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.
The call for papers for the ACHA’s 2017 Annual Conference is open. Read on to submit your proposal, and for details on submitting a joint ACHA-AHA or ACHA-ASCH panel. The submission deadline is April 15, 2016.
The deadline for submissions is April 30. The winner will be announced in the fall of 2016.
Prof. Walter Melion Department of Emory University, Rev. Clyde Crews of Bellarmine University, and the Trappist monks of the Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Monastery (Conyers, Ga.) are honored with awards.
Two travel grants of $500 each will be awarded to students presenting at the meeting. Application deadline is Oct. 15.
Cummings, associate professor of American history at Notre Dame, will take office alongside two newly elected Executive Council members in 2016.
In winning the 2015 honor, Miller becomes the first two-time Shea Prize-winner in ACHA history.
Zchomelidse receives the award for the best work in Italian history for her book Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy, a “fascinating portrait of the Easter liturgical celebration in medieval southern Italy.”
Floyd, a PhD candidate at Tulane University, reports on her doctoral research into Peruvian devotional prints.
Twomey chronicles her ACHA-funded research at the Baptisteria Sacra Index, a research database of medieval baptismal fonts at the University of Toronto.
Father Davis, a widely respected teacher and scholar, was a longtime member of the Association.
The Research Grant committee recently announced the recipients of the 2015 ACHA Graduate Student Summer Research Grants.
Cajka, a Ph.D. candidate at Boston College, reports on his research on lay Catholics’ “search for conscience” from the 1960s through the 1980s.
Brennan, an associate professor of history at the University of Scranton, reports on research for his book project The Life of Fabian Flynn: A Catholic Warrior of the Second World War and the Cold War.
