The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies

03/04/2026

📣 Now Accepting Submissions!

The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies invites applications for the 7th Annual New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas.

This $1,500 prize honors groundbreaking research on Catholics and Catholicism in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. We welcome submissions from current Ph.D. candidates (A.B.D.) and scholars who earned a Ph.D. or Th.D. in 2019 or later.

We especially encourage work that:
✨ Advances innovative, source-based scholarship
✨ Engages broader humanistic questions in religion
✨ Highlights historically underrepresented Catholic communities (Latinx, Indigenous, African, and Asian heritage)

🗓 Deadline: March 31, 2026 at 11:59 PM
🏆 Winner announced: May/June 2026

Join a distinguished group of past recipients and contribute to the future of Catholic Studies in the Americas.

Apply now via the link in bio or by scanning the QR code!

02/25/2026

Please join us in congratulating Malena Sullivan on her Senior Thesis Exhibition!

Malena Sullivan
“Eve: Live from Eden”

A series of large-scale posters inspired by 1960s psychedelic concert flyers, reimagining the biblical Eve on a redemption tour confronting her past.

By blending art history, classical studies, and visual art, Malena reclaims Eve as a symbol of autonomy and authentic selfhood while honoring the underrecognized women artists who shaped the visual language of the psychedelic era.

Through large-scale posters and immersive installation, “Eve: Live from Eden” transforms the gallery into a revival of twentieth-century music culture.

📍 On view until March 3 at Lipani Gallery
Fordham University at Lincoln Center

02/24/2026

Join us for a lecture by Dr. Brittany Acors, winner of the 2025 New Scholar Essay Prize for Catholic Studies in the Americas, as she explores the intersections of disability, vocation, and Catholic culture in twentieth-century America.

Focusing on American Catholic women who survived polio, this talk examines how narratives of suffering, service, and divine calling shaped new understandings of disability, and how religious culture influenced pathways into helping professions.

📅 Tuesday, March 3
⏰ 6 p.m.
📍 Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus
Butler Commons, Duane Library (3rd Floor)

Free and open to the public. Registration required by scanning the QR on the flyer.

02/23/2026

Join us at the Tenement Museum for the Under One Roof apartment tour. Experience the stories, spaces, and everyday lives of the immigrant families who shaped New York City into what it is today.

📍 Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 (Lower East Side, NYC)
📅 Friday, February 27
⏰ 4:30 PM

We’ll keep the conversation going over dinner afterward 🍽️

Spots are limited — This is the last call to RSVP to secure yours!

02/19/2026

🌍📜 Today at Fordham!
A deep dive into diplomacy, faith, and global order—exploring the wartime dialogue between Pope Pius XII and FDR.

🗓 Today - February 19, 2026
⏰ 4–5 PM
📍 Dealy E-530, Rose Hill

Join us for a timely conversation with Dr. Madalena Meyer Resende, with discussion by Dr. James P. McCartin. Open to all—see you there!

11/14/2025

A photo from our “Communitas” outing to the Irish Repertory Theater for The Honey Trap, followed by enjoying a meal together at a local Irish pub nested in NYC’s Theater District! 🍀🎭

11/01/2025

Join us for “Poetry of Witness” — An Evening with Ukrainian Poet Anna Maliihon 🇺🇦
Experience powerful poetry that speaks to resilience, memory, and witness.
🗓 November 3 | 5:30 PM
📍 Duane Library, Tognino Hall — Fordham University Rose Hill
✨ Free and open to the public!

09/28/2025

Join fellow students for a Zoom presentation titled “Migrant Accompaniment in an Era of Mass Deportation” with Ruben Garcia, founder and executive director of Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas. Garcia has lived and worked with refugees and migrants in El Paso for decades, and his insight will offer us a window to the realities there today.

Students will watch his talk together in JMCC/McShane 112 from 7:00-8:30 pm on Monday, September 29th. All are welcome!

🗓 Monday, Sept 29, 2025
⏰ 7:00-8:30 PM EST

09/20/2025

The Curran Center invites you to the 21st Annual Rita Cassella Jones Lecture on Women and U.S. Catholicism

📌 Martyrs for Mother Earth? The Promises and Pitfalls of Maternal Metaphors for Our Common Home
🎤 Presented by Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo, Ph.D. (Wake Forest University School of Divinity)

📅 Wednesday, September 24, 2025 | 6 p.m.
📍 Tognino Hall, Duane Library | Rose Hill Campus

Free & open to the public | Registration requested

Hundreds of environmental defenders are murdered each year for their commitment to protecting “Mother Earth.” What can their appeals to maternal metaphors teach us about care for our common home, human resilience, and resisting ecological violence today? 🌱

🔗 Register via the link in our bio, QR code, or email [email protected]

07/31/2025

The Hank Center is delighted to host a panel of scholars discussing Michael Peppard's recent book, How Catholics Encounter the Bible as the first plenary session of this year's Annual Meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association at Loyola University Chicago. All are welcome to join for the discussion and the reception that follows.

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Panel 7–8:30pm; Reception 8:30pm

Rooney Hall, Lake Shore Campus, Loyola University Chicago

Attendance is free and all are welcome. Please register on The Hank Center's website.

06/05/2025

🎉 The Flannery Abroad Conference in London begins tomorrow!

📺 Watch our plenary speakers live!

June 5 at 8:30 PM LONDON TIME– Mary Gordon, “Flannery's Kiss”
https://fordham.zoom.us/j/83558116233

June 6 at 12:15 PM LONDON TIME – Vinson Cunningham, “Flannery O'Connor's Signs of Contradiction: Thoughts on Fiction, the Individual, and the Times”
https://fordham.zoom.us/j/87914597151

June 6 at 6:45 PM LONDON TIME– Bruce Gentry, “My Decades at the Circus: Thoughts on Editing the Flannery O'Connor Review”
https://fordham.zoom.us/j/81689317055

June 7 at 5:00 PM LONDON TIME– Phil Klay, “The Savagely Holy Humor of Flannery O’Connor”
https://fordham.zoom.us/j/82506372650

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