Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Patrick J. Houlihan, Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914-1945: Between Atheism and Messianism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Patrick J. Houlihan, Renovating Christian Charity: Global Catholicism, the Save the Children Fund, and Humanitarianism during the First World War, Past & Present, 250, (1), 2021, p203 - 241
Reshaping Borders: Europe and the Colonies in Pope Benedict XV's 1917 Peace Note in, editor(s)Alberto Melloni, Giovanni Cavagnini, Giulia Grossi , Benedict XV: A Pope in the World of the 'Useless Slaughter' (1914-1918), Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, pp525 - 531, [Patrick J. Houlihan]
Rimodellare i confini: l'Europa e le colonie nella Note di pace di Benedetto XV/ Reshaping Borders: Europe and the Colonies in the 1917 Peace Note in, editor(s)Alberto Melloni, Giovanni Cavagnini, Giulia Grossi , Benedetto XV. Papa Giacomo Della Chiesa nel mondo dell' 'inutile Strage'/ Benedict XV. Pope Giacomo Della Chiesa in a World of "Useless Slaughter, Bologna, Mulino, 2017, pp344-351 , [Patrick J. Houlihan]
Re-thinking Decline and Fall: The Catholic Church in Habsburg Central Europe during the Great War in, editor(s)Werner Freistetter, Gerhard Dabringer , Religionen im Krieg 1914-1918. Die Katholische Kirche in Österreich, Vienna, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, 2017, pp13-33 , [Patrick J. Houlihan]
Global Catholicism's Crusade against Communism, 1917-1963 in, editor(s)Stefan Rinke, Michael Wildt , Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions: 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, 2017, pp103-118 , [Patrick J. Houlihan]
Patrick J. Houlihan, Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1922, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015
Research Expertise
Description
My research interests include themes in modern ideology, and warfare in the era of the World Wars 1914-1945, particularly involving Germany, Austria-Hungary and the successor states, and the Catholic Church viewed globally and transnationally. I have published 2 senior-author research monographs with the leading university presses (the global research university standard for tenure for Associate Professor, or even Professor, in History is 1 research monograph). My first book, Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1922, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2015. Based on archival research in several countries, this book was an expansion of my PhD Dissertation. The book was honored with the Frankel Prize of the Wiener Library, one of the most internationally visible and competitive book awards in the field of Modern European History. My second book, Religious Humanitarianism during the World Wars, 1914-1945: Between Atheism and Messianism, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2024. For my this most recent book monograph, I was invited to keynote a conference in Taiwan at the Academia Sinica. I have continued publishing with prestigious journals and presses, remaining at the cutting-edge of scholarship in modern history. Based on my AHRC research at Oxford, I have published an article in one of the ultra-selective leading journals in the field, Past and Present (Past and Present has a blind peer review process of at least 6 reviewers, and is widely acknowledged as one of the world's most prestigious journals in history, Impact Factor of 1.8; 5 year Impact Factor of 3.0), on Catholic humanitarianism during World War I: "Renovating Christian Charity: Global Catholicism, the Save the Children Fund, and Humanitarianism during the First World War" Resulting from an Arts and Humanities Research Council grant at Oxford, as well as supplemental grants from various international universities and associations, my current research has become global and transnational focuses on the history of religious humanitarianism. For this research, I secured an additional archive research travel grant from the University of Notre Dame (USA). I am researching in the newly opened Vatican archives of Pope Pius XII. I was one of the few historians able to gain access for the 2020 world premiere opening of archives, for which I gave interviews on the BBC and other outlets. This new focus on WWII and the Holocaust is the subject of my future research, including another book project, a history of Catholic Relief Services, 1943-Present, based on global archives. I was invited to be a Consulting Professor and Associated Researcher for a Max Weber Stiftung-funded research group on Vatican Archives of Pope Pius XII. My research and career have developed, expanding Trinity's traditional excellence in World War I history, now to include World War II and the course of the 20th century. Drawing on archives in multiple countries, my research involves transnational and comparative approaches to history, incorporating the history of everyday life.Recognition
Representations
I was invited to be a Consulting Professor and Associated Researcher for a Max Weber Stiftung-funded research group on Vatican Archives of Pope Pius XII. The Vatican archives group is an international collaboration that I will advise and participate in conferences, creating research collaborations. The website is https://piusxii.hypotheses.org/associated-researchers
I organized the Research Seminar for the MPhil in International History that was unprecedented in quality: we had eminent academics from Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Durham, and Cambridge.
Awards and Honours
Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History, Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide
Memberships
American Historical Association
European Academy of Religion
Central European History Society