Kathleen Sprows Commings is a Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Notre Dame, where she also directs the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. Cummings holds a concurrent appointment in Gender Studies in the Department of Theology, and is an affiliated faculty member in Italian Studies and the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Cummings’ most recent book, A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2019.