Allison Isidore is a Religious Studies Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa and is the Assistant Director for the American Catholic Historical Association. She also serves on the American Academy of Religion's Graduate Student Committee. She is also one of the hosts for the podcast New Books in Catholic Studies a podcast channel on the New Books Network. Her research interest is focused on the twentieth-century American Civil Rights Movement and the Catholic Church’s response to racism and the participation of Catholic clergy, nuns, and laypeople in marches, sit-ins, and kneel-ins during the 1950s and 1960s. She tweets from @AllisonIsidore1.

Publications

• (Forthcoming) Book Chapter: “Historical Sites and Memory: How Different Research Environments Change Scholarship,” In University in Flames: Ecologies of Scholarship in the Study of Religion. Equinox Publishing. 2026.

Presentations

• "Women Religious and Intellectual Activism: Catholic Intellectuals and the Fight for Social Justice,” Conference on the History of Women Religious, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame. South Bend, Indiana, June 25, 2025.
• “Catholics for Social Change Before and During “Bloody Sunday,” American Catholic Historical Association. San Francisco, California, January 2024.
• “Historical Sites and Memory: How Different Research Environments Change Scholarship,” North American Association for the Study of Religion. San Antonio, Texas, November 2023.