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About Allison Isidore
I am a Religious Studies Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa and am the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association. My research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church’s response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s.NBN Episodes hosted by Allison:
May 14, 2024
Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England
Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England: History, Rhetoric, and the Origins of Christianity (Brill, 2023) argues that in order to understand nati…
January 3, 2024
Katharine Drexel and the Sisters Who Shared Her Vision
Although Katharine Drexel has been the subject of several biographies, they have tended to treat her as a perfect human being whom the Church later tr…
July 11, 2023
Look Out Below!
A veteran of the Second World War and the Korean War, Francis L. Sampson was a real-life hero whose exploits inspired one of the most famous war films…
April 7, 2023
In the Shadow of Ebenezer
The history and practices of African American Catholics has been vastly understudied, and Black Catholics are often written off as a fringe sector of …
January 28, 2023
Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States
Jesuit Colleges and Universities in the United States: A History (Catholic University of America Press, 2022) provides a comprehensive history of Jesu…
December 7, 2022
Teaching in Black and White
Teaching in Black and White: The Sisters of St. Joseph in the American South (Catholic University of America Press, 2022) discusses the work of the Si…
September 30, 2022
The KGB and the Vatican
One of the greatest ironies of the history of Soviet rule is that, for an officially atheistic state, those in the political police and in the Politbu…
August 26, 2022
Afro-Atlantic Catholics
Black Christianity in America has long been studied as a blend of indigenous African and Protestant elements. Jeroen Dewulf redirects the conversation…
August 19, 2022
Contesting Catholics
Assassinated by Idi Amin and a democratic ally of J.F. Kennedy during the Cold War, Benedicto Kiwanuka was Uganda's most controversial and disruptive …
July 19, 2022
The Genocide Against the Tutsi, and the Rwandan Churches
Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude towards the genocide against the Tutsi which claimed the lives of around 800,…
July 11, 2022
Subversive Habits
In Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle (Duke UP, 2022), Shannen Dee Williams, provides the first full…
June 20, 2022
Seeing Jesus in the Eyes of the Oppressed
Following World War II, the United States enjoyed unprecedented prosperity as the post-war economy exploded. While Americans pondered affluence, U.S. …
May 10, 2022
Millennial Missionaries
Millennials in the U.S. have been characterized as uninterested in religion, as defectors from religious institutions, and as agnostic about the role …
April 22, 2022
Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors
Michael Graziano’s intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller’s Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religiou…
April 1, 2022
Desegregating Dixie
In Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992 (UP of Mississippi, 2018), Mark Newman draws on a vast range of …
March 16, 2022
The Imperial Church
Through a fascinating discussion of religion's role in the rhetoric of American civilizing empire, The Imperial Church: Catholic Founding Fathers and …
March 14, 2022
Forging Identities in the Irish World
Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, 1840-1922 (Edinburgh UP, 2022,) explores the shifting influences of religious demography…
February 8, 2022
The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-1998
Until surprisingly recently, the history of the Irish Catholic Church during the Northern Irish Troubles was written by Irish priests and bishops and …
February 1, 2022
The Laywoman Project
In The Laywoman Project: Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era (UNC Press, 2020), Mary J. Henold considers how these committed parishioner…
November 9, 2021
Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns
In Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America (Cornell UP, 2020), Theresa Keeley analyzes th…
October 28, 2021
Meatpacking America
Whether valorized as the heartland or derided as flyover country, the Midwest became instantly notorious when COVID-19 infections skyrocketed among wo…