Spring Meeting 2025
The call for papers is open for the ACHA's Spring Meeting, to be held March 27-30, 2025 at St. Norbert College in De Pere, WI. The submission deadline is January 15.
Catholic Historical Review
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ACHA News & Announcements
Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston
The AAR’s Catholic Studies Unit invites submissions on diverse subjects in the study of Catholics and Catholicism across time and place. Especially welcome are proposals that are attentive to the ways in which history and theory relate to one another within the field of Catholic Studies. Co-chairs are happy to consult with those who are developing individual papers, paper sessions, roundtable proposals, or other creative formats.
Submission deadline: March 3, 2025
ACHA Urges St. Norbert College to Reconsider Proposed Faculty Cuts, Cancels 2025 Spring Conference
A statement from the ACHA on the recommended termination of tenured faculty at St. Norbert College.
Saint Louis University Seminar Fellowship Program Accepting Applications Through March 1
The Center for Research on Global Catholicism at Saint Louis University’s 2025-27 Seminar Fellowship Program will run from August 2025 through May 2027. This cycle’s theme will focus on the theme of “Global Catholicism in Local Spaces.” Eight fellows, each receiving a $4,000 stipend, will be selected.
Submission deadline: March 1, 2025
Watch: “Pulling Back the Curtain: A Primer on Appreciating the Importance of Catholic Religious Collections for U.S. History”
Watch the seminar from the RCRI’s 2024 conference featuring Malachy McCarthy, Barbara Mattick, Carol Coburn, and Thomas Rzeznik.
ACHA Announces Cancellation of 2025 Spring Meeting
The decision follows the recent announcement of “retrenchment” by St. Norbert College, which includes terminating nearly all tenured faculty in the Departments of History and Theology, among others.
Martin Scorsese, Paula Kane and James Fisher to Receive 2025 Awards of Distinction
Scorsese, the groundbreaking film director; Kane, of the University of Pittsburgh; and Fisher, of Fordham University, will be honored with the ACHA’s awards of distinction at its annual conference in New York this week. The awards honor lifetime achievement in the fields of service, scholarship, and teaching, respectively.
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Calls for Submissions
Submission opportunities from around the field of Catholic Studies. Conferences, journals, awards, and more.
Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion 2025 Annual Meeting in Boston
The AAR’s Catholic Studies Unit invites submissions on diverse subjects in the study of Catholics and Catholicism across time and place. Especially welcome are proposals that are attentive to the ways in which history and theory relate to one another within the field of Catholic Studies. Co-chairs are happy to consult with those who are developing individual papers, paper sessions, roundtable proposals, or other creative formats.
Submission deadline: March 3, 2025
Virginia Museum of History & Culture Opens Applications for Research Fellowships
The Virginia Museum of History & Culture is accepting applications for research fellowships of up to three weeks a year to promote the interpretation of Virginia and access to its collections with a weekly stipend of $1,000 and $500 for local mileage.
Application deadline: January 27, 2023.
Call for Papers: U.S. Catholic Historian’s ‘U.S. Catholic Historiography’ Issue
Upcoming issue will examine U.S. Catholic historiography.
Submission deadline: November 1, 2022
Announcements in Catholic History
The Archivist’s Nook: Christopher J. Kauffman – American Catholic Historian
From the CUA University Libraries blog: Tricia Pyne takes a look at the life and scholarship of Christopher J. Kauffman, a giant in the field of Catholic studies, whose career spanned generations. After his death in 2018, the ACHA established an award in his honor, which is currently in the process of being endowed.
Trailer: Revolution of The Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
A new film on Dorothy Day coming to Public Television in March 2020. This film will be featured on a panel at the November meeting of the American Academy of Religion.
‘Catholic School 1960’ Chronicles Pre-Vatican II Parochial School
A website compiled by a small team of researchers documenting a Brooklyn parochial school that the authors describe as “representative of lots of parochial schools in the years just before the Second Vatican Council.”