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“Is Catholicism's 'Woman Problem' a History Problem?” Teilhard de Chardin Lecture featuring Dr. Bronwen McShea

The Hank Center is honored to welcome the Spring, 2025 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Fellow in Catholic Studies, Dr. Bronwen, McShea, to offer this year’s Teilhard lecture, titled, “Is Catholicism's 'Woman Problem' a History Problem?”

Event Details

March 20, 2025
7:00-8:30 PM
Information Commons, 4th Floor, Lake Shore Campus

This event is free and all are welcome.

About Bronwen McShea

Bronwen Catherine McShea is an historian and author of three books and is based in New York City. She has held research and teaching positions at Columbia University, the University of Nebraska Omaha, Princeton University, and several other institutions. Additionally, she serves as an advisory editor for the Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI) in Rome.  With advanced degrees from both Harvard University and Yale University, she is a scholar of early modern European history and of the history of Catholicism from late medieval to modern times.  Furthermore, as a writer, speaker, and artist, McShea is concerned broadly with the Christian faith as a bearer and shaper of culture.