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Margaret M. McGuinness, Ph.D.
Margaret M. McGuinness, Ph.D.
Chair, Professor
McShain 208
215.951.1339
mcguinness@lasalle.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., 1985, Union Theological Seminary,
  • M.Phil., 1984, Union Theological Seminary,
  • M.T.S., 1979, Boston University School of Theology
  • A.B., 1975, Boston University

Areas of Interest

  • U.S. Catholicism
  • Religion in America
  • History of women religious
  • Religion and social justice

Recent Publications and Presentations

  • American Catholic Studies; Catholic Studies Reader, co-edited with James T. Fisher, Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2010.
  • Settlement Sisters: A History of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, University of Scranton Press, forthcoming 2010.
  • “Urban Settlement Houses and Rural Parishes: The Ministry of the Sisters of Christian Doctrine, 1910-1986.” U.S. Catholic Historian, 2008.
  • “American Catholic Studies: The Field and the Journal.” Catholic Library World 78 (September 2007).
  • “Let Us Go To The Altar: American Catholics and the Eucharist, 1926-1976” in Habits of Devotion, James M. O’Toole, ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.