Maureen Fitzgerald
WSRP Research Associate 1995–96
Home institution
College of William and Mary
Research project
Saving the Children from the 'Child-Savers': Irish-Catholic Nuns and the Origins of the Welfare State, New York City, 1830-1920
Exploration of the construction of Catholic charities by nuns as cultural resistance to state and cultural assimilationist programs.
Course
HDS 2286: Religious and Political Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America (Spring 1996)