cbellitt@kean.edu

Christopher M. Bellitto, Ph.D....

...is a medievalist, a church historian, and Professor of History at Kean University in Union, NJ, where he teaches courses in ancient and medieval history. He has twice been a Fulbright Specialist: at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands (2023) and the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand (2019). In 2021-2022, he was Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary.  He has twice won grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. An NEH Public Scholar grant in 2021 allowed him to complete his latest book, Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue. In 2010-2012, he was awarded an NEH Enduring Questions grant to develop a course and public programming on the theme: "Is there such a thing as a just war?"