Maureen K. Day

I am a Research Fellow at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture and the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, both at the University of Southern California, as well as an Associate Member of the Las Casas Institute of Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford.

I am an award-winning author who researches Catholicism, primarily in the United States. Some of my titles include Catholicism at a Crossroads: The Present and Future of America’s Largest Church (co-authored, NYU 2025), Cultural Catholics: Who They Are, How to Respond (Liturgical Press, 2024) and Catholic Activism Today: Individual Transformation and the Struggle for Social Justice (NYU 2020).

I have been awarded research funds by the University of Southern California’s Center for Religion and Civic Culture, Catholic University of America’s The Catholic Project, In Trust Center for Theological Schools, Villanova University’s Center for Church Management, the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Catholic Sisters Initiative, University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society, the Religious Research Association, and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. I was previously tenured as Associate Professor of Religion and Society at the Franciscan School of Theology.