The John Gilmary Shea Prize is an annual award given by the American Catholic Historical Association for the most original and distinguished contribution to knowledge of the history of the Catholic Church. Established in 1945, it is named in honor of the nineteenth-century Catholic historian John Gilmary Shea."Award Established for Catholic Historical Book", Canadian Register, April 28, 1945.
Past Shea Prize awardees include the following: 2023: Jeroen Dewulf, Afro-Atlantic Catholics: America’s First Black Christians 2022: Brenna Moore, Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism 2021: Theresa Keeley, Reagan’s Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America 2020: Elizabeth Foster, African Catholic: Decolonization and the Transformation of the Church 2019: Karin Vélez, The Miraculous Flying House of Loreto: Spreading Catholicism in the Early Modern World 2018: Michelle Armstrong-Partida, Defiant Priests Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya 2017: William B. Taylor, Theater of a Thousand Wonders: History of Miraculous Images and Shrines in New Spain 2016: Katrina B. Olds, Forging the Past: Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain 2015: Maureen C. Miller, Clothing the Clergy: Virtue and Power in Medieval Europe, c. 800-1200 2014: John W. O'Malley, Trent: What Happened at the Council 2013: Charles Keith, Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation 2012: John Connelly, From Enemy to Brother: The Revolution in Catholic Teaching on the Jews, 1933-1965 2011: Ulrich L. Lehner, Enlightened Monks: The German Benedictines, 1740-1803 2010: Neal Pease, Rome’s Most Faithful Daughter: The Catholic Church and Independent Poland 1914 – 1939 2009: John Van Engen, Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life: The Devotio Moderna and the World of the Later Middle Ages
See also List of history awards
References
External links John Gilmary Shea Prize