Roy Domenico, Ph.D., professor and chair of the History Department, was named executive secretary of the Society for Italian Historical Studies of the American Historical Association, the largest organization of historians in the United States.
Dr. Domenico has authored three volumes on Italian history, has co-edited an encyclopedia of modern Christian politics, and has, most recently, contributed chapters to forthcoming books on political scandals (on the Italian “Montesi Scandal”), and U.S. Catholicism (on U.S.–Vatican relations).
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