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ACHA Statement on the Discovery of Unmarked Graves at Canadian Residential Schools
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.
ACHA Newsletter: Summer 2021
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.
Summer Research and Writing Grant Recipients Announced
Haley Bowen, Madeline Gambino, Sofia Maurette, and Brian Mueller received funding for their promising works in progress.
Leah Mickens selected as inaugural recipient of Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Prize
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.
Replay: ACHA 2021 General Business Meeting
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.
ACHA Newsletter: February 2021
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.
2021 Shea Prize and Ellis Award Winners Announced
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.
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.
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 Newsletter: Winter 2019
A look ahead at the Annual Meeting in New York; the Association’s new fundraising campaign for young scholars; and a fast-approaching deadline for the Spring Meeting’s the call for papers.
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.
ACHA Newsletter: Summer 2019
As summer turns to fall, there is much to report: Registration for the Annual Meeting is open; several award opportunities are open for young members; and our new website is now live.
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.