Professor of Political Science

Aurelius Hall, Room 215
Office Hours Available Upon Request
724-805-2125
gabriel.pellathy@email.stvincent.edu

• Dr. Pellathy's CV

Dr.Pellathy was born in Southern Hungary. He has started his secondary studies at a Jesuit academic high school (gymnasium) when he and his family decided to flee West to escape the coming Communist regime after World War II. He studied at the Benedictine Prep School at Belmont Abbey, Hereford, England, concentrating on European history, and received a high school diploma with distinction.

He and his family migrated to the United States in the l950's and settled in upstate New York. Dr.Pellathy attended Columbia College of Columbia University, New York City, majoring in History under Dr. Henry Graff. He then attended Cornell Law School in Ithaca, New York, where he studied comparative law among other subjects.

He was the president of the St.Thomas More Society at the Cornell Law School. After passing the New York Bar examination, he worked for the legal department of the Royal Globe Insurance Company in the Wall Street area.

Deciding to change his career emphasis, he obtained a Social Studies teaching certificate in New York and a Master's degree in education from Hofstra University on Long Island, New York, and taught in private and public high schools. He received a fellowship in the Representative Government Program at New York University and entered the Ph.D. Program in Political Science, receiving a Ph.D. with distinction. He then taught at the University of Cincinnati for several years and in the summer offered courses at the State University of New York campus at Farmingdale, N.Y. He received an offer to teach at Saint Vincent College in l978 and took it because of his previous Benedictine connections and to be nearer to his and his wife's family in New York.

At Saint Vincent he has held the positions of Political Science Department chair and the Presidency of the Faculty Council.He is married to the former Emoeke Berecz who teaches Latin, French, and Spanish at Mt. Pleasant (PA) High school. He and his wife have raised seven children.

Recently, the annual Duquesne Club lectures held in May were named the Dr. Gabriel S. Pellathy Lecture Series.  In addition, Dr. Pellathy was a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Citizens and Statesmen: An Annual Review of Political Theory and Public Life, which was published by the Center for Political and Economic Thought in the Summer of 2006.