Dennis Wieboldt

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.

Dennis's research has been supported by numerous academic and scholarly institutions, including the American Historical Association, Supreme Court Historical Society, and American Catholic Historical Association. He has authored nearly a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters, and has presented at more than twenty academic conferences in the United States and Europe.

Dennis’s scholarship is available on SSRN and Google Scholar.

Outside of the classroom, Dennis is the convener of the ASLH/Notre Dame Graduate Legal History Colloquium, an initiative of the American Society for Legal History, Notre Dame Law School, and Notre Dame Graduate School to workshop legal and historical scholarship by early career researchers. He is also an assistant rector in Graham Family Hall.