The Archives is pleased to announce its 2011 Dorothy Mohler Grant recipients. The Mohler Research Grants help defray research and travel costs for those using the collections at the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives here at CUA. This year’s winners are Gráinne McEvoy of Boston College, and Trygve Throntveit of Harvard University.

Gráinne McEvoy graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2005 with a Joint Honors degree in History and English Literature, and from Trinity College, Dublin in 2006 with a Masters in Modern Irish History. She is currently a doctoral candidate in History at Boston College. Her dissertation examines the response of American Catholic intellectuals to the United States’ immigration restriction policies from 1917 to 1965. In 2007 she received a scholarship from the Irish Fulbright Commission to undertake doctoral work in the U.S., and has been an Irish Studies Fellow at Boston College since 2008. Ms. McEvoy is the recipient of a $500 grant toward travel here to conduct research in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops/National Catholic Welfare Conference Bureau of Immigration papers.

Trygve Throntveit is Lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in History at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in History in 2008. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on Woodrow Wilson’s domestic and foreign policies and on the intellectual history of pragmatism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dr. Throntveit is currently revising a book-length manuscript entitled Power without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the American Internationalist Experiment. Dr. Throntveit is the recipient of a $250 grant toward travel here to conduct research in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops/National Catholic Welfare Conference papers related to international affairs.

We look forward to working with our grant recipients this year!