REV.AUGUSTINEJAMESCURLEY,O.S.B.,PH.D.

BenedictineAbbeyofNewark
520MartinL.KingBlvd.
Newark,N.J.071021314
(973)6434800,x2213
email:
acurley@sbp.org

Education:
AssumptionCollege,Worcester,MassachusettsB.A.,1977:doublemajorinphilosophyandpoliticsminorin
studioart
BostonCollege,ChestnutHill,MassachusettsPh.D.,1992:philosophy.Dissertation:"Augustine'sCritiqueof
Skepticism:AStudyofthe
ContraAcademicos."
ImmaculateConceptionSeminaryofSetonHallUniversityM.A.,1992:systematictheology

Publications(selected):
Augustine'sCritiqueofSkepticism:AStudyof
ContraAcademicos(NewYork:PeterLang,1996)

NewJerseyCatholicism:AnAnnotatedBibliography
.SouthOrange,NJ:NewJerseyCatholicHistoricalRecords
Commission,1999.(PublishedwithagrantfromtheNewJerseyHistoricalCommission.)

TenarticlesinMaxineLurieandMarcMappen,eds.,
TheEncyclopediaofNewJersey
(NewBrunswick:Rutgers
UniversityPress,2004).

The1854AttackonSaintMarysChurch,Newark:ATypicalKnowNothingIncident,
AmericanBenedictine
Review,
64:1,December2010,pp.387406.

NativistsinNewark:RadicalProtestantReactiontotheAppointmentofaCatholicBishop,
NewJersey
History
[onlinejournal],
127:1(2012)
TheIrishintheRomanCatholicArchdioceseofNewark,in
MartaDeyrupandMauraGraceHarrington,eds.,
TheIrishAmericanExperienceinNewJerseyandMetropolitanNewYork:

CulturalIdentity,Hybridity,and
Commemoration
(NewYork:LexingtonBooks,2013).

Invitedlecture

MonksandtheCityAUniqueNewExperience.ArchbishopGeretyLecture,ImmaculateConceptionSeminary,
SetonHallUniversity,15November2006

Onlineendeavors:

Selectedpapersonacademia.edu:

TheIdentityofEdithOGorman,theEscapedNun

TheImageoftheRomanCatholicChurchinProtestantStreetPreachingofthe1850s

FindingandUsingPrimarySourcestoTeachabouttheIrishExperienceinNewJersey

Blog:

TheIrishofBelleville,NewJersey<<http://irishofbelleville.blogspot.com/>>

CurrentResearch
(
selected)
:

PreparingforpublicationEdwinVossSullivanseditionoftheepiscopaldiaryofJamesRooseveltBayley,first
bishopofNewark

EditingtheepiscopaldiaryofWinandWigger,thirdbishopofNewark

AntiCatholicisminNewJersey