John T. McGreevy
Professor
Department Chair
Field
U.S. History
Profile
John McGreevy received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. He joined Notre Dame’s faculty in 1997. He has served as chair of the department since 2002.
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.
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.
Recent Publications
"Anti-Catholicism and American Liberalism: A Short History," in Catholicism as Decadence Chiara Continiso & marcello Fantoni, Eds. (Firenze, 2007), 13-39.
"Shifting Allegiances; Catholics, Democrats and the G.O.P.," in Commonweal (September 22, 2006), 14-19. Revised version in American Quarterly, 59 (September 2007), 669-681.
Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003; pbk. 2004). Subject of roundtables in U.S. Catholic Historian, 21 (Fall, 2003), 87-106; Historically Speaking 6 (August-September 2004), 25-36. Chapter four is being translated into Italian and will be published by the Centro Studi Americani in Rome.
Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996; pbk. 1998). Awarded 1996 John Gilmary Shea Prize for best book on Catholic history from the American Catholic Historical Association.
"Catholicism and Abolitionism: An Historical (and Theological) Problem," in Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, Wilfred M. McClay, ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007), 405-427.
With Christopher Hamlin, “The Greening of America, Catholic Style, 1930-1950,” Environmental History II (July 2006), 464-499.
“Catholics, Catholicism and the Humanities since World War II,” in The Humanities and the Dynamics of Inclusion since World War II, David Hollinger, ed. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2006), 189-216.
“Central America,” New Republic 232 (April 18, 2005), 20-21.
Contact
Office: 219 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Phone: (574) 631-7266
Email: mcgreevy.5@nd.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment. Please contact Jeanette Torok (631-7266)