A native of Albany, New York, Dr. Duncan earned his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1999. He joined the Aquinas Faculty in 2002, and in 2005, Fordham University Press published his first book, "Citizens or Papists? The Politics of Anti-Catholicism in New York, 1685-1821." He has won awards at Aquinas for his teaching and service to the college, and became chair of the History Department in the summer of 2008. Before entering academics, he worked in politics for several years, including as a legislative assistant to a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.