M.T.S., Weston Jesuit School of Theology (currently The School of Theology & Ministry at Boston College)
B.A. in English Literature, University of Cincinnati
Holywood: Lights, Camera, and Catholics in the Age of American Spectacle (Fortress Press, under contract)
“Faith, Fashion, and Film in the Jazz Age: Catholic Vestments Encounter the Roaring 1920’s,” in Marie Dallam and Benjamin Zeller, eds., Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America, (Columbia University Press, 2023)
"The Lourdes of the Southwest? A Nineteenth-Century French Shrine Transformed for the Texas Borderlands," in American Patroness: Marian Shrines and the Making of US Catholicism (Fordham University Press, 2023
Ambrose, A. N. (2020). "The Madonna Takes Manhattan: The Modern Repurposing of a Medieval Marian Miracle." American Catholic Historical Association, New York, New York.
Ambrose, A. (2019). "Sartorial Spectacle and the Representation of Catholicism in America,". American Academy of Religion, San Diego, California.
“Appealing to the Movie Mind: The 1926 International Eucharistic Congress and the Rise of Epic Film in America. U.S. Catholic Historian, 34:3 (Summer 2016), 51-73.
“Las Hermanas, Religious-Political Activism, and the Digital Footprint of a Grassroots Movement,” presented at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, November 2016.
“A Lord and His Lady: The Influential Marian Musings of a Movie-Crazed Catholic,” presented at the American Literature Association Symposium on God and the American Writer, February 2015.
“Seeing for Life: Perspectives on the Influential Vision of Margaret R. Miles,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, October 2014
“Our Lady of Tinseltown: Catholic Visual Culture in Hollywood’s Golden Age,” presented at the Spring Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association, March 2014.
American Catholic Historical Association
American Academy of Religion
Catholicism in the US
Marian Studies
Visual Culture
Religion & Culture
Origins of Christianity
The Religious Quest
Mary, the Mother of Jesus
Religion, Values & Film
Sacred Spaces: Christian & Comparative Perspectives
