John T. McGreevy

John T. McGreevy is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Notre Dame. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. Prior to coming to Notre Dame in 1997, he served as the Dunwalke Associate Professor of History and History and Literature at Harvard University.

He is the author of two books. The first, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth Century Urban North was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1996. It received the John Gilmary Shea prize for the best book in Catholic history from the American Catholic Historical Association. The second, Catholicism and American Freedom: A History was published by W.W. Norton in 2003. The New York Times Book Review described it as "brilliant." He has received major fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Louisville Institute and the Erasmus Institute, and has published articles and reviews in the Journal of American History, Commonwealth, the New Republic, the Chicago Tribune and other venues.