Jeffrey von Arx

Jeffrey von Arx, S.J. is currently Visiting Professor of the History of Christianity in the STM. In the academic year 2018-2019, he was the Thomas I. Gasson Professor at B.C. From 2004 to 2017, he was Professor of History and President of Fairfield University. From 1998 until 2004, he was Associate Professor of History and Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill in Fordham University. He began his academic career at Georgetown University in 1982, as Assistant and then Associate Professor of History until 1998, serving as Department Chair from 1991-1997. He was the founding director of the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown. He has an A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Yale in modern European History with a specialization in British history. Fr. von Arx is the Superior of John LaFarge House, the Jesuit House of Studies in Cambridge. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of three Jesuit universities. He served six year as a member of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of School and Colleges, for whom he still chairs accreditation visits. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

EDUCATION

• A.B., Princeton University
• M.A., Yale University
• M.Phil., Yale University
• Ph.D., Yale University
• M.Div., Weston School of Theology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Church History, British History, Irish History, Australian History, Historiography, European Intellectual History

EXPERTISE

• Church History
• Ecclesiology

Companies

• Visiting Professor of the History of Christianity Boston College (2017)
• Superior and Director Society of Jesus (2017)
• Thomas I. Gasson, S.J. Professor Boston College (2018 — 2019)
• President Fairfield University (2004 — 2016)
• Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill Fordham University (1998 — 2004)
• Director, Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies Georgetown University (1995 — 1998)
• Associate Professor of History Georgetown University (1989 — 1998)
• Department Chair Georgetown University (1991 — 1997)
• Assistant Professor of History Georgetown University (1982 — 1989)