| |  | | FACULTY & STAFF Cathy Gaccione, Academic Department Assistant
Contact:
Administrative Building, ADM 240
Ph: 203-371-7760
Fax: 203-365-7587
Email: Gaccionec@sacredheart.edu Full-Time Faculty
Charlotte M. Gradie, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of History, Professor of Latin American History; received her BA, MA and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Gradie joined the Sacred Heart University faculty in 1990.
Teaching Areas: Latin American history
Research Interest: Colonial Mexico, Spanish missions to the new world, Spanish history in European and beyond.
Publications: The Tepehuan Revolt of 1616: Militarism, Colonialism and Evangelism in Seventeenth-Century Neuva Vizcaya (University of Utah Press, 2000), with Jan Sweets, Haddam, 1870-1930 (Arcadia Publishing, 2005), as well as numerous articles.
Dr. Gradie received the Mellon Grant, Sacred Heart University's Research and Creativity Grant, and is a member of the American Historical Society, the New England Council of Latin American Studies; Conference on Latin American History, the American Society of Ethnohistory, the Haddam Historical Society, and Phi Alpha Theta.
Contact:
Administrative Building, ADM 222
Ph: 203-371-7847
Fax: 203-371-7731
Email: GradieC@sacredheart.eduThomas Curran, PhD, Professor of Asian History; received a BA from the University of Delaware(1974) and MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees from Columbia University (1978, '80, and '86). Prior to coming to Sacred Heart in 1986, he taught at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (King's Point), Fordham University, and Lehman College (CUNY).
Teaching Areas: Chinese and Japanese history and culture and the history of the Vietnam War.
Research Interest: early 20th century Chinese educational and social history.
Publications: Educational Reform in Republican China: The Failure of Educators to Create a Modern Nation (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005). His current projects include an anthology, Essays on the Civil Service Examination in China, and a monograph, A Study of Huang Yanpei (1878-1965): Educational Leader in the Reform Period, both of which are under contract with The Edwin Mellen Press.
Dr. Curran is a member of the American Historical Association, the Association for Asian Studies, the History of Education Society, and Phi Alpha Theta.
Contact:
Administrative Building, ADM 217
Ph: 203-371-7744
Fax: 203-371-7731
Email: CurranT@sacredheart.edu Jennifer McLaughlin, MA, [ABD] Instructor of American History, Director of Women's Studies, and Freshman Advisor; received her BA from Fordham University, and an MA from The College of William and Mary, and is currently writing her dissertation for a PhD at William and Mary, entitled "We Can Find Them No Relief: James Monroe and the Plight of American Seamen, 1800-1812."
Teaching Areas: Colonial and Nineteenth-century American history, Early modern British history.
Research Interest: Early modern North Atlantic Maritime history.
Ms. McLaughlin is a member of the American Historical Association, and Phi Alpha Theta.
Contact:
Administrative Building, ADM 221
Ph: 203-396-8391
Fax: 203-371-7731
Email: McLaughlinJ@sacredheart.edu
John B. Roney, PhD. Professor of European History; received a BA from King's College in 1975, an MA from Wheaton College in 1980, and a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1989. Prior to joining the faculty in 1990, Dr. Roney taught at Redeemer University College and Wilfrid Lauier University, Ontario.
Teaching Areas: Western European History and Middle Eastern History.
Research Interest: Early modern and Modern France and Low Countries (1500-1900), Historiography (Reformation, Calvinism, Catholicism, Romanticism, French Revolutionary Europe, theories and approaches to history) and Religion and Society in Europe.
Publications: The Inside of History: Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné and Romantic Historiography (Greenwood Press, 1996); co-editor/author with Martin I. Klauber, The Identity of Geneva: The Christian Commonwealth, 1564-1864 (Greenwood Press, 1998); Cultures and Customs of Holland (Greenwood Press, forthcoming), and editor/author of The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg: Crossroads to the European Political Economy (Sacred Heart UP, forthcoming).
Faculty advisor for the Habitat for Humanity and the academic advisor for the men's ice hockey team. Member of the American Historical Association, the American Society of Church History, and the Conference on Faith and History (and past executive officer), Sixteenth Century Studies, and Phi Alpha Theta. Consulting faculty member of Charter Oak State College.
