Catherine O’Donnell – FAR 2017
Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University, 2008-
Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University, 2001-2008
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (last three years)
ASU Lincoln Center Fellow, 2016-17
ASU Provost’s Humanities Fellow, 2015
BOOKS:
Elizabeth Seton, A Life, completed draft in hands of readers as of 12/31/16, advance contract with Cornell University Press (Michael McGandy, editor) 165,00 words, embarrassingly enough
Narrative History of the Jesuits in the United States, under contract, expected completion 2018, 40,000 words, Brill -- longer than a chapter, but a very short book (120 pages, approximately, intended for classroom use)
Men of Letters in the Early Republic: CultivatingForums of Citizenship, published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Cultureby the University of North Carolina Press, 2008
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
“Jesuits in the American Colonies and the United States, 1700-1899,”Jesuit Historiography Online, Robert Maryks, ed., Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies/Brill, 2016 (there may also be a print volume, but the online version is the one I expect to be used)
“British-Atlantic Catholicism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction,” The British Atlantic, Michael Meranze and Saree Makdisi, eds., University of Toronto Press (2015), 87-112
“John Carroll, the Catholic Church, and the Society of Jesus in Early Republic America,” in Jesuit Survivals and Restoration: A Global history, 173-1900, eds. Robert Maryks and Jonathan Wright (Brill, 2014), 370-387.
“John Carroll, Joseph Dennie, and the Quest for a Limited Authority,” in Public Intellectuals in the Early American Republic (Heidelberg Press, 2013), 39-52.
“Republican Letters,” The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution, Edward Gray and Jane Kamensky (Oxford University Press, 2013), 519-539.
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“Teaching the Survey in Continental Perspective,” written with Angelika Sauer, in Migrants and Migration in Modern North America: Cross-Border Life Courses, Labor Markets, and Politics in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States, edited by Dirk Hoerder and Nora Faires, (Duke University Press, 2011)
REFEREED ARTICLES:
“John Carroll and the Origins of the American Catholic Church,” William and Mary Quarterly (Jan. 2011) 68(1): 101-126.
“Elizabeth Seton: Dissent and Collaboration in a North Atlantic Church,” U.S. Catholic Historian, (Winter, 2011) 29 (1): 1-18.
“Literature and Politics in the Early Republic: Views from the Bridge,”Journal of the Early Republic (Summer, 2010)
“Theft and Counter-Theft: Joseph Plumb Martin’s Revolutionary War,” Early American Literature 41 (2006): 515-534.
“’He Summons Genius…to his Aid’: Letters, Partisanship, and the Making of the Farmer’s Weekly Museum, 1795-1800,” Journal of the Early Republic 23 (2003): 545-571.
“Elihu Hubbard Smith and the Institutions of the Republic of Utopia,” Early American Literature35(2000): 294-336.
INVITED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS (future and last three years)
“Saint Elizabeth Seton: A Reading Life,” Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame (March 2017)
“A Convert in New York,” Ramonat Seminar, Chicago-Loyola (September 2015)
Jesuit Restoration Seminar, Macau, China (October 2014)
Transatlantic Catholicism and Culture - University of Notre Dame Seminar, Rome, Italy (June 2014)
Republics of Benjamin Rush, McNeil Center for Early American Studies Conference, Dickinson College, Pennsylvania (March 2014)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (future and last three years)
Commenter, “The Consequences of the French Revolution for American Catholicism,” Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, Charleston, SC, February 2017
Roundtable, “The Grass is Greener Where You Water It: Growing the History Major,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Denver, January 2017
Roundtable, Reforming the History Major, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2016
Participant in Undergraduate Education Charrette, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 2016
“Misery as Institutional Strategy: William Dubourg and the Catholic Church,” Paper presented at the American Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, October 2015
Comment on “Women’s Literary Networks,” OIEHC/SEA joint biennial conference, Chicago, July 2015
“Creating an Integrated K-16 Teaching Environment in Arizona,” with Lauren Harris and Nancie Lindblom, Teaching History: Fostering Historical Thinking Across the K-16 Curriculum,” University of California-Berkeley, May 2015
Comment, Catholicism and the Early Republic Panel, American Catholic Historical Association, American Historical Association Annual meeting, January 2015
Teaching American History: What Limits to Celebration? Arizona Council of History Educators, Mesa, AZ, August 2014
as an Experimental Catholic Community,” American Catholic Historical Association Winter Meeting, January 2012
BRIEF INVITED ESSAYS AND BOOK REVIEWS (last three years):
Review Essay, John McGreevy, American Jesuits and the World, L.A. Review of Books, forthcoming, 2017 (2000 words)
Review Essay, Heather A. Haveman, Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860, forthcoming Business History Review, Harvard University, 2017 2000 words
Review of Jenna Marie Gibbs, Performing the Temple of Liberty, Early American Literature 51:1 (2016), 192-197.
Review of Margaret Sumner, Collegiate Republic (University of Virginia Press, 2014), Journal of the Early Republic, 35.3 (2015), 503-505
Review of Cornelius Buckley, Stephen Larigaudelle Dubuisson, S.J. (1786-1864) and the Studies (2015, No. 1), 123-126
Review of Karen A. Weyler, Empowering Words: Outsiders and Authorship in Early
Journal of the Early Republic(Summer 2014), 295-297
Review of Eric Schlereth, An Age of Infidels: The Politics of Religious Controversy in the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), Reviews in History (April 2014)
SELECTED SERVICE (current year)
Director, Undergraduate Studies, SHPRS, July 2016-June 2017
CLAS Task Force on Online Teaching, Fall 2016
University Committee on the Libraries, 2016-2017
Presenter, We the People Phoenix Area Teachers’ Workshop, July 2016
Presenter, Arizona Council of History Educators Annual Meeting, August 2016
Presenter, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Arizona State University
ASU Representative, American Historical Association Tuning Committee, 2015-2016
Chair, Merle Curti Prize (Social History and Intellectual History prizes) Organization of American Historians, 2015-2016
Referee of manuscript submissions for: Journal of Social History, Journal of the Early Republic, William and Mary Quarterly, Cornell University Press, University of North Carolina Press