AMY L.

KOEHLINGER
School of History, Philosophy and Religion
Oregon State University
306 Milam Hall
Corvallis OR 97331
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University.
(2015-)
Assistant Professor, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University.
(2012-2015)
Associate Professor, American Religious History, Religion Department, College of Arts and
Sciences, Florida State University. (2009-2012)
Assistant Professor, American Religious History, Religion Department, College of Arts and
Sciences, Florida State University. (2002-2008)
Visiting Fellow, Christian Thought and Practice, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton
University. (2003-2004)
Education
Yale University
2002. Ph.D., Religious Studies. Specialization: North American Religious History, U.S.
Catholicism. Dissertation: From Selma to Sisterhood: Race and Transformation in
Catholic Sisterhoods in the 1960s.
University of Oregon
1996. M.A., U.S. History.
Indiana University
1991. B.A., Religious Studies (with honors), Political Science.
Fellowships
Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Oregon State University, 2014.
Colloquium Fellow, Sports Writing and the Writing Sport, Rice University and Oxford
University, 2012-2013.
Seminar Fellow, Young Scholars in American Religion, Center for the Study of Religion
and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, 2003-2005.

VITAE for Amy L. Koehlinger

Residential Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion, Princeton University, 2003-2004.
Honors and Awards
Undergraduate Teaching Award, Florida State University, 2009.
Hoffer Award, 2009, for The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s.
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Academy of Religion
American Catholic Historical Association
American Historical Association
American Society of Church History
Western Association of Women Historians
Select Publications
Books (refereed)
Rosaries and Rope Burns: Boxing and Manhood in American Catholicism, 1890-1970.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Draft manuscript in preparation).
From Charity to Justice: A History of Franciscan Social Apostolates in the U.S. for the
Academy of American Franciscan History. (Draft manuscript in preparation).
The New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960s. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2007.
Reviewed in: Catholic News Service July 3, 2007; Womens Studies, Vol. 36, No. 5 (July 2007), 389-393;
Choice, Vol. 45, No. 2 (October 2007); Church History, Vol. 76, No. 4 (December 2007), 876-877;
American Catholic Studies, review symposium, Vol. 118, No. 4 (Winter 2007), 63-72; Alabama Review,
Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 2008), 68-70; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 94, No. 3 (July 2008), 611-612.
Nominated for the Grawmeyer Award, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize.
Recipient Hoffer Award.

Book Chapters (refereed)

Catholic Distinctiveness and the Challenge of American Denominationalism, Interpreting
Denominational History: Perspectives on the Past, Prospects for the Future. 7-30, Tuscaloosa,
AL: University of Alabama Press, 2008.
Are you the White Sisters or the Black Sisters?: Women Confounding Categories of Race and
Gender, The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. 253-278, Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

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VITAE for Amy L. Koehlinger

Reviewed in the Journal of American History, Vol. 94, No. 3 (December 2007); American Historical
Review, Vol. 112, No. 3 (June 2007); Church History, Vol. 76, No. 4, (December 2007); Catholic Historical
Review, Vol. 94, No. 1 (January 2008)

Articles and essays

History of Sports and Religion in the United States and Britain in the Oxford Handbook of
Sports History, Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press,
2014).
By Whose Authority? U.S. Women Religious and the Vatican: Conflict and Historical Context,
American Catholic Studies Newsletter, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism,
Notre Dame. Vol 39, No. 2, (Fall 2012), 1, 6-9.
Knights of Columbus in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural History. (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2011.)
Academia and Aggiornamento: the Social Sciences and Postconciliar Reform among American
Sisters, U.S. Catholic Historian 26:4 (Fall 2007), 63-83.
Race Relations Needs the Nun: Sources of Continuity and Change in the Racial Apostolate of
the 1960s," U.S. Catholic Historian, 24: 4 (Fall 2005), 39-59.
Let Us Live for Those Who Love Us: Faith, Family, and the Contours of Manhood Among the
Knights of Columbus in Late Nineteenth-Century Connecticut, Journal of Social History 38: 2
(Winter 2004), 455-469.
Other publications
Lead review, symposium on Anne Butler, Across Gods Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the
American West, 1850-1920 in American Catholic Studies, Vol. 124, No. 1 (Spring 2013), 65-74.
Blood and Adrenaline, editors introduction to review roundtable on Manuel Vasquez, More
Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol.
24, No. 5 (Fall 2012).
American Sisters Havent Strayed. The Vatican Has, Religion and Politics, July 2012.
Named One of the Weeks Best Longreads by The Daily Beast, July 27, 2012.

Before there were Nuns on the Bus, there were Nuns in Station Wagons, Harvard University
Press Blog, July 12, 2012
Review Symposium on Tom Tweed, Americas Church: The National Shrine and Catholic
Presence in the Nations Capital in American Catholic Studies, Vol. 122, No. 4 (Winter, 2011),
77-81.
Winner of the Catholic Press Association Prize for Best Review, 2011.

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VITAE for Amy L. Koehlinger

Demythologizing Catholic Women Religious in the 1960s. Journal of Southern Religion, Vol.
X (December 2007), 1-5.
Response to review symposium on The New Nuns, (reviews by Christine Anderson, Ann
Harrington, Greg Hite, Dolores Liptak), American Catholic Studies, Vol. 118, No. 4 (Winter
2007), 72-77.

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