Rev. Thomas Blantz, C.S.C.

My chief teaching and research interests are in twentieth century United States political, diplomatic, and religious history. Most of my publications have been in the field of twentieth century American Catholicism, major biographical studies of Rev. Francis J. Haas, government labor mediator under President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930's and later bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan; George N. Shuster, Catholic writer and apologist and president of Hunter College in New York from 1940 to 1960; and shorter studies for various biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias.