Members of the American Catholic Historical Association reflect on the life, legacy, and impact of Pope Francis. These pieces, written by ACHA scholars and other historians, offer historical context, personal insight, and tributes to one of the most consequential pontificates of our time.
The Christopher J. Kauffman Prize, launched thanks to generous donors and benefactors, honors the author of a monograph that provides new and/or challenging insight to the study of U.S. Catholic history.
Fr. Heurtel’s letters, dated from 1841 to 1850, are among the earliest documents chronicling the Catholic Mission in Hawaii and evangelization efforts in the Pacific region.
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.
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.
Ralph Keen, who was elected vice president of the Association, tops the slate of incoming leaders who will take office in January.
Join us for our second webinar of the fall, as we continue our discussions about the intersection of film and Catholic studies. This time around, we’ll be discussing Wildcat (2023), the Ethan Hawke-directed Flannery O’Connor biopic.
Join us Thursday, September 19 on Zoom for our second installment of Catholicism Around the Movies. Anthony Smith and Monica Mercado will discuss Greta Gerwig’s popular 2017 film Lady Bird. Registration is free, but required to attend.
Mary Dunn will serve as vice president; Kate Geighery and Thomas Worcester are elected to the Executive Council.
This fall, members will elect a new vice president and two Executive Council members via online ballot.
Msgr. Trisco served as the Association’s Executive Secretary for 48 years and was the Catholic Historical Review’s managing editor for nearly as long.
Revisions allow for more online activity, clearer delineation of administrative roles.
The American Historical Association has extended its submission deadline to March 6. The deadline for submissions to the ACHA remains March 15.
The ACHA has begun awarding of individual grants as part of its project to reckon with the history of the Catholic Church’s involvement with Native American boarding schools. Learn about the recipients and their work.
Meserve’s work examines the publication of news, information, propaganda, and disinformation in Rome in the first decades after the arrival of print
Ph.D. candidate in History at Penn State University honored for his queer analysis of the 18th-century convulsionnaires.
The Cushwa Center talks with the William & Mary professor about her winning work, Abandoned Faithful: Race and International Law in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution.
Dr. Bynum is a groundbreaking scholar, whose work has profoundly transformed our understanding of the depth and complexity of religious ideas from antiquity to the sixteenth century.
At every level, from the undergraduate classroom and Ph.D. mentoring at the University of Iowa, Nabhan-Warren’s generous, joyful encouragement of scholars of Catholicism making their way in the field is a gift to scholars of Catholicism.
For over five decades, the IBCS has provided truly extraordinary historical, theological and pastoral training in Black Catholic Studies to the Black Catholic Community, the broader Church, the scholarly community and the wider public.
The Archdiocese of New York announced the death of the longtime Fordham professor and ACHA member.
The ACHA welcomes its incoming officers: Vice President Anthony Smith, Executive Council Members Tuan Hoang and Karen Park, and Grad Student Rep Sofia Maurette.
$75,000 grant will be used to foster conversation and collaboration between historians, religious archives, and Native communities.
All this week, February 21, 24, and 26, a number of ACHA panels for the New Orleans ACHA meeting that weren’t able to present in person will be part of AHA22 Online.
Upcoming issue will examine U.S. Catholic historiography.
Submission deadline: November 1, 2022
Rev. Kevin P. Spicer, CSC, (distinguished scholarship); Rev. Steven Avella (distinguished teaching), and the Cushwa Center are honored for their extraordinary contribution to the field of Catholic studies.
Keeley’s Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America receives the the prize that honors the book that has “made the most original and distinguished contribution to the history of the Catholic Church.”
Marcus receives the book prize in Italian history for “an unexpected discovery of how the censorship process, expurgating books and licensing readers, contributed to the professionalization of medical science and practice.”
“From the Dove to the Eagle: Jansenist Visual Culture Between Piety and Polemic”was published in the Fall 2021 issue of the Catholic Historical Review.
The Fordham Ph.D. student is honored for his in-progress dissertation, “The Catholic Counter-Revolution: A Global Intellectual History, 1780s-1840s”
Sean Jacobson (Loyola University Chicago) and Sofía Maurette (University of Maryland) were recognized for their outstanding papers that will be presented at the 2022 Annual Meeting. The grant will be used to fund travel to New Orleans.
Incoming vice president Michael Pasquier leads the slate of officers who will begin their terms in January.
ACHA officially teams with the interdisciplinary forum for scholars, and seeks members to contribute their expertise on Catholic studies to the 200,000-member-strong community.
The ACHA has issued a statement on the recent discovery of unmarked graves at Canadian residential schools located on First Nations lands in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
After a year like no other, we look forward to a season away from our Zoom screens as we tip-toe toward face-to-face teaching, collaboration, and meetings.
Haley Bowen, Madeline Gambino, Sofia Maurette, and Brian Mueller received funding for their promising works in progress.
Mickens is honored for her book project in progress, In the Shadow of Ebenezer: A Black Catholic Parish in the Age of Civil Rights and Vatican II, which examines how the Our Lady of Lourdes parish in Atlanta was influenced by the religious and social change ushered in by the Second Vatican Council and the civil rights movement.
The American Catholic Historical Association held its 2021 General Business Meeting on February 10, 2021 via Zoom. The meeting is traditionally held in person in January at the Association’s Annual Meeting. In this year of pandemic, it was held virtually.
Our CFP for the 2022 Annual Meeting is open… We’re accepting applications for Travel and Writing Grants through March 30…. And we’re excited to announce Mitchell E. Oxford and Elizabeth Foster as the winners of the Ellis Award and Shea Prize, respectively.
Elizabeth Foster of Tufts University receives the Shea Book Prize for her work on African Catholics and decolonization. Mitchell E. Oxford, of the College of William and Mary, is recognized for his promising dissertation on the French Revolution and American Catholicism.
