Leadership &
Executive Council
ACHA Officers and Executive Council Members
Louisiana State University
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.
University of Dayton
President (2024)
- Notable Publications:
The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2010.
Fordham University
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.
Arizona State University
- Notable Publications: Elizabeth Seton: American Saint (Three Hills imprint of Cornell University Press, 2018)
Congregational Library & Archives
Kyle B. Roberts is the Executive Director of the Congregational Library & Archives. He received his B.A. in American Studies from Williams College and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
Prior to coming to the CLA, he was Associate Director of Library & Museum Programming at the American Philosophical Society and Associate Professor of Public History and New Media and Director of the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago.
He is the director of the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project and co-director of the Maryland Loyalism Project.
- 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
Pepperdine University
Notable Publications:
- “‘Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart Will Prevail’: Vietnamese Marianism and Anticommunism, 1940–1975,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 17.2–3 (2022): 126–157.
- “The Resettlement of Vietnamese Refugee Religious, Priests, and Seminarians in the United States, 1975–1977,” U.S. Catholic Historian 37.3 (2019): 99–122.
St. Norbert College
Research Interests:
- American Catholic history, sacred space, and the Virgin Mary
Notable Publications:
American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism, co-edited with Katherine Dugan, Ph.D., Fordham University Press (forthcoming, 2023)
Baylor University
Executive Council, 2022-25
Research Interests:
- Catholicism in the American South
University of Maryland
Executive Council, 2023-25
Research Interests:
Religion and Literature, Critical and Post-critical Theories, 20th Century Latin, American Literature, Southern Cone Literatures, Modernismo and Avant-garde, Periodical publications, First Wave Feminism, Latin American and Latinx Religions
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.”