August 2008
Rev. Thomas Worcester, SJ, will be the 2008-2009 Wade Chair. Tom received his PhD from the University of Cambridge and currently is associate professor of history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. A specialist in the histories of France, the Renaissance, and the Catholic Church, he is author of Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (1997); co-editor of two anthologies created for art exhibitions at the Worcester Art Museum and at the McMullen Museum at Boston College; and author of more than a dozen scholarly articles. In 2006 he received the Marluggi Award for Outstanding Scholarship at Holy Cross. Tom will teach an undergraduate colloquium on the Jesuits in the fall semester and a graduate course on researching the Catholic Church in the spring. He will also give a public lecture early in the 2009.
The Wade Chair was established in 1988 by the Jesuit Community to honor Rev. Francis C. Wade, SJ, a long-time member of the philosophy department. For more on the Wade Chair, go to http://www.marquette.edu/provost/RevFrancisAWadeSJChair.shtml
Sherri Harper Charleston is one of two Mitchem Fellows at Marquette University for the 2008-2009. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan. Her dissertation is called “The Fruits of Citizenship: African Americans, Military Service, and the Cause of Cuba Libre, 1898-1914.” She has delivered papers at the Southern Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Law in Slavery and Freedom Conference at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to finishing her dissertation, Sherri will teach an undergraduate colloquium on African American citizenship and the law during the spring semester. She will also deliver a public address later in the year. The Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship program was established in 2002 For more on the program, go to http://www.marquette.edu/as/graduate_mitchem.shtml.
