Cecilia A.

Moore
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
University of Dayton
300 College Park
Dayton, OH 45469
937-229-4559
cmoore1@udayton.edu

Education: Ph. D. Religious Studies, University of Virginia, January 1997.

Dissertation: A Brilliant Possibility: The Cardinal Gibbons Institute, 19241934
M.A. Religious Studies, University of Virginia, 1991.
Thesis: Good and Zealous Ladies: The Role of Catholic Women in
Building the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
A.B. History and Religion, magna cum laude, Sweet Briar College, 1988
Most Publications (2006-Present):
Forthcoming, Co -Guest Editor with Dr. Katrina Sanders of the University of Iowa of a
Forthcoming Special Edition of The Journal of African American History on Black
Catholics, April 2014 - Present

We Have Been Believers: Black Catholic Studies co- authored with Diana L. Hayes in
The Catholic Studies Reader edited by James T. Fisher and Margaret McGuinness,
Fordham University Press, 2011, 259-281.

Writing Black Catholic Lives: Black Catholic Biographies and Autobiographies U.S.
Catholic Historian, vol. 29, no. 3, Summer 2011, 43-58.
Cyprian Davis, OSB: To Walk a Path, To Be Transformed, and To Transform coauthored with Kimberly Flint Hamilton, Journal of the Black Catholic Theological
Symposium, 2010, 29-58.
Conversion Narratives: The Dual Experiences and Voices of African American Catholic
Converts, U.S. Catholic Historian, vol. 28, no. 1, Winter 2010, 27-40.

Dealing with Desegregation: Black and White Responses to the Desegregation of the
Diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, 1953 in Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black
Catholic Experience edited by M. Shawn Copeland, LaReine Marie Mosely, S.N.D. and
Albert J. Raboteau, Orbis Books, 2009, 63-77.
The Sources and Meaning of the Conversion of Claude McKay Journal of the Black
Catholic Theological Symposium 2 (2008): 59 80.
From the Ivory Tower to the Pews: Theologys Role in Shaping Catholic
Racial Thought and Practice in the Twentieth-Century New Theology Review, vol. 21,
no. 1, February 2008, 29-40.
To Serve Through Compelling Love: The Society of Christ Our King in Danville,
Virginia, 1963, U.S. Catholic Historian, 24: 4 (Fall 2006): 83-104.

Most Conference Papers and Presentations (2006-Present) :

The Genesis and Influence of The History of Black Catholics in the United States by
Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. First Annual Sr. Eva Regina Martin, S.S.F. Memorial Lecture for
the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, April 2015.
With Kimberly Flint Hamilton, Stetson University, Update on the Black Catholic
Theological Symposium Oral History Project, 2014: Sr. Patricia Haley, SCN, Dr. Diane
Batts Morrow, Bishop Terry Steib, S.V.D., Bishop Edward Braxton, and Father James
Herring, O.Praem., Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Annual Meeting, Catholic
Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois, October 2014.

Il Provello House, Fides House, and Blessed Martin House as Catholic Washingtons
Prelude to Resurrection City, 1968, American Catholic Historical Association, Spring
Meeting, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 2014.
Black Catholics Investigating Progressive Ideas in Catholic Education Through The
Cardinals Notebook, American Catholic Historical Association, Winter Meeting,
Washington, D.C., January 2014.

Panelist for Moments of Liberation on the Road to Freedom, Justice and Faith: The
Emancipation Proclamation, the March on Washington, and the Second Vatican Council,
Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Annual Meeting, Bellarmine University,
Louisville, Kentucky, October 2013.

Panel Convener and Commentator of The Catholic Experience in Twentieth-Century

Africa, American Catholic Historical Association, Winter Meeting, New Orleans,
Louisiana, January 2013.
Victor and Constance Daniel and the Practice of Emancipatory Education at the Cardinal
Gibbons Institute, Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Annual Meeting, St. Thomas
University, Miami Gardens, Florida, October 2012.
Panelist for Exclusion and Racial Justice Ecclesiology and Exclusion Conference,
Ecclesiological Investigations Network, University of Dayton, May 2011.
The Role of Chicago Catholics in the Conversion of Claude McKay, Sankofa Lecture,
Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, IL, November 2009.
Commenter for Masterless Mistresses: The New Orleans Ursulines and the Development
of a New World Society, 1727-1834 by Emily Clark, Seminar on American Religion,
Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame, February 2009.
The Sources and Meaning of the Conversion of Claude McKay, Black History Month
Lecture, St. Meinrad Archabbey, February 2008.
Living with Jim Crow: Black and White Catholic Experience of Racial Segregation in
Virginia and North Carolina, American Catholic Historical Association Meeting,
Washington, D.C., January 2008.

Some Other Professional Experience:

Co -Guest Editor with Dr. Katrina Sanders of the University of Iowa of a Forthcoming
Special Edition of The Journal of African American History on Black Catholics, April
2014 - Present
Advisory Council for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Office of
Cultural Diversity, Planning for the Fifty Anniversary of the March on Selma and
Catholic Participation in the Civil Rights Movement, January 2014-February 2015
Member of the Historical Commission for the Canonization of Father Augustus Tolton
for the Archdiocese of Chicago, 2010 Present
Co-Editor, The Journal of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, 2008-Present

Associate Director of the Th.M. Program for the Institute for Black Catholic Studies at
Xavier University of Louisiana, 2006-2013
Adjunct Faculty for Xavier University of Louisianas Institute for Black Catholic Studies,
1998 - Present
Founder and Organizer of the Annual Father Joseph M. Davis, S.M. Black Catholic
History Month Celebration at the University of Dayton, 2005- Present