Kathleen Sprows Cummings

Assistant Professor
Department of American Studies
Associate Director
Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism

Degrees

B.A., University of Scranton; M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Research Profile

Kathleen Sprows Cummings is an assistant professor of American Studies and the Associate Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Her research and teaching interests center on the study of American religion, with a particular focus in the history of gender and Catholicism.  She is the author of New Women of the Old Faith: Gender and American Catholicism in the Progressive Era, which will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in spring 2009. Other recent publications include “The ‘New Woman’ at the ‘University’: Gender and American Catholic Identity in the Progressive Era,” which appears in The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past, edited by Catherine A. Brekus (University of North Carolina, 2007). She is a regular contributor to Commonweal, America, and American Catholic Studies. At present Cummings is working on a book-length study of women and American Catholicism.

Contact Information

1144 Flanner Hall
631-8749
cummings.23@nd.edu