Francesco Cesareo

Francesco C. Cesareo (often called "Prez Chez" by his students) is an American academic administrator and historian who served as the president of Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts from October 12, 2007 to June 30, 2022. Cesareo is also the chairman of the National Review Board since 2013.

Early life and education Cesareo was born in New York to Italian immigrant parents. He was raised in Queens, and graduated from Cathedral College of the Immaculate Conception in Douglaston, New York before earning his Master of Arts and Ph.D in late medieval and early modern European history from Fordham University. As a Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the University of Rome and the Pontifical Gregorian University.