Marian Mathison Desrosiers, Ph.D.
Marian Mathison Desrosiers, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor (Retired) | History
Dr. Desrosiers taught history at Salve Regina University for over thirteen years. Twice she received Fulbright scholarships for study abroad, one to India and one to Russia, the knowledge from which she continually used in her teaching and writing. She served the profession as an executive board member of the National Council for Social Studies and the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities.
In her two decades teaching secondary school, she became a National Board Certified Teacher and received summer grants from the National Science Foundation, Gilder Lerhman, National Endowment for Humanities, Robert Taft and Teaching American History.
Dr. Desrosiers' scholarly publications are diverse, including colonial Newport history, women in world war and the Rhode Island courts, and the famine Irish in America. Her first book was The Convergence of Hope: Our Lady of Hope Chapel, a Story of the Hundred-Year History and her new book is John Banister of Newport: The Life and Accounts of the Colonial Merchant.
Timothy B. Neary, Ph.D.
Timothy B. Neary, Ph.D.
Professor, Program Coordinator, Faculty Fellow, McAuley Scholar
History | American Studies
Timothy B. Neary is Chair and Professor of History, as well as Coordinator of American Studies, at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. He earned an A.B. in American studies from Georgetown University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Loyola University Chicago. His first book, Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914–1954 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), examines the role of Bishop Bernard Sheil and the Catholic Youth Organization in promoting everyday interracial interactions and cooperation a generation prior to the traditionally recognized start of the modern American civil rights movement and the Second Vatican Council.
John F. Quinn, Ph.D.
John F. Quinn, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair | History
Dr. John F. Quinn joined the history faculty at Salve Regina University in 1992. He specializes in modern Irish history and American religious and ethnic history, and teaches courses on topics including France since the Revolution, Hitler and the Holocaust, and the American Immigrant Experience. Dr. Quinn received his A.B. from Georgetown University, magna cum laude, and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Notre Dame. A revised version of his dissertation was published as Father Mathew’s Crusade: Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), and his articles have appeared in the New England Quarterly, American Catholic Studies, History Ireland, Rhode Island History and Newport History.