Andre Goddu

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Email: agoddu@stonehill.edu
Phone: (508) 565-1528
Office: Shields Science Center, 305

Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1945, I moved with my family at the age of eight to Phoenix, Arizona. There I attended elementary and high school, followed by five years in a Franciscan seminary in California.

In 1968 I received a B.A. in philosophy, and in 1970 I left the seminary and began working as a probation officer in Alameda County, California. In 1973 I returned part-time to graduate school, and in 1975 began a doctoral program at UCLA in medieval history.

Grants from the government of what was then West Germany made it possible for me to live and study in Berlin for three years, where I wrote my dissertation submitted to UCLA in 1979.

While in Berlin I met a Japanese pianist, Kayo Tatebe, who later became my wife. After returning to the U.S., I held a number of teaching positions, the most recent at Stonehill College, where I have been since 1990 except for a leave of absence from 1996 to the middle of 1998.

A full professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stonehill College, I teach early modern astronomy and physics, and a course on science and religion.