American Catholic Historical Association

Thursday, January 8, 2026

11:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

11:30 AM-1:00 PM


ACHA Executive Committee Meeting
American Catholic Historical Association

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


New Approaches to Mexico's Cristero War, One Hundred Years Later
AHA Session 18

Exploring the Intellectual Histories of 19th- and 20th-Century American Catholic Laywomen
American Catholic Historical Association 3

European Catholicism Across the Modern Period
American Catholic Historical Association 4

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Mexican American Catholics in Texas Before and After Vatican II
American Catholic Historical Association 6

Catholicism and Human Rights
American Catholic Historical Association 7

Structures of Power in Black Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 8

Nuns on Film
American Catholic Historical Association 9

Friday, January 9, 2026

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Freedom and Constraint: Catholicism in 20th-Century American Higher Education
American Catholic Historical Association 10

Catholic Negotiations in the 16th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 11

Miraculous Migrations and Spirited Sites: Exploring Spaces, Places, and Paths of Healing
American Catholic Historical Association 12

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Midwest Is Best: American Catholicism in Regional Studies
American Catholic Historical Association 13

Priests Abroad: Clerics and Culture Across Time and Space
American Catholic Historical Association 14

Sex, Secret Societies, and Patriarchy: A Catholic History
American Catholic Historical Association 15

12:00 PM-1:45 PM


ACHA Presidential Luncheon
American Catholic Historical Association

1:45 PM-3:15 PM


Pope Leo XIV: Perspectives on the First American Pope, the Contemporary Catholic Church, and the Study of American Catholicism
American Catholic Historical Association 16

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Displacement and Dislocation in Mexican American Ethno-Catholic Spaces in Urban Communities
AHA Session 139

From Sickrooms to Battlefields: Modern Catholic Approaches to Health, Science, and Dying
American Catholic Historical Association 18

Catholic Sisters and the State
American Catholic Historical Association 19

A Geography of Modern Clergy Abuse: Confessionals, Cities, and the Country
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Saturday, January 10, 2026

8:00 AM-5:00 PM


ACHA Information Table
American Catholic Historical Association

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


Horse Cultures, Catholic Missionaries, and Settler Colonialism in the Indigenous Northwest
American Catholic Historical Association 20

Catholics and Their Nations During the World Wars
American Catholic Historical Association 21

Medieval Catholicism from Europe to Asia
American Catholic Historical Association 22

Broadening the Scholarly Paradigm: Documenting, Preserving, and Creating a Framework for Chicago History
American Catholic Historical Association 23

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


Catholics at Prayer: Global Devotion in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 24

Making and Debating the Catholic New Deal Order, 1930s–70s
American Catholic Historical Association 25

Lessons Learned: Indigenous Communities, the Catholic Church, and Education Past and Present
American Catholic Historical Association 26

US–China Visions in Transnational Fragments: American Jesuit Filmmaking in Cold War China, 1947–49
American Catholic Historical Association 27

1:30 PM-3:00 PM


Catholics and Politics in the 20th Century
American Catholic Historical Association 28

Afro-Latinx and Indigenous Responses to and Transformations of Catholicism in Colonial Latin America
American Catholic Historical Association 29

Catholicism and American Empire
American Catholic Historical Association 30

Eastern European Catholicism in America: Visual Approaches to Devotion, Diaspora, and Documentation
American Catholic Historical Association 31

3:30 PM-5:00 PM


Shaping Catholic Identity in the American West
American Catholic Historical Association 32

A Michigan–Native American–Catholic Collection: Issues for the Archives
American Catholic Historical Association 33

Catholics in the Second City
American Catholic Historical Association 34

Catholic Identity Through the Arts
American Catholic Historical Association 35

Sunday, January 11, 2026

11:00 AM-12:30 PM


Environmental Histories of Catholicism and Colonialism
AHA Session 284