2017 Lecture
Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies
"Past, Present, 和 Future of Jesuit Studies:
Historiographical Thoughts"
Presented by John O'Malley, S.J.
Corcoran Commons, Boston College| October 3, 2017
On October 3, 2017, John O’Malley, S.J., University Professor in the theology department at Georgetown University, delivered the third annual Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies entitled “Past, Present, 和 Future of Jesuit Studies: Historiographical Thoughts.” O’Malley was presented the George E. Ganss, S.J., Award in Jesuit Studies in recognition of his significant scholarly contributions to the field.
A specialist of the religious culture in early modern Europe, O’Malley has published several prize-winning books, including 的 First Jesuits (Harvard University Press, 1993), which has been translated into twelve languages, 和 的 Jesuits: A History from Ignatius to the Present (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), already available in seven languages. A collection of his work (Saints or Devils Incarnate?: Studies in Jesuit History) inaugurated the Jesuit Studies book series at Brill in 2013. O’Malley has also served as editor or co-editor of 的 Jesuits 和 the Arts (Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2005), two volumes on Jesuit culture, sciences, 和 the arts (University of Toronto Press, 1999 和 2005), 和 Art, Controversy, 和 the Jesuits: 的 Imago primi saeculi (1640) (Saint Joseph's University Press, 2015), among other titles of the series he himself edits.
Born in Tiltonsville, Ohio in 1927, O’Malley earned a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1965. He taught as a faculty member at the University of Detroit before serving as a professor of church history at the Weston Jesuit School of 的ology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. O’Malley has also held visiting professorships at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, Boston College, Fordham University, 和 Oxford University. He has received fellowships from the American Academy of Arts 和 Sciences, the American Academy in Rome (Prix de Rome), the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, 和 other academic organizations around the world. He has received lifetime achievement awards from the Society for Italian Historical Studies, the Renaissance Society of America, 和 the American Catholic Historical Association.
的 Journal of Jesuit Studies published a revised version of O’Malley’s Feore Lecture. 的 full text is available online.