Maps Reveal Intersection of Race and Philly Parish Closures
As a graduate fellow at the CDH, Madeline Gambino worked on GIS mapping to supplement the more familiar archival and ethnographic research methods of her field, religious studies.
Madeline Gambino
2020 Graduate Fellow
Madeline Gambino a PhD candidate in the Religion Department. Her dissertation considers the lived religion and institutional nature of Catholic change and decline in contemporary Philadelphia. In addition to historical and ethnographic methods, she is developing a digital mapping component to analyze changes over time to Catholic presence in the city which she will be working on in her project "Religious Change and Decline in 21st Century Catholic Philadelphia."