St. Louis Catholic Archives Collective Team

Mary Dunn

Executive director of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Professor of theological studies at Saint Louis University
mary.dunn@slu.edu

Mary Dunn, Ph.D., is the executive director of the CRGC and professor of theological studies at Saint Louis University. A historian of religion, Dunn works in the area of early modern Catholicism. She has published extensively on Catholicism in 17th- and 18th-century colonial New France, including on the Jesuits, martyrdom, and women’s religious orders, as well as on theory and method in the study of religion. She is working on a new book project focusing on the history of Quebec’s 19th-century foundlings and the Augustinian nuns of the Hôtel-Dieu who cared for them. 

Charles Parker

Executive committee member of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Professor of history at Saint Louis University
charles.parker@slu.edu

Charles Parker, Ph.D., is an executive committee member of the CRGC and a professor of history at Saint Louis University. His research interests focus on the religious and cultural history of early modern Europe and cross-cultural interactions in world history. His latest book is "Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800" (Yale University Press, 2022). His current work examines contests and conflicts over religious geographies from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

Paul Lynch

Executive committee member of the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
Associate professor of English
paul.lynch@slu.edu

Paul Lynch, Ph.D., is an executive committee member of the CRGC, an associate professor of English at Saint Louis University. His primary interests are the rhetoric of religion, rhetorical theory, and writing pedagogy.

Anna Katharina Rudolph

Postdoctoral research fellow for the Center for Research on Global Catholicism
annakatharina.rudolph@slu.edu

Anna Katharina Rudolph, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral research fellow for the CRGC, leading efforts to organize and develop initiatives for the St. Louis Catholic Archives Collective. As a historian of medieval women’s history, her research interests include the intersection of gender and sanctity, the cult of the saints, queenship and monasticism. Her current book project, "Mother of the Fatherland: Rewriting Radegund of Poitiers and the Myth of the French Nation from Medieval to Modernity" (forthcoming) uses the global “afterlife” of the Frankish queen-saint, Radegund of Poitiers (520-587), to investigate the complex relationship between hagiography, gender, and the construction of national identities. Rudolph spearheads the SCAC's digital humanities project, which entails designing the exhibits and maintaining the SCAC website.

Caitlin Stamm

Caitlin Stamm is an assistant professor at Saint Louis University, where she has served as University archivist at the Pius XII Memorial Library since 2020. She holds an M.A. in Library and Information Science and a Special Collections Certificate from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the management of religious archives, acquisitions, cataloging, preservation, digitization and digital preservation projects, and the creation of archival finding aids. She also selects and creates content for digital collections, blogs and social media platforms. Beginning in the summer of 2024, Stamm will serve as the SCAC project supervisor.

Rena Schergen

Archivist of the Archdiocese of St. Louis Archives
renaschergen@archstl.org

As the archivist for the Archdiocese of St. Louis since 2013, Rena Schergen oversees and provides access to collections that date to the early 1800s. Previously, she worked at special collections at the University of Chicago, where she assisted researchers. She received her Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2013 and became a certified archivist in 2020. Rena is active in the archival community, having served in roles at professional organizations such as the Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists, the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists, and the Midwest Archives Conference.

Archdiocese of St. Louis' Archival Holdings

Catherine Lucy

Archivist of the Carondelet Consolidated Archives
archivist@csjcarondelet.org

Catherine Lucy is the director of the Carondelet Consolidated Archives for the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She has worked with the congregation since 2018. She holds a Master of Science in Library and Information Sciences from San Jose State University and became a certified archivist in 2020. As director of the archives, she oversees every element of the department, including the development and implementation of policies and procedures, and the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of archival materials. She also provides reference services, interacts with researchers, writes blog posts, hosts tours and gives presentations. Lucy is a member of the Society of American Archivists, Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious, Midwest Archives Conference, and the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists. She has also served on the board of the Carondelet Historical Society since 2021.

Archival Holdings for Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet

Amanda Gesiorski

Archivist of the St. Louis Visitation Archives
archives@visitationacademy.org

Since 2016, Amanda Gesiorski has managed and provided access to the collection of documents and artifacts of the St. Louis Visitation Sisters and the school they founded, Visitation Academy. She received her B.A. in history and anthropology from Ripon College and completed her M.A. in museum studies at Baylor University. Previously, she held an assistantship as a processing archivist at the Texas Collection of Baylor University. Gesiorski is particularly interested in developing programming for pre-K through 12th grades and is excited to collaborate with her archival colleagues at the Visitation institutions in Minnesota and Georgetown to establish a Visitation Archives Consortium. Gesiorski is a certified archivist and a member of the Archivists for Congregations of Women Religious and the Association of St. Louis Area Archivists.

Archival Holdings of Visitation Academy