Contact:
Administrative Building, ADM 224
Ph: 203-371-7741
Fax: 203-371-7731
Email: RoneyJ@sacredheart.edu
Paul Siff, PhD. Associate Professor of American History; received a BA from Brooklyn College and a PhD from the University of Rochester. He previously taught at Westminster College in Fulton, MO, and joined the Sacred Heart University faculty in 1969.
Teaching Areas: 20th century US social and cultural history, ethnicity, and immigration.
Research Interest: US Labor history
Dr. Siff was the past president and treasurer of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History, and a past board member of the Fairfield Historical Society. He is currently Associate Editor of Connecticut History. He is a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, and Phi Alpha Theta. Additionally, he is a consulting faculty member at Charter Oak State College.
Contact:
Administrative Building, ADM 226
Ph: 203-371-7743
Fax: 203-371-7731
Email: SiffP@sacredheart.edu Gregory Viggiano, PhD. Assistant Professor of Ancient History; received a BA from the University of Montana at Missoula in 1989, an MA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998, and a PhD from Yale University in 2005.
Teaching Areas: Ancient Near East, Ancient Greece and Rome, Greek and Roman historiography, Age of Pericles, Ancient Greek Political and Moral Thought
Research Interest: Classical Greece, Greek and Roman Historiography, Greek Law. Dissertation: "Unreported speeches in Thucydides"
Publications: Problems in Ancient Greek History (with Donald Kagan, Prentice Hall, 2008).
Dr. Viggiano is a member of American Philological Association and the American Historical Association.
Contact:
Administration Building, ADM 223
Ph: 203-396-8385
Fax. 203-371-7731
E-mail: ViggianoG@sacredheart.edu
Part - Time Adjunct FacultyContact Colette Rossignol, Academic Departmental Assistant. Telephone: 203- 371-7730. Every adjunct professor has a mailbox in the departmental office. Edward Brennan
E-mail: phyled@charter.net Karen Christensen, PhD.
E-mail: christensenk@sacredheart.edu Andrew M. Conroe, MA. BA Oberlin College, MA & PhD candidate University of Michigan; Fulbright Scholar to Indonesia
Research Interest: Anthropology & History; Southeast Asian Studies; Indonesia
E-mail: conroea@sacredheart.edu Jennifer Mara DeSilva, PhD. BA St. Michael's College, University of Toronto; MA University of Warwick, UK; PhD University of Toronto
Research Interest: Europe 1400-1600, Medieval Europe, and Gender; Dissertation: "Paris de' Grassi and the Office of Ceremonies under Popes Julius II & Leo X"
E-mail: desilvaj@sacredheart.edu Wayne Alan Detzler, PhD. BA, MA Wheaton College; PhD Manchester University, UK; DMin. Southern Evangelical Seminary
Research Interest: German History, Enlightenment and Romantic Movement, New Testament Studies
Publications: The Changing Church in Europe (Zondervan, 1979); The Heritage and Legacy of Southern Gospel Music (Showcase Management, 2001); New Testament Words in Today's Language (Victor Press, 1986); "Robert Pinkerton: The Principal Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Germany," Sowing the Word (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2005); "Clarence Wesley Jones," American National Biography (Oxford UP, 1999); "Robert Pinkerton," Evangelisches Gemeindellexikon, (R. Brockhaus, 1978).
E-mail: detzlerw@sacredheart.edu Ed Donato, MA. BA, MA Providence College, Doctoral studies Boston College.
Research Interest: American colonial experience, the Revolution, the U.S. Constitution, the emergence of political parties, 19th century reform movements, Jacksonian Democracy, the South, and the Civil War
Other Affiliations: Retired Director/Associate Dean of Continuing Education/ University College, Sacred Heart University
E-mail: donatoe@sacredheart.edu, or eddonato1@optonline.net Andrew Figlar
E-mail: figlara@sacredheart.edu Gregory Foss, MA. BA Belhaven College; MA, MA Gordon Conwell Seminary.
Research Interest: American History, American Church History. Thesis: “John Adams: The Virtuous Statesman.”
Other Affiliations: History Teacher, Christian Heritage School, Trumbull, CT
E-mail: fossg@sacredheart.edu Denise A. Kaiser, PhD. BA Barnard College, NY; MA Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto; PhD Columbia University.
Research Interest: Medieval and Renaissance History; Dissertation: “Sin and Vices in the Sermones de Domincis by Berthold of Regensburg.”
