University of St. Thomas: “How Converts Transformed and Re-Shaped the American Catholic Church” October 21, 2010

Cost: Free and open to the public
Contact: Anna Martens 713-525-2164 martena@stthom.edu
Dr. Patrick Allitt, Cahoon Family Professor of American History, is an American who specializes in religious, intellectual and environmental history. He graduated from Oxford, England, in 1977, and earned his doctorate in American History in 1986 from the University of California, Berkeley, He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Divinity School, (1985-1988) and has been at Emory since 1988.
He is author of six books and the presenter of a six-part lecture series with The Teaching Company on aspects of American and British history. This lecture relates to his book, Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome.

Sponsored By UST Knights of Columbus, Fr. Vincent J. Guinan Council

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