Dennis Wieboldt
- dwiebold@nd.edu
Dennis Wieboldt is a J.D./Ph.D. student in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Richard and Peggy Notebaert Premier Fellow at the Graduate School and Edward J. Murphy Fellow at the Law School. His research explores the relationship between law, politics, and religion in the twentieth-century United States.
Dennis earned his B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Boston College, where he was recognized as a Dean’s Scholar and Scholar of the College. Among other undergraduate honors—including the Cardinal O’Connell Theology Award, History Czar Award, and Nicholas H. Woods Award for Student Leadership—Dennis received the 2022 McCarthy Prize in the Humanities, a distinction conferred upon the best thesis in the humanities by Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. After earning his B.A., Dennis also earned an M.A. in history from Boston College. His M.A. thesis demonstrated how religious leaders and institutions influenced twentieth-century debates over methods of legal reasoning, thus challenging the traditional historiographical divide between law and religion in the United States.
Dennis has held academic and research fellowships at the University of Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns; Catholic University of America Institute for Human Ecology & Dominican House of Studies Thomistic Institute; and Boston College Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, and John Marshall Project. A former intern at the National Endowment for the Humanities, his research has been financially supported by the University of Notre Dame Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism; Catholic University of America University Libraries; and Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, and University Fellowships Committee.
Dennis earned his B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Boston College, where he was recognized as a Dean’s Scholar and Scholar of the College. Among other undergraduate honors—including the Cardinal O’Connell Theology Award, History Czar Award, and Nicholas H. Woods Award for Student Leadership—Dennis received the 2022 McCarthy Prize in the Humanities, a distinction conferred upon the best thesis in the humanities by Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. After earning his B.A., Dennis also earned an M.A. in history from Boston College. His M.A. thesis demonstrated how religious leaders and institutions influenced twentieth-century debates over methods of legal reasoning, thus challenging the traditional historiographical divide between law and religion in the United States.
Dennis has held academic and research fellowships at the University of Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns; Catholic University of America Institute for Human Ecology & Dominican House of Studies Thomistic Institute; and Boston College Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, and John Marshall Project. A former intern at the National Endowment for the Humanities, his research has been financially supported by the University of Notre Dame Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism; Catholic University of America University Libraries; and Boston College Center for Christian-Jewish Learning, Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, and University Fellowships Committee.
Dennis's refereed scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in American Catholic Studies, U.S. Catholic Historian, and Horizons.