Marquette University

Office of the Provost

Rev. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J.

Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., is Professor of History at Boston College. In 2017, he was the William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust, & the Jews, at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.  In 2009, his book, Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII (Yale University Press, 2008), won the American Catholic Historical Association’s John Gilmary Shea Prize. 

His 2021 book, Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten History of the Christian Front was published by Harvard University Press and won a Catholic Press Association Award for History.  Gallagher is interested in religion and right-wing movements, the Holocaust, American Catholicism, Vatican diplomacy, and the intersection of religion and espionage.  His current Wade Chair project looks at how German intelligence recruited, retained, and used Catholic clerics to act as spies in the United States during World War II.