Welcome to the website for The Academy of American Franciscan History!
The Academy is a research institute affiliated with the Franciscan School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. The Academy is dedicated to the encouragement of the study of the Franciscan Order in the Americas. It does this through the publication of monographs, documents, a scholarly journal, as well as sponsoring seminars, conferences, and public lectures.
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Upcoming Events
Saturday, February 6, 2010 Book Symposium
at Mission Dolores in San Francisco, 2pm
Quincy Newell will speak on her new book, . Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821.(University of New Mexico Press, 2009).
Kent Lightfoot, UC Berkeley will comment.
The Third Annual Antonine Tibesar OFM Lecture
“Arts and Architecture, Force and Fear: The Struggle for Sacred Space.”
Presented by Dr. David J. Weber
was a wonderful success!
