Martin C. Babicz teaches history in the Communications & Society Residential Academic Program.聽 He received a BA聽in history from the University of Connecticut聽and an MA聽in history from Brown University.聽 After working as a lobbyist for fifteen years, he returned to graduate school and received his PhD聽from the University of Colorado.聽 His dissertation, which explores the intersection of colonial politics and imperial policy during the Stamp Act crisis, is entitled聽For Empire, Colony, and Self-Interest: Thomas Fitch and Connecticut Colonial Politics.聽 Dr. Babicz teaches America Through Baseball (HIST 2516) and the US聽& Film (ETHN 2014) in CommRAP.
He is the author of a chapter exploring the historiography of sports and pastimes of the 1920s in聽A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover聽(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), and聽is currently working on completing a book for America Through Baseball.