Kenneth Jorgensen

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About Us

Department:	History and Political Science
Title:	Professor
Background:	B.A. Gonzaga University M.A. Gonzaga University M. Phil Columbia University Ph.D Columbia University
Office:	Aquinas, Room 214
Phone:	(203) 773 - 8551
Email:	jorgensen@albertus.edu
Courses:	HI 111 Western Civilization I HI 112 Western Civilization II HI 302 Women and Society in Early Modern Europe HI 304 History through Biography HI 315 Nineteenth Century Europe HI 316 Twentieth Century Europe

My research interests center on Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation History, Reformation and Counter-Reformation Theology as well as the various roles of women in Early Modern Europe.

Publications & Awards

A sampling of my publications include:

"Is It `Worth Giving Up Cigars'?: An Age-Old Mystery," published as "Vale la pena di smetterla con i sigari? Un annoso mistero," trans. Franco LaPolla, in Star Trek: Il Cielo � il Limite, ed. Franco LaPolla. Torino: Lindau, 1998. 115-124.

Co-authored (with Jerome H. Delamater), "Proto- cinematic Imagery and the Development of Film Narrative," published as "A Imag�tica Proto- cinem�tica e o Desenvolvimento da Narrativa F�lmica," translated by Jorge M. Rosa. Revista de Comunica��o e Linguagens, [Universidade Nova de Lisboa], no. 23 (1996).

Article on the Somascans in the Encyclopedia of the Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. Vol. 4:87-88.

"The Theatines," in Religious Orders of the Catholic Reformation, ed. Richard L. DeMolen. New York: Fordham University Press, 1994.

"`Love Conquers All': The Conversion, Asceticism, and Altruism of St. Catherine of Genoa," in Renaissance Society and Culture: Essays in Honor of Eugene F. Rice, Jr., ed. John Monfasani and Ronald G. Musto. New York: Italica Press, 1991.

Kenneth Jorgensen