Stuart Squires, Ph.D.
Brescia University
1703 Thompson Street, Apt. C
Owensboro, Kentucky 42301
312.502.0017
squires3@yahoo.com
www.stuartsquires.com
EMPLOYMENT
Brescia University: Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator (2013-Present)
DePaul University: Adjunct Professor (2009-2013)
EDUCATION
The Catholic University of America (2013)
 Ph.D. from the Department of Historical and Systematic Theology in
Christian theology from the fourth and fifth centuries
 Dissertation: “Reassessing Pelagianism: Augustine, Cassian, and Jerome
on the Possibility of a Sinless Life” under the direction of Philip Rousseau
The University of Chicago (2005)
 M.A. in Christian theology with a focus on the 16th century Catholic and
Protestant disputes
DePaul University (2000)
 B.A. in World Religions with foci on Hinduism and Buddhism
ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
 “Jerome on Sinlessness: Between Augustine and Pelagius.” The Heythrop
Journal [forthcoming]
 “Augustine’s Changing Thought on Sinlessness.” Augustinianum 54.2
[December 2014]: 447-466
 “Cassian on Sinlessness.” Cistercian Studies Quarterly 48.4 [November
2013]: 411-432
 “Contra Academicos as Autobiography: A Critique of the Historiography
on Augustine’s First Extant Dialogue.” Scottish Journal of Theology 63.3
[June, 2011]: 251-64
 “Jerome’s Animosity against Augustine.” Augustiniana 58.3 [2008]: 181-99
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
 “Pelagius.” Published by www.AncientThought.com
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BOOK REVIEWS
 Thomas Guarino. Vincent of Lérins and the Development of Doctrine. Grand
Rapids: Baker Academic, 2013 for The Ecumenical Review [forthcoming]
 Peter Van Nuffelen. Orosius and the Rhetoric of History. Oxford: OUP, 2012
for The Heythrop Journal 57.1 [2016]: 247-8.
 Dominic Keech. The Anti-Pelagian Christology of Augustine of Hippo. Oxford
Theological Monographs. Oxford: OUP, 2012 for The Bryn Mawr Classical
Review [August 15, 2013]
BLOG POSTS
 “St. Jerome: The Patron of Irascible, Morbidly Sensitive, Old
Curmudgeons.” www.DailyTheology.com [September 30, 2015]
WORKS IN PROGRESS
 “Why is Contemporary Scholarship so Enamored of the Pelagians?”
RESEARCH INTERESTS
 Theological Anthropology; Augustine of Hippo; Jerome; Cassian; Pelagian
Controversy; Semi-Pelagian Controversy; Ambrose of Milan; Christology;
16th Century Theology; Asceticism / Monasticism; Soteriology; Medieval
Mysticism; Medieval Theology; Church Councils; Christianity and
Postmodern Thought
CLASSES TAUGHT
 Catholic Social Justice (web-based and on campus)
 Catholic Moral Theology (web-based and on campus)
 Ecclesiology (web-based and on campus)
 World Religions (web-based and on campus)
 The Catholic Faith: Introduction to Theology
 Introduction to the New Testament
 Christian Thought in Classical and Medieval Times
 Christian Thought from the Reformation to the Present
 The Christian Experience
 Literature and the Sacred: Religious Autobiography
 Christianity and Culture (T.A.)
