James T. Fisher
Professor of Theology
Lincoln Center 806
(212) 636-7698
jafisher@fordham.edu
B.A., History, Rutgers College, (1979)
Ph.D., History, Rutgers University (1987)
Research Interests: Cultural History of Religion and Ethnicity in the United States; American Catholic Studies
Books Forthcoming:
The Columbia History of Roman Catholicism in America (Columbia University Press)
A Catholic Studies Reader (Fordham University Press)
Books Published:
On the Irish Waterfront: The Crusader, the Movie, and the Soul of the Port of New York (Cornell Univerity Press, 2009).
Communion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in America (Oxford University Press, 2002; revised edition 2008)
Dr. America: The Lives of Thomas A. Dooley, 1927-1961 (The University of Massachusetts Press, 1997; paperback edition 1998).
The Catholic Counterculture in America, 1933-1962 (University of North Carolina Press, 1989). A Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1990-91.
Recently Published Essays and Book Chapters:
“The (Longed For) Varieties of Catholic Studies,” in William C. Graham, ed., Here Comes Everybody: Catholic Studies in American Higher Education (University Press of America, 2009).
“On the Catholic Waterfront: Struggling for Power, Opportunity, and Justice,” in Terry Golway, ed. Catholics in New York: Society, Culture and Politics 1808-1946 (Fordham University Press, 2008), 162-73.
“No Search No Subject? Autism and the American Conversion Narrative,” in Mark Osteen, ed., Autism and Representation (Routledge, 2008), 51-64.
“The (Longed For) Varieties of Catholic Studies,” in Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 42 (Winter 2007), 54-67.
“Christopher Kauffman, the U.S. Catholic Historian, and the Future of American Catholic History,” in U.S. Catholic Historian 24 (Spring 2006), 19-26.
“Catholics in the Middle Atlantic,” in Randall Balmer and Mark Silk, eds., Religion and Public Life in the Mid-Atlantic Region: The Fount of Diversity (AltaMira Press, 2006), 71-94.
“Catholicism as American Popular Culture,” in Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, ed., American Catholics, American Culture: Tradition and Resistance (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2004), 101-111.
“American Religion Since 1945,” in Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig, eds., ACompanion to Post-1945 America (Blackwell Publishing, 2002), 44-63.
“All Catholicism is Local: Teaching American Catholic Studies,” American Catholic Studies 112 (Spring-Winter 2001), 73-80.
“‘A World Made Safe for Diversity:’ The Vietnam Lobby and the Politics of Pluralism, 1945-1963,” in Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 (The University of Massachusetts Press, 2000), 217-237.
Courses Taught, Fall 2009:
THEO 1000-L01: Faith and Critical Reason, MW 1:00-2:15.
THEO 3995-L01: Religion and the American Self, T 6:00-8:45.
