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Upcoming Events

Book Symposium featuring Jean-Luc Enyegue, S.J.: "Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican, and the Making of French Colonial Africa" (2022), 3 p.m., April 11, 2025, Pere Marquette Gallery, DuBourg Hall

Past Events

Christina Lee (Princeton), "Devotions in the Early Modern Spanish Pacific: Between Catholicism and Indigenous Idolatry at the Intersection of the Global and the Local,"4 p.m., Nov. 6, 2024

CRGC Conference (in partnership with Washington University in St. Louis): "The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700-1840): Balancing Loyalties Between State, Nationality, Citizenship, and the Global Church" Sept. 20-21, 2024

CRGC Book Symposium: C茅cile Fromont, Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola (Penn State, 2022), with Erin Rowe (Johns Hopkins) and Olubukola Gbadegesin (SLU) April 5, 2024

Sarah Shortall, "Planetary Catholicism: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the Spirituality of the United Nations" Jan. 26, 2024

Alexia Williams, "Envisioning Paradise: Canonizing African American Catholic Women of the Frontier"
Nov. 9, 2023

Biennial Conference: "Translations, Transgressions, and Transformations: the Global Movement of Objects in Catholic Cultures"
Oct. 20-21, 2023

Book Symposium Featuring John McGreevy: "Catholicism: a Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis"
(with John McGreevy, Hal Parker and Elizabeth Foster)
April 21, 2023

Research Forum Featuring Miguel Valerio, "Black Catholicism in the Early Modern Iberian World"
March 31, 2023

Brown Bag Featuring Nick Lewis: "The Jesuits and Indigenous Boarding Schools"
Feb. 17, 2023

Research Forum Featuring Cathleen Fleck: "Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Jerusalem in the 13th Century: the Evidence of Art and Material Culture"
Nov. 9, 2022

Book Symposium Featuring Jennifer Scheper Hughes: "The Church of the Dead: the Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas"
(with Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Paul Ramirez and Nathaniel Millett)
Oct. 21, 2022

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Center for Research on Global Catholicism

The Center for Research on Global Catholicism (CRGC) at Saint Louis University supports scholarship at the nexus of Catholicism and culture, providing robust programming that promotes interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and methodological innovation.

In this video, three members of the CRGC leadership team discuss the center, its mission, and why SLU is an ideal place to do this research.

CRGC Fellows

The Center for Research on Global Catholicism at Saint Louis University is pleased to announce the launch of its inaugural Seminar Fellowship Program for 2024-2025 on the theme "New Directions in Research on Global Catholicism: Mobilities, Migrations, Circulations."

Meet the CRGC Fellows

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

The Center for Research on Global Catholicism at Saint Louis University supports two postdoctoral research fellows. Postdoctoral research fellows pursue their own research projects and assist with CRGC programming for two-year terms.

Anna Katharina Rudolph

Anna Katharina Rudolph (Ph.D., Medieval History, University of California, Santa Barbara) is a postdoctoral research fellow for the Center for Research on Global Catholicism at Saint Louis University. Her research is driven by questions of how the sacred intersects with the political to define women's roles over time and across space. She is currently spearheading the St. Louis Catholic Archives Collective, an initiative partnering the CRGC with archivists at multiple independent local women's archives to increase the visibility and accessibility of their collections. As a historian of medieval women's history, her research interests include the intersection of gender and sanctity, the cult of the saints, queenship, and monasticism. Rudolph's current book project, "Dynamics of Women's Sanctity from Medieval to Modernity, Rewriting History, Hagiography, and the Myth of the French Nation," uses the global "afterlife" of the Frankish queen-saint Radegund of Poitiers (520-587), to investigate the complex relationship between hagiography, gender and the construction of national identities.

Our Mission

Our mission is to make Saint Louis University an internationally-recognized hub for research on global Catholicism. The Center for Research on Global Catholicism supports scholarship on the ways and means by which Catholicism migrated across time and space to become a global religion, entangled with imperial ambitions, in excess of official intentions, mobilized by material objects, affective relationships, politics, theologies, epidemics and more.

The objectives of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism include:

Capitalizing on scholarly expertise at SLU and in St. Louis to advance knowledge and understanding of global Catholicism
Facilitating connections between local archives and research scholars
Supporting scholars working in the field of global Catholicism by providing resources, community, and opportunities for collaboration

The Center for Research on Global Catholicism is a Big Idea project sponsored by the Research Growth Fund at SLU. The first Big Idea grounded in the Humanities, the CRGC brings together three key components of SLU鈥檚 Jesuit history and mission: a legacy of global engagement, a commitment to rigorous academic inquiry and a focus on social justice.

Giving to the CRGC supports our lecture and book symposium series, conferences, seminar fellows program and more.