PROJECTS
 I organized and hosted the William Young Lecture Series celebrating the
50th anniversary of the closing of Vatican II (2015)
 I broadcast an interview podcast called God and the Quad, which
investigates the challenges of the college experience and religious identity
(2015-Present)
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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 “Reassessing Pelagianism: Augustine, Cassian, and Jerome on the
Possibility of a Sinless Life” at the North American Patristics Society
(2013)
 “Jerome: via media between Augustine and Pelagius” at the North
American Patristics Society (2012)
 “Cassian’s Rejection of Pelagius’ Understanding of Sinlessness” at the
American Society of Church History Winter Meeting (2012)
 “The Development of Augustine’s Thought on the Possibility of the
Sinless Life” at the American Society of Church History Spring Meeting
(2011)
 “The Authorship of Augustine’s Rule in Light of Possidius’ Life” at the
North American Patristics Society (2010)
 “Was John Cassian a Semi-Pelagian?” at the Mid-Atlantic American
Academy of Religion Regional Meeting (2009)
 “Contra Academicos as Autobiography” at the Stephen and Catherine
Pappas Patristic Institute (2008)
 “Contra Academicos as Autobiography” at the Mid-Atlantic American
Academy of Religion Regional Meeting (2008)
 “Ambrose in the Shadows” at the Stephen and Catherine Pappas Patristic
Institute (2007)
 “Ambrose in the Shadows” at the “Jerome: Writer and Teacher
Conference” at the Catholic University of America (2006)
INVITED LECTURES
 “Cassian and Monastic Friendship.” Presentation at the St. Lawrence
Barbeque Theology Conference at Wheeling Jesuit University (2016)
 “Catholicism and the Environment.” Presentation to the Ursuline Sisters
of Mount Saint Joseph, Kentucky (2015)
 “The Apocrypha.” Presentation at the First Baptist Church in Owensboro,
Kentucky (2014)
 RCIA presentations at the Blessed John Paul II Newman Center at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, and St. Stephen’s Cathedral of
Owensboro, Kentucky (2012-Present)
 “Reassessing Pelagianism: Augustine, Cassian, and Jerome on the
Possibility of a Sinless Life.” Presentation at the Convivium of the
Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University (2012)
SERVICE
 Steering Committee: Lilly Endowment's Theology Institutes for High
School Youth Program Application (2015-16)
 Admissions Committee (2015-Present)
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Faculty Welfare Committee (2014-Present)
Chair: search committee for a new hire (2014-15)
Parliamentarian for the Faculty Assembly (2014-15)
Advisor to undergraduate students (2013-Present)
Chair: History of Christianity Section of the Midwest American Academy
of Religion (2012-14)
Peer reviewer for “The Local and Universal Churches: Expressing
Catholicity through Reciprocity” in Visions of Hope: Emerging Theologians and
the Future of the Church (Orbis 2013)
Chair: Undergraduate Section of the Midwest American Academy of
Religion (1999-2000)
DIRECTED INDEPENDENT STUDIES
 Katie Jones at Brescia University, “Soteriology” (2016)
 Emily Lindsay at DePaul University, “Pope John Paul II on Love and
Marriage” (2013)
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
 French
 German
 Latin
 Biblical Greek
 Biblical Hebrew
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
 Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion: Owensboro Health Hospital,
Owensboro, Kentucky (2014-Present)
 Leader of the Young Adult Group: Saints Joseph and Paul Parish,
Owensboro, Kentucky (2013-15)
 Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion: University of Illinois Medical
Center, Chicago, Illinois (2012-2013)
 Member of the Young Adult Planning Committee: Old St. Patrick’s Parish,
Chicago, Illinois (2011-2013)
 “Team Leader” for the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA): Old St.
Patrick’s Parish, Chicago, Illinois (2011-2013)
 Peace Corps Volunteer: Islamic Republic of Mauritania, West Africa (20002002)
MEMBERSHIPS
 The American Academy of Religion (AAR)
 The American Society of Church History (ASCH)
 L’Association Internationale d’Études Patristiques (AIEP)
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The North American Patristics Society (NAPS)
TECHNOLOGY
 Desire2Learn
 Blackboard
 Moodle
 Big Blue Button
 Adobe Connect
 Audacity
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REFERENCES
Dr. Philip Rousseau
Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity
Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor
The Catholic University of America
Rousseau@cua.edu
202.319.6217
Dr. James Halstead, OSA
Associate Professor
DePaul University
jhalstea@depaul.edu
773.325.7386
Dr. David Gitomer
Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) and the
Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) Programs
Vincent de Paul Professor
DePaul University
dgitomer@depaul.edu
773.325.1282
Dr. Jared Ortiz
Assistant Professor of Theology
Hope College
jjortiz@hope.edu
616.395.7756
Dr. Andrew Staron
Assistant Professor of Theology
Wheeling Jesuit University
astaron@wju.edu
304.243.2240