ACHA Newsletter: Spring 2018
ACHA President Rick Gribble reflects on the Spring Meeting and looks ahead to the Association’s centennial celebration in January.
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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