“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.
The Park Service, which celebrated its centennial in 2016, was honored for its preservation of American historical heritage.
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.
Riedel, a visiting assistant professor of history at Boston College, is honored for his 2016 article entitled “Praising God Together: Monastic Reformers and Laypeople in Tenth-Century Winchester.”
Richard Gribble is elected vice president; David Endres and Martin Menke will join the Executive Council.
William Issel of San Francisco State University, Jeffery Burns of the Franciscan School of Theology, and the U.S. National Park Service will be honored at the ACHA Annual Meeting in January.
The assistant professor of history at the University of South Carolina was honored for his 2015 book The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy.
Rev. O’Connell, professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame, was the ACHA’s 2013 Distinguished Scholar Award recipient. He died on Aug. 19.
The associate professor of history at the University of San Francisco was honored for Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain (Yale University Press, 2015).
Franz Posset, a scholar noted for his work in Reform history, has been awarded the 2016 Harry C. Koenig Prize in Catholic Biography for his work Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522). A Theological Biography.
The Harry C. Koenig prize for Catholic Biography to be expanded to include an award for a scholarly article.
Sturgeon, a Ph.D. candidate at Northwestern University, applied an ACHA grant toward travel to Germany, where her research explored Portuguese theologian Andreas de Escobar.
The Notre Dame student’s dissertation research, covering several topics, took him to several archives in Cincinnati.
The University of Kansas graduate student in history conducted research in Mexico.
Cajka, a doctoral candidate at Boston College, is the first Graduate Student Representative to the Executive Council.
R. Bentley Anderson meets the pontiff during a research trip to Rome.
ACHA President Liam Matthew Brockey shares his plans for the Association during his 2016 term.
A detailed look at the Association’s work and operations, covering awards, elections, finances, and the Catholic Historical Review.
The Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History received the award at the ACHA’s Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
The longtime Bellarmine University professor was honored at the 2016 Annual Meeting in Atlanta.
The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance, better known as the Trappists, were honored at the 2016 ACHA Annual Meeting with the Distinguished Service to Catholic Studies Award.
