Past Research Projects
Indigenous Deities and Catholic Prayer: an Undocumented Immigrant Cry for Help in the memoir Solito (2022) by Javier Zamora
Gabriela Buitrón Vera, Lecturer of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送.
The Origins of Social Justice: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Taparelli
Jeffrey Fisher, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送
Modernist Conversions: A Transnational history of Catholic-Muslim Encounters in Early Twentieth Century Europe
Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of History, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送
Faith-based organizations and the reintegration of the incarcerated: mapping out initiatives, analyzing their possibilities and challenges in Chicagoland
Guillermo Sanhueza, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
The Long-Term Impact of an International Service Immersion for Nursing Students Focused on Spiritual Care
Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell PhD, RN, MPA, FAAN, Associate Professor, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
Religious Agency and Affiliational Diversity: Advancing the Mission of Catholic Higher Education in the 21st Century
Mara Brecht, Associate Professor of Theology, and Andrew Milewski, SJ, First Studies, MA in Social Philosophy program
La Strada for Social Justice: Transforming & Sustaining Loyola as a Community Engaged through Creative Placemaking
Amy Wilkinson, Instructor of Fine and Performing Arts
Collectio Avellana
Alexander W.H. Evers, Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classical Studies
Science and the Common Good
Hans Svebakken, Senior Lecturer, Theology
Building Community-Led Environmental Solutions through Culturally-Mindful Reciprocal Collaboration
Laura Brentner, School of Environmental Sustainability
Michael J. Schuck, Deaprtment of Theology and School of Environmental Sustainability
Catholic Resistance: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial
Michelle Nickerson, Department of History
Three Narratives in Theorizing Catholic Intellectual Heritage: Autobiographical Investigation in Catholicism, Subjectivity, and Teacher Education
Seungho Moon, Ann Marie Ryan, and Terri Piggot
Shakespeare’s Naught: Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature
James Knapp, Department of English
~ Undergraduate Research Fellow: Joseph I. De Larauze
The Communicative Role of Hip Hop Culture in the Chicago Interfaith Community’s Struggle for Social Justice
George Villanueva, School of Communication
~ Undergraduate Research Fellow: Sylvester F. Alonz
Bosnian Franciscan Revival in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire
Edin Hajdarpasic, Department of History
Souls and Sonnets
Elizabeth Coffman, School of Communication
The Camden 28: Catholic Left Opposition to the Vietnam War
Michelle Nickerson, Department of History
The Trinity, Infinity, and the Other: Mystical Theology and Human Flourishing
Mark McIntosh, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
The Jesuit Provenance Project
Kyle Roberts, Department of History
“There is no word for me”: The Catholic Imagination and the Transcendence of Race in Emily Raboteau’s The Professor’s Daughter
Badia Ahad, Department of English
Joseph Bonnecamps, S.J. (1707-1790)
John Cunningham, S.J., Department of Physics
Relationships with God: How Contemporary Catholic Women Religiously Nurture Their Relationships with God
Jennifer Fiebig, Department of Psychology
Patriotism, Catholicism, and Military Services: Exploring the Social Ministry Roles of Catholic Churches for Military Personnel and Their Families
Caleb Kim, School of Social Work
Justice Delayed: The Study of Four Churchwomen in El Salvador
Julia A. Lieblich, School of Communication
Vatican II's Golden Jubilee: Marking 50 years of Continuity, Controversy, and Conversation
Michael P. Murphy, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
An English Translation of Luigi Taparelli d’Azeglio’s 'Saggio Teoretico di Diritto Naturale Appoggiato sul Fatto
Robert John Araujo, S.J., School of Law
Integrating Ignatian Spirituality in Undergraduate Nursing Education
Lisa Burkhart, School of Nursing with Mary Ann McDermott, School of Nursing and William Schmidt, Institute of Pastoral Studies
Religiosity and Body Image in Catholic, Muslim, and Amish Women
Denise Davidson, Department of Psychology
Irish Catholics and the Early Modern Origins of Religious Toleration
John Donoghue, Department of History
Medical Theory and the Christianization of Sleep in Late Antiquity
Leslie Dossey, Department of History
Augustine and Academic Skepticism: A Philosophical Appraisal
Blake Dutton, Department of Philosophy
Prayer, Marriage, and the Family
Paul Giblin, Institute of Pastoral Studies
Channels of Sovereignty: Colonial Writing in Native North America
Jeffrey S. Glover, Department of English
Catholicism, Cities, and Education in Early Twentieth Century America: The Contributions of Frederic Siedenburg, S.J.
