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Colin Crawford

@colincrawford.bsky.social
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Historian of modern American religion and culture Notre Dame PhD Candidate formed by Holy Cross College, Jesuit Volunteer Corps, and Marquette U

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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm pleased to have contributed my thoughts on Kati Curts' compelling new book, Assembling Religion, for @middlewestreview.bsky.social ! Read it here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I'm proud to have reviewed Mark Richard's Catholics Across Borders for the Journal of American Ethnic History!
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I am honored to have been awarded the Notre Dame Kaneb Center's Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award. Alongside graduate student instructors from across departments, we were recognized for the effort, time, and passion we invest in our "commitment to teaching--and teaching well."
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
"while the Catholic Church is everywhere on Earth, everywhere on Earth is at Notre Dame." firstthings.com/why-i-stay-a...
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Why I Stay at Notre Dame - First Things
I have been associated with the University of Notre Dame since 1984, first as a graduate student in mathematics and then in philosophy. In 2003, I became a tenured...
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
My review of Ruth Nelson's 'Our Lady of the World's Fair' has been published in the summer 2025 issue of the @achahistory.bsky.social's American Catholic Studies! Read here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/156/arti...
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
(above) Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 2025
Scattered clouds over a very blue body of water with no land in sight
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I'm thrilled that my first book review--of John Nelson's Muddy Ground--has been published in the Middle West Review! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54929
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I passed my comprehensive exams as a part of Notre Dame's PhD in History program this morning! I explored the fields central to my teaching and research interests: Catholicism in the U.S., the U.S. and the World, and Modern America. Thank you to my committee and my peers--now, on to my dissertation!
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Ruth Graham @ruthgraham.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Pope Leo grew up in a Catholic enclave on the South Side of Chicago that essentially disappeared, part of a larger pattern that one historian calls "one of the great dramas of 20th century U.S. history." With Julie Bosman and the rest of the incredible Chicago bureau: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/u...
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Pope’s Childhood in a Changing Chicago Tells a Story of Catholic America
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
My brilliant doctoral advisor, Kathy Cummings, on Francis and the saints he canonized: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
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Pope Francis canonized 942 saints during his papacy. What do they tell us about him?
A person’s heroes often point to their values. In Pope Francis’ case, the people he singled out for their heroic virtues reveal a great deal about his papal priorities.
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 22/04/2025
Oak Park, Michigan, December 2024
Color photograph looking at the darkened front of a house on an overcast night, orange lights from decorative pretend candles shine in four narrow windows across a large second-floor gable, and the rest of the house is in deep shadow or silhouetted against the bright slate gray sky
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Commonweal with my brilliant doctoral advisor's latest, on pilgrimage, tourism, and the 1950 Jubilee Year: www.commonwealmagazine.org/pilgrims-pre...
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Pilgrims, Presence, and American Power
The 1950 Jubilee Year was a landmark moment for American Catholics, who were coming into their own power—and wealth—during an era of Cold War upheaval.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.
Original 1925 jacket cover of The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby
Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate a marvellous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period which reveals a hero like no other one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.
"There was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life. ..
It was an
extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again?"
It is the story of this Jay Gatsby who came so mysteriously to West Egg, of his sumptuous er-tertainments, and of his love for Daisy Buchanan a story that ranges from pure lyrical beauty to sheer brutal realism, and is infused with a sense of the strangeness of human circumstance in a heedless universe.
It is a magical, living book, blended of irony, romance, and mysticism.
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
The
GREAT GATSBY
FITZGERALD
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American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The ACHA writes to express its strong opposition to the recommended termination of tenured faculty in the departments of theology and religious studies, history, and other core areas of the humanities at St. Norbert College. achahistory.org/stnorbert
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Nate Vomhof @natevomhof.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Happy 179th Birthday to the nations most underrated city - Milwaukee WI
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
If these cuts go through it would be awful for St Norbert's students and for the field of theology. The faculty in this department are doing critical work for the future of the church. What can the board and religious founders of St Norbert's be thinking? www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/e...
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St. Norbert recommends eliminating more faculty members. It's the third round of cuts since September 2023
The college is attempting to reduce a multimillion dollar deficit by cutting faculty. It's the third round of cuts since September 2023.
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I'm so excited to TA for this course! youtu.be/ztcyjyhACgE?...
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Global Catholicism Course Trailer, University of Notre Dame
YouTube video by ND Institute for Ethics and the Common Good
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Menomonee Valley, Milwaukee — 2025
Aerial photo of a set of train tracks on a curve that expand outwards and multiply. Some snow visible on the ground.
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American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Congratulations again to our 2024 Award and Grant winners! These award and grant winners are being honored at the Presidential Luncheon starting now. #acha2025 #AHA25
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American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
ACHA President @anthonyb1939.bsky.social interviewed Film Director Martin Scorsese in an ACHA exclusive event at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral. Be on the look out for the transcript of this conversation. He received the ACHA’s Distinguished Service Award. #ACHA2025
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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
for the monochromatically inclined
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
new month, new teaching persona:
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Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Last month's Dolan Seminar on Missionary Diplomacy at Notre Dame's Cushwa Center was truly a career highlight. What an honor to have scholars like Heather Curtis and Amy Greenberg engage so closely with my work. youtu.be/8SebpUInonU?...
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MISSIONARY DIPLOMACY · Dolan Seminar in American Religion, 10.5.24
YouTube video by Cushwa Center
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Dr. Kate Ward @thekateward.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
"They are essentially claiming a First Amendment right for a Catholic university to not follow its own mission," ... "That is not so much a right to religious freedom as it is a right to hypocrisy."
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Colin Crawford @colincrawford.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
"is it not a privilege for the Church historian to bring to light as much as possible the popular faces of the 'least important' and to reconstruct the history of their defeats and the oppressions they suffered, together with their human and spiritual riches...
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