Faculty
Jeremy Jones
Concentration Director
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: political and economic anthropology;
African studies; informal economy and the anthropology of development; youth and masculinity; time and temporality
Email:jjones@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 203 Phone: (508) 793-3050
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Ibrahim Abdessalam
Visiting Instructor, Arabic
M. A. American University, Cairo, Egypt
Fields: Arabic
Email:iabdessa@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 429 Phone: 508-793-3042
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Douglas Bafford
Visiting Assistant Professor
PhD in Anthropology, Brandeis University
Fields: Anthropology of religion; evangelical Christianity; racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa; cross-cultural epistemology; legal anthropology; self-sufficiency movements
Email: dbafford@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 1-443-823-6364
Office: Beaven Hall 230
Jimena G. Bermejo
Professor of Practice and Lecturer in Dance
Director of Dance Program
MFA Massachusetts College of Art
Fields: Dance, Movement studies, Performance Art, Multi-disciplinary arts
Email: jbermejo@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 464 Phone: 508-793-2461
Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou
On Leave 2023 - 2024
Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., Penn State University, University Park, PA
Fields: Critical Philosophy of Race, Immanuel Kant (Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Race), African American Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy
Email: jshorter@holycross.edu
Office: Smith Hall Phone: 508-793-3857
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Joanne Caidor
Visiting Lecturer
B.S., UMass Boston
Fields: African, Afro-Haitian, Hip-Hop
Office: O'Kane 464
Email: jcaidor@holycross.edu
Sydney L. Carr
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Fields: American Public Opinion, race, ethnicity, and politics, media and political communication
Office: Fenwick Hall 324
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Audra Carabetta
Visiting Lecturer, Dance
M.F.A., Smith College
Fields: Modern Dance, Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Composition
Email: acarabet@holycross.edu
Phone: 508-793-2461
Rosa E. Carrasquillo
Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Latin America; Afro-Caribbean History; Gender History;
History of Latino/as in the United States
Email: rcarrasq@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 358 Phone: 508-793-3450
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Christopher R. Conz
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: Africa, southern Africa, environment, agriculture, development, health
Email: cconz@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 388
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Caner K. Dagli
Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department
Ph.D., Princeton University
Fields: Islamic studies
Email: cdagli@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 435 Phone: 508-793-2384
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Giusy Di Filippo
Visiting Assistant Professor, Italian Studies
Email: gdifilip@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453 Phone: 508-793-3438
Daniel J. Dicenso
Associate Professor, Music
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Fields: History, Early Music, Chant, Rock, Hip-Hop
Email:ddicenso@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 343 Phone: 508-793-2390
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Thomas Doughton
Senior Lecturer, Center for Interdisciplinary and Special Studies
Ph.D., Universite de Paris
Email:tdoughto@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 503 Phone: 508-793-2396
Ericka Fisher
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Ed. D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fields: Educational psychology, school counseling, multicultural education, social justice education, qualitative research methods in urban settings
Email:efisher@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 436 PO Box: EDUC Phone: 508-793-3732
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Carmen Alvaro Jarrin
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Duke University
Fields: medical anthropology; science and technology studies; race,
class and gender inequality in Latin America; queer theory; social justice; environmental activism
Email:ajarrin@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 216 Phone: (508) 793-2774
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Nadine M. Knight
Associate Professor, English
Ph.D. Harvard University
Fields: African American Literature; 19th and 20th Century American Literature; American Civil War Studies; Film and Television
Email:nknight@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227A Phone: 508-793-5263
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Aditi Malik
Associate Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Fields: Comparative Politics, African Politics, South Asian Politics, political violence
Email: amalik@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 311 PO Box: 49A Phone: 508-793-2516
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Michael Monaghan
Lecturer, Music
Director, Jazz Ensemble
M.A. University of Lowell
Fields: jazz player, woodwind specialist, saxophone soloist in both jazz and classical music
Email:mmonagha@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 243 Phone: 508-793-2699
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Michelle Mott
Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Fields: Race, Racism, and Anti-racism; Gender; Sexuality; Reproduction of inequality; Gentrification and School Choice
Email: mmott@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 221A
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Munya Bryn Munochiveyi
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: African Social & Economic History; Theory & Methodology in History; Development Studies
Email: mmunochi@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 387 Phone: 508-793-3654
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Jean Ouedraogo
O'Leary Chair in Francophone Studies, French
Ph.D., University of Georgia-Athens
Fields: African and Caribbean Francophone Literatures and Cultures
Email: ojean@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 443 Phone: 508-793-2795
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Justin D. Poché
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: Catholicism in the U. S. United States History,
1865-Present; American Religious History; Latin American History; U.S. Latino/a History
Email:jpoche@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 390 Phone: 508-793-3448
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Thibaut Schilt
Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Program Coordinator, French and Francophone Studies
Ph.D., Ohio State University
Fields: French-language Cinema, Contemporary French Literature and Culture, Gender & Feminist Studies, Language
Email: tschilt@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 413 Phone: (508) 793-2609
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Audrey Seah
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: Liturgical studies, global Catholicism, Deaf and disability theology
Email: aseah@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 424 Phone: 508-793-3087
Taylor Travassos-Lomba
Visiting Lecturer, Dance
B.A., Brown University
Fields: Hip Hop / Breaking
Email: ttravess@holycross.edu
Office: O'kane 464 Phone: 508-793-2461
Melissa F. Weiner
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Email:mfweiner@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 226 Phone: (508) 793-2217
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Michael R. West
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Columbia University
Email:mwest@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 364 Phone: 508-793-2750
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Nathan D. Wood-House
Ph.D. Institution: Boston College
Fields of study: Black liberation theology, political theology, critical race studies, Blackness studies, critical theory, political philosophy
Office number: Smith 428
Phone number in office: 508-793-3567
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Anthony James Williams
Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Sociology
Email: awilliams@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 202
Phone: TBA