Joseph Michael White EDUCATION B.A., Indiana University 1972, M.A. Butler University, 1974, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame, 1980 M.L.S., Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, 2007 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, 2009- Visiting Associate Professor, School of Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, 2008-2009 Reference, Collection Development, and Bibliographic Instruction Librarian, Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, 2007-2008 RESEARCH AND WRITING PROJECTS, 1981-2007 Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, 150 th anniversary history, 2002-2007 Centennial history of Holy Name Province, Order of Friars Minor, New York, 1996-2002 History of the National Organization for Continuing Education of Roman Catholic Clergy (NOCERCC), Chicago, 1995-1997 Centennial History of Holy Cross Catholic Church, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1995-1996 Research Associate, Polis Center, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, (Indianapolis Religious History Project), 1993-1996 Study of the Seminary Presidency project, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, 1993-1994 (Lilly Endowment funding) Guide to Indiana s significant religious places, Indiana Religious History Association with funding from Lilly Endowment, 1992-1993 150 th Anniversary history, Sacred Heart Parish, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1991-1992 Memoirs project of Archbishop Emeritus Peter L. Gerety of Newark, NJ, 1988-1990 Assistant Faculty Fellow, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, (History of diocesan seminaries with Lilly Endowment funding), 1981-1988
ADJUNCT TEACHING Catholic Church in the United States course, Marian College, Indianapolis, Fall 2005 Modern Church History course, (Reformation to the Present), St. Meinrad School of Theology, St. Meinrad, IN, Fall Session at Indianapolis site, 1999 American Catholic Experience course, St. Meinrad School of Theology, St. Meinrad, IN, Summer Session, 1999 Introduction to Religion course, Religious Studies Dept., Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, 1993-1994 AWARDS Certificate of Achievement in Writing and Publication of Local Religious History, Indiana Religious History Association, 1993 for history of Sacred Heart Parish at Notre Dame, and 1997 for history of Holy Cross Parish, Indianapolis German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship, Goethe Institute, Munich, fall 1979 Howard W. Phalin Dissertation Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 1977-1978 University Scholarship and Teaching Assistantship, Notre Dame, 1975-1977 UNPUBLISHED WRITINGS The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana in the 1920s as viewed by the Indiana Catholic and Record (M.A. thesis, Butler University, 1974), Emma L. Thornbrough, director Religion and Community: Cincinnati Germans, 1814-1870 (Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame, 1980), Jay P. Dolan, director Key Religious Individuals in Indianapolis, 1908-1922, essay for Indianapolis Religious History Project, Polis Center, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, 1996 Religion and the Built Environment in Indianapolis, essay (12,000 words) prepared for Polis Research Center, Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis, 2000, on history of the city s religious architecture EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Co-editor with Jay P. Dolan and Charlotte Ames, American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, 1981-1988
Associate Editor, U.S. Catholic Historian,United States Catholic Historical Society, Catholic University of America Press,1986- Editor, The American Catholic Religious Life: Selected Historical Essays (New York: Garland Press, 1988) Member, editorial committee, history of China-Taiwan missions project, Sisters of Providence, St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana, 1988-1990 Co-editor with Jeffrey M. Burns and Ellen Skerrett, Keeping Faith: European and Asian Immigrants (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2000) in 9-volume American Catholic Identities: A Documentary Series, Christopher J. Kauffman, general editor Advisory Editor, Catholic Historical Review, American Catholic Historical Association, Catholic University of America Press, 2009- BOOKS The Diocesan Seminary in the United States: A History from the 1780s to the Present (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1989) Sacred Heart Parish at Notre Dame: A Heritage and History (Notre Dame, 1992) Where God s People Meet: A Guide to Significant Religious Places in Indiana (Carmel, Indiana: Guild Press of Indiana, 1996) An Urban Pilgrimage: A Centennial History of the Catholic Community of Holy Cross, Indianapolis, 1896-1996 (Indianapolis, 1997) A Work Never Finished: The First Twenty-Five Years of the National Organization for Continuing Education of Roman Catholic Clergy (NOCERCC), 1973-1998 (Chicago, 1998) Peace and Good in America: A History of Holy Name Province, Order of Friars Minor 1850s to the Present (New York: Holy Name Province and Academy of American Franciscan History, 2004) Worthy of the Gospel of Christ: A History of the Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend (Huntington, Ind.: Our Sunday Visitor, 2007).