Edward Gumz, School of Social Work
The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: 1919-1943
Ann M. Harrington, BVM, Department of History
Expanding Horizons of the Sisters of Charity, BVM: 1919-1943
Ann M. Harrington, BVM, Department of History
Evolutionary Biology, Human Sexuality and the Catholic Heritage
James Calcagno, Department of Anthropology
Frank Catania, Department of Philosophy
Pamela Caughie, Department of English
Robert DiVito, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Frank Fennell, Department of English
Anne Figert, Department of Sociology
James Garbarino, Department of Psychology
Terry Grande, Department of Biology
Patricia Beattie Jung (Coordinator),
Fred Kniss
John McCarthy, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Paul Mueller, S.J., Vatican Observatory
Jon Nilson, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
David Ozar, Department of Philosophy
Jennifer Parks, Department of Philosophy
Susan Ross, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Joan Roughgarden
Diane Suter
Aana Vigen (Moderator), Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Music of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
Gustavo Leone, Department of Fine and Performing Arts/Music
Reconstructing & Resurrecting of the Music of the Jesuit Missions of South America
Gustavo Leone, Department of Fine and Performing Arts/Music
What are the Attitudes of Ugandan Catholic High School Administrators Regarding Addressing the Needs of LGBT Students?
Michael J. Maher, Jr., School of Education
A Brief History of Monasticism
Dennis Martin, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
On Feeling Catholic: The Cultural Form of a Universal Religion
Hugh Miller, Department of Philosophy
A Question of Habit (A Documentary Film)
Bren A. O. Murphy, School of Communication
Does Social Work Education 'Prefer' the Poor? A Content Analysis of Foundation Course Syllabi Within Catholic MSW Programs
Julia Pryce, School of Social Work
Michael Kelly, School of Social Work
Priest Under Fire: The Life and Times of David Rodriguez
Peter Sanchez, Department of Political Science
The Meaning and Impact of a Service Immersion: A Pilgrimage of Nursing Students Serving the Sick in Lourdes, France
P. Ann Solari-Twadell, School of Nursing
The Gift of Peace, Teleplay
J. Michael Sparough, S.J., Institute of Pastoral Studies
Arguing Democracy on Religious Grounds: Lessons from the Catholic Experience
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Department of Political Science
The Use of Memoir to Preserve the Legacy of American Catholic Women Religious: A Model Program Developed with the Assistance of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs)
Dan Vaillancourt, Department of Philosophy
Faith and the Catholic Church as Protective Factors for Mexican and Central American Migrant Families:A Transnational Study
Maria Vidal de Haymes, School of Social Work
The Paradoxical State of the Abortion Debate in the US
Elfriede Wedam, Department of Sociology
Miracles of Chastisement and Attitudes toward Disability in Medieval England and France
Edward Wheatley, Department of English
Indigenous Deities and Catholic Prayer: an Undocumented Immigrant Cry for Help in the memoir Solito (2022) by Javier Zamora
Gabriela Buitrón Vera
Lecturer of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送.
This project specifically investigates how institutions like the Catholic church have become a symbol of sanctuary for undocumented immigrants in the United States. It draws from this aspect and examines the importance of divinity for undocumented immigrants depicted in Javier Zamora's memoir Solito (2023). To this end, this research sheds light on how characters in this book use 1) Catholic rituals for well-being and 2) ancestral oral teachings for coping with uncertainty. Parts of my research findings will be presented at upcoming national and international conferences. In addition, the results from this project will help me create one new course: “Migration and the Divine.”
The Origins of Social Justice: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Taparelli
Jeffrey Fisher
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送
Over the past few decades, the phrase ‘social justice’ has become central to much political discourse. Today, many people—both critics and proponents of social justice—view it as a specifically progressive ideal. The term ‘social justice’, however, was coined by a 19th century Jesuit Thomist, Luigi Taparelli (who, somewhat ironically, was often derided as a reactionary or conservative), and through Taparelli’s work and influence, it became a central plank of Catholic Social Teaching.Taparelli employed it to describe and to extend what Aquinas called “general” or “legal” justice, a notion which Aquinas himself inherited from Aristotle’s discussion of justice in the Nicomachean Ethics. My project is to recover and articulate this Aristotelian account of social justice, by tracing its development from Aristotle, through Aquinas, and into Taparelli.
