Cushwa Center Grants and Spring Events

With the end of the fall 2014 semester rapidly approaching (yikes!) I want to take this opportunity to publicize some upcoming grant deadlines, calls for papers, and spring events that will be sponsored by the Cushwa Center, so you can mark your calendars now if you're within traveling distance. (If you'd like reminders of these events as they approach, you can either write to us at cushwa -at- nd.edu and ask to be put on our mailing list, or follow us on Facebook.)

Speaking of traveling distance: if you don't live down the block, but would find research in Notre Dame's extensive archival collections useful for your scholarship, we encourage you to apply for one of our Research Travel Grants, which fund travel to South Bend to work in the Notre Dame University Archives; projects should relate to the study of Catholicism in America. We also administer the Hibernian Research Award, which supports the scholarly study of the Irish American experience. The deadline for all applications is December 31. If you'd like to get a sense of the kinds of projects we sponsor, you might check out our two most recent Q&As: with Suzanne Krebsbach, who came to do research on black Catholics in Charleston, SC, and with Herbie Miller, whose work concerns an 1837 debate between the leader of the Disciples of Christ and the Catholic bishop of Cincinnati.

In other Catholic-centric research grant news, the Mary Nona McGreal OP Center for Dominican Historical Studies at Dominican University is making $2500 research stipends available for essays for an upcoming book project on Dominicans in the 19th and 20th century United States. Deadline for brief proposals is December 1; you can read more about the project here.

If your research on Catholic history has reached a more developed state, please consider submitting a paper or panel proposal to the Spring Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, which will be hosted by the Cushwa Center and held at Notre Dame from March 26-28, 2015. You can read more about the conference, and submit a proposal (by January 15) via the above link.

Also on the Cushwa Center's spring docket are two exciting events: first, a lecture on "Art, Architecture, and Liturgical Space in Postwar America" by Gretchen Buggeln of Valparaiso University, on February 23.

And finally, for those of you whose appetites have been whetted by Michael Hammond's recent review on this blog, please plan on joining us at Notre Dame for the Seminar in American Religion on Saturday, April 11, when Grant Wacker will discuss his new book, America's Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation (Belknap Press, 2014). Also commenting will be Richard Bushman, the Gouverneur Morris Professor of History emeritus at Columbia University, and Christian Smith, the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society at the University of Notre Dame.

We would be delighted to see any of you at any of these events, and please feel free to share the calls for papers and calls for grant applications widely.