• B.A. William Paterson University
• M.A. Rutgers University
• Ph.D. New York University

Dr. Maffei is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and History-Political Science.

Dr. Maffei teaches political science. He is also the pre-law adviser as well as the Washington Semester institutional representative. His area of study is international relations theory with a concentration in international organizations. He has presented at numerous conferences both domestically and internationally.

He has worked to develop new programs in Applied Language and American Sign Language. He has attended numerous conferences on language pedagogy and instructional design.

• B.A. ,History, Siena College
• M.A. ,History, Old Doninion University
• Ph.D. ,History, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Dr. William Barnhart has been teaching at Caldwell since 2000.  His teaching duties focus on the areas of early American history, specifically in the areas of colonial and revolutionary America, Native American history, and American religious history.  He also regularly teaches the department’s survey courses: Roots of the West, Shaping of the West and Growth of the American Nation I.  His research focuses on religion, politics and the creation of national identities in the early modern Atlantic world.  He has published several articles on this subject, and presented many papers at regional and national conferences.

B.A. Drew University
M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph.D. Rutgers University

Dr. Benjamin Lammers has been teaching history at Caldwell University since 1999. Dr. Lammers teaches a wide variety of courses in European history (including The First World War and the Holocaust) and African history. Dr. Lammers regularly teaches courses on apartheid in South Africa and the Holocaust in film in the Caldwell Honors Program, and has also co-led study abroad trips to Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria and France. Dr. Lammers also serves as Caldwell University’s Director of Academic Assessment and is the President of the Faculty Council.

• B.A. William Paterson University
• M.A. Rutgers University
• Ph.D. New York University

Dr. Maffei is the Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and History-Political Science.

Dr. Maffei teaches political science. He is also the pre-law adviser as well as the Washington Semester institutional representative. His area of study is international relations theory with a concentration in international organizations. He has presented at numerous conferences both domestically and internationally.

He has worked to develop new programs in Applied Language and American Sign Language. He has attended numerous conferences on language pedagogy and instructional design.

Dr. Marie Marmo Mullaney has been teaching history at Caldwell University since 1980, and served as chair of the Department 0f History and Political Science from 1982 to 2003. She holds a B.A. in history and political science from Seton Hall University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in history from Rutgers University. She teaches a wide range of courses in European history, American history, African-American history, the history of New Jersey, the history of Hispanics in America, and women’s history. Her main research interests are in the history of women, and she has published widely on the lives of a large number of activist women. Her book on women socialist revolutionaries, Revolutionary Women: Gender and the Socialist Revolutionary Role, is a collective biography of five European socialists active in European revolutionary movements in the period 1870-1920. Her articles on the lives of other pioneering female activists have appeared in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society; New Jersey History; Notable American Women; and numerous other publications including Past and Promise: Lives of Women in New Jersey History and The New Jersey Encyclopedia. Her latest article, “Catholic Action in New Jersey: The Catholic Women’s College Club, 1934-1994,” appears in the fall 2025 edition of American Catholic Studies. She has also authored hundreds of book reviews in the areas of European history, American history, and women’s history. In recent years, Dr. Mullaney has developed an expertise in the history of American Catholics, and she teaches courses in the Caldwell core curriculum on the History of Catholics in America and the History of the Catholic Church. For three years, she worked with Caldwell students as campus coordinator for the Sister Story oral history project, a national project which created an online archive of the experiences of American Catholic religious sisters. From 2018-2020 she was part of a Caldwell University team that brought the St. John’s Bible to the campus community. This was a major international project sponsored by St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota that produced the first hand written and hand illustrated copy of the Bible in 500 years. Dr. Mullaney has been a National Merit Scholar, holder of a Danforth Foundation Fellowship, and winner of a Sears-Roebuck Foundation Excellence in Teaching Award.

B.A. John Jay University

M.A. Adelphi University

Ph.D. Trident University