Colin Crawford
@colincrawford.bsky.social
Historian of modern American religion and culture Notre Dame PhD Candidate formed by Holy Cross College, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and Marquette U
I'm proud to have reviewed Mark Richard's Catholics Across Borders for the Journal of Ethnic History!
University of Illinois Press@illinoispress.bsky.social · last wk.In Journal of American Ethnic History 45.4, @colincrawford.bsky.social reviews "Catholics across Borders: Canadian Immigrants in the North Country, Plattsburgh, New York, 1850–1950" by Mark Paul Richard (@sunypress.bsky.social). cc: @iehs.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...
I am honored to have been awarded the Notre Dame Kaneb Center's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. Alongside graduate student instructors from across departments, we were recognized for the effort, time, and passion we invest in our "commitment to teaching--and teaching well."
"while the Catholic Church is everywhere on Earth, everywhere on Earth is at Notre Dame." firstthings.com/why-i-stay-a...
Why I Stay at Notre Dame - First Things
I have been associated with the University of Notre Dame since 1984, first as a graduate student in mathematics and then in philosophy. In 2003, I became a tenured...
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My review of Ruth Nelson's 'Our Lady of the World's Fair' has been published in the summer 2025 issue of the @achahistory.bsky.social's American Catholic Studies! Read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/156/arti...
I'm thrilled that my first book review--of John Nelson's Muddy Ground--has been published in the Middle West Review! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54929
I passed my comprehensive exams as a part of Notre Dame's PhD in History program this morning! I explored the fields central to my teaching and research interests: Catholicism in the U.S., the U.S. and the World, and Modern America. Thank you to my committee and my peers--now, on to my dissertation!
Pope Leo grew up in a Catholic enclave on the South Side of Chicago that essentially disappeared, part of a larger pattern that one historian calls "one of the great dramas of 20th century U.S. history." With Julie Bosman and the rest of the incredible Chicago bureau: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
Pope’s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America
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My brilliant doctoral advisor, Kathy Cummings, on Francis and the saints he canonized: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
Pope Francis canonized 942 saints during his papacy. What do they tell us about him?
A person’s heroes often point to their values. In Pope Francis’ case, the people he singled out for their heroic virtues reveal a great deal about his papal priorities.
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Commonweal with my brilliant doctoral advisor's latest, on pilgrimage, tourism, and the 1950 Jubilee Year: www.commonwealmagazine.org/pilgrims-pre...
Pilgrims, Presence, and American Power
The 1950 Jubilee Year was a landmark moment for American Catholics, who were coming into their own power—and wealth—during an era of Cold War upheaval.
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They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
The ACHA writes to express its strong opposition to the recommended termination of tenured faculty in the departments of theology and religious studies, history, and other core areas of the humanities at St. Norbert College. achahistory.org/stnorbert
Happy 179th Birthday to the nations most underrated city - Milwaukee WI
If these cuts go through it would be awful for St Norbert's students and for the field of theology. The faculty in this department are doing critical work for the future of the church. What can the board and religious founders of St Norbert's be thinking? www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/e...
St. Norbert recommends eliminating more faculty members. It's the third round of cuts since September 2023
The college is attempting to reduce a multimillion dollar deficit by cutting faculty. It's the third round of cuts since September 2023.
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ACHA President @anthonyb1939.bsky.social interviewed Film Director Martin Scorsese in an ACHA exclusive event at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Be on the look out for the transcript of this conversation. He received the ACHA’s Distinguished Service Award. #ACHA2025
Last month's Dolan Seminar on Missionary Diplomacy at Notre Dame's Cushwa Center was truly a career highlight. What an honor to have scholars like Heather Curtis and Amy Greenberg engage so closely with my work. youtu.be/8SebpUInonU?...
MISSIONARY DIPLOMACY · Dolan Seminar in American Religion, 10.5.24
YouTube video by Cushwa Center
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"They are essentially claiming a First Amendment right for a Catholic university to not follow its own mission," ... "That is not so much a right to religious freedom as it is a right to hypocrisy."
National Catholic Reporter@ncronline.bsky.social · 2y agoFull-time faculty not on the tenure track want to unionize to address salary and other disparities. They say Marquette's decision not to recognize the union goes against the school's mission and Catholic identity.
"is it not a privilege for the Church historian to bring to light as much as possible the popular faces of the 'least important' and to reconstruct the history of their defeats and the oppressions they suffered, together with their human and spiritual riches...