WORK IN PROGRESS Founding Religious Institutions, 1834-1878 and Dimensions of Catholic Life, 1878-2000 essays in general history of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Rev. Jack W. Porter, general editor ARTICLES Historiography of Catholic Immigrants and Religion, Immigration History Newsletter, 14 (November 1982): 5-10. Cincinnati s Religious Mosaic, in Mark Noll et al. (editors) Eerdman s Handbook to Christianity in America (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdman s, 1983), 243-245. St. John s Seminary and the Transition of American Catholic Seminaries, 1884-1910, Seminaries in Dialogue, (November 1984): 6-11. American Diocesan Seminaries, 1791 to the 1980s, Seminaries in Dialogue, (April 1986): 16-19. How the Seminary Developed, in Katarina Schuth, Reason for the Hope: The Futures of Roman Catholic Theologates (Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, 1989). Catholic Diocesan Seminary, Dictionary of Christianity in America, (Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1990). The Diocesan Seminary and the Community of Faith: Reflections on the American Experience, U.S. Catholic Historian, 11 (Winter 1993): 1-20. Eight biographies of American Catholic figures for American National Biography (Oxford University Press, 1999). Ten articles in Richard McBrien, editor, Encyclopedia of Catholicism (San Francisco: Harper, 1995). Religious Architecture essay in David Bodenhamer and Robert Barrows, editors, Encyclopedia of Indianapolis (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1994). Educational Debt of Theological and Rabbinical Students: Reflections from the Catholic Tradition, for Auburn Theological Seminary, Center for the Study of Theological Education s project on national study of theological students debt, 1994. Cincinnati s German Catholic Life: A Heritage of Lay Participation, U.S. Catholic Historian 12 (Summer 1994): 1-16.
Leadership in the American Diocesan Seminary: Contexts, Institutions, and Personalities, 1791-1965, Theological Education, 32 (Supplement I, Autumn 1995): 1-45. German Catholic Congregational Life in 19 th -Century Indiana: Profiles of St. Mary Church, New Albany, and St. John Church, Enochsburg, Studies in Indiana German-Americana 2 (1995): 76-84. Holy Cross Church in Indianapolis: Parish Life Transformed, U.S. Catholic Historian 14 (Summer 1996): 89-105. Halcyon Century: St. Francis de Sales Seminary and the First Hundred Years of American Diocesan Seminaries, 1784-1884, in Steven M. Avella, editor, St.Francis Seminary Sesquicentennial Essays (St. Francis, Wisconsin: St. Francis Seminary, 1997), 1-25. Diocesan Seminary and Catholic Church in Indiana in Michael Glazier and Thomas J. Shelley, editors, Encyclopedia of American Catholic History (Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 1997). Parish Video Library Presents Catholic Life in America, U.S. Catholic Historian 18 (Spring 2000): 95-104. Perspectives on the Nineteenth-Century Diocesan Seminary in the United States, U.S. Catholic Historian 19 (Spring 2001): 21-35. In Search of Holy Name Province, Order of Friars Minor, U.S. Catholic Historian 22 (Winter 2004): 113-125. The Making of An American Seminary: Saint Meinrad before Vatican II, in Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., To Prefer Nothing to Christ: Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 1854-2004 (Saint Meinrad, IN, 2004). BOOK REVIEWS Holy Cross and the South Bend Polonia by Donald Stabrowski, CSC, (Notre Dame: Indiana Province Archives Center, 1991) in Holy Cross History, 9 (Spring 1992): 3-4. Through Fire and Flood: The Catholic Church in Frontier Texas, 1836-1900 (College Station: Texas A. & M. University Press, 1992) in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, (Winter 1993): 598-599. Men of Menlo: Transformation of an American Seminary by James Gaffey, Melville Studies in Church History (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1992) in Catholic Historical Review 80 (July 1994): 639-640.
Hoosier Faiths: A History of Indiana s Churches and Religious Groups by L.C. Rudolph. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995) in Catholic Historical Review, 83 (July 1997): 512-513. Peopling Indiana: The Ethnic Experience edited by Robert M. Taylor, Jr., and Connie A. McBirney (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society, 1996) in Ohio History, 107 (Winter-Spring 1998): 99-101. Faith and Action: A History of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, 1821-1996 by Roger Fortin (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002) in Catholic Historical Review 90 (April 2004): 352-354. PAPERS AND LECTURES From Home Town to Congregation: Cincinnati s Germans, 1814-1870, Conference on Perspectives on American Catholicism, Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame, November 20, 1982 St. John s Seminary and the Tradition of American Catholic Seminaries, 1884-1910, centennial observance of the Boston archdiocesan seminary, Seminary Department Meeting of the NCEA annual convention, St. John Seminary, Boston, April 26, 1984 The Bishop as Seminary Educator: Archbishop John Ireland and Bishop Bernard McQuaid on Clerical Formation, Conference on the Culture of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, October 5, 1985 Archbishop John T. McNicholas and the Pontifical Commission of the Catholic University of America, 1934-1950, spring meeting, American Catholic Historical Association, John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio, April 19, 1986 Parish Life and Governance among Cincinnati s German Catholics, 1835-1920, American Catholic Historical Association, annual meeting, Cincinnati, December 29, 1988 Review of Tradition and Transformation in Catholic Culture: The Priests of St. Sulpice in the United States from 1791 to the Present by Christopher J. Kauffman, College Society Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, June 2, 1989 Mid-Nineteenth Century Seminaries, Keystone Conference on Trusteeship, Keystone, Colorado, July 10-14, 1989, June 25-29, 1990, and July 22-26, 1991. (Annual conference for trustees and presidents of Catholic seminaries sponsored by Washington Theological Union and Lilly Endowment) German Catholic Congregational Life in Nineteenth-Century Indiana: Case Studies of St. Mary Church, New Albany, and St. John Church, Enochsburg, Indiana German
