Kathryn Rose Sawyer 219 O Shaugnessey Notre Dame, IN 46556 574.440.4762 ksawyer2@nd.edu nd.academia.edu/kathrynrosesawyer EDUCATION 2012-present Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Notre Dame Dissertation: True Church, National Church, Minority Church: The Church of Ireland in a Restored Empire, 1660-1689 Advisor: Mark A. Noll Graduate Minor in Irish Studies (Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies) 2015 M.A. History, University of Notre Dame 2013-2015 The Irish Seminar, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (Paris, France; Dublin, Ireland; Buenos Aires, Argentina) 2012-2014 Cours d été, Institut d histoire de la Réformation (Geneva, Switzerland) 2012 Certificat de spécialisation, Institut d histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland) 2011 M.A. Theological Studies, Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) 2007 B.A. Jewish Studies, minor Catholic Studies, McGill University (Montreal, Canada) PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Articles: 2017 A disorderly tumultuous way of serving God : Protestantism and Order in Church and State, 1660-1689, Irish Historical Studies (forthcoming in November 2017). 2016 True Church, National Church, Minority Church: Episcopacy and Authority in the Restored Church of Ireland, Church History 85:2 (June 2016): 219-245. 2013 Irish Reality, English Politics: The Pope as Antichrist in James Ussher s Sermon at Wansted, Word In The World 5 (2012-2013): 40-49. Book Chapters: 2015 [with Jason Zuidema] Catholic Consecrated Life in Canada: A Statistical Overview in Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada: Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends, ed. Jason Zuidema (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015), 29-62.
Book Reviews: 2011 Review of James Ussher: Theology, History, and Politics in Early-Modern Ireland and England by Alan Ford, Word In The World 4 (2011): 63-65. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION 2017 Panel Chair, History panel, at the Early Modern Circle Graduate Symposium, Notre Dame, Indiana (March 9) 2016 A disorderly tumultuous way of serving God : Protestantism and Order in Church and State, 1660-1689 at the American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting, Notre Dame, Indiana (March 30-April 3) 2016 Panel Chair, Tudor Ireland and its Afterlife at the American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (March 30-April 3) 2015 Restoring the True Apostolic Church: Concepts of Authority in the Church of Ireland, 1660-1689 at the Moments of Becoming Conference, Limerick, Ireland (November 20-21) 2015 Episcopacy and Authority in Ireland s Restoration Church at the Graduate History Workshop, National Graduate School of History, Lund, Sweden (September 23-24) 2014 The Early Church of Ireland in an Atlantic Protestant World at the American Conference for Irish Studies/Canadian Association for Irish Studies Joint Annual Meeting, Dublin, Ireland (June 11-14) 2013 A Student Debates a Priest: Linking James Ussher s university education to early developments in Irish Protestant theology at the Christian Faith and the University Conference, Montreal, Quebec (September 26-28) 2013 Destination Ireland: The Role of War, Famine, and Huguenot Refugees in the Rebuilding of Ireland after the Boyne at the ASECS Annual Meeting (American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies), Cleveland, Ohio (April 3-7) 2013 The Consecrated Life in Canada: A Statistical Overview (with Jason Zuidema) at the Conference on the State of the Consecrated Life in Contemporary Canada, Montreal, Quebec (January 25-26) 2011 The Consecrated Life in Canadian Catholicism: Results of Recent Statistical Survey at the Consecrated Life in Canada research colloquium, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec (August 24)
2011 The Consecrated Life in Canada: Trends in Statistics at The Future of the Consecrated Life in Canada research colloquium, Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec (April 1) 2011 Irish Reality, English Politics: The Pope as Antichrist in James Ussher's Sermon at Wansted at the Concordia University Department of Theological Studies Annual Conference, Montreal, Quebec (March 24) 2011 Identity Formation in the Irish Protestant Church: The Via Media of the Irish Articles of 1615 at the Concordia University Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference, Montreal, Quebec (February 10) INVITED TALKS AND PANELS 2017 A disorderly tumultuous way of serving God : Protestantism and Order in Church and State, 1660-1689 at the Church of Ireland Historical Society Annual Meeting, Armagh, Northern Ireland (UK) (April 1) 2017 Humanities Representative, Graduate Student Fellowship Winners Q&A Panel, Notre