Catholic Library Association honors Notre Dame professor emeritus

Published: 2006-03-28

ATLANTA (CNS) -- Jay P. Dolan, professor emeritus of history at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, will receive the Catholic Library Association's Jerome Award for outstanding contributions to Catholic scholarship April 20 during the association's annual convention in Atlanta. Dolan, who joined the Notre Dame faculty in 1971, founded the university's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism in 1975 and served as its director until 1993. He has written or edited numerous books on the history of Catholicism in America, including "The American Catholic Experience: A History From Colonial Times to the Present." A former visiting professor at the University of Chicago, Boston College and University College in Cork, Ireland, he also has served as president of the American Society of Church History and the American Catholic Historical Association.

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