Joseph P. DiGangi

Joseph P. DiGangi was born in 1941 in New Jersey and attended public schools there. He graduated from Lehigh University with a B.A. with Distinction in Government and from Columbia University with a Ph.D. in Public Law and Government. He taught in the Political Science Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York from 1967-1997 as Instructor, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, and retired as Professor Emeritus of Political Science in 1997. While at HWS, He served on virtually every important Standing and Ad Hoc committee, including Department Chair, Dean Selection Committee Chair, and Presidential Selection Committee member. In addition, He was the Pre-Law Advisor. Also, in 1985 He co-founded HWS’s Public Policy Semester in Washington D.C. and continued to co-direct and teach in that program well into his retirement years. Apart from his work at HWS, He was a long-time member of the Geneva Historical Society Board of Trustees and chaired its Collections Committee, and a Board member of the Savings Bank of the Finger Lakes, serving as the Chair of its Governance Committee.

Upon retirement from HWS in 1997, He moved to Arlington, Virginia, where He currently resides. He is a member of the Supreme Court Historical Society and a Circles and Tower Project member at the National Gallery of Art. In addition, He is a Circles member of the Phillips Collection, the Kennedy Center, and the Washington National Opera. Also, He was a member of the (now defunct) Summer Opera Theater Guild Board and served on the Avant Bard Theater Board. He serves currently on the Federal Reserve Board’s Fine Arts Advisory Panel.