Two authors get top book awards from Catholic historical association

Published: 2008-01-07

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Two books about the exploits of Jesuits in very different times and places took the top awards during the American Catholic Historical Association's annual meeting in Washington. Liam Matthew Brockey, an assistant professor of history at Princeton University in New Jersey, received the John Gilmary Shea Prize and $750 for his book, "Journey to the East: The Jesuit Mission to China, 1579-1724," judged the best work on the history of the Catholic Church published in the 12-month period that ended June 30. Jesuit Father Gerald McKevitt, professor of Jesuit studies at Santa Clara University in California, won the Howard R. Marraro Prize and $500 for "Brokers of Culture: Italian Jesuits in the American West, 1848-1919."

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