Academic Articles

Dr. Lubienecki has published five peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Three are available as open-access PDFs through Digital Commons LMU and ERIC. Two appear in Project MUSE and require library access. All citations include DOIs.

Catholic Labor History

These four articles focus on the history of Catholic labor education in America, from the role of trade union schools in the late nineteenth century through the broader Catholic response to the Social Gospel movement.

"There should be no hyphen in American Catholic": Bishop John Timon and the Assimilation of Buffalo Catholicism U.S. Catholic Historian, Vol. 39, No. 1, Winter 2021, pp. 1-21. DOI: 10.1353/cht.2021.0000. Published by Catholic University of America Press. Available through Project MUSE.

Social Reconstruction: American Catholics Radical Response to the Social Gospel Movement and Progressives Journal of Catholic Education, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2021. DOI: 10.15365/joce.2401052021. Open access PDF available through Digital Commons LMU.

Social Encyclicals and the Worker: The Evolution of Catholic Labor Schools in Pennsylvania Journal of Catholic Education, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2021, pp. 107-124. DOI: 10.15365/joce.2401062021. ERIC: EJ1308826. Open access PDF available.

Catholic Labor Education and the Association of Catholic Trade Unionists: Instructing Workers to Christianize the Workplace Journal of Catholic Education, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2015. DOI: 10.15365/joce.1802062015. Open access PDF available.

Labor Education in Ohio

From the Parish Hall to the Union Hall: Catholic Labor Education in Cleveland Ohio History (Kent State University Press), Vol. 124, No. 2, Fall 2017, pp. 49-84. Available through Project MUSE.