REV. AUGUSTINE JAMES CURLEY, O.S.B., PH.D. Benedictine Abbey of Newark 520 Martin L. King Blvd. Newark, N.J. 07102­1314 (973) 643­4800, x2213 e­mail: [email protected] ​

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 Mary’s Church, Newark: A Typical Know­Nothing Incident,” American Benedictine ​ Review, 64:1, December 2010, pp. 387­406. ​

“Nativists in Newark: Radical Protestant Reaction to the Appointment of a Catholic Bishop,” New Jersey ​ History [on­line 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 New Jersey and Metropolitan New York: Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and ​ ​ Commemoration (New York: Lexington Books, 2013). ​

Invited lecture

“Monks and the City—A Unique New Experience.” Archbishop Gerety Lecture, Immaculate Conception Seminary, Seton Hall University, 15 November 2006

On­line endeavors:

Selected papers on academia.edu:

“The Identity of Edith O’Gorman, 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 Sullivan’s edition of the episcopal diary of James Roosevelt Bayley, first bishop of Newark

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

Anti­Catholicism in New Jersey

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