Modernist Conversions: A Transnational history of Catholic-Muslim Encounters in Early Twentieth Century Europe
Edin Hajdarpasic
Associate Professor of History, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送
This project grew out of my ongoing research, which explores the intellectual paths of European converts to Islam in the early twentieth century. At the height of Western imperial expansion, a number of prominent European intellectuals embraced Islam—or more precisely created their own interpretation of Islam—in efforts marked by both a rejection of certain aspects of Western modernity and an attempt to revitalize different religious traditions. Here I expand a subset of this larger research by focusing specifically on how Catholic-Muslim conversions challenged the dichotomy between “native” communities and “outsider” converts. By the early twentieth century, many Europeans perceived Buddhism, Islam, and other “Eastern” religions as exotic alternatives to “Western” cultures, but Islam was different in that it also carried a number of explicitly anti-Western connotations. In a paradox that haunted Orientalist thought, Islam was long portrayed as “the Other”—a menacing force alien to Western civilization—precisely because of its intimate and direct presence within Europe, especially in places like Spain and the Balkans where former Muslim empires left deep legacies. My current project not only extends this discussion into the twentieth century, but also recasts the debate by widening the scope to a transnational scale, spanning Europe and connecting Catholic studies with histories of Islam in Europe.
Faith-based organizations and the reintegration of the incarcerated: mapping out initiatives, analyzing their possibilities and challenges in Chicagoland
Guillermo Sanhueza
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
The promotion of dialogue between faith and contemporary culture, as well as the preferential attention towards the poorest are two aspects where the Catholic Church has emphasized in recent years (National Catholic Reporter, 2022; America Magazine, 2019). In the US, in particular, one group that has been historically marginalized are the incarcerated (Bellin, 2022). Indeed, the US puts behind bars more people per capita than any other country in the world, especially African Americans, with devastating effects (Beckett & Goldberg, 2022; Wildeman & Wang, 2017).To respond to this so-called “mass incarceration” phenomenon (Wacquant, 2017), many people of faith, alongside with others of good will have been implementing initiatives aimed to support formerly incarcerated individuals as they return to their communities (Levad, 2019; Erzen, 2017). Our pilot, previous work in Chicagoland has shown that, among the reentry programs, there are many that identified themselves as faith-based initiatives, yet from various denominations and degrees of an explicit message. At the same time, most of them seemed rooted in a religious message of compassion, justice, and second chances (Sanhueza & Christensen-Cabrera, 2023).Beyond good intentions, though, one modern criterion for analyzing such initiatives with the lens of reason has to do with contemporary social science, in general, and program evaluation in particular. Through these lens, well-intended purposes must be accompanied by a certain “logic of work” to make sure that actions taken are consistent and possibly beneficial for society and for participants themselves. Thus, this research project aims to map out current faith-based initiatives in Chicagoland; to understand how they are currently working; and to analyze possibilities and challenges that faith-based organizations face for a successful reintegration.
The Long-Term Impact of an International Service Immersion for Nursing Students Focused on Spiritual Care
Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell PhD, RN, MPA, FAAN
Associate Professor, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
There have been twelve International Lourdes Service Immersions completed with a thirteenth scheduled for May 2025. Over the years, there have been over one hundred and thirty traditional nursing students who have participated in the Lourdes Service Immersion. This international service engages nursing students in week-long service to pilgrims from around the world assisting these pilgrims with their devotions by helping the pilgrims act of faith through the sign of the water in the bathes in Lourdes. Lourdes is the largest Roman Catholic shrine dedicated to the Immaculate Conception, faith, and healing. The shrine is in Lourdes, France.This research project is a mixed method, study using Husserl's Theory of phenomenology and a modified Inner Strength Questionnaire (Roux, and Dingley, 2009), Spiritual Well-Being Scale (Daaleman and Frey, 2004) and Quality of Life Scale (Burckhardt& Anderson, 2003) aimed at identifying current practices, rituals, meditations or other strategies learned through their experience and service in the bathes with pilgrims from around the world and are used today to support “inner strength” ND "quality of life" while sustaining their wellbeing and nursing practice. The research questions include:What are the demographics of past Lourdes Service Immersion Alumni including: current role in nursing, Any participation in a graduate nursing program, how long since graduation and serving in the bathes in Lourdes? What is the Lourdes Service Immersion Alumni’s report of their current inner strength and spiritual well-being and quality of life? What practices, rituals, meditations, or other strategies learned through their experience and service in the bathes in Lourdes are utilized today to support their health, well-being, quality of life and nursing practice? Given the recent impact of the pandemic on the well-being of nurses and the number of nurses leaving the profession, the findings of this study may reveal practices utilized by nurses that have sustained them through difficult episodes in their nursing career.
