Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Professor of American Studies and History, was among the panelists in a daylong symposium on "International Identities and American Saints" convened at the University of Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway .
The forum, organized by Notre Dame's Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, included discussion of three recent scholarly books: Elizabeth Seton: American Saint (Cornell University Press) by Catherine O'Donnell, Blurred Nationalities Across the North Atlantic (University of Toronto) by Luca Codignola, and A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American (University of North Carolina Press) by Kathleen Sprows Cummings.