Dr. Rose Luminiello is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the Keough School of Global Affairs. Her research and teaching focusses on Catholic Social Teaching, religion and political resistance, and identity-building across the global with a special focus on migration, Ireland, and Poland.
In 2022, Dr. Luminiello joined the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies for first as a postdoctoral researcher, and then in the 2023/24 and 2024/25 Academic Years as a Visiting Assistant Research Professor. Prior to joining Keough-Naughton, Dr. Luminiello was a co-funded Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame (Rome Global Gateway and South Bend) and the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (RIISS) at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, working to develop a digital humanities project, Irish Women Religious in the Anglophone World, 1840-1940. Much of her research work draws together archives in Rome, Ireland, Australia, and the United States.
Dr. Luminiello is a comparative and intellectual historian of Modern Europe and Migration, with a focus on the intellectual and social histories of Catholic political protest and resistance in Ireland and Poland. Her research focus is on building out the intellectual hinterlands of Catholic Social Teachings and its foundations in the papacy and philosophy of Pope Leo XIII and Rerum Novarum (1891), setting these in the global context of Catholic political engagement. In doing so, Dr. Luminiello’s work takes on questions about the relationship between citizens and the state, and the interplay of religious identity and language with those of politics in the civil sphere. She is currently working on a monograph, titled Modernizing Catholicism: Rerum Novarum and Moral Legitimacy in Ireland and Poland, 1878-1914.
Dr. Luminiello’s research interests and publications also extend to the global history of women religious, and their impacts on the social and political development of burgeoning national identities in Catholic migrant communities in the 19th and 20th centuries, on which she has published in international journals.
Dr. Luminiello holds a Master of Science (MSc.) in Modern British and Irish History from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD History from the University of Aberdeen, where she was supervised by Prof. Robert I. Frost and Prof. Michael Brown, and where she held the Comparative Statecraft and Constitutional Thought Studentship from the interdisciplinary research Center for Citizenship, Civil Society, and Rule of Law (CISRUL).
Along with CISRUL’s director, Prof. Trevor Stack, she edited the interdisciplinary volume ‘Engaging Authority: Citizenship and Political Community’ (2021). More on her publications can be found on her Academia.edu page.
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