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Telephone: (617) 552-8456 Office Location: 21 Campanella Way, 414 Email: james.otoole@bc.edu Curriculum Vitae: please click here |
Education
Ph.D., Boston College, 1987
Fields of Interest
American religion; American Catholic history; history of information
Academic Profile
Professor O'Toole teaches courses in the history of American religion and the history of American Catholicism. His interests lie in the history of religious ideas and in popular devotional practices. He is presently writing a general history of the American Catholic laity, and he is also studying the history of the practice of confession in America. A former archivist, he also teaches and publishes in the fields of archives and information studies.
For a list of graduate dissertations and undergraduate theses that Prof. O'Toole has advised, please click here.
Representative Publications
- Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth Century America. Editor (2004)
- Boston's Histories: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. O'Connor. Co-edited with David Quigley (2004)
- Passing for White: Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920 (2002)
- Militant and Triumphant: William Henry O'Connell and the Catholic Church in Boston, 1859-1944 (1992)
- Understanding Archives and Manuscripts (1990)