Charles Strauss
Entered Notre Dame
Fall 2004
Profile
B.A., College of the Holy Cross, 2002
M.A., University of Cape Town, 2004
M.A., University of Notre Dame, 2007
Interests
20th-century U.S. politics, culture and religion
U.S. foreign policy (particularly in regards to Latin America and Africa), global Catholicism, transnational and comparative history
Dissertation
Working Title: "Missionaries in U.S. Cold War Politics: Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, 1944-1996"
Committee: R. Scott Appleby and John T. McGreevy (advisors); Ted Beatty, Mark Noll, and Christian Smith (readers)
Conference Papers
"'A Call for Forty Thousand': New Approaches for the Study of U.S. Catholic Mission," panel for the American Catholic Historical Association Spring Meeting, Marquette University, March 2007
"'Shall We Trust in Liberty': The Impact of the Boer War on Irish Americans, 1899-1992," New York University GRIAN Conference, March 2004
Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Notre Dame
"U.S. History Survey, 1877 to the present"; American Catholic Experience; U.S. Foreign Policy, 1945 to the present (2005-2007)
Teaching Assistant, Historical Studies Department, University of Cape Town:
"Empires and Nations in Modern History" (2003)
Prizes and Awards
Fenwick Scholarship, College of the Holy Cross (2001-2002)
Kellogg Seed Mondy Grant (2007)
Professional Affiliations
Graduate Assistant, Cushwa Center for the Study os American Catholicism
El Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica: Antigua, Guatemala
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Contact
Email: strauss.8@nd.edu