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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

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Colin Crawford@colincrawford.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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."

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Colin Crawford@colincrawford.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

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eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts. "There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. .. It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?" It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe. It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS The GREAT GATSBY FITZGERALD
Dr. Kate Ward@thekateward.bsky.social · 2y ago

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.

greenbaypressgazette.com

Dr. Kate Ward@thekateward.bsky.social · 2y ago

"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 ago

Full-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.

Colin Crawford@colincrawford.bsky.social · 2y ago

"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...