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REV. AUGUSTINE JAMES CURLEY, O.S.B., PH.D.

Benedictine Abbey of Newark

520 Martin L. King Blvd.

Newark, N.J. 07102-1314

(973) 643-4800, x2213

e-mail: acurley@sbp.org

Education:

Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts B.A., 1977 : double major in philosophy and politics minor in

studio art

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Ph.D., 1992 : philosophy. Dissertation: "Augustine's Critique of

Skepticism: A Study of the Contra Academicos."

Immaculate Conception Seminary of Seton Hall University M.A., 1992 : systematic theology

Publications (selected):

Augustine's Critique of Skepticism: A Study of Contra Academicos (New York: Peter Lang, 1996)

New Jersey Catholicism: An Annotated Bibliography. South Orange, NJ: New Jersey Catholic Historical Records

Commission, 1999. (Published with a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission.)

Ten articles in Maxine Lurie and Marc Mappen, eds., The Encyclopedia of New Jersey (New Brunswick: Rutgers

University Press, 2004).

The 1854 Attack on Saint Marys Church, Newark: A Typical Know-Nothing Incident, American Benedictine

Review,64:1, December 2010, pp. 387-406.

Nativists in Newark: Radical Protestant Reaction to the Appointment of a Catholic Bishop, New Jersey

History [on-line journal], 127:1 (2012)

The Irish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, in Marta Deyrup and Maura Grace Harrington, eds.,

The Irish American Experience in NewJersey and Metropolitan New York:Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and

Commemoration(New York: Lexington Books, 2013).

Invited lecture

Monks and the CityA Unique New Experience. Archbishop Gerety Lecture, Immaculate Conception Seminary,

Seton Hall University, 15 November 2006

On-line endeavors:

Selected papers on academia.edu:

The Identity of Edith OGorman, the Escaped Nun

The Image of the Roman Catholic Church in Protestant Street Preaching of the 1850s

Finding and Using Primary Sources to Teach about the Irish Experience in New Jersey

Blog:

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The Irish of Belleville, New Jersey

Current Research (selected):

Preparing for publication Edwin Voss Sullivans edition of the episcopal diary of James Roosevelt Bayley, first

bishop of Newark

Editing the episcopal diary of Winand Wigger, third bishop of Newark

Anti-Catholicism in New Jersey

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