Robert Orsi is Grace Craddock Nagle Chair of Catholic Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also Professor of Religious Studies, History, and American Studies. He is currently at work on a book called Give Us Boys about the formation of young men at a Jesuit high school in New York City in 1967-1971 as an episode in the broader history of modern Catholic sexuality, social class, and urbanism, to be published by Columbia University Press. A native of New York City, Orsi is married to Christine Helmer, and has two sons, Clarence and Anthony, and two dogs, Rocco and Gemma.