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,