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John McGreevy

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John McGreevy
Provost of the University of Notre Dame
Incumbent
Assumed office
July 1, 2022
Preceded by Christine Maziar (interim)
Dean of the Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters
In office
July 1, 2008 – July 1, 2018
Preceded by Mark W. Roche
Succeeded by Sarah Mustillo
Personal details
Born 1963 (age 62–63)
U.S.
Spouse Jean McManus
Children 4
Education University of Notre Dame (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)

John T. McGreevy (born 1963) is an American historian who is the Charles and Jill Fischer provost of the University of Notre Dame. He previously served as dean of the Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters from 2008 to 2018. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Notre Dame and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in history from Stanford University.[1] He has been on the Notre Dame faculty since 1997.[2] He is the author of Catholicism and American Freedom.[3]

Books

  • Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North, University of Chicago Press 1996.
  • Catholicism and American Freedom: A History, W. W. Norton 2003.
  • American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global, Princeton University Press, 2016.
  • Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis, W. W. Norton 2022.

Articles

  • (September 28, 2023) How Catholicism Fostered and Inhibited Democratic Revolutions[4]

References

  1. Back to citation Brown, Dennis. "Acclaimed historian, former dean John McGreevy elected Notre Dame's provost". Notre Dame News. Retrieved April 13, 2022.
  2. Back to citation "People // Department of History // University of Notre Dame". history.nd.edu. Archived from the original on February 20, 2007.
  3. Back to citation "That Old-World Religion," Michael J. Lacey, August 3, 2003, New York Times.
  4. Back to citation McGreevy, John (September 28, 2023). "How Catholicism Fostered and Inhibited Democratic Revolutions". Church Life Journal. Retrieved October 13, 2023.