History
Professor
St.John Hall Room 244A
(718) 990-6090
coppaf@stjohns.edu
Frank J. Coppa is Professor of History and Director of the
University’s Doctoral program in Modern World History. He
received his B.A. from Brooklyn College of the City University, and
M.A. and Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America. His
research interests in Papal, Italian, and European history has led
to the publication of over a dozen volumes including
works such as
Economics and Politics in the Giolittian Age (1971),
Camillo di Cavour (1973),
Pope Pius IX: Crusader in a Secular Age (1979) and
Cardinal Giacomo Antonelli and Papal Politics
in European Affairs (1990).
He has served as editor-in-chief and contributor to the
Dictionary of Modern Italian History (1985) and has
written the fifth and final volume in the “Longman History of the
Papacy,’ entitled The Modern Papacy (1998), and in 1999
served as editor-in-chief and contributor to Encyclopedia of
the Vatican and Papacy and Controversial Concordats:
The Vatican’s Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini,
and Hitler.
He has reviewed all the popes and anti-popes for the
Encyclopedia Britannica’s online references to the papacy
and all the popes from the Renaissance through Gregory XVI for the
new edition ofThe Catholic
Encyclopedia. He has also served as general editor as well as
contributor to
The Great Popes Through History (2002) and published
The Papacy Confronts the Modern World in the Anvil series
(2003). More recently he has published The Papacy,
the Jews and the Holocaust (2006) and the
Encyclopedia of Modern Dictators:
From Napoleon to the Present (2006).