John T. McGreevy (born 1963) is an American historian who has been serving as Charles and Jill Fischer Provost of the University of Notre Dame since July 1, 2022. He was formerly the

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of the College of Arts & Letters at the

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from 2008 until 2018. McGreevy earned his

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degree in history from the University of Notre Dame and his

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degree in history from Stanford University. He has been on the Notre Dame faculty since 1997. He is the author of ''Catholicism and American Freedom''.
That Old-World Religion," Michael J. Lacey, August 3, 2003, New York Times.

Books

* ''Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North'', University of Chicago Press 1996. * ''Catholicism and American Freedom: A History'', W. W. Norton 2003. * ''American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global'', Princeton University Press, 2016. * ''Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis'', W. W. Norton 2022.

References

1963 births 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers American historians of religion Harvard University faculty Historians of Jesuit history Historians of the United States Living people Stanford University alumni University of Notre Dame alumni University of Notre Dame faculty Writers from South Bend, Indiana {{US-historian-stub