Roger Panetta, PhD

Roger Panetta is a retired professor at Fordham University who has authored numerous articles on the history of New York State and the region and served as Adjunct Curator for History at the Hudson River Museum. He edited Dutch New York: The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture in 2009 and Westchester: The American Suburban in 2006. Roger co-edited, with Eileen Panetta, On Shattered Ground: A Civil War Mosaic, published by Penguin books in 2013. He co-authored The Hudson: An Illustrated Guide to the Living River, published by Rutgers University Press and authored The Tappan Zee Bridge and The Forging of the Rockland Suburb published by the Historical Society of Rockland County in 2010 and Kingston: The IBM Years, by Overlook Press in 2014. He was the Curator of the Hudson River Collection at Fordham University. In 2006, Roger received the Cultural Heritage Award from the Greater Hudson Heritage and in 2013 I was elected to the New York Academy of History. He has interview appearances on C-SPAN discussing Sing Sing Prison and Tocqueville in Ossining and Roger was interviewed by Bill Moyers about the Hudson River.

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Roger was currently working with the Sing Sing Prison Museum and authoring a book, The Inescapable Shadow: A History of the Original Sing Sing Cell Block 1825-1925. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Fordham University.

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Roger's podcast interview was a Fordham University News 2020 staff pick: Suburbanites Need to Be Part of Racism Conversation, Says Professor.