ACHA Honors Three With 2019 Awards of Distinction
J. Philip Gleason, Fr. Wilson Miscamble, and Fordham University receive 2019 honors from the ACHA.
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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.
Graduate Research Grant Report: ‘I Was a Stranger and You Welcomed Me’
Sergio M. González’s dissertation explores twentieth-century Latino immigration, religion, and community formation in Milwaukee.
Graduate Research Grant Report: ‘Prayer Warriors: Crusading Piety in Rome and the Papal States, (1187-1291)’
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.
Graduate Research Grant Report: ‘The Protestant Image in the Catholic Mind’
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.
ACHA now accepting applications for Graduate Student Summer Research Grants
Three $1000 grants are available to all-but-disseration graduate students. Application deadline is April 30.
Franz Posset presented with 2016 Koenig Prize for Catholic Biography
The independent scholar received the award at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver.
William Issel receives 2017 Distinguished Scholar Award
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.
Dr. Jeffrey M. Burns honored with 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award
The Franciscan School of Theology and the University of San Diego professor received the award at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Denver.
ACHA honors National Park Service with Distinguished Service Award
The Park Service, which celebrated its centennial in 2016, was honored for its preservation of American historical heritage.
Call for Papers: ASCH-ACHA Spring Meeting in Berkeley
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.
Christopher Riedel awarded 2016 Guilday Prize
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.”
2016 ACHA election results announced
Richard Gribble is elected vice president; David Endres and Martin Menke will join the Executive Council.
ACHA announces Distinguished Award recipients
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.
Andrew D. Berns awarded 2016 Marraro Prize
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. Marvin R. O’Connell dies
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.
Katrina B. Olds awarded 2016 Shea Prize
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 awarded 2016 Koenig Prize
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.
Executive Council establishes new award
The Harry C. Koenig prize for Catholic Biography to be expanded to include an award for a scholarly article.
Johnna L. Sturgeon reports on research in Munich
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.
Michael Skaggs reports on ACHA-financed research in Cincinnati
The Notre Dame student’s dissertation research, covering several topics, took him to several archives in Cincinnati.