Reverend Paul Kollman, CSC

Associate Professor
Theology

Research Interests

African Christianity, World Christianity, Mission History

Related Courses Taught

Christianity in Africa; World Christianity; Global Catholicism; Missionary Encounters; Conversion in Modernity

Biography

I am an historian of African Christianity, especially interested in the ways that Christian communities in Africa evolved in relationship to missionary activity, African responses, and larger contextualizing factors like colonialism (and accompanying racialization). I have taught at Notre Dame for 20 years, led ND's Center for Social Concerns for six and a half years, led international organizations in the academic study of mission and world Christianity, and taught in Africa several times. My archival research has often led me to Europe and Africa.