Early Life and Education
McCartin was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, in 1959, and is the son of Joseph and Marybeth McCartin. Joseph McCartin is of Irish-Latino decent, resided in Troy, New York as a child. In 1981 he received his bachelor's degree in history from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1985 he received a master's degree, and in 1990 a doctor of philosophy, both from Binghamton University.
From 1990 to 1992, he was a lecturer at the University of Rhode Island. In 1992, he was appointed an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Geneseo. In 1998 he was promoted to associate professor, and in 1999, McCartin took a position at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he is now an associate professor.
His brother is noted Catholic historian James McCartin.
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