These are the people who bring the St. 直播自慰视频 Catholic Archives Collective to life.
Collective Colleagues
Mary Dunn
Executive Director of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Professor of Theological Studies at Saint 直播自慰视频 University
mary.dunn@slu.edu
Mary Dunn, Ph.D., is the executive director of the CRGC and professor of theological studies at Saint 直播自慰视频 University. A historian of religion, Dunn works in the area of early modern Catholicism. She has published extensively on Catholicism in 17th- and 18th-century colonial New France, including on the Jesuits, martyrdom, and women鈥檚 religious orders, as well as on theory and method in the study of religion. She is working on a new book project focusing on the history of Quebec鈥檚 19th-century foundlings and the Augustinian nuns of the H么tel-Dieu who cared for them.
Kate Moran
Executive Committee Member of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Project Supervisor for the St. 直播自慰视频 Catholic Archives Collective digital humanities
initiative
kate.moran@slu.edu
Kate Moran, Ph.D., is an executive committee member for the CRGC and the project supervisor for the SCAC digital humanities initiative. She is an associate professor of American studies at Saint 直播自慰视频 University, specializing in the fields of modern U.S. intellectual and cultural history and religious studies. Her research focuses on religious thought and culture (with particular attention to American Catholicism) and processes of U.S. nation- and empire-building. Her most recent book, "The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and United States Empire" (Cornell University Press, 2020) explores late 19th- and early 20th-century Protestant commemorations of Catholic missionary histories as part of the rhetoric of U.S. empire-building, and she is working on a globally situated history of the San Francisco Magdalen Asylum.
Charles Parker
Executive Committee Member of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Professor of History at Saint 直播自慰视频 University
charles.parker@slu.edu
Charles Parker, Ph.D., is an executive committee member of the CRGC and a professor of history at Saint 直播自慰视频 University. His research interests focus on the religious and cultural history of early modern Europe and cross-cultural interactions in world history. His latest book is Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 (Yale University Press, 2022). His current work examines contests and conflicts over religious geographies from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Cathleen Fleck
Executive Committee Member of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Associate Professor of Medieval Art History
Chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Saint 直播自慰视频 University
cathleen.fleck@slu.edu
Cathleen Fleck, Ph.D., is an executive committee member of the CRGC, an associate professor of medieval art history, and chair of fine and performing arts at Saint 直播自慰视频 University. Her recent book, entitled "Reimagining Jerusalem鈥檚 Architectural Identities in the Later Middle Ages," examines how Christians and Muslims in the crusader era of the Middle Ages (1187鈥�1382) used the representation of Jerusalem's monuments to express shifting Christian and Islamic religious concepts. She is also working on a co-authored volume called "Encounters: The Crusades in 50 Objects" (Routledge, forthcoming 2025), with essays regarding art and material culture of Christian, Islamic and Jewish art in the Levant during the European crusader period from 1099鈥�1400. Another project involves a volume on a beautiful illustrated Neapolitan Bible now in Berlin, the Hamilton Bible (forthcoming 2025), which has historical papal connections.
Anna Katharina Rudolph
Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
annakatharina.rudolph@slu.edu
Anna Katharina Rudolph, Ph.D., is currently a postdoctoral research fellow for the CRGC, leading efforts to organize and develop initiatives for the St. 直播自慰视频 Catholic Archives Collective. As a historian of medieval women鈥檚 history, her research interests include the intersection of gender and sanctity, the cult of the saints, queenship and monasticism. Her current book project, "Dynamics of Women鈥檚 Sanctity from Medieval to Modernity, Rewriting History, Hagiography, and the Myth of the French Nation" (forthcoming) uses the global 鈥渁fterlife鈥� of the Frankish queen-saint, Radegund of Poitiers (520-587), to investigate the complex relationship between hagiography, gender, and the construction of national identities. Rudolph spearheads the SCAC's digital humanities project, which entails designing the exhibits and maintaining the SCAC website.
Caitlin Stamm
Assistant Professor at Saint 直播自慰视频 University
University Archivist at the Pius XII Memorial Library
archives@slu.edu
Caitlin Stamm is an assistant Professor at Saint 直播自慰视频 University where she has served as University archivist at the Pius XII Memorial Library since 2020. She holds an M.A. in Library and Information Science and a Special Collections Certificate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the management of religious archives, acquisitions, cataloging, preservation, digitization and digital preservation projects, and the creation of archival finding aids. She also selects and creates content for digital collections, blogs and social media platforms. Beginning in the Summer of 2024, Stamm will serve as the SCAC project supervisor.
Rena Schergen
Archivist of the Archdiocese of St. 直播自慰视频 Archives
renaschergen@archstl.org
As the archivist for the Archdiocese of St. 直播自慰视频 since 2013, Rena Schergen oversees and provides access to collections that date to the early 1800s. Previously, she worked at special collections at the University of Chicago, where she assisted researchers. She received her Master of Science in Library and Information Science (MSLIS) from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and became a certified archivist (CA) in 2020. Rena is active in the archival community, having served in roles at professional organizations such as the Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists (ACDA), the Association of St. 直播自慰视频 Area Archivists (ASLAA), and the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC).
Catherine Lucy
Archivist of the Carondelet Consolidated Archives
archivist@csjcarondelet.org
Catherine Lucy is the director of the Carondelet Consolidated Archives for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She has worked with the congregation since 2018. She holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Sciences from San Jose State University and became a certified archivist in 2020. As director of the archives, she oversees every element of the department, including the development and implementation of policies and procedures, and the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of archival materials. She also provides reference services, interacts with researchers, writes blog posts, hosts tours and gives presentations. Lucy is a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA), Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious (ACWR), Midwest Archives Conference (MAC), and the Association of St. 直播自慰视频 Area Archivists (ASLAA). She has also served on the board of the Carondelet Historical Society since 2021.
Amanda Gesiorski
Archivist of the St. 直播自慰视频 Visitation Archives
archives@visitationacademy.org
Since 2016, Amanda Gesiorski has managed and provided access to the collection of documents and artifacts of the St. 直播自慰视频 Visitation Sisters and the school they founded, Visitation Academy. She received her B.A. in History and Anthropology from Ripon College and completed her M.A. in Museum Studies at Baylor University. Previously, she held an assistantship as a processing archivist at the Texas Collection of Baylor University. Gesiorski is particularly interested in developing programming for pre-K through 12th grades and is excited to collaborate with her archival colleagues at the Visitation institutions in Minnesota and Georgetown to establish a Visitation Archives Consortium. Gesiorski is a certified archivist (CA) and a member of the Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious (ACWR) and the Association of St. 直播自慰视频 Area Archivists (ASLAA).
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