Catherine Campbell

Catherine Campbell is a first-year doctoral student in the History of Christianity area, focusing on modern history. She received an M.Div. and then an S.T.M. in Liturgical Studies from the Yale Divinity School, where her thesis research centered on the use of English translations of Sarum breviary offices in a community of Anglican Augustinian religious sisters. She also holds an M.A. from the Earlham School of Religion, affiliated with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), and a B.A. in the history of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, where she conducted research on women in professional caregiving roles during World War I.

In her doctoral research, she hopes to bring the tools of liturgical studies and of feminist religious history to the study of daily liturgical prayer in communities of Roman Catholic and Anglican women religious in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially as they experienced the Liturgical Movement and the effects of official changes which followed the Second Vatican Council. She is especially interested in the ways consecrated women position and understand themselves in history; in questions of liturgical translation, especially projects of “traditional” and “inclusive” language; and in contemporary forms of chant.