Rev. DAVID J. ENDRES, Ph.D.

Academic Dean and Assistant Professor of Church History and Historical Theology
Mount St. Marys Seminary of the West/Athenaeum of Ohio
Editor, U.S. Catholic Historian
ACADEMICS
Doctor of Philosophy, School of Theology and Religious Studies, 2007
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Major concentration: American Catholic history (colonial through twentieth-century)
Minor concentrations: ecclesiology and modern European Church history (1789-1965)
Master of Divinity, Mt. St. Marys Seminary of the West, 2009
Athenaeum of Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio
Master of Arts, School of Theology and Religious Studies, 2004
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Program: Church history
Bachelor of Arts in History, 2002
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Magna cum laude
WORK HISTORY
Mt. St. Marys Seminary of the West/Athenaeum of Ohio, Cincinnati
Academic Dean, Athenaeum of Ohio and Mt. St. Marys Seminary, 2016-present.
Special Studies Dean, Athenaeum of Ohio, 2016-present.
Assistant Professor of Church History and Historical Theology, 2011-present.
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
Adjunct Teaching, History 143: U.S. History I (fall 2007, fall 2009).
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Catholic Daughters of the Americas Research Fellow, 2002-2005.
Assistant Editor, U.S. Catholic Historian, 2003-2013.
Editor, U.S. Catholic Historian, 2013-present.
Adjunct Teaching, Theology 251: Dynamics of Christian Spirituality (fall 2004); Theology 221:
Church Through the Ages: The Council of Trent to Vatican II (spring 2005).
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
American Crusade: Catholic Youth in the World Mission Movement from World War I through
Vatican II (Wipf and Stock, 2010).
Many Tongues, One Faith: Franciscan Parish Life in America (Academy of American Franciscan
History, forthcoming).
Editor, Remapping the History of Catholicism in the United States: Essays from the U.S. Catholic
Historian (Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming).
Book Chapters/Essays/Introductions
Gods Beggar and Builder: Father Francis Koch, OFM, and the Growth of the Church in Northern
New Jersey, in Essays on New Jersey Catholic History: In Commemoration of the 350th

Anniversary of the Founding of the New Jersey Colony (New Jersey Catholic Historical
Commission, 2016), 95-108.
Introduction to reprinted edition of Daniel A. Lord, S.J., Letters to My Lord (Notre Dame, IN:
Christian Classics/Ave Maria Press, 2016): xiii-xviii.
Journal/Magazine Articles
Judge Leander Perez and the Franciscans of Our Lady of Good Harbor:
A School Integration Battle in Buras, Louisiana, 1962-1965, Catholic Southwest: A Journal of
History and Culture 27 (forthcoming, 2016).
What Medicine Could Not Cure: Faith Healings at the Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation, Carey,
Ohio, U.S. Catholic Historian 34, no. 3 (Summer 2016): 25-50.
Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: The History of Anti-Catholic Violence in the U.S., Homiletic
and Pastoral Review (electronic edition, August 11, 2014, http://www.hprweb.com/2014/08/sticksstones-and-broken-bones-the-history-of-anti-catholic-violence-in-the-u-s/).
With a Fathers Affection: Chaplain William T. OHiggins and the Tenth Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, U.S. Catholic Historian 31, no, 1 (Winter 2013): 97-127.
Take the Word of God to the Heart of the City: Cincinnatis Catholic Bible Center Apostolate,
1964-1971, U.S. Catholic Historian 30, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 15-34.
Making Truth Attractive: Fr. Daniel A. Lord, S.J., Hollywood Priest and Playwright, Religious
Life 36, no. 4 (July/August 2012): 6-7.
The Legacy of Thaddeus Yang International Bulletin of Missionary Research 34, no. 1 (January
2010): 23-28.
Dan Lord, Hollywood Priest, America 193, no. 19 (December 12, 2005): 20-21.
Know-Nothings, Nationhood, and the Nuncio: Reassessing the Visit of Archbishop Bedini, U.S.
Catholic Historian 21, no. 4 (Fall 2003): 1-16.
An International Dimension to American Anticommunism: Mission Awareness and Global
Consciousness in the Catholic Students Mission Crusade, 1935-1955, U.S. Catholic Historian 24,
no. 2 (Spring 2006): 89-108.
The Global Missionary Zeal of an American Apostle: The Early Works of Daniel A. Lord, S.J.,
1922-1929, U.S. Catholic Historian 24, no. 3 (Summer 2006): 39-54.
Rectifying the Fatal Contrast: Archbishop John Purcell and the Slavery Controversy Among
Cincinnati Catholics, Ohio Valley History (Fall 2002): 23-33.
Encyclopedia Articles

