PatrickHayes
Assistant Professor
Theology and Religious Studies
DaSilva Academic Center Room 311
Staten Island , NY 10301
(718) 390-4059
hayesp@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
Ph.D., Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 2003
M.S.T., Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT., 1997
M. Div., Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT., 1997
M.Ed., Columbia University, Teachers College, N.Y., 1992
Patrick Hayes is completing his first year as an Assistant
Professor of Theology at Saint John’s University’s Staten Island
campus. He has been in classroom settings for most of his working
life, teaching first in Boston’s Catholic high schools and then New
York City’s public school system. With graduate degrees from
Teachers College, Columbia University (Ed.M.) and Yale Divinity
School (M.Div., S.T.M.), he began a string of adjuncting positions
that stretched from Vermont to Washington, D.C.—including stints at
St. Joseph’s College of Vermont, St. Joseph’s College in West
Hartford, Connecticut, Fordham University, Fairfield University,
Iona College, Sacred Heart University, and Trinity College.
While pursuing doctoral studies at the Catholic University of
America, he worked for the National Conference for Catechetical
Leadership, the Secretariat for Doctrine and Pastoral Practices of
the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the
exploratory organization that helped form the Institute for
Advanced Catholic Studies. He also was an interim associate
director for Collegium: A Colloquy on Faith and Intellectual Life.
His doctoral thesis was a history of the Catholic Commission on
Intellectual and Cultural Affairs, 1945-1965, which is presently
under review at a university press. After receiving his doctorate
in Religious Studies from CUA in 2002, he took a one-year position
at Quincy University, a Franciscan institution in rural Illinois.
After that he began teaching at Fordham’s Marymount campus in
Tarrytown, New York. He is the review editor for H-Catholic, the
on-line listserv, and chairs the section on American Catholic Life
and Thought for the College Theology Society. Hayes maintains
memberships in CTS, the American Catholic Historical Society, the
American Society of Church History, and the Catholic Theological
Society of America. While at Fordham he established the Vatican II
Remembrance Project, an oral history project engaging undergraduate
students and retired women religious on their perceptions of the
Council then and now. He is at work on a book on nineteenth century
American Catholic miracle stories.