Susan E. Dinan
Associate Professor
Chair, History
Department


304 Hoxie Hall

sdinan@liu.edu
516-299-2407

 

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Professor Dinan earned her B.S. from Cornell University and her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her specialty is the history of early modern Europe, an with emphasis on France. Her research examines the work of women during the Catholic Reformation, especially in nursing and teaching. Professor Dinan is currently completing a book manuscript, entitled, Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity.

Other publications include:

Edited Collection:
Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds, edited with Debra Meyers. NY: Routledge, 2001. Translated into Spanish under the title Mujeres y religion en el Viejo y el Nuevo Mundo, en la Edad Moderna. Narcea, 2002.

Articles:
“Innovating Through Restrictions: Women in the French Catholic Reformation Church.” In Collide, edited by Richard McNabb and Belinda Kremer. New York: Pearson, 2005 [forthcoming].

“Compliance and Defiance: The Daughters of Charity and the Council of Trent.” In Ecclesia semper reformanda: Vatican II, Aggiornamento, and Reform before Modernity, edited by Louis Hamilton. New York, NY: Fordham University Press [forthcoming].

“Motivations for Charity in Early Modern France,” in Reformation of Charity: the Secular and the Religious in Early Modern Poor Relief, edited by Thomas Safley. Leiden: Brill, 2004: 176-192.

“Overcoming Gender Limitations: The Daughters of Charity and Early Modern Catholicism.” In Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honor of John O’Malley, S.J edited by Kathleen Comerford and Hilmar Pabel. Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 2001, 97-113.

“Spheres of Female Religious Expression in Catholic-Reformation France.” In Women and Religion in Old and New Worlds, edited by Susan E. Dinan and Debra Meyers. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001, 71-92.

“Public Charity and Public Piety: The Missionary Vocation of the Daughters of Charity of Charity.” Proceedings of the Western Society for French History 27 (Spring 2001): 200-209.

“An Ambiguous Sphere: the Daughters of Charity between a Confraternity and a Religious Order.” In Confraternities and Catholic Reform in Italy, France and Spain, edited by John Patrick Donnelly and Michael Maher. Kirksville, MO: Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1999, 191-214.

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