or, where you can find me in the coming months:
April 2026
“Material Girlhood: Religion, Textiles, and Nineteenth-Century Women’s Education,” Organization of American Historians annual meeting (Philadelphia, PA).
June 2025
“Finding the Soul in Religious History” roundtable, Conference on the History of Women Religious, University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN).
November 2024
“An Archive of Girlhood: Convent Academies and the Making of Catholic America,” Sacred Heart University campus lecture (Fairfield, CT).
October 2024
“Girlhood’s Traces in the Archives of American Religion,” Church History Symposium keynote (Provo and Salt Lake City, UT).
January 2024
“Girlhood Studies and U.S. Catholic Histories: A Roundtable Conversation,” American Catholic Historical Association annual meeting (San Francisco, CA).
(updated 7/28/2025)
Monica L. Mercado, Ph.D. 