ACHA Executive Council, Officers, and Officials
ACHA Officers and Officials
MARGARET MCGUINNESS
PRESIDENT (2012)
Professor, LaSalle University
- Research Interests: U.S. Catholicism, Religion in America, history of women religious, religion and social justice
DANIEL BORNSTEIN
VICE PRESIDENT (2012) Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
- Research Interests: medieval religious culture; medieval and Renaissance Italy
- Most Recent Publication: Medieval Christianity, vol. 4 of A People’s History of Christianity (editor) (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 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).
Executive Council
ANNE KLEJMENT 2011-2013
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 Dayand the Catholic Worker Movement, with Nancy L. Roberts (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996). Pax Christi USA Book Award, 1997.
CHARLES R. GALLAGHER 2011-2013
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)
ANTHONY BURKE SMITH 2013-2015
Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Dayton
- Academic interests: Catholicism in American culture, American film and politics, mass culture, modern American cultural history
- Most Recent Publication: The Look of Catholics: Portrayals in Popular Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War(University Press of Kansas, 2010).
STEFANIA TUTINO 2013-2015
University of California, Santa Barbara
- Research Interests: Political, intellectual, and cultural history of post-Tridentine Catholicism
- Most Recent Publication: Shadows of Doubt. Language, Truth, and Truth in Post-Reformation Catholic Culture (forthcoming, Oxford University Press).
THOMAS F.X. NOBLE 2013
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
- Research Interests: Medieval and Mediterranean history
Ex Officio
NELSON H. MINNICH
Professor, Catholic University of America
Editor, The Catholic Historical Review