Indigenous Deities and Catholic Prayer: an Undocumented Immigrant Cry for Help in the memoir Solito (2022) by Javier Zamora
Gabriela Buitrón Vera, Lecturer of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送.
The Origins of Social Justice: Aristotle, Aquinas, and Taparelli
Jeffrey Fisher, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送
Modernist Conversions: A Transnational history of Catholic-Muslim Encounters in Early Twentieth Century Europe
Edin Hajdarpasic, Associate Professor of History, G5H2G 旗艦店 - 秒殺配送 CVA Cascade Rimfire：2026年新款式，輕量化栓動式訓練步槍 快速運送
Faith-based organizations and the reintegration of the incarcerated: mapping out initiatives, analyzing their possibilities and challenges in Chicagoland
Guillermo Sanhueza, Associate Professor, School of Social Work
The Long-Term Impact of an International Service Immersion for Nursing Students Focused on Spiritual Care
Phyllis Ann Solari-Twadell PhD, RN, MPA, FAAN, Associate Professor, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing
Religious Agency and Affiliational Diversity: Advancing the Mission of Catholic Higher Education in the 21st Century
Mara Brecht, Associate Professor of Theology, and Andrew Milewski, SJ, First Studies, MA in Social Philosophy program
La Strada for Social Justice: Transforming & Sustaining Loyola as a Community Engaged through Creative Placemaking
Amy Wilkinson, Instructor of Fine and Performing Arts
Collectio Avellana
Alexander W.H. Evers, Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classical Studies
Science and the Common Good
Hans Svebakken, Senior Lecturer, Theology
Building Community-Led Environmental Solutions through Culturally-Mindful Reciprocal Collaboration
Laura Brentner, School of Environmental Sustainability
Michael J. Schuck, Deaprtment of Theology and School of Environmental Sustainability
Catholic Resistance: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on Trial
Michelle Nickerson, Department of History
Three Narratives in Theorizing Catholic Intellectual Heritage: Autobiographical Investigation in Catholicism, Subjectivity, and Teacher Education
Seungho Moon, Ann Marie Ryan, and Terri Piggot
Shakespeare’s Naught: Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature
James Knapp, Department of English
~ Undergraduate Research Fellow: Joseph I. De Larauze
The Communicative Role of Hip Hop Culture in the Chicago Interfaith Community’s Struggle for Social Justice
George Villanueva, School of Communication
~ Undergraduate Research Fellow: Sylvester F. Alonz
Bosnian Franciscan Revival in Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire
Edin Hajdarpasic, Department of History
Souls and Sonnets
Elizabeth Coffman, School of Communication
The Camden 28: Catholic Left Opposition to the Vietnam War
Michelle Nickerson, Department of History
The Trinity, Infinity, and the Other: Mystical Theology and Human Flourishing
Mark McIntosh, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
The Jesuit Provenance Project
Kyle Roberts, Department of History
“There is no word for me”: The Catholic Imagination and the Transcendence of Race in Emily Raboteau’s The Professor’s Daughter
Badia Ahad, Department of English
Joseph Bonnecamps, S.J. (1707-1790)
John Cunningham, S.J., Department of Physics
Relationships with God: How Contemporary Catholic Women Religiously Nurture Their Relationships with God
Jennifer Fiebig, Department of Psychology
Patriotism, Catholicism, and Military Services: Exploring the Social Ministry Roles of Catholic Churches for Military Personnel and Their Families
Caleb Kim, School of Social Work
Justice Delayed: The Study of Four Churchwomen in El Salvador
Julia A. Lieblich, School of Communication
Vatican II's Golden Jubilee: Marking 50 years of Continuity, Controversy, and Conversation
Michael P. Murphy, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
An English Translation of Luigi Taparelli d’Azeglio’s 'Saggio Teoretico di Diritto Naturale Appoggiato sul Fatto
Robert John Araujo, S.J., School of Law
