Faculty
Caroline E. Johnson Hodge
Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: New Testament, Paul, women in early Christianity, kinship and ethnicity, domestic religious practices
Email: chodge@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 429 Phone: 508-793-3405
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Alan J. Avery Peck
Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: Judaic studies, history and literature of early Rabbinic Judaism, Hebrew language
Email: aavery@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 405 Phone: 508-793-3411
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William A. Clark, S.J.
Associate Professor
S.T.D., Weston Jesuit School of Theolog
Fields: ecclesiology (authority in the Church, Theology of parish, local community); practical and contextual theology; Christian prayer
Email: wclark@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 433 Phone: 508-793-2717
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Caner K. Dagli
On Leave Fall 2023
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Fields: Islamic studies
Email: cdagli@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 435 Phone: 508-793-2384
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Mary M. Doyle Roche
Associate Professor
director of VoCare
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Catholic moral theology and social teaching, Christian ethics, virtue ethics, bioethics, feminist ethics
Email: mroche@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 454 Phone: 508-793-2585
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Matthew T. Eggemeier
Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: modern and contemporary Christian theologies; political and liberation theologies; postmodern theology
Email: meggemei@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 432 Phone: 508-793-3948
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Peter Fay
Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., Boston College
Email: pfay@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 437 Phone: 508-793-3549
Peter J. Fritz
Edward Bennett Williams Fellow, Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: Catholic systematic theology (especially the theology of Karl Rahner, SJ), modern Christian history, theological aesthetics, theology and visual art, critical responses to neoliberal capitalism
Email: pfritz@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 434 Phone: 508-793-3501
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John F. Gavin, S.J.
Associate Professor
S.T.D., Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome, Italy
Fields: Catholic theology, patristics
Email: jgavin@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 421 Phone: 508-793-3446
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Eduardo González
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: global liberation theologies, Catholicisms of the Global South, contemporary systematic theology, decolonial thought
Email: egonzalez@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 423 Phone: 508-793-3815
Karen V. Guth
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Fields: Christian social ethics, public and political theologies, feminist ethics and theologies
Email: kguth@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 430 Phone: 508-793-3359
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Mahri Leonard-Fleckman
Associate Professor
Ph.D., New York University
Fields: Hebrew Bible, Ancient Middle Eastern Studies
Email: mleonard@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 431 Phone: 508-793-3435
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Todd Lewis
Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields: Buddhism, Hinduism, East Asian religions, anthropology of religions, modernization, ecology and religion
Email: tlewis@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 425 Phone: 508-793-3436
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Tat siong Benny Liew
Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: synoptic gospels, gospel of John, cultural and racial interpretations and receptions of the Bible, apocalypticism, Asian American history and literature
Email: tliew@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 422 Phone: 508-793-3846
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William E. Reiser, S.J.
Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: New Testament Theology, Christology, Christian Spirituality, Systematic Theology
Email: wreiser@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 401 Phone: 508-793-3412
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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
Mathew N. Schmalz
Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: global Catholicisms, Hinduism, Catholic esotericism, modern religious movements
Email: mschmalz@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 404 Phone: 508-793-2557
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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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Staff
Katherine Barrett
Academic Administrative Coordinator
Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Email: kbbarret@holycross.edu
Office: Smith Hall 403 Phone: 508-793-3404
PO Box: 42A
Faculty Emeriti
Mary E. Hobgood
Associate Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Temple University
Fields: Christian social ethics, Catholic social teaching, economic ethics, feminist ethics
Email: mhobgood@holycross.edu
Alice L. Laffey
In Memoriam | December 1, 1944 - July 30, 2023
Associate Professor Emerita
S.S.D., Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome
Fields: Hebrew scriptures/ Old Testament, feminist Hermeneutics, ecology and the Bible
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James B. Nickoloff
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Fields: Theology of Liberation
Email: jnickolo@holycross.edu
Joanne M. Pierce
Professor, Emerita
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: liturgical studies, medieval Christianity, ritual studies, ecumenical theology, theology and speculative/science fiction
Email: jpierce@holycross.edu