Dame Graduate School Lunch & Learn series (March 10) 2011 The Birth of the Anglican Church in Ireland, Concordia University Department of Theological Studies guest lecture series (February 17) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor of Record: 2012 Sessional Lecturer (Adjunct Professor), Department of Religious Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada Catholic Moral Thought 2007-2009 Teacher, Villa Maria High School, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 8 th Grade Religion (Christianity/World Religions) Assistantships: 2014 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Notre Dame Modern Africa 2013 Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Notre Dame Canada: The North American Alternative
Other Instructor Experience and Professional Development: 2017 Elective course on online teaching in a university setting, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 2011 Certificate course on teaching at the university level, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2008-2009 Pastoral Animator (Youth Minister), Marianopolis College, Westmount, Quebec, Canada FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND DISTINCTIONS Fellowships: 2015-2016 Fulbright Research and Travel Fellowship (Switzerland) 2015-2016 Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship (held in tandem with Fulbright) 2012-2016 Mellon Fellow in Religion, University of Notre Dame Prizes: 2016 W.G. Neely Prize, awarded by the Church of Ireland Historical Society, for the paper A disorderly tumultuous way of serving God : Protestantism and Order in Church and State, 1660-1689 Grants: 2015, 2017 Notebaert Professional Development Fund, the Institute for Studies in Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame 2015, 2017 Graduate Student Union Conference Presentation Grant 2014, 2016 Nanovic Institute for European Studies Graduate Travel and Research Grant, Institute for Studies in Liberal Arts Graduate Travel Grant 2013-2016 Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies: Grants for Conference and Research Travel 2013, 2015, Union for Graduate Historians: Grants for Conference and Research Travel 2017 2011 Bourse d études, Faculté des lettres, Université de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland) 2010 United Irish Societies of Montreal Scholarship in Canadian Irish Studies 2009 Saint Patrick s Society (Montreal) Scholarship in Irish Studies PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2015-2017 Volunteer Transcriber and Transcription Editor, New England s Hidden Histories Church Records Transcription Project, Congregational Libraries & Archives, Boston, Massachusetts 2014-2015 Editorial Assistant, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte (North American branch), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 2014-2015 Organizer and Facilitator, Colloquium on Religion and History (CORAH), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE 2015-present Graduate Student Assistant Archivist, Hesburgh Library Special Collections, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (Loome Catholic Modernism Collection) 2015-present Freelance Translator, French to English 2015 Editorial Assistant (index and proofreading), Understanding the Consecrated Life in Canada: Critical Essays on Contemporary Trends, ed. Jason Zuidema (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015), Montreal, Quebec 2013-2014 Editor, Aigne Journal, Volume 6 (2014) 2013 Conference Assistant, Christian Faith and the University Conference, Montreal, Quebec (September 26-28) 2013 Conference Assistant, Conference on the State of the Consecrated Life in Contemporary Canada, Montreal, Quebec (January 25-26) 2011-2013 Research Assistant, Consecrated Life in Canada project: Professor Jason Zuidema, Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec; and Professor Elizabeth Smyth, Department of Curriculum Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario 2009-2010 Research Assistant, Professor Paul Allen, Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec 2007 Research Assistant, Professor Gershon Hundert, Department of Jewish Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec LANGUAGES French (advanced reading, spoken, written) Spanish (advanced reading, intermediate spoken, written) Italian (dictionary-aided reading ability) Latin (dictionary-aided reading ability) PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2016-present American Society of Church History (ASCH) 2015-present Church of Ireland Historical Society (COIHS) 2014-present American Historical Association (AHA) 2014-present American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) 2013-2014 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)