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Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York

2011: PhD, Global History

Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, Connecticut

2007: MA, European History (Minor theme: Revolutions)

2003: Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification Program (36 credits), History-Social Studies, Grades 7-12

University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2006: Certificate, French (Reading, Writing, and Translation)

Iona College, New Rochelle, New York

2003: MA, Global History

Pace University, Pleasantville, New York

2000: BA, History (Magna Cum Laude)

TEACHING ENDORSEMENTS

Connecticut Professional Educator Certificate, History/Social Sciences, Grades 7-12 (026)

19th and 20th Century Europe, French and Francophone Studies, Italian Studies, Social Studies/History Education

Global History, US History & Government, Social Studies Teaching Methods

(Editor and Contributor), Genealogy and Social History: Understanding the Global Past through Family Case Studies. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022.

"Families in the Riveli di beni e anime of Gallodoro, Sicily during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," The Journal of Genealogy & Family History 5,1 (2021): https://doi.org/10.24240/23992964.2021.1234534

“Using Personal Avatars in History Survey Courses: An Alternative Learning Project to Deepen Understandings of Historical Change and Social-Emotional Learning,” Journal of Social Studies and History Education (Fall 2020): https://uh.edu/education/research/jsshe/back-issues.php

(Editor and contributor), Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870: All for One and One for All in a Global France. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020.

Finding Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas and the French Atlantic World. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2018.

(Editor and contributor), Italian Americans: The History and Culture of a People. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2017.

(Editor and contributor), Balzac and Zola: Esthetics and Ethics in the Novel (Essays in Memory of Lewis Kamm). Saarbrücken: Scholars’ Press, 2013.

(Editor and contributor), Royalists, Radicals and les Misérables: France in 1832. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

(with Michael Perrota), B��Ԫ: Yesterday and Today. Charlestown, SC: The History Press, 2013.

(Editor and contributor), The Black Musketeer: Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.

“Creating a Local Black Identity in a Global Context: The French Writer Alexandre Dumas as an African American Lieu de Mémoire,” Journal of Global History 5, 3 (November 2010): 395-422.

“The Black Musketeer: Celebrating Alexandre Dumas as a Symbol of la Francophonie,” Institute for European Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 2010. Available online:

“Treacherous ‘Saracens’ and Integrated Muslims: The Islamic Outlaw in Robin Hood’s Band and the Re-Imagining of English Identity, 1800 to the Present,” Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies 40 (2009): 53-76.  

“In the Shadow of Rousseau: Gender and the 2007 French Presidential Elections,” International Social Science Review 84, 1-2 (Spring/Summer 2009): 3-25.

(Editor and contributor), Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture. 2 vols. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2009.

“Teaching Case Study: Florence Farmborough and the Russian Front, 1914-1918.” Women in World History. George Mason University, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. 2006. Available:

Acknowledged as a “Teacher of Honor” by Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education (2013).

Received the 2010-11 John Rogers Memorial Award from the Human and Civil Rights Commission of the Connecticut Education Association. The award recognized the role of my publications and teaching efforts in promoting the learning and scholarly exploration of black history.

American Historical Association Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research (2010)

Indiana University West European Studies Center Curriculum Grant (2010)