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Catholic Women in the Arts & Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition

United States Naval Academy

A lecture by Dr. Bronwen McShea

Thursday, October 16

7:00 PM

Location TBA

This lecture is free and open to the public.

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About the speaker:

Bronwen McShea is a historian of Catholicism from medieval to modern times and is the author of three books: Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know (Ignatius Press, 2024); La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot, Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France (Pegasus Books, 2023); and Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France (Nebraska Press, 2019).  Her reviews, articles, and essays have also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, First Things, America Magazine, The Journal of Religious History, and many other popular and academic periodicals.  She has held research and teaching positions at Columbia University, Princeton University, Loyola University Chicago, and several other institutions.  She holds a Ph.D. in Early Modern History from Yale University and both an M.T.S. in the History of Christianity and B.A. in Intellectual History from Harvard University.

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