John T. McGreevy
Title
Dean, the College of Arts & Letters; Professor
Graduate Program Field
United States History
Specialization
United States History
Education
B.A. University of Notre Dame
Ph.D. Stanford University
Research and Teaching Interests
He teaches courses in American political history and American religious history, as well as the graduate reading course on the twentieth century United States.
Profile
Dean McGreevy joined Notre Dame’s faculty in 1997. He served as chair of the department from 2002 - 2008.
He is the author of two books. The first, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1996. The second, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History was published by W.W. Norton in 2003. He has received major fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Louisville Institute and the Erasmus Institute, and has published articles and reviews in the Journal of American History, Commonweal, the New Republic, the Chicago Tribune and other venues.
Current Project
McGreevy is currently working on a study of the nineteenth century Jesuits and what they tell us about religious controversy, the “Catholic revival” and the transatlantic dimensions of American religion. He is also interested in the intersection of religion and politics in the United States, from the 1960s to the present.
Contact Information
Office: 100 O'Shaughnessy
Phone: 574-631-7085
Email: mcgreevy.5@nd.edu
website: http://McGreevy.nd.edu
Mailing Address:
100 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556