Maureen Fitzgerald
WSRP Research Associate 1995-1996
Research Project
Saving the Children from the 'Child-Savers': Irish-Catholic Nuns and the Origins of the Welfare State, New York City, 1830-1920
Exploration of the construction of Catholic charities by nuns as cultural resistance to state and cultural assimilationist programs.
Course
HDS 2286: Religious and Political Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century America (Spring 1996)
Publications
Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920
Maureen Fitzgerald
University of Illinois Press, 2005
Maureen Fitzgerald
University of Illinois Press, 2005
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