Associate Professor
Department of History
Contact information:
Christopher Shannon, Ph.D.
134 Christendom Dr.
Front Royal, VA 22630
540.551.9203
cshannon@christendom.edu
Education
B.A., Rochester University
M.Phil., Yale University
Ph.D., Yale University
Classes Taught
- Ancient and Biblical World
- Medieval World
- The Reformation to Present Times
- Augustine and His Age
- The Immigrant Church
- Historiography
- American History and Catholicism Since 1860
- U.S. Intellectual and Cultural History
- 1865 to Present
Hobbies
Playing Irish music—button accordion
Areas of Expertise
Modern American Cultural and Intellectual History
Irish American History
American Catholic History
Historiography
Selected Scholarship
Bowery to Broadway: The American Irish in Classic Hollywood Cinema (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2010)
Conspicuous Criticism: Tradition, the Individual, and Culture in Modern American Social Thought (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2005) Paperback also available (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996)
A World Made Safe for Differences: Cold War Intellectuals and the Politics of Identity (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001)
The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative, Tradition, and the Renewal of Catholic History (Front Royal: Christendom Press, 2014)
Numerous other articles, reviews, essays.
Professional Affiliation
Philadelphia Society