Integrating Ignatian Spirituality in Undergraduate Nursing Education
Lisa Burkhart, School of Nursing with Mary Ann McDermott, School of Nursing and William Schmidt, Institute of Pastoral Studies
Religiosity and Body Image in Catholic, Muslim, and Amish Women
Denise Davidson, Department of Psychology
Irish Catholics and the Early Modern Origins of Religious Toleration
John Donoghue, Department of History
Medical Theory and the Christianization of Sleep in Late Antiquity
Leslie Dossey, Department of History
Augustine and Academic Skepticism: A Philosophical Appraisal
Blake Dutton, Department of Philosophy
Prayer, Marriage, and the Family
Paul Giblin, Institute of Pastoral Studies
Channels of Sovereignty: Colonial Writing in Native North America
Jeffrey S. Glover, Department of English
Catholicism, Cities, and Education in Early Twentieth Century America: The Contributions of Frederic Siedenburg, S.J.
Edward Gumz, School of Social Work
The Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: 1919-1943
Ann M. Harrington, BVM, Department of History
Expanding Horizons of the Sisters of Charity, BVM: 1919-1943
Ann M. Harrington, BVM, Department of History
Evolutionary Biology, Human Sexuality and the Catholic Heritage
James Calcagno, Department of Anthropology
Frank Catania, Department of Philosophy
Pamela Caughie, Department of English
Robert DiVito, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Frank Fennell, Department of English
Anne Figert, Department of Sociology
James Garbarino, Department of Psychology
Terry Grande, Department of Biology
Patricia Beattie Jung (Coordinator),
Fred Kniss
John McCarthy, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Paul Mueller, S.J., Vatican Observatory
Jon Nilson, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
David Ozar, Department of Philosophy
Jennifer Parks, Department of Philosophy
Susan Ross, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Joan Roughgarden
Diane Suter
Aana Vigen (Moderator), Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Music of the Jesuit Missions of the Chiquitos
Gustavo Leone, Department of Fine and Performing Arts/Music
Reconstructing & Resurrecting of the Music of the Jesuit Missions of South America
Gustavo Leone, Department of Fine and Performing Arts/Music
What are the Attitudes of Ugandan Catholic High School Administrators Regarding Addressing the Needs of LGBT Students?
Michael J. Maher, Jr., School of Education
A Brief History of Monasticism
Dennis Martin, Department of Theology & Religious Studies
On Feeling Catholic: The Cultural Form of a Universal Religion
Hugh Miller, Department of Philosophy
A Question of Habit (A Documentary Film)
Bren A. O. Murphy, School of Communication
Does Social Work Education 'Prefer' the Poor? A Content Analysis of Foundation Course Syllabi Within Catholic MSW Programs
Julia Pryce, School of Social Work
Michael Kelly, School of Social Work
Priest Under Fire: The Life and Times of David Rodriguez
Peter Sanchez, Department of Political Science
The Meaning and Impact of a Service Immersion: A Pilgrimage of Nursing Students Serving the Sick in Lourdes, France
P. Ann Solari-Twadell, School of Nursing
The Gift of Peace, Teleplay
J. Michael Sparough, S.J., Institute of Pastoral Studies
Arguing Democracy on Religious Grounds: Lessons from the Catholic Experience
Gunes Murat Tezcur, Department of Political Science
The Use of Memoir to Preserve the Legacy of American Catholic Women Religious: A Model Program Developed with the Assistance of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs)
Dan Vaillancourt, Department of Philosophy
Faith and the Catholic Church as Protective Factors for Mexican and Central American Migrant Families:A Transnational Study
Maria Vidal de Haymes, School of Social Work
The Paradoxical State of the Abortion Debate in the US
Elfriede Wedam, Department of Sociology
Miracles of Chastisement and Attitudes toward Disability in Medieval England and France
Edward Wheatley, Department of English