Catholics and Jews in Cities Talking About “American” Religion

Robert Orsi is Grace Craddock Nagle Chair of Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also Professor of Religious Studies, History, and American Studies. His most recent book is History and Presence, was published in 2016 under the Belknap Imprint of Harvard University Press. Orsi is currently at work on a book called Give Us Boys about the formation of young men at a Jesuit high school in New York City in 1967–1971 as an episode in the broader history of modern Catholic sexuality, class, and urbanism.

A native of New York City, Orsi received his Ph.D. from Yale University. He has held grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Guggenheim, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.