocese of New York
Thomas Worcester
Fordham University
Catholic Historical Review
Ex officio
Nelson H. Minnich is the editor of the Catholic Historical Review and a professor of history at the Catholic University of America. His work has dealt broadly with Christian humanism, the Catholic and Protestant Reformations, and the papacy and general councils of the early modern period, especially the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17).
Under ACHA bylaw, the editor of the CHR, which is the official organ of the Association, holds an ex officio seat on the Executive Council “with voice but without vote.”