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.
The American Catholic Historical Association is pleased to announce the first slate of winners of our 2020 prizes and awards.
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.
New prize will recognize monographs that provide new and/or challenging insights to the study of U.S. Catholic history.
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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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.
The American Catholic Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of our 2019 prizes and awards.
Dr. Brenna Moore of Fordham University, who will serve as vice president next year, heads the class of incoming officers.
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.
The meeting will run April 17-18 at the Jesuit university. The call for papers will open later this fall.
The ACHA was honored to fund research and travel for Tim Dulle, Corinne Gressang, Mitchell Oxford, and Cole Voleman.
ACHA president Kathleen Holscher on preparations for the 2020 meeting, prize deadlines, and a UC ‘critical mission studies’ program.
This inaugural newsletter from Incoming ACHA president Kathleen Holscher’s looks ahead at what’s to come for the Association in 2019.
J. Philip Gleason, Fr. Wilson Miscamble, and Fordham University receive 2019 honors from the ACHA.
For almost half of the century of its existence, the ACHA was remarkably well served by its Secretary and Treasurer, Msgr. Robert F. Trisco.
Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Paul F. Grendler, Troy J. Tice, Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva, and Elisabeth Davis are this year’s award-winners.
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 President Fr. Rick Gribble, CSC, announces election results, award recipients, and provides and update on the Annual Meeting in Chicago.
ACHA President Rick Gribble introduces the Association’s new Executive Secretary/Treasurer, Professor Charles Strauss of Mount St. Mary’s University.
ACHA President Rick Gribble reflects on the Spring Meeting and looks ahead to the Association’s centennial celebration in January.
President Rick Gribble pens the inaugural issue of the ACHA’s quarterly newsletter.
“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.”
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.
Fogarty was recognized for his impressive research and catalogue of publications, which include several important books and more than 80 scholarly pieces.
The ACHRC was honored for its promotion of Catholic scholarship, conservation, and preservation.
An introduction and look at the year ahead from incoming ACHA President Rick Gribble, CSC.
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.
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.”
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
Taylor’s magisterial study takes as its subject the transformation, through Catholic devotions, of the landscape of the New World in the colonial period.
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.
Rev. Gerry Fogarty, S.J., Anne Klejment, and the Catholic University of America Archives will be honored at the 2018 Annual Meeting.
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.
Sergio M. González’s dissertation explores twentieth-century Latino immigration, religion, and community formation in Milwaukee.
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.
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.
Three $1000 grants are available to all-but-disseration graduate students. Application deadline is April 30.
The independent scholar received the award at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver.
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.
The Franciscan School of Theology and the University of San Diego professor received the award at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver.
