Leadership &
Executive Council
ACHA Officers and Executive Council Members
Fordham University
Louisiana State University
President (2023)
Research Interests:
- History of Religion in the United States, American Catholic History, Environmental Humanities
Notable Works:
- Water Like Stone: A Portrait of a Louisiana Fishing Village (documentary film) (producer)
- Religion in America: The Basics. New York: Routledge, 2016.
- Gods of the Mississippi. Editor. Religion in North America Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.
- Fathers on the Frontier: French Missionaries and the Roman Catholic Priesthood in the United States,1789-1870. Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Mount St. Mary’s University
- Research Interests: U.S. in the World, U.S. Religious History, History of Built Environment, Global Catholicism, Southern Africa
- Notable Publications:
“Missionary Empire: American Catholics in Belize and Guatemala, 1941-1961,” American Catholic Studies Vol. 130, No. 3, (Fall 2019); “’Quest for the Holy Grail’: Central American War, Catholic Internationalism, and United States Public Diplomacy in Reagan’s America,” U.S. Catholic Historian, vol. 33, no. 1 (Winter 2015), 163-197; “God Save the Boer: Irish American Catholics and the South African War, 1899-1902,” U.S. Catholic Historian, vol. 26, no. 4 (Fall 2008), 1-26.
Springfield College
- Research Interests: Religion in the United States; American Catholicism; Religion and Gender; Interfaith Studies
- Notable Publications: Millennial Missionaries: How a Group of Young Catholics is Trying to Make Catholicism Cool (Oxford, 2019); From the Pews in the Back: Young Women & Catholicism(Liturgical Press, 2009); “St. Gemma is My Girl’: Devotional Practices of Millennial Catholics and the Making of Contemporary Catholic Saints” (American Catholic Studies, Winter 2017); ”Buddhist Women and Interfaith Work in the U.S.” (Journal for Buddhist-Christian Studies, 2007)
Redemptorist Archives
- Recent Publications: A Catholic Brain Trust: The History of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011); Editor, The Making of Modern Immigration: An Encyclopedia of People and Ideas (Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2012).
Arizona State University
- Notable Publications: Elizabeth Seton: American Saint (Three Hills imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018)
American Philosophical Society
- Notable Publications: Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860 (University of Chicago Press, November 2016); Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014, edited with Stephen Schloesser (Brill’s Modernity through the Prism of Jesuit History Series, August 2017)
University of Dayton
Notable Publications:
- Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.
University of Scranton
University at Buffalo
Executive Council, 2020-23
Recent Publications: “The Disappearance of Mother Agnes Spencer: The Centralization Controversy and the Antebellum Catholic Church,” American Catholic Studies 130 2 (Summer 2019): 31-52.
Baylor University
Executive Council, 2021-24
Research Interests:
- Catholicism in the American South
Catholic Historical Review
Ex officio
Nelson H. Minnich is the editor of the Catholic Historical Review and a professor of history at the Catholic University of America. His work has dealt broadly with Christian humanism, the Catholic and Protestant Reformations, and the papacy and general councils of the early modern period, especially the Fifth Lateran Council (1512-17).
Under ACHA bylaw, the editor of the CHR, which is the official organ of the Association, holds an ex officio seat on the Executive Council “with voice but without vote.”
Iona College
Research Interests: Native American History; Education and Pedagogy; Transnational Studies
Notable Publications: Seeds of Faith: Catholic Indian Boarding Schools (Garland, 2000).