#  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)

## Publications

- [Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920](https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p072826)



 

 

 





 

 

- ## affiliation
    
     [Past WSRP Research Associates](/affiliation/past-wsrp-research-associates) [WSRP Research Associate](/affiliation/wsrp-research-associate)
- ## alpha grouping
    
     [F-J](/alpha-grouping/f-j)
- ## academic year
    
     [1995-96](/year-grouping/1995-96)