Professor of History
Fordham University
Roger Panetta
Roger Panetta, Ph.D. is a Professor of History at Fordham University, and former Chair of the History Department at Marymount College of Fordham University. An Adjunct Curator for History at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, he is also a core lecturer in Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health at Columbia University. Panetta is the co-author of The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River. He has given dozens of presentations focused on the Hudson River and its rich history and was a consultant and featured narrator in Bill Moyer's documentary, American's First River.
Panetta received his doctorate from the Graduate Center at City University of New York in American and Urban History in 1999. He holds a master's degree in American History from Fordham University and a bachelor's degree from Columbia University.
Since 2002, Panetta has been involved with the Environmental Consortium of Hudson Valley Colleges and Universities as an institutional representative and as a member of its organizing and steering committees. His other affiliations include the Westchester County Historical Society, of which he has served as Vice-President/Trustee since 1998; the Citizens Advisory Committee of Sing Sing Prison from 2000-2001; the Editorial Advisory Board of The Historian; the Association of American Historians; and the American Association of University Professors.
