EDUCATION

2024 - Present

PhD in Medieval History, Fordham University, New York, NY. 

2020-2023

 M.A.in History, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. Thesis: Tabula Sacra: Roman Catholic Christianity & the Representation of Water in Medieval MappaeMundi, c. 1230 to c. 1450  

2013 

B.A. in Politics, 

Fairfield University, 

Fairfield, CT

History Teacher, 

Fusion Academy Greenwich, Fusion Education Group, Stamford, CT 

2022-2023 

Department Head of History, History Teacher, Fusion Academy Greenwich, Fusion Education Group, 

Stamford, CT

2019-2020

Senior Military Science Instructor, University of Connecticut, Department of Military Science, Army Reserve Officer’s 

Training Corps

Storrs, CT 

2019-2020

Officer Candidate School Instructor, The Connecticut Army National Guard, 

Niantic, CT 

Public History Exhibition Review, “SNET Telephone Exhibit,” May 13th, 2022. Orange Historical Society, 605 Orange Center Road, Orange, CT, 06477. Connecticut Historical Review 61.2, Fall 2022

Public History Exhibition Review, “The Remarkable Women of the Webb-Deane-Stevens Houses in the 20th Century,”Serving Up History: A Series of Engaging Lunchtime Talks, March 10th, 2022. Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT, 06109.

Public History Exhibition Review, “Exploring the Way Sisters: The Ingenuity of Two Early Connecticut Women Artists,”March 10th, 2022. New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06510.

(Forthcoming in May 2026) "Piracy & the Mediterranean Alliance: The Republic of Genoa & Christian Iberia's Allied Crusade in the Almeria Expedition, 1146-1149."

(In-Progress Writing Project) Pirates & Pathfinders: Navigation in the Buccaneering Age and Pirate Round, c. 1650 - c. 1700. 

Paper Presentation

Archbishop & Commander: Clerical Arms Bearing and Command in the Balearic Islands Expedition & Liber Maiorichinus, 1113-1115, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History in Arlington, VA on March 27th, 2026.

Paper Presentation  

The Rebirth of Empires: Militaries & Warfare in the Renaissance, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Military History in Fort Worth, TX on April 30th, 2022. 

Paper Presentation 

From Expedition to Empire: Marco Polo & Roman Catholicism in Fra Mauro’s Mappa Mundi, c. 1270 to c. 1450, presented at the annual Connecticut State University  “Making History” Conference at Southern Connecticut State University on March 25th, 2022.  

Phi Alpha Theta, 

History Honor Society 

Graduate Student Member, Society for Military History. 

2024 - Present

Graduate Student Assistant, Department of History, Fordham University, New York, NY. 

2021 

Graduate Student Assistant, Connecticut Historical Review, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT. 

Fordham University Department of History Loomie Prize for Academic Writing, Awarded in December 2025

Superior Communication Award, United States Army Air Defense Artillery Captains Career Course, Fort Sill, OK, April 2018

Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Distinguished Military Graduate, May 2013. 

Advanced Reading Ability

Italian 

Intermediate Reading Ability

Latin

Reading Knowledge

Arabic, Spanish 

M.A., History
npisano@fordham.edu