Mary Dunn, Ph.D.
Professor
Theological Studies
Director
Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Office Hours
Tu: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Courses Taught
Theories and Methods; Modern Seminar: Intimacies; Survey of Modern Christianity; Women in the Bible; Virgins, Martyrs, and Heretics; Theological Foundations; Mapping the Territory: Theory and Method in Theology and Religious Studies; Senior Research Seminar; Sensing Religion
Education
B.A., Columbia University, 1998
J.D., Harvard University, 2001
M.T.S., Harvard University, 2002
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2008
Research Interests
- History of Early Modern Christianity
- Saints and Sanctity
- Catholicism in France and New France
- Theory and Method in Religious Studies
- Sickness and disability; motherhood studies
Labs and Facilities
Professor Dunn's
Publications and Media Placements
Books
The Enfants Trouv茅s of Quebec: 1800-1845, in progress.
, Princeton University Press, 2022
, edited with Brenna Moore, Indiana University Press, 2020
, Fordham University Press, 2016.
, Oxford University Press, 2014
Selected Essays
鈥淭he Origin Myth of Religious Studies,鈥� Body and Religion, forthcoming.
鈥淪ixteen and Possessed,鈥� Spiritus: a Journal of Christian Spirituality 22, no, 2 (Fall 2022): 232-251
"Playing with Religion: Delight at the Border Between Epistemological Worlds,鈥�Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89, no. 4 (December 2021): 1208-1228.
"The Impossible Irony of Vatican I," Harvard Theological Review 113, no. 1 (Jan. 2020): 138-145.
"Bedside Manners: Sickness and the Jesuit Mission in Early Modern New France," Journal of Jesuit Studies 5, no. 4 (Nov. 2018): 567-585.
鈥淩ethinking Agency after the Relational Turn,鈥� The Journal of Religion 97, no. 3 (July 2017): 345-359.
鈥淲hat Really Happened: Radical Empiricism and the Historian of Religion,鈥� Journal of the American Academy of Religion 84, no. 4 (December 2016): 881-902.
鈥淣either One Thing nor the Other: Discursive Polyvalence and Representations of Amerindian Women in the Jesuit Relations,鈥� Journal of Jesuit Studies 3 (2016): 179-196.
鈥溾�楤ut an Echo鈥�?: Claude Martin, Marie de l鈥橧ncarnation, and Female Religious Identity in Seventeenth-Century New France,鈥� The Catholic Historical Review 100, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 459-485.
鈥淢ysticism, Motherhood, and Pathological Narcissism? A Kohutian Analysis of Marie de l鈥橧ncarnation,鈥� The Journal of Religion and Health 52, no. 2 (2013): 642-656.
鈥溾�楾he Cruelest of All Mothers鈥�: Marie de l鈥橧ncarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Discipleship,鈥� Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 28, no. 1 (2012): 43-62.
鈥淲hen 鈥榃olves Become Lambs鈥�: Hybridity and the 鈥楽avage鈥� in the Letters of Marie de l鈥橧ncarnation,鈥� The Seventeenth Century 27, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 104-120.
鈥溾�楢 Devotion Which鈥� Distinguishes this People from all Others鈥�: The Cult of Saint Anne and the Making of the Colonial Community in Seventeenth-Century New France,鈥� Quebec Studies 51 (Spring/Summer 2011): 3-20.
鈥淭he Miracles at Saint-Anne-du-Petit-Cap and Colonial Community Identity,鈥� Canadian Historical Review 91.4 (December 2010): 611-635.
Honors and Awards
- Faculty Research Leave; Mellon Faculty Development Grant;
- Presidential Fellowship (Harvard University); Phi Beta Kappa.
- NEH Summer Fellowship Nominee; 2022
- Big Idea Award, $19,000; 2021
- Beaumont Scholarship Research Award, $3748.56; 2021
- Stolle Fund Award, $1900; 2021
- Research Growth Fund Award, $28,000; 2019
- John Foley Conference Competition, $30,000; 2018
- Excellence in Graduate Mentoring Award Nominee, 2018
Professional Organizations and Associations
- American Academy of Religion
- American Catholic Historical Association