ACHA Announces 2020 Award Recipients
The American Catholic Historical Association is pleased to announce the first slate of winners of our 2020 prizes and awards.
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New Cyprian Davis Prize Recognizes Scholarship on the Black Catholic Experience
Prize celebrating the life and legacy of Father Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., will recognize works in progress that promise to make significant contributions to the study of the Black Catholic experience. The deadline for the 2020 award is December 31.
Appeal for the Christopher J. Kauffman Prize in U.S. Catholic History
New prize will recognize monographs that provide new and/or challenging insights to the study of U.S. Catholic history.
Special Notice: Extended Deadlines for All ACHA Activities
The American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA), founded December 1919, is eager to support scholars, teachers, archivists, and students of Catholic history during these uncertain times. To that end, we have extended our deadlines for the Annual Meeting, research and travel grants, book prizes, and membership renewal until July 1, 2020. We are also exploring opportunities …
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ACHA Announces 2019 Award Recipients
The American Catholic Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of our 2019 prizes and awards.
2019 Election Results Announced
Dr. Brenna Moore of Fordham University, who will serve as vice president next year, heads the class of incoming officers.
University of Scranton to Host 2020 Spring Meeting
The meeting will run April 17-18 at the Jesuit university. The call for papers will open later this fall.
Congratulations to the 2019 Graduate Student Summer Research Grant Recipients
The ACHA was honored to fund research and travel for Tim Dulle, Corinne Gressang, Mitchell Oxford, and Cole Voleman.
ACHA Newsletter: Spring 2019
ACHA president Kathleen Holscher on preparations for the 2020 meeting, prize deadlines, and a UC ‘critical mission studies’ program.
ACHA Newsletter: Winter 2019
This inaugural newsletter from Incoming ACHA president Kathleen Holscher’s looks ahead at what’s to come for the Association in 2019.
ACHA Honors Three With 2019 Awards of Distinction
J. Philip Gleason, Fr. Wilson Miscamble, and Fordham University receive 2019 honors from the ACHA.
Monsignor Robert Trisco Receives ACHA Centennial Award
For almost half of the century of its existence, the ACHA was remarkably well served by its Secretary and Treasurer, Msgr. Robert F. Trisco.
2018 Book, Article, and Dissertation Award-Winners Announced
Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Paul F. Grendler, Troy J. Tice, Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva, and Elisabeth Davis are this year’s award-winners.
Applications for Grad Student Summer Research Grants Open Through April 30
Four grants of $2,500 each are available to ACHA graduate student members with ABD status. Read on for information about the award and instructions for applying.
ACHA Newsletter: Fall 2018
ACHA President Fr. Rick Gribble, CSC, announces election results, award recipients, and provides and update on the Annual Meeting in Chicago.
ACHA Newsletter: Summer 2018
ACHA President Rick Gribble introduces the Association’s new Executive Secretary/Treasurer, Professor Charles Strauss of Mount St. Mary’s University.
ACHA Newsletter: Spring 2018
ACHA President Rick Gribble reflects on the Spring Meeting and looks ahead to the Association’s centennial celebration in January.
ACHA Newsletter: Winter 2018
President Rick Gribble pens the inaugural issue of the ACHA’s quarterly newsletter.
Distinguished Award for Teaching awarded Anne Klejment of the University of St. Thomas
“Why learn history?,” Klejment writes in her U.S. Catholicism syllabus, “It is time travel, transporting us from ourselves and our limited perspectives and linking us to people and societies separated by time and space.”
In Memoriam: Dr. Christopher Joseph Kauffman
Dr. Kauffman’s career in Catholic education spanned more than half a century. It saw him publish several significant histories, including the Bicentennial History of the Catholic Church in America and American Catholic Identities: A Documentary History. He died Jan. 30 at age 81.
Rev. Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J. awarded Distinguished Award for Scholarship
Fogarty was recognized for his impressive research and catalogue of publications, which include several important books and more than 80 scholarly pieces.
Distinguished Award for Service presented to American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives at CUA
The ACHRC was honored for its promotion of Catholic scholarship, conservation, and preservation.
President’s New Year’s Message
An introduction and look at the year ahead from incoming ACHA President Rick Gribble, CSC.
Call for Papers: 2018 Spring Meeting at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, Md.
The ACHA invites all scholars to submit paper and session proposals on any aspect of the history of Christianity and its interaction with culture. The submission deadline had been extended to Tuesday, February 20, 2018.
Paul T. Murray Awarded Inaugural Msgr. Harry C. Koenig Journal Prize in Catholic Biography
Murray, of Siena College, is honored for his article “The Most Righteous White Man in Selma:Father Maurice Ouellet and the Struggle for Voting Rights.”
2017 Guilday Prize Awarded to Kathleen Walkowiak for Critical Re-Evaluation of Pope Eugenius III
Walkowiak receives the Guilday Prize for her article “Public Authority and Private Constraints: Eugenius III and the Council of Reims” that appeared in the Catholic Historical Review
Shea Prize Awarded to William B. Taylor for Theater of a Thousand Wonders
Taylor’s magisterial study takes as its subject the transformation, through Catholic devotions, of the landscape of the New World in the colonial period.
Marraro Prize in Italian History Awarded to John Howe for Before the Gregorian Reform: The Latin Church at the Turn of the First Millennium
In this learned, wide-ranging study, John Howe boldly reframes the long tenth century, not as a fallow interval in the history of the Latin Church in Western Europe, but as period whose creative ferment made the Gregorian Reform possible.
ACHA Announces Winners for Distinguished Awards of Scholarship, Teaching, and Service
Rev. Gerry Fogarty, S.J., Anne Klejment, and the Catholic University of America Archives will be honored at the 2018 Annual Meeting.
ACHA Election results announced; Kathleen Holscher to be VP
Holsher (University of New Mexico), Jeffrey Burns (UC San Diego), Marian Barber (Catholic Archives of Texas), Carolyn Twomey (Boston College), and Stephanie Jacobe (Archdiocese of Washington) will join the ACHA leadership.
Graduate Research Grant Report: ‘I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me’
Sergio M. González’s dissertation explores twentieth-century Latino immigration, religion, and community formation in Milwaukee.
Graduate Research Grant Report: ‘Prayer Warriors: Crusading Piety in Rome and the Papal States, (1187-1291)’
Richard Allington reports on his manuscript research for his doctoral dissertation on the expansion of crusading spirituality and its transposition to local causes in the thirteenth-century Papal States.
Graduate Research Grant Report: ‘The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind’
An ACHA grant assisted William S. Cossen of Penn State with dissertation research. His dissertation explores the construction of Protestant identity by U.S. Catholics from the 1860s-1920s.
ACHA now accepting applications for Graduate Student Summer Research Grants
Three $1000 grants are available to all-but-disseration graduate students. Application deadline is April 30.
Franz Posset presented with 2016 Koenig Prize for Catholic Biography
The independent scholar received the award at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver.
William Issel receives 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award
Over his three-decade career at San Francisco State University, Issel’s research has examined the complex relationships that comprise urban life in the United States, especially the West Coast.
Dr. Jeffrey M. Burns honored with 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award
The Franciscan School of Theology and the University of San Diego professor received the award at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver.
ACHA honors National Park Service with Distinguished Service Award
The Park Service, which celebrated its centennial in 2016, was honored for its preservation of American historical heritage.
Call for Papers: ASCH-ACHA Spring Meeting in Berkeley
The Program Committee invites members and other interested scholars to submit paper and session proposals for the meeting to be held April 6-9, 2017.