The John Gilmary Shea Prize is an annual award given by the

American Catholic Historical Association The American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) was founded by Peter Guilday in Cleveland, Ohio, in December 1919 as a national society to bring together scholars interested in the history of the Roman Catholic Church or in Catholic aspects o ...

for the most original and distinguished contribution to knowledge of the

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well ...

of the

Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...

. Established in 1945, it is named in honor of the nineteenth-century Catholic historian

John Gilmary Shea John Dawson Gilmary Shea (July 22, 1824 – February 22, 1892) was a writer, editor, and historian of American history in general and American Roman Catholic history specifically. He was also a leading authority on aboriginal native Americans ...

. Past Shea Prize awardees include the following: * 2020: Elizabeth Foster, ''African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church'' * 2019: Karin Vélez, ''The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World'' * 2018: Michelle Armstrong-Partida, ''Defiant Priests Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya'' * 2017: William B. Taylor, ''Theater of a Thousand Wonders: History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain'' * 2016: Katrina B. Olds, ''Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain'' * 2015: Maureen C. Miller, ''Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800-1200'' * 2014: John W. O'Malley, ''Trent: What Happened at the Council'' * 2013: Charles Keith, ''Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation'' * 2012: John Connelly, ''From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965'' * 2011:

Ulrich L. Lehner Ulrich L. Lehner (born 1976 in Straubing, Bavaria, Germany) is the Warren Foundation Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is a trained philosopher, theologian and historian. Life After graduating from the (high school) in ...

, ''Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines, 1740-1803'' * 2010: Neal Pease, ''Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland 1914 – 1939'' * 2009:

John Van Engen John H. Van Engen is an American historian who focuses on the religious and intellectual culture of the European Middle Ages. He is Andrew V. Tackes Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Notre Dame.Faculty bio: https://hist ...

, ''Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages''

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