| 1 | Name: | Rev. John W. O'Malley | |
| Institution: | Georgetown University | ||
| Year Elected: | 1997 | ||
| Class: | 4. Humanities | ||
| Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | ||
| Residency: | Resident | ||
| Living? : | Deceased | ||
| Birth Date: | 1927 | ||
| Death Date: | September 11, 2022 | ||
John W. O’Malley is University Professor at Georgetown University and is a specialist in the religious culture of early modern Europe, especially Italy. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Among his publications are Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome (1979), which received the Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association, and Trent and All That (2000), which received the Roland Bainton Prize from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference. The First Jesuits (1993) received the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History and the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society for Church History. It has been translated into twelve languages. A recent monograph, What Happened at Vatican II (2008), has been translated into Italian, French, and Polish. He has edited or co-edited a number of volumes, including three in the Collected Works of Erasmus series. His latest works on the Jesuits are The Jesuits and the Arts (2005), co-edited with Gauvin Alexander Bailey, and Constructing a Saint through Images (2008), an annotated facsimile of the 1609 illustrated life of Ignatius of Loyola attributed in part to Rubens. His recent monograph Trent: What Happened at the Council (2013) has been translated into four languages and received the John Gilmary Shea Prize from the American Catholic Historical Association. In 2015 he also published Catholic History for Today's Church: How Our Past Illuminates Our Present. Father O’Malley has lectured widely in North America and Europe. He is the past President of the American Catholic Historical Association and the Renaissance Society of America. He has been elected to the Accademia di san Carlo, Ambrosian Library, Milan, and was awarded the Johannes Quasten Medal by the Catholic University of America for distinguished scholarship in religious studies. Father O’Malley received the lifetime achievement award from the Society for Italian Historical Studies in 2002 and the corresponding awards from both the Renaissance Society of America in 2005 and the American Catholic Historical Association in 2012. In 2013 Father O’Malley was awarded the American Philosophical Society’s Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities in recognition of his paper “The Council of Trent (1545–63) and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment (1541),” read at the Society’s November Meeting in 2011 and published in the Society's Proceedings in December 2012. He is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus. Father O’Malley was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997 and served as its Vice President 2010 to 2016. Father O'Malley died on September 11, 2022 at the age of 95. | |||