Beginning this month, I’ll be a regular contributor to the scholarly blog Religion in American History.
To read my latest post on doing research at the New York Archdiocese Archives (and for a peek at Dorothy Day’s typewriter!) visit RiAH.
Tag: American Catholic History
The Place of Catholic Women’s Culture
Last month I shared one of my favorite forgotten sites of U.S. religious history with the readers of Religion in American History.
To read my post on the Catholic Summer School of America, visit RiAH.
Expose Yourself! Research Talk
This Thursday, May 2, I will speak about my research on nineteenth-century U.S. religious publishing and women readers as part of the University of Chicago’s Office of Graduate Student Affairs tour of Special Collections Research Center. For more on the evening’s program, visit Expose Yourself!
Register for the event online here.
“A Desire for History” in The University of Chicago Magazine
Given my various research interests, I’m thrilled to see The University of Chicago Magazine feature on my LGBT history course paired with an article on Catholic women’s history in The Core supplement for Jan-Feb/13.
- To read about my Spring 2012 course, “Queer on the Quads,” see A Desire For History.
- To read about the University of Chicago’s 1967 proposal to affiliate with Barat College of the Sacred Heart, see Forgotten History: Planned Partnership.
AHA 2013 – Woman’s Rights and Use of Space
My paper From ‘Summer School Girls’ to ‘Progressive Women’ has been added to AHA Session 225, “Out of Place: Woman’s Rights and Use of Space in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Anglo-American World,” organized by Lauren Santangelo (The Graduate Center, CUNY).
Monica L. Mercado, Ph.D. 