Timothy Kelly, PhD
Books
Hope in Hard Times: Norvelt and the Search for Community During the Great Depression, with Margaret Power and Michael Cary, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2016. (Winner of the Arthur St. Clair Award for significant contributions to the history of Westmoreland County.)
The Transformation of American Catholicism: The Pittsburgh Laity and the Second Vatican Council, University of Notre Dame press, January, 2009.
This American Courthouse: One Hundred Years of Service to the People of Westmoreland County. Co-edited with Michael Cary. Latrobe, Pa: Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, 2007.
Academic Articles, Essays, Chapters
“Norvelt: Workers’ Haven and Missed Opportunity,” with Margaret Power, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, vol. 86, No. 3 (Summer 2019): 335-358.
“Discerning an Environmental Ethos: Three Episodes in the Growth of Environmental Awareness in Western Pennsylvania,” Journal of Moral Theology, Vol 6, Special Issue 1 (March 2017): 114-124.
“The Strange Case of Murray Kram: Catholic Devotionalism and Direct Mail Marketing in 1950s Pittsburgh,” The Journal of Ritual Studies (Summer 2005): 89-98.
“Pittsburgh Catholicism,” U.S. Catholic Historian (Fall 2000): 64 – 75.
"Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Gender Roles, and the Decline of Devotional Catholicism" Journal of Social History (Fall 1998): 5-26.
"American Catholics and the Discourse of Fear," in Peter Stearns and Jan Lewis, eds. Emotional History of the United States (New York: New York University Press, 1998)
"Suburbanization and the Decline of Catholic Public Ritual" Journal of Social History (Winter 1994): 311-330.
"Searching the Dark Alley: The New Historicism and Social History," Journal of Social History (Spring 1992).
"The Promise of a Popular Church: The Laity and the 1971 Pittsburgh Synod," Notre Dame Seminar Series on the History of American Catholicism, Series 23, No. 2 (Fall 1991) Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame University
"Review Essay: American Catholics" Journal of Social History 23(Fall 1989):155-166.
With Sean Madden, "Baseball and Persistence of Community in Boston, PA," Pittsburgh History 72(Summer 1989):76-82.
"Chatham Curriculum, 1869 - Present," Chatham College Alumnae Recorder (Summer 1995): 10-11.
Popular Press Articles
“Helping Miners Get By,” with Margaret Power and Michael Cary, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, (June 19, 2016): D1, D4.
“Pittsburgh Catholics,” National Catholic Reporter (28 May 2009): 19, 22.
“A Show of Hands,” Commonweal (26 September 2008): 31.
"The Republican Church," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (3 July 1993)
Encyclopedia Entries
“Church and Child Labor—Catholicism,” in Child Labor World Atlas: a Reference Encyclopedia (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2009).
“Opus Dei” in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World., ed. Peter N. Stearns, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
“Catholicism: Overview,” in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World., ed. Peter N. Stearns, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
“Vatican I,” in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World., ed. Peter N. Stearns, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
“Vatican II,” in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World., ed. Peter N. Stearns, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
“Catholicism,” Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood In History and Society, volume 1, ed. Paula S. Fass. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004)134-138.
"O'Connor, Michael," vol. 16, American National Biography , ed. John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 608-609.
"Dearden, John F." vol. 6, American National Biography , ed. John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, 24 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 302-303.
"Diary of a Country Priest Inspires Readers," Great Events from History II (Salem Press, 1993)
