About This Issue

This issue’s contributions provide insight into the process of conversion to Catholicism in the context of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States. Through biographical studies and a thematic essay, contributors have explored journeys from Protestantism, Judaism, and agnosticism.

Lincoln A. Mullen is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at Brandeis University. Erin Bartram is a doctoral candidate in the department of history at the University of Connecticut. Both have collaborated, along with other scholars, in developing the “American Converts Database” (http://americanconverts.org/).

Stephanie A.T. Jacobe completed her doctorate in history at American University, Washington D.C., in 2013; her dissertation focused on the life of Thomas Fortune Ryan. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., is assistant professor of history at Boston College. Tim Lacy is an assistant professor and academic support advisor in Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine. His contribution is drawn from his study of Adler, part of which was recently published as The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea (2013). Justin D. Poché is assistant professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts.