Fields of Study: American Intellectual History, American Religious History
American Foreign Relations, Philosophy of History, Historiography, German Intellectual History and American Catholic Rural History. Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986, M.A., University of Chicago, 1975 and B.A., Marquette University, 1974. Publications: Book - The Church and the Land: The National Catholic Rural Life Conference and American Society, 1923-2007 (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010). Articles - "Extension Society, Catholic Church" and "Catholic Rural Life Movement" in Michael Glazier and Thomas J. Shelley, eds., The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History. The Liturgical Press, 1997. Article - "Catholic Rural Life Leader: Luigi G. Ligutti," U.S. Catholic Historian 8 (Fall, 1989): 143-58.