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  • About This Issue
  • David J. Endres

Historians examining the Church in the Unites States have often focused their studies on the urban centers of the East Coast and Midwest, yet the West Coast has an impressive history of engagement with Catholicism dating from the missionary period that began in the eighteenth century. This issue brings to the fore the history of the Church on the West Coast, exploring the personalities, places, issues, and eras that provide its regional distinctiveness. We are grateful to our contributors and extend a special thanks to Jeffrey M. Burns, director of the Academy of American Franciscan History, Berkeley, California, and archivist of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, for soliciting the contributions for this issue.

Steven M. Avella is professor of history at Marquette University, Milwaukee. Jamila Jamison Sinlao is a doctoral candidate in the sociology department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kristine Ashton Gunnell is research scholar at the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Michael E. Engh, S.J., is a member of the history department and president of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara. Rebecca Berru Davis is a recent graduate of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California in the area of art and religion, and is currently visiting assistant professor at Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. Kenneth J. Heineman is professor and chair of the History Department at Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas.

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