Italian-born American scholar and political scientist. He was born in Siracusa (Syracuse), Sicily during World War II, and he was raised in Boston. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Oklahoma, spent three years in the Army, and did his graduate work at the University of Hawaii, where he was also a Research Assistant before his appointment as a Teaching Fellow in Political Science. He has been a member of the American Political Science Association since 1967, and spent much of his professional life in the federal bureaucracy before resuming his scholarly pursuits full-time. Cutrufo perceived the utility of having an academic analogue of a world map, and spent nine years developing, researching, and writing the first edition of Chronologium Academicus for its 1991 publication in its huge poster format.
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