Anti-Catholicism, Catholic University of America, Drexel, Katharine, Fenwick, Edward,

Kino, Eusebio, McNicholas, John, and Weninger, Francis in Encyclopedia of Christianity in
the United States, ed. by Mark A. Lamport (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
forthcoming).
Roman Catholicism in Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and
Economic History, ed. James Ciment (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006), volume 4, 1078-1082.
Caritas, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Coughlin, Father Charles, Society of
Saint Vincent de Paul and U.S. Catholic Conference in Encyclopedia of World Poverty, ed.
Mehmet Odekon (London: Sage Reference, 2006), 124-125; 129-130; 214-215; 1006-1007;
1126-1127.
Healy, Rev. Sherwood, Rivers, Rev. Clarence Joseph, and Uncles, Rev. Charles Randolph, in
African American National Biography, eds. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Brooks
Higginbotham (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), volume 4, 157-158; volume 6, 606-607;
volume 8, 2-3.
Religious Vocations in Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization, ed. George T. Kurian (Malden,
MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2011), 3:1962-1964.
New York City Draft Riot (1863) in The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the
Transatlantic World, ed. Junius P. Rodriguez (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007), 394-396.
CONFERENCE PAPERS/ADDRESSES

 Judge Leander Perez and the Franciscans of Our Lady of Good Harbor: A School Integration Battle
in Buras, Louisiana, 19621965, American Catholic Historical Association, Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, Georgia, January 8, 2016.
Church Sneaks, Firebugs, and Thieves: The Anti-Catholic Crime Spree of Ray Marsden and
Accomplices, 1910-1940, American Catholic Historical Association, mid-year meeting, University
of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, March 27, 2015.
Fifteen Days in May: Post-Conciliar Unrest and Reform at Mount St. Marys Seminary, Cincinnati,
1965-1969, The Lived History of Vatican II Conference, Cushwa Center for the Study of American
Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 25, 2014.
The Making of an American Catholic Devotion: The Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey,
Ohio, 1873-1929, American Catholic Historical Association, mid-year meeting, Xavier University,
Cincinnati, March 28, 2014.
The Politics of Recognition and Accommodation: Bonaventure Oblasser, OFM, among Arizonas
Tohono Oodham, 1911-1939, American Catholic Historical Association, Annual Meeting,
Washington, D.C., January 4, 2014.
Roe v. Wade, American Culture, and Catholic Theology, Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy
and Doctrine, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, January 22, 2013.
A Franciscan Tale of Two Cities: Ethnic Assimilation and Separatism in New York and
Cincinnati, Franciscan School of Theology, Berkeley, California, February 23, 2012.
From Buddha to Christ: The Reverend Thaddeus Yang, O.S.B., and the American-Chinese Mission
Exchange, 1945-1960, American Catholic Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Washington,
D.C., January 5, 2008.
Babes Whom the Christ Child Loves: Childhood, Infancy, and Innocence in the American
Catholic Foreign Mission Movement, American Catholic Historical Association, Mid-year Meeting,
Worcester, Massachusetts, April 7, 2006.
Souls Under Siege: The Catholic Students Mission Crusade and International Anticommunism,
1943-1955, American Catholic Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington,
January 8, 2005.
Rome in America: The Nuncios Visit and the Popish Threat to the Republic, Society for
Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting, Ohio State University, July 19, 2003.
HONORS
Celebration of Teaching Honoree, Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities,
November 6, 2015.