Eric Martone

Interim Dean for the School of Education

School of Education

Founding faculty advisor to the School of Education graduate student journal, the Mavericks’ Education Journal. https://w.taskstream.com/ts/martone1/MavericksEducationJournal

Editor of the peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal, the Global Education Review. http://ger.mercy.edu/index.php/ger

Classes Taught

HSTE 536 Theories of Globalization, HSTE 534 Critical Issues in Global History, HSTE 533 Critical Issues in US History, HSTE 535 American Government, EDUC 511C Methods & Materials in Secondary Social Studies Education, EDUC 552 Social Studies in Childhood and Early Childhood Education, EDUC 642 Advanced Methods for Teaching Language Arts & Social Studies in Childhood and Early Childhood Education , EDUC 506 Educational Evaluation and Assessment, EDUC 517 Educational Psychology & Adolescent Development, EDUC 518 Method & Materials in Middle Childhood Education.

Education

Stony Brook University

Ph.D. Global History

Western Connecticut State University

M.A. European History

University of Toronto

Certificate, French

Western Connecticut State University

Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification Program, History-Social Studies, Grades 7-12

Iona College

M.A. Global History

Pace University

B.A. History

Bio

Dr. Eric Martone is Interim Dean of the School of Education and Associate Professor of History/Social Studies Education at Mercy College, where he began teaching in 2011. He was previously Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the School of Education and Chair of the Department of Secondary Education. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany and raised in Danbury, Connecticut. Before joining the core faculty at Mercy College, he was a secondary school social studies teacher for eight years in Waterbury, Connecticut. In recognition of his teaching excellence, he received the 2011 John Rogers Memorial Award from the Connecticut Education Association and in 2013 was acknowledged as a “Teacher of Honor” by Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education. He has published widely, with over 150 diverse publications on nineteenth- and twentieth-century European, Atlantic, and global history; and articles on teaching methods.

Books

Martone, E., Editor 2009 Encyclopedia of Blacks in European History and Culture Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.

Martone, E., Editor 2011 The Black Musketeer: Reevaluating Alexandre Dumas within the Francophone World Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle.

Martone, E. and Perrota, M. 2013 Mercy College: Yesterday and Today The History Press, Charlestown, SC.

Martone, E., Editor 2013 Royalists, Radicals and les Misérables: France in 1832 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle.

Martone, E., Editor 2013 Balzac and Zola: Esthetics and Ethics in the Novel (Essays in Memory of Lewis Kamm) Scholars’ Press, Saarbrücken.

Martone, E., Editorial Consultant 2016 Children’s Literature Review: Volume 205—Alexandre Dumas and Neil Gaiman Gale/Cengage Learning, Farmington Hills, MI.

Martone, E., Editor 2017 Italian Americans: The History and Culture of a People ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA. 978-1610699945

Martone, E. 2018 Finding Monte Cristo: Alexandre Dumas and the French Atlantic World McFarland, Jefferson, NC. 9781476673202

Martone, E. 2020 Alexandre Dumas as a French Symbol since 1870: All for One and One for All in a Global France Cambridge Scholars, Newcastle. 9781527546004

Professional Accomplishments

Awards

John Rogers Memorial Award from the Human and Civil Rights Commission of the Connecticut Education Association 2011
“Teacher of Honor” award from Kappa Delta Pi, the international honor society in education 2013
Independent Publishers (IPPY) Book Award for "Finding Monte Cristo" 2019
Book Excellence Award (Non-Fiction) for "Finding Monte Cristo" 2020