The article makes it sound like Bellesiles is working as an adjunct professor at Central Connecticut State University. Not a prestigious posting -- CCSU used to be Central Connecticut State Teachers College when I was growing up in Connecticut, and it was one of those colleges people went to if they couldn't get into a "real" college. But Madison, Connecticut, isn't exactly Dogpatch. Madison is located on the Connecticut shoreline, between the towns of Guilford and Clinton. None of them are or ever were Dogpatch but a friend of my ex-wife hailed from Madison. Her catch phrase was "Madison is for class, Guilford is for [memory lapse], and Clinton is for clams."
If he's living in Madison, his exile isn't too horrible.