Heritage Society/Indiana Religious History Association, joint meeting, Indianapolis, March 16, 1991 Reflections on the Diocesan Seminary Tradition, monthly meeting, Serra Club of Indianapolis, June 21, 1992 Catholic Archives in Indiana, Local Congregational History Workshop, Indiana Religious History Association, Walden Inn, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, April 17, 1993 Models of the Ideal Catholic Clergyman, Theological and Social Formation of Clergy: Historical Perspectives, Colloquium of the Divinity 150 Project, Trinity College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 23, 1993 Where God s People Meet: Identifying Significant Religious Places in Indiana, Indiana Historical Society, fall meeting, IUPUI Conference Center, Indianapolis, November 6, 1993 Indianapolis Religious History Project Profile of Religious Individuals, American Society of Church History, spring meeting, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, March 25, 1994 Queen of Catholicism in the West: Cincinnati as a Regional Capital of Catholic Life, 1850-1870, (session on religion in Cincinnati), American Society of Church History/American Jewish Historical Society annual meeting, Chicago, January 7, 1995 The Challenge of Vatican II: Envisioning Our Church, Theology Night (adult education program), St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, Columbus, Indiana, January 31, 1995 The Third Plenary Council of Baltimore and the Ideal Priest and Seminary, lecture in centennial series of St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 7, 1995 Significant Religious Places in Indiana, The Learning Child Conference of Home- School parents, Anderson, Indiana, September 27, 1997 A Reflection on Holy Cross Parish History, Holy Cross Catholic Church, Indianapolis, July 12, 1998 A Sense of the Holy: The Religious Sites of Indiana, Bethany Presbyterian Church, Carp, Owen Couny, Indiana, August 23, 1998 Indiana s United Methodist Treasures: An Exploration of Sites and Buildings, (slidelecture presentation), Historical Society of the South Indiana Conference, United
Methodist Church, annual meeting, Pfrimmer s Chapel United Methodist Church, Corydon, Indiana, April 24, 1999 Exploring the History of Holy Name Province, Order of Friars Minor, 1901-2000, Academy of American Franciscan History conference, Oakland, CA, November 4, 2000 In Search of Holy Name Province, Order of Friars Minor, Franciscan History Symposium, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, October 18, 2002 Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in Historical Perspective, Diocesan Eucharistic Congress, University of Notre Dame, August 18, 2007 Fort Wayne s Catholics in Historical Perspective, George Mather Memorial Lecture, Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society, Fort Wayne, November 4, 2007 Early Indiana Catholics, Adult Education Lecture Series, St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church, Carmel, Indiana, May 8, 2008 A Missionary Bishop s Leadership and Resignation: The Case of Bishop Célestin de la Hailandière of Vincennes, spring meeting, American Catholic Historical Association, LaSalle University, Philadelphia, April 17, 2009 OTHER HISTORICAL ACTIVITIES Judge, History Day Contest, project division, (competition for Indianapolis junior high and high school students) sponsored by IUPUI and Indiana Historical Bureau, 1992-1994 Judge, Indiana congregational history competition, Indiana Religious History Association, 1991, 1995, 1999 Participant, Piety and Intellect Symposium, sponsored by Lilly Endowment for grant recipients in theological education to plan future grants, IUPUI Conference Center, October 20-21, 1992 Member, Bishop Simon Bruté Library Task Force, Diocese of Evansville, Indiana, to plan use of 11,000-volume rare book collection at St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Vincennes, Indiana, 1992-1994 Member, Administrative Committee, Indiana Religious History Association and POLIS Research Center of IUPUI project to plan a religious history of Indianapolis (Lilly Grant), 1992-1993 Participant, Symposium on Teaching the Role of Religion in American History, Indiana Humanities Council, Ferdinand, Indiana, July 10-12, 1994
Consulting Historian for planning and writing script for historical exhibits on Indiana religious faiths for the Bishop Simon Bruté Library, Vincennes, Indiana (Lilly Endowment grant to the Catholic Diocese of Evansville), 1995 Member, Program Committee for spring meeting of American Catholic Historical Association, Marian College, Indianapolis, March 27-28, 1998 Member, Historical Commission, for the Canonization cause of Bishop Simon Bruté de Rémur, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, 2005- PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Society of Church History American Catholic Historical Association Indiana Historical Society Indiana Religious History Association, board member, 1991-2000