John McGreevy

John T. McGreevy is the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost and Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History in the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. He earned a B.A. in history magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Notre Dame in 1986, an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Stanford University, and completed a Lilly Foundation postdoctoral fellowship in humanities at Valparaiso University. Early in his career, he taught at Hales Franciscan High School in Chicago and served as Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History and History and Literature at Harvard University. Joining Notre Dame's faculty in 1997, McGreevy advanced through key administrative roles: chair of the Department of History from 2002 to 2008 and I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters from 2008 to 2018. He recently taught courses on U.S. political history and global Catholicism.

McGreevy's research centers on modern political and religious history across the United States and global contexts. He has authored four influential books: Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (W.W. Norton, 2003), American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global (Princeton University Press, 2016), and Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis (W.W. Norton, 2022). His essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American History, New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Commonweal, The New Republic, and other publications, with some translated into Italian, French, and Spanish. He contributed to the PBS documentary God in America. Among his honors are fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Louisville Institute, and Erasmus Institute; the 2015 George E. Ganss, S.J., Award for Jesuit studies; Notre Dame’s Kaneb Teaching Award; 2004 Distinguished Lecturer recognition from the Organization of American Historians; service on the 2010 Pulitzer Prize History jury; and co-chair of the Commonweal Foundation board from 2018 to 2023. As dean, he strengthened social sciences, expanded doctoral programs in anthropology, sacred music, and languages, grew the Institute for Latino Studies, increased senior theses by over 30 percent, and co-chaired the core curriculum review.

Professional Email: jmcgreev@nd.edu