John Gilmary Shea Prize

The John Gilmary Shea Prize is an annual award given by the American Catholic Historical Association for the most original and distinguished contribution to knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church. Established in 1945, it is named in honor of the nineteenth-century Catholic historian John Gilmary Shea.^[1]

Past Shea Prize awardees include the following:^[2]

2023: Jeroen Dewulf, Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians
2022: Brenna Moore, Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism
2021: Theresa Keeley, Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America
2020: Elizabeth Foster, African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church
2019: Karin Vélez, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World
2018: Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Defiant Priests Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya
2017: William B. Taylor, Theater of a Thousand Wonders: History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain
2016: Katrina B. Olds, Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
2015: Maureen C. Miller, Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800-1200
2014: John W. O'Malley, Trent: What Happened at the Council
2013: Charles Keith, Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation
2012: John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965
2011: Ulrich L. Lehner, Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines, 1740-1803
2010: Neal Pease, Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland 1914 – 1939
2009: John Van Engen, Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages^[3]

References[edit]

^ "Award Established for Catholic Historical Book", Canadian Register, April 28, 1945.
^ "The John Gilmary Shea Prize". American Catholic Historical Association. Archived from the original on 2021-09-24.
^ Walenceus, Lisa; Basile, Joanna (October 23, 2010). "History Professor's Book Wins Three Major Prizes". Retrieved 2021-09-23.

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