Rate My Professor Shaun Blanchard

Blanchard's scholarly output includes monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, and journal articles published by leading academic presses. He authored The Synod of Pistoia and Vatican II: Jansenism and the Struggle for Catholic Reform (Oxford University Press, 2020). With Stephen Bullivant, he co-authored Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2023). He co-edited Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology with Ulrich L. Lehner (Catholic University of America Press, 2021) and Jansenism: An International Anthology with Richard T. Yoder (Catholic University of America Press, 2024). Forthcoming works include Catholicism and Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and co-editing The Global Catholic Enlightenment: Balancing Church Authority and Modern Allegiances across Europe, the Americas, and Australia (1700–1840) (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2027). Book chapters appear in The Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism, volume 3 (Oxford University Press, 2023) and The Cambridge History of the Papacy, volume 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2025). Journal publications include “The Ghost of Modernism: Evocations of Anti-Modernist Doctrinal Documents at Vatican II” (Theological Studies, 2025), “Settling Old Scores: Pastor Aeternus as the Final Defeat of Early Modern Opponents of Ultramontanism” (Newman Studies Journal, 2020), and contributions to periodicals such as Commonweal, America, Church Life Journal, and The Tablet.