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ROY P DOMENICO (full bio) 2010-2013
Professor, University of Scranton
- Research Interests: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe with an emphasis on Italy and Catholic nations.
- Most Recent Publication: Editor with Mark Hanley of the Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, 1789-present (Greenwood, 2006).
ELIZABETH MCGAHAN 2010-2013
Lecturer, University of New Brunswick, St. John Campus
- Research Interests: Canadian Religious History, Urban History the History of Women, and Education.
- Most Recent Publication: “Charity in the East: Sectarianism, Ethnicity and Gender in Saint John, New Brunswick, Schools” in Elizabeth M. Smyth (editor), Changing Habits, Women’s Religious Orders in Canada (2007). She is presently at work on a history of the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception.
ANNE KLEJMENT 2011-2014
Professor, University of St. Thomas
- Research Interests: “Catholic Digest” and American Catholic Culture; Women; Vietnam
- Most Recent Publication: American Catholic Pacifism: The Influence of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement, with Nancy L. Roberts (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996). Pax Christi USA Book Award, 1997.
CHARLES R. GALLAGHER 2011-2014
Assistant Professor, Boston College
- Research Interests: American Catholic history; Vatican diplomacy; 19th- & 20th-century American social history; history of the Holocaust
- Most recent Publications:Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley & Pope Pius XII (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
SUZANNE BROWN-FLEMING 2012-2015
Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Research Interests: Vatican, German and American Catholic Church during the Nazi Era, the Holocaust.
- Most Recent Publication: ““Killing Us in a Slow Way Instead of Doing it with Gas:’ The German Catholic Discourse of ‘Suffering,’ 1946-1959,” In “Narratives of Trauma: Discourses of German Wartime Suffering in National and International Perspective,” Helmut Schmitz and Annette Seidel-Arpaci, editors (Amsterdam: German Monitor, 2011).
LEIGH ANN CRAIG, 2012-2015
Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Research Interests: Medieval Christianity, Medieval Medicine, and Gender
- Most Recent Publication: “Wandering Women and Holy Matrons: Women as Pilgrims in the Later Middle Ages” (Brill, 2009)
R. BENTLEY ANDERSON S.J.
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY-TREASURER 2011-2015
Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies, Fordham University
- Research Interests: Race and religion in the southern U.S. and South Africa in the post-World War II period.
- Most Recent Publication: Black, White, and Catholic: New Orleans Interracialism,1947-1956 (Vanderbuilt, 2005).
