Academic Background: Ph.D. in History, Stanford University, 1992; B.A. in History, University of Notre Dame, 1986.
Research Interests: American religious history, global Catholicism, and intellectual history, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Appointments: Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, University of Notre Dame; Professor of History; Former Dean, College of Arts and Letters.
Awards: George Norlin Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Colorado, 1998.
Publications: Author of Catholicism and American Freedom (W.W. Norton, 2003); American Jesuits and the World (Princeton University Press, 2016).