Philip Gleason
Professor Emeritus of History
Field
American Intellectual History
Profile
Professor Gleason taught American intellectual history; immigration & ethnic history; and the history of American Catholocism at the University of Notre Dame from 1959 to retirement in 1996.
Fellowships, Professional Recognition:
United States Steel Foundation Fellowship, 1957-59
American Philosophical Society research grant, 1964
University of Notre Dame Faculty Grant, 1965-66
National Endowment for the Humanitites Fellowship, 1974-75, 1986-87
Lilly Endowment Fellowship, 1992-93
Annual Faculty Award, University of Notre Dame, 1978
Honorary doctorate, Loyola University of Chicago, 1993
Honorry doctorate, Marquette Universtiy, 1999
Marianist Award, University of Dayton, 1994
Theodore M. Hesburgh C.S.C., Award, Association of Catholic Colleges
and Universities, 1997
Winter 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic Historian devoted to "Americanism and Americanization: Essays in Honor of Philip Gleason"
Laetare medal, award bestowed annualy by University of Notre Dame on a distinguished American Catholic, 1999.
Publications
Major Books
The Conservative Reformers: German-American Catholics and the Social Order (1968); Keeping the Faith: American Catholicism Past and Present (1987); Speaking of Diversity: Language and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century America. (1992); Contending With Modernity: Catholic Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (1995)
Articles
“Crèvecoeur’s Question: Historical Writing on Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity,” in Anthony Molho and Gordon S. Wood, eds., Imagined Histories: American Historians Interpret the Past (1998): 120-43.
“Newman’s Idea in the Minds of American Educators,” in Joseph C. Linck and Raymond J. Kupke, eds., Building the Church in America (1999): 113-39.
“Trouble in the Colonial Melting Pot,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 20 (Fall, 2000): 3-17.
“A Half-Century of Change in Catholic Higher Education,” U. S. Catholic Historian, 19 (Winter, 2001): 11-19.
“Sea Change in the Civic Culture in the 1960s,” in Gary Gerstle and John Mollenkopf, eds., E Pluribus Unum? Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Immigrant Political Incorporation (2001): 109-42.
“Boundlessness, Consolidation, and Discontinuity between Generations: Catholic Seminary Studies in Ante-Bellum America,” Church History, 73 (September, 2004): 582-612.
“Thomas T. McAvoy, C.S.C.: Some Informal Recollections,” American Catholic Studies, 115 (Winter 2004): 59-68'
“Looking Back at Protestant-Catholic-Jew,” U. S. Catholic Historian, 23 (Winter 2005): 51-64.
“The First Century of Jesuit Higher Education in America,” U. S. Catholic Historian, 25 (Spring 2007): 37-52.