Timothy Matovina is Professor of Theology and the William and Anna Jean Cushwa Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent books are Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America's Largest Church (Princeton, 2012), the edited volume Virgilio Elizondo: Spiritual Writings (Orbis, 2010), and Guadalupe and Her Faithful: Latino Catholics in San Antonio, from Colonial Origins to the Present (Johns Hopkins, 2005). Research support for Matovina's work encompasses competitive grant awards from nearly every major funding source that supports academic work in theology and religion: the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Religion, the Lilly Endowment, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Louisville Institute, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Association of Theological Schools. In 2010 he received the Virgilio Elizondo Award "for distinguished achievement in theology, in keeping with the mission of the Academy" from the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States (ACHTUS).