History - Faculty

Professors

Rev. Jeffrey von Arx, S.J.
President, Fairfield University
Professor of History
B.A., Princeton University
M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
M.Div., Weston School of Theology

Cecelia F. Bucki
Professor of History
B.A., University of Connecticut
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

David McFadden
Professor of History
B.A., University of Denver
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Gavriel Rosenfeld
Professor of History
B.A., Brown University
M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Associate Professors

William M. Abbott
Associate Professor of History
A.B., University of California, Berkeley
D.Phil., Oxford University, England

Patricia Behre Miskimin
Associate Professor of History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Yale University

Danke Li
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Sichuan University, China
M.A., Michigan State University
Ph.D., The University of Michigan

Yohuru Williams, Chair
Associate Professor of History
B.A., M.A., University of Scranton
Ph.D., Howard University

Assistant Professors

Steven Bachelor
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., University of California
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D, Yale University

Anna Lawrence
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., Carleton College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan

Derrick McKisick
Assistant Professor of History
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Arkansas

Giovanni Ruffini
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
B.A., University of Chicago
M.A., San Francisco State University
Ph.D., Columbia University

Lecturers

Elizabeth Hohl
Ph. D. Union Institute and University
19th Century U. S., Women, Social Reform Movements

Kristen Keegan
M. A., University of Connecticut
Historical Geography, GIS

Louise Palmer
Ph.D., Yale University
History of Science

Nick Rutter
Ph. D. Yale University
Modern European History

Faculty Websites

Patricia Behre Miskimin | Gavriel Rosenfeld | Giovanni Ruffini