Center for Research on Global Catholicism at Saint Louis University

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The Center for Research on Global Catholicism invites you to a new exhibit on May 1, 2026: "Women Missionaries to Latin America: Microhistories from Chile, Bolivia, and Peru and Their Connection to St. Louis." Drawing on archives of Catholic sisters, including letters, photographs, and community chronicles, this interdisciplinary exhibit situates local St. Louis history within the broader story of global Catholicism. Join us in person at Saint Louis University or via Zoom, 10:30am–12pm CST. Register here: https://forms.gle/W9c4L4mLdPchFker6

Call for Proposals! The St. Louis Catholic Archives Visiting Research Grant application portal is open. The grant offers up to $3,000 to support your work with local Catholic archives. All ranks, disciplines & independent researchers welcome! Submission deadline May 1.

The Center for Research on Global Catholicism invites you to a new exhibit on May 1, 2026: "Women Missionaries to Latin America: Microhistories from Chile, Bolivia, and Peru and Their Connection to St. Louis." Drawing on archives of Catholic sisters, including letters, photographs, and community chronicles, this interdisciplinary exhibit situates local St. Louis history within the broader story of global Catholicism. Join us in person at Saint Louis University or via Zoom, 10:30am–12pm CST. Register here: https://forms.gle/W9c4L4mLdPchFker6

Meet Guillermo Pupo Pernet! Guillermo holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, with a concentration in Interdisciplinary Hispanic Studies, from the University of Arkansas. His project examines the bastón de mando, a ceremonial staff used by Indigenous communities, as a material object central to the transformation of authority and space during 18th-century Catholic missionization in the Orinoco River region.

Meet Joshua Madrid! Joshua is a PhD candidate at University College London. His project aims to construct a transnational history of Catholicism in Prisoner of War (POW) camps during the Second World War, focusing on how these camps provided a unique unconsidered local space in which Catholics of varying nationalities and cultures came into contact with one another.

Tomorrow! CRGC welcomes Samantha Kelly to discuss her monograph “Translating Faith: Ethiopian Pilgrims in Renaissance Rome.” Register now!

On behalf our friends at Synodality in St. Louis, the CRGC is excited to share details about an upcoming two-day event here in St. Louis.

Meet Rebecca Janzen! Rebecca is a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Her project interrogates the complex relationship between Catholic religious devotion in churches and shrines near mines across the Americas, focusing on religious sites in Cuba, Brazil, Bolivia and Mexico in order to understand the meaning of religious sites located near mines, reflecting on the ways that religious ideas can be used both to justify and to criticize the mining industry’s dangerous working conditions and its environmental destruction