Publications: Martha Howell, with collaboration Kaiser, Suzanne Wemple, “A Documented Presence: Medieval Women in Germanic Historiography,” Women in Medieval History and Historiography (U of Penn, 1987); Kaiser and Wemple, “Death’s Dance of Women,” J of Medieval History, 1986; Translator: Herwig Wolfram, Conrad II (990-1039): Emperor of Three Kingdoms (Penn State UP, 2006); Translator: Heinrich Fichtenau, Heretics and Scholars in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1200 (Penn State UP, 1998).
E-mail: kaiserd@sacredheart.edu
Ryan W. Keating, MA. BA College of the Holy Cross; MA Trinity College, Dublin.
Research Interest: Irish History, American History; Thesis: “Why Fight?: The Motivational Role of Education and Social Institutions on the Development of Irish Nationalism 1914-1922.”
E-mail: keatingr@sacredheart.eduKimya Knecht, MA. BA Nyack College; MA Iona University
Resaerch Interest: Middle Eastern History and Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Other Affiliations: Corporate Insurance Sales for Fortune 100 Company
E-mail: knechtk@sacredheart.edu David J. Lincoln, MA. BA, MA Boston College
Resaerch Interest: Modern European History, Ancient History, American History
Other Affiliations: Norwalk Community College
E-mail: lincolnd@sacredheart.eduMatthew Magda, MA. MA University of Connecticut
Publications: Momessen: Industrial Boomtown and Steel Community, 1898-1980 (Harrisburg, PA: Historical & Museum Commission, 1985); Polish Presence in Pennsylvannia (State College, PA: Pennsylvannia Historical Association, 1992).
E-mail: mmagda@snet.net Gani Manelli, MA. BA Boston University; MA University of Connecticut; Secondary Teaching Certificate, University of Connecticut. Graduate work in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Michigan. Graduate work(6th and 7th year programs) in history and education at Western Connecticut State University and Southern Connecticut State University.
Research Interest: American history, Middle Eastern history
Other Affiliations: Full-time tenured teacher in history/social studies at Masuk High School in Monroe. Coaching in football, track, and weight training.
E-mail: manellig@sacredheart.edu William T. Russell, III, MA. BS Secondary Education History, MA Education, Sixth-Year Educational Leadership, University of Connecticut.
Research Interest: Master's Inquiry Project: “An Analysis of the Evolution of Methods of Teaching the Social Studies from the 1950's, 1970's, to the present day.” Honors Thesis: “The Evolution of Methods of Teaching the Social Studies in Special Education Classrooms.”
Other Affiliations: Teacher of History and Social Studies at Fairfield Ludlowe HS. Highly Qualified under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)
Who's Who Among American Teachers, 2003-2004
Winner on the History Channel's Creative Teacher Awards (2004) (2005)
E-mail: russellw@sacredheart.edu; wrussell@fairfield.k12.ct.us Clement L Russo, PhD. BA Fordham University, MA, PhD Cornell University
Research Interest: Modern European History (esp. 19th & 20th c. Intellectual history); Renaissance and Reformation; History of Science.
Other Affiliations: Adjunct instructor Albert Magnus (since 2002); Editor and Writer of corporate and educational materials.
E-mail: russoc@sacredheart.edu; or clemrusso@aol.com Mark Stepsis, MA. BA Williams College; MA New York University; PhD candidate Fordham University.
Research Interest: American History
Other Affiliations: St. Joseph’s College, West Hartford; Fairfield University, CT
E-mail: stepsism@sacredheart.edu Timothy Tuttle, PhD. BBA Pace University, MA Western Connecticut State University, PhD New York University.
Research Interest: American in the Nineteenth century and the 1960s.
Other Affiliations: Adjunct instructor Western Connecticut State University; Wellness Coordinator YMCA, Danbury, and Director of the History Lecture Series.
E-mail: tuttlet@sacredheart.edu Susan Walens, PhD. MA Western Connecticut State University, PhD Union Institute Graduate School, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Research Interest: Dissertation: “United States Foreign Policy in the Philippines and Vietnam, 1945-1965.” The Innocence Project [work with prisoners]
The Tonkin Gulf: August 1964 (Empire Press, 1993); War Stories: An Oral History of Life Behind Bars (Praeger, 1997).
Other Affiliations: Western Connecticut State University; extensive theater productions
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