Dr. Fazioli earned a B.A. in History & French from Providence College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in Anthropology (Archaeology). Before joining the Mercy faculty in 2015, he was a Research Associate in the Dept. of Anthropology at SUNY Buffalo and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Honors Program Director at Medaille College.
With over a decade of experience in higher education, Dr. Fazioli is passionate about teaching, and is always looking for new ways to engage and motivate his students. He firmly believes that a broad liberal arts education has the potential to be a transformative and emancipatory experience, allowing students to encounter the world -- and themselves -- in exciting, challenging, and even life-changing ways. He has won multiple awards for his teaching, including most recently the 2017-2018 Online Teacher of the Year at Mercy.
Dr. Fazioli's research focuses on the archaeology and history of Central Europe during Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (c. 300-900 CE). He has conducted fieldwork in Austria, Slovenia, Sweden, Denmark, and Northern Ireland, as well as across New York State. He has published on a variety of topics including landscape archaeology, ceramic petrography, social identity, the history of archaeology and anthropology, and critical thinking. His most recent book -- The Mirror of the Medieval: An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination (Berghahn Books, 2017) -- explores the myriad ways in which the medieval past has been appropriated by political and intellectual projects in the modern world. More information can be found at: https://mercy.academia.edu/KPatrickFazioli.
