Nicholas Rademacher

Dr. Nicholas Rademacher is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Dayton. His teaching and scholarship emerges within the interdisciplinary field of American Catholic studies, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and contemporary issues in mission and identity in Catholic higher education. Most recently, he has been exploring the history and contemporary relevance of Catholic interracial movements in the United States in the middle decades of the twentieth-century.

He is co-editor of the journal _American Catholic Studies_ and Vice-President of the American Catholic Historical Society. He recently completed service as a member of the historical commission for the cause for canonization of Fr. William Atkinson, OSA and in 2019 he completed the Spiritual Direction Formation Program with the Sisters of Mercy at Cranaleith Spiritual Center in Philadelphia, PA.

He is the author of _Paul Hanly Furfey: Priest, Scientist, Social Reformer_ (Fordham University Press, 2017) and co-editor with Dr Benjamin Peters _American Catholicism in the Twenty-first Century: Crisis, Crossroads, or Renewal?_ (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Press, 2018).