Dennis J. Wieboldt

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT DENNIS J. WIEBOLDT

Dennis Wieboldt is a J.D./Ph.D. student in history at the University of Notre Dame, where he is a Richard and Peggy Notebaert Premier Fellow at the Graduate School and Edward J. Murphy Fellow at the Law School. Dennis earned his B.A. summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Boston College, where he was recognized as a Dean’s Scholar and Scholar of the College. Among other undergraduate honors—including the Cardinal O’Connell Theology Award, History Czar Award, and Nicholas H. Woods Award for Student Leadership—Dennis received the 2022 McCarthy Prize in the Humanities, a distinction conferred upon the best thesis in the humanities by Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences. After earning his B.A, Dennis earned an M.A. in history from Boston College. Dennis\'s research has been supported by several academic and scholarly institutions, including the American Historical Association and Supreme Court Historical Society. The first Notre Dame student to concurrently pursue a J.D./Ph.D. in history, Dennis has authored more than a dozen scholarly articles and book chapters, and has presented at nearly thirty academic conferences in the United States and Europe.