CHARM RESEARCH
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Nascent and on-going research projects
by CHARM members and collaborators
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Bibliotheca Iulia Instaurata
RECONSTRUCTING MUSIC
in Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
CARA DE VAGO & CARAVAGGIO
Homeboy Old Master
Audio intro by artist Fabian Debora
Hector Reyes spoke about this project at the Afterlives conference at the Forest Lawn Art Museum on Nov. 4
PLAYING/PLAY ON BUXTEHUDE
Historical research, musical performance, and the writing of a new play on Dietrich Buxtehude (c. 1637-1707). Buxtehude was the organist at the Lübeck Marienkirche and composer of:
BOOKS WE’VE WRITTEN
Raphael, Dürer, and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print
Lisa Pon
A Printed Icon in Early Modern Italy: Forlì's Madonna of the Fire
Lisa Pon
Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400–1100
Lisa Bitel
Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland
Lisa Bitel
Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe: New Perspectives
Lisa Bitel
Our Lady of the Rock: Vision and Pilgrimage in the Mojave Desert
Lisa Bitel
Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe
Lisa Bitel
The First Pagan Historian
Frederic Clark
Temples in the Cliffside
Sonya Lee
Mathematical Theologies
David Albertson
Whitewashed Adobe
William Deverell
Railroad Crossing Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910
William Deverell
Kathy Fiscus: A Tragedy that Transfixed the Nation
William Deverell
Comics and Stuff
Henry Jenkins
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Henry Jenkins
The Wow Climax: Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
Henry Jenkins
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Henry Jenkins
What Made Pistachio Nuts? Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Henry Jenkins
Above Sea: Contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai
Jenny Lin
Across Legal Lines: Jews and Muslims in Modern Morocco
Jessica Marglin
The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Jessica Marglin
City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages (The Middle Ages Series)
Maya Maskarinec
Der Grund der Malerei: Materialität im Prozess bei Corot und Courbet
Veronica Peselmann
Guibert of Nogent: Portrait of a Medieval Mind
Jay Rubenstein
Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for Apocalypse
Jay Rubenstein
Nebuchadnezzar's Dream: The Crusades, Apocalyptic Prophecy, and the End of History
Jay Rubenstein
From Stone to Paper Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire
Chanchal Dadlani
The Medieval Monastery of Saint Elijah: A History in Paint and Stone
Alison Perchuk
BOOKS SUPPORTED BY THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED
CATHOLIC STUDIES AT USC
Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America
Edited by James L. Heft, S.M. and Jan E. Stets
The Future of Catholic Higher Education
James L. Heft, S.M.
Business Ethics and Catholic Social Thought
Edited by Daniel K. Finn
Empirical Foundations of the Common Good
Edited by Daniel K. Finn
Distant Markets, Distant Harms: Economic Complicity and Christian Ethics
Edited by Daniel K. Finn
The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life: An Extension and Critique of Caritas in Veritate
Edited by Daniel K. Finn
The True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life
Edited by Daniel K. Finn
Beyond Violence: Religious Sources of Social Transformation in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Edited by James L. Heft
Learned Ignorance: Intellectual Humility Among Jews, Christians and Muslims
Edited by James L. Heft, S.M., Reuven Firestone, and Amir Hussain
American Parishes
Edited by Gary J. Adler, Jr., Tricia C. Bruce, and Brian Starks
Secularism, Catholicism and the Future of Public Life: A Dialogue With Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec
Douglas W. Kmiec, edited by Gary J. Adler, Jr.
In the Logos of Love: Promise and Predicament in the Catholic Intellectual Life
Edited by James L. Heft, S.M. and Una M. Cadegan
After Vatican II: Trajectories and Hermeneutics
Edited by James L. Heft, S.M., with John O’Malley, S.J.
The Crisis of Authority in Catholic Modernity
Edited by Michael J. Lacey and Francis Oakley
Engineering Education (2011)
Edited by James L. Heft, S.M. and Kevin Hallinan
Catholic High Schools: Facing the New Realities
James L. Heft, S.M.
Passing on the faith
Edited by James L. Heft, S.M.
Believing Scholars: Ten Catholic Intellectuals
Edited by James L. Heft, S.M.
Governance, Accountability, and the Future of the Catholic Church
Edited by Francis Oakley and Bruce Russett
RESEARCH VIDEOS
Adam Gilbert, Professor, Chair of Musicology and Director of Early Music Program at USC’s Thornton School of Music introduces his research focus on historical performance practices. He also studies and directs performances of medieval, renaissance and baroque music.
Adam Gilbert shares surprising findings in how composers from the renaissance linked image text and music to create meaning, often intertwining political messages and theological symbolism.
Performance of “The Saint’s Delight” by F. Lester Price
Performance of “I am the Rose of Sharon” by William Billings
Performance of “Missa Catalana” by Juan Bautista Sancho
Lisa Bitel:
From Medieval Manuscripts to Burning Man, We Use Art to Get Closer to the Sacred
Colin McAllister, D.M.A. comissioned this contemporary composition by Christopher Adler. Aeneas in the Underworld A chamber oratorio for guitarist/orator in three acts with second guitar, string quartet, fixed media and video by Christopher Adler 2008-18 Performed by Colin McAllister, guitar and orator Pablo Gómez, guitar Batya MacAdam-Somer and Emily Call, violins Annabelle Terbetski, viola Jennifer Bewerse, cello Libretto excerpted from the Aeneid, book VI by Vergil (Publius Vergilius Maro) English translation by Khang Le
APOKATASTASIS 2022 | Jon Forshee
Colin McAllister, D.M.A. comissioned this contemporary composition by Jon Forshee.