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TITLE: Professor
DEPARTMENT: History and Political Science
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Rutgers University
M.A. Louisiana State University
B.A. Loyola University of New Orleans
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
U.S. Foreign Policy , U.S. and Latin American Religious History, Medieval History
SCHOLARLY AWARDS:
Commitment to Excellence Award, 2003-2004 (La Roche College)
La Roche College Alumni Association Educator's Award, 1999
Gregory Nugent Teaching Award, 1994 (La Roche College)
Manuel Lujan, Sr., Teaching Award, 1982 (College of Santa Fe)
Christopher Award, 1988
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
The U.S. Catholic Press on Central America: From Cold War Anticommunism to Social Justice ( University of Notre Dame Press, 2003). Nominated for the John Gilmary Shea Award (given annually for the best book on U.S. Catholic history).
Murdered in Central America: The Stories of Eleven U.S. Missionaries, co-authored with Donna W. Brett (Orbis Books, 1988). Winner of 1988 Christopher Award and subject of half-hour television interview produced by Paulist Press.
Humbert of Romans: His Life and Views of Thirteenth-Century Society (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984).
Book Chapters:
"Padre Miguel Hidalgo: Mexican Revolutionary, 1810-1811," in Profiles of Revolutionaries on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1700-1850, ed. William Weisberger ( Columbia University Press), 2007, pp. 136-161 .
"Facing the Challenge: The Catholic Church and Social Change in Honduras ," co-authored with Donna W. Brett, in Central America: Historical Perspectives on the Contemporary Crises, ed. Ralph Lee Woodward, Jr., (Greenwood Press, 1988).
Articles:
16 articles in such journals as U.S. Catholic Historian, American Catholic Studies, Journal of Church and State, The Americas, America, Byzantine Studies, Journal of Library History, and Memorie Domenicane.
“Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas and the Struggle for Social Justice in El Salvador ,” Catholic Historical Review , forthcoming.
Encyclopedia Entries:
9 entries in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture; entry on Latin America in Encyclopedia of Missions and Missionaries.
14 entries in the International Encyclopedia of Protest and Revolution (Blackwell, forthcoming)
Recent Publications:
"The Transformation of a U.S. Missionary: The Recollections of Bishop Nicholas D'Antonio on His Ministry in Honduras ," American Catholic Studies, Spring 2007, 1-20
"African-American Missionaries in Central America: The Sisters of the Holy Family in Belize ," U.S. Catholic Historian , Summer 2006 .
CAME TO LA ROCHE COLLEGE: 1984
HOMETOWN: New Orleans , Louisiana
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