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About the Author
Dr. Pellegrino Nazzaro is professor of European History in the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). For several years Dr. Nazzaro taught Crime and Violence and Comparative Criminal Law in the School of Criminal Justice.
Dr. Nazzaro holds a B.A. in Humanities from the Liceo Classico Pietro Giannone of Benevento, Italy (1951), and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence (Law and History) from the University Federico II of Naples (1956). In the biennium 1956–1958, he registered at the University’s Facolta’ di Lettere e Filosofia for postdoctoral research in History and Philosophy.
Appointed a member of Milan’s COI (Centro Orientamenti Immigrati), Dr. Nazzaro is a socio vitalizio (lifetime member) of the Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano of Rome, Italy.
Dr. Nazzaro arrived in the United States and began teaching in 1962. In 1974, he received RIT’s Eisenhart Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award; an award as Outstanding Educator of America in 1975; and inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in the East and the International Who’s Who in Education in 1981 and 1982. During 1975–1977, Dr. Nazzaro was nominated chair of the Distinguished Faculty Award Program of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the Edinboro State College.