Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Associate Professor of History, Psychohistory and Interdisciplinary Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 1971 as a Founding Faculty Member

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7415
• E-mail: pelovitz@ramapo.edu 
• Office: B-210
• Office Hours: TF 11:45-1:00 p.m.
   
• Personal Website 

Education:

• B.A., University of Connecticut
• M.A., Ph.D. Rutgers University

Courses Offered:

• Children, and Youth in History
• English History
• History Seminar
• Historiography
• Hitler, the Holocaust, and Genocide
• Nineteenth Century Europe
• Historiography: Presidents and Presidential Candidates
• Psychohistory: War, Peace, and Conflict Resolution
• (forthcoming) World History and Topics on Democracy and Electronic Communications.

Teaching Interests:

• How to get students to do research and think in a historical manner, using the latest technologies and tbeir life experiences, while remaining loyal to the canons of our historical profession. 
• Encouraging interested students to study psychohistory.

Research Interests:

• Biographies and psychobiographies of presidential candidates and presidents
• The methodologies of history, psychohistory, and teaching
• The impact of trauma on history and society
• Research projects with students
• The Makers and Making of Psychohistory Research Project
• Every year Professor Elovitz usually makes five or six professional presentations in the U.S. and abroad.

Recent Publications:

• "Grief and Loss in the Bush Family," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 3 (December 2008): 115-118
• "Thinking and Laughing About Biden and Palin," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 3 (December 2008): 164-168.
• "Ralph Colp: Darwin Scholar and Psychiatrist," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 3 (December 2008): 105, 160-162.
• "A Brilliant and Playful Listener to the Unconscious," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 80-82.
• "In Memoriam: Otto Paul Pfanze," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 101.
• "Obama's Dreams from and of His Father," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 70-77.
• "Race in America and the 2008 Election," Clio's Psyche: Understanding the 'Why' of Culture, Current Events, History, and Society, 15, No. 2 (September 2008): 64-68.
• "Child Abuse and Baseball: Torre and Steinbrenner," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 1 (June 2008): 19-23.
• "Fred I. Greenstein: Princeton Political Psychologist," Clio's Psyche 15, No. 1 (June 2008): 1, 33-38.
• "A Comparative Psychohistory of McCain and Obama," Journal of Psychohistory XXXVI  Fall 2008, pp. 98-143.
• Editor, Appearance and Reality: The Best of the Journal Clio's Psyche (September 2008, i-x, 244 pages).
• "Presidential Responses to National Trauma: Case Studies of G. W. Bush, Carter, and Nixon," Journal of Psychohistory XXXVI Summer, 2008, pp. 36-58
• "Psychohistorical Accomplishments and Losses," Psychohistory News 26 #3 (Spring-Summer 2008), pp. 3, 9-10