Michael Carrafiello

Contact

• carrafml@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 202K Mosler Hall, Hamilton Campus
• 513-785-3092

Titles

• Associate Professor of History
• Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Hamilton Campus

Education

• PhD 1987, Vanderbilt University
• MA, Vanderbilt University
• BA, Rollins College

Teaching and Research Interests

• England since 1485
• Renaissance and Reformation
• Colonial America

Selected Publications

• “St. Paul and the Polemicists: The Robert Parsons-Thomas Morton Exchanges, 1606-1610,” The Catholic Historical Review, Summer 2009
• “Archives of Passion: Using Love Letters to Teach the Methods of Historical Enquiry,” AURCO Journal, Spring 2009
• Robert Parsons and English Catholicism, 1580-1610, Associated University Presses, 1998

Selected Grants and Awards

• Principal Investigator for several ongoing Teaching American History Grants from the U.S. Department of Education, on behalf of Hamilton, Middletown, Fairfield, Princeton, Northwest, and Mason Schools
• Honors for Excellence Medal, Hamilton City School District, October 2003

Work in Progress

Dr. Carrafiello’s current book project is entitled A “House Divided”: The Democratic Party on the Eve of Civil War, 1856-60.