Faculty and Staff

Roy P. Domenico
Chair and Professor
STT 308G
B.A., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M.A., University of Connecticut
Ph.D., Rutgers University
19th- and 20th-century European political and cultural, Italy
Faculty

U. Melissa Anyiwo
Associate Professor-Director Black Studies Concentration
STT. Thomas 308B
African American History & Culture, Vampire Studies, US History 1900-present

Sean Brennan
Professor
STT 308C
B.A., Rockhurst University
M.A., Villanova University
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Modern Europe and Modern Russia, European political, diplomatic, and religious history

David J. Dzurec
Interim Dean College of Arts and Sciences and Professor
STT 210
B.A., Fairfield University
M.A., University of Connecticut
Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Early United States, U.S. Foreign Relations, U.S. Environmental, American Jesuits

Shuhua Fan
Professor
STT 308E
B.A., Sichuan Normal University
M.A. Jilin University
M.A., Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Asian/East Asian/Chinese History, US-China Relations, Women in modern China, World History

Christopher Gillett
Assistant Professor
STT 309B
christopher.gillett@scranton.edu
(570) 941-6382
Ph.D., Brown University
Seventeenth-century religious and political history in the British world

Aiala Levy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Latin America, Atlantic World, world history, digital history

Susan Poulson
Professor
STT 308H
B.A., George Washington University
M.A., Ph.D., Georgetown University
Recent America, American women

Adam J. Pratt
Associate Professor
STT 308D
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Age of Jackson, the Civil War & Reconstruction, Native America

Paul Sampson
Assistant Professor
STT 309C | 570-941-7427
Ph.D., Rutgers University
History of Science, Technology, Environment and Health; World History

Robert W. Shaffern
Professor
STT 308F
B.A., DePaul University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Ancient, Medieval, early modern Europe

Daniel Sweeney, S.J., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
St. Thomas 309A | 570-941-5933
A.B., Georgetown University
M.A., Fordham University
M.Div., Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley
Ph.D., University of Cambridge

Willis M. Conover
Professor Emeritus
Ed.D., Montana State University
U.S. History, American West, geography

Michael D. DeMichele
Professor Emeritus
B.S., The University of Scranton
M.A., Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University
Modern Europe, England, Ethnic Studies.

Josephine M. Dunn
Professor Emeritus
B.A., B.F.A., University of Houston
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Art History, Oral History, European cultural.

Francis X.J. Homer
Professor Emeritus and University Historian
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Modern Europe, modern England, European diplomatic history

Lawrence W. Kennedy
Professor Emeritus
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Boston College
U.S. History, Gilded Age, Progressive Era, urban, race and ethnicity; Modern Irish History

Lee M. Penyak
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D.,The University of Connecticut
Latin America, gender, sexuality, religion, and haciendas

W. Jeffrey Welsh
Professor Emeritus
LSC 312
American Colonies, U.S. Business History, Public History