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
Title: "The Religious Impulses and Domestic Politics of U.S. Development in Guatemala, 1943-1988."
Committee: R. Scott Appleby and John T. McGreevy (advisors); Ted Beatty, Mark Noll, and Christian Smith (readers)

Conference Papers
“From Mission Field to Capitol Hill: U.S. Missionaries in Guatemala and in Washington, D.C., 1943-1975,” panel for the Annual General Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association at the American Historical Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. (January 2008)
"'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
Online Course Facilitator, Satellite Theological Education Program, University of Notre Dame: American Catholic Experience (Spring 2008)
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
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (2008-2009)
Abilene Travel Grant, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (Summer 2008)
Zahm Travel Grant, University of Notre Dame (Spring 2008)
Seed Money Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame (Summer 2007)
Fenwick Scholarship, College of the Holy Cross (2001-2002)
Charles A. Dana Scholarship, College of the Holy Cross (1999-2002)

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