Kevin Schmiesing, Ph.D., is a research fellow for  the research department at the Acton Institute. He is a frequent writer on Catholic social thought and economics, is the author of American Catholic Intellectuals, 1895-1955 (Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) and is most recently the author of Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II (Lexington Books, 2004).

Dr. Schmiesing holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in history from Franciscan University of Steubenville. Author of Within the Market Strife and American Catholic Intellectuals, 1895—1955 (2002), he serves as Book Review Editor for the Journal of Markets & Morality. He is also executive director of CatholicHistory.net.

Articles and Books by Kevin Schmiesing:

• “Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,”  University of St. Thomas Law Journal , Spring 2005
• “Review of James Fisher, Communion of Immigrants,”  Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly , Fall 2002.
  
• The State of Economic Education in United States Seminaries . (PDF )
• “The Context of Economic Personalism.” Journal of Markets & Morality. Fall 2001. ( PDF )
• Doing Justice to Justice. Acton Institute, 2002.
• “Catholic Critics of the New Deal: 'Alternative' Traditions in Catholic Social Thought,” Catholic Social Science Review , 2002.
• “Socially Responsible Investing: An Application of Catholic Social Thought” (with Gregory Beabout), Logos , Winter 2003. ( PDF )
• “John A. Ryan and the Problem of Clerical Politics,” Journal of Church and State, Winter 2003.

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