Kaelin Hughes is a graduate student at Duquesne University, with a focus on American history and a minor in Public History. She served as a Digital Humanities Intern for the National Institute for Newman Studies for the Spring 2025 semester. Outside of her work for the NINS, her personal research focuses on the intersections of disability and labor. She hopes to pursue a career in either academia or an archival setting.
The intersection of Catholicism and education raised important, yet controversial, questions and prompted many discussions in the nineteenth century. Increased freedoms for Catholics in England opened many educational, financial, and societal opportunities. They could attend prestigious universities and finish degrees without professing Protestant oaths or having religious examinations.
