Gavin Moulton

Biography

Gavin Moulton is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Notre Dame. He is a cultural historian with research and teaching interests in religion, migration, and architecture, especially Slavic diasporas in the industrial United States. His doctoral dissertation, Revolver on the Altar: Fighting for Church and Factory in the Slavic Industrial Belt, 1874-1941, reveals how conflicts over church construction helped transform Slavic migrants into labor activists. His research in the United States and Europe has been supported by the Louisville Institute, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, and the Polish Agency for Academic Exchange. His writing has appeared in LABOR, Rust Belt Magazine, and Jacobin. Gavin holds an M.A in History from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in History of Art and Architecture and Near Eastern Languages with a secondary field in Italian from Harvard University. Previously, he worked as Director of External Affairs at the Middle East Policy Council and Contributing Writer at Architizer.