Catholicism Represented: Democracy, Religion and Global History, 1789-2025

John T. McGreevy is the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost and Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as provost since 2022. Also at Notre Dame, he served as the I.A. O’Shaughnessy Dean of the College of Arts and Letters from 2008 to 2018.

He is the author of four books. Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race inthe Twentieth Century Urban North (University of Chicago Press, 1996), Catholicism and American Freedom: A History (W.W. Norton, 2003), American Jesuits and the World (Princeton University press, 2016) and Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis (W.W. Norton, 2022). A French language edition of Catholicism appears from Desclée de Brouwer this spring. He has received major fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Louisville Institute and the Erasmus Institute, and has published articles and reviews in the Journal of American History, The New York Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Chronicle of Higher Education, Commonweal, The New Republic, and other venues.