Orsi biography

American professor

Robert Anthony Orsi (born 1953) is a scholar of American history and Catholic studies who is the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair professor at Northwestern University.^[1]

Biography

Orsi was born and raised in the Bronx, New York City.

He majored in religion and sociology at Trinity College in Connecticut and graduated salutatorian in 1975, receiving both a Danforth and Watson Scholarship. He attended graduate school in religion at Yale University where his prize-winning dissertation formed the basis of his first book, The Madonna of 115th Street.

He taught at Fordham University at Lincoln Center from 1981 to 1988, at Indiana University from 1988 to 2001, and Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School from 2001 to 2007.^[2] From 2020 to 2021, he was a Faculty Fellow at the University of Notre Dame.^[3]

He currently teaches at Northwestern University where he is the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair of Catholic Stu