Gabrielle (Gabby) Bibeau
Education
B.A. English and Religious Studies - University of Dayton, 2011
M.A. Theology - University of Dayton, 2019
Biography
Gabrielle Bibeau is a fourth-year PhD student in Theology at Fordham University. Her primary research interests are French Catholic nursing sisters in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century; religious frameworks for health, healing, and death; material religion; and the intersection between art, spirituality, and popular culture. Gabby was fortunate to be in formation as a Marianist Sister for several years after graduating college, and she is currently a committed Lay Marianist. Gabby's relationship with the Marianists and experience as a Catholic sister is where much of her interest in modern French and global Catholicism originated, particularly in her prior work as a Research and Program Assistant at the North American Center for Marianist Studies in Dayton, OH. Gabby loves hiking, going to art museums, listening to podcasts, and a good cup of coffee.
- “The Untameability of the Sacred: Votive Traditions at Notre Dame de Lourdes and El Santuario de Chimayó,” Journal of Global Catholicism, Spring 2026
- “Book Review: American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism,” Church History, Vol. 93, No. 4 (Spring 2025), pp. 946-947.
- “Catholicism as Cultural History: The Enduring Legacy of John O'Malley, S.J.,” co-written with Alex Gruber: The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 110, No. 2 (Spring 2024), pp. 381-383
- The Art of Encounter: Experiments and Best Practices for Engaging Religious Diversity and Secularization in Jesuit Higher Education, co-written with Brenna Moore and Pep Mària SJ for the International Association of Jesuit Universities (Fall 2025)
- “The Little Sisters of the Assumption and the Theological Tension of Social Catholicism.” Panel Paper: American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Catholic Studies Unit (November 2026)
- “Healers of Bodies, Caretakers of Souls: Nursing and Pastoral Work of the Little Sisters of the Assumption in Late 19th-Century Paris.” Panel Paper: American Catholic Historical Association Annual Conference (January 2026, Chicago)
- “Religious Charisms in Higher Education.” Panel Commentator: American Catholic Historical Association Annual Conference (January 2025, New York City)
- Louisville Institute Doctoral Fellowship (2025-2027)
- Mary Magdalene Impact Fellowship, Fordham University (Summer 2026)
- Mother Theodore Guerin Research Travel Grant, Cushwa Center for the Study of Catholicism (Summer 2025)
- Journal of Global Catholicism Graduate Scholar Seminar (January 2025)
- Foreign Language and Area Study (FLAS) Grant for French intensive language study at the Catholic Institute of Paris: awarded by the MacMillan Center for European Studies at Yale University (Summer 2024)