Ross W. Beales, Jr.
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 1971
Professor

Department Chair

Fields: Colonial America, American Revolution, Family history, Historical editing.

Publications: Articles in William and Mary Quarterly, American Quarterly, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and other journals and collections. Program and editorial committee, The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife.

rbeales@holycross.edu

Lorraine C. Attreed
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1984
Professor

Fields: Medieval England, Urban history, Constitutional history.

Publications:The King's Towns: Identity and Survival in Late Medieval English Boroughs, New York and London: Peter Lang, 2001; edition of York House Books 1461-1490 ; articles in Speculum, Mediaeval Studies, Journal of Medieval History, Sixteenth-Century Journal, Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Northern History, contributions to collections on medieval history; Contributor to Reader's Guide to British History, the American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature, and the Dictionary of the Middle Ages; With James F. Powers, contributed to American Historical Association pamphlet Perspectives on Audiovisuals in the Teaching of History.

lattreed@holycross.edu

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Sahar Bazzaz

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2002
Assistant Professor

Fields: Middle Eastern; North African; Islam; Imperial Encounters

Publications: “Heresy and Politics in 19th Century Morocco,” The Arab Studies Journal (Spring 2003); "Reading Reform beyond the State: Salwat al-Anfas, Islamic revival and Moroccan national history" Journal of North African Studies (March 2008).

sbazzaz@holycross.edu

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Noel D. Cary
Ph.D., University or California, Berkeley, 1988
Associate Professor

Fields: modern Germany, Europe, especially since 1945; History of science.

Publications: "Wagging the Dog in Cold War Germany," in the British journal German History (June 2006); "Antisemitism, Everyday Life, and the Devastation of Civic Morals in Nazi Germany," in Central European History (2002); "Diplomats, Dissidents, and the Demise of East Germany," in The Journal of Modern History (2001); "Reassessing Germany's Ostpolitik," in Central European History, (two-part series, 2000); and The Path to Christian Democracy, (Harvard University Press, 1996); post-war Germany sections of The American Historical Association's Guides to Historical Literature (Oxford, 1995).

ncary@holycross.edu

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Rosa Carrasquillo

Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 2002
Assistant Professor

Fields: Latin America, Afro-Caribbean History, Gender History, and History of Latino/as in the United States

Publications: Our Landless Patria: Marginal Citizenship and Race in Caguas, Puerto Rico, 1880-1910.  (University of Nebraska Press, 2006).

rcarrasq@holycross.edu

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Mary Conley
Ph.D., Boston College, 2000
Assistant Professor

Fields: Modern Britain and Empire; Ireland and India; Imperialism and post-colonialism; History of gender, family and childhood; Maritime history.

Publications: From Jack Tar to Union Jack: Naval Manhood in the British Empire, 1870-1918 (Manchester University Press, forthcoming); "Agnes Weston, Temperance, and the British Navy," The Northern Mariner/ Le Marin du Nord (1999).

mconley@holycross.edu

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Cynthia Hooper

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003
Assistant Professor

Fields:  Russian and Soviet history, comparative dictatorship, culture and politics in 20th century Europe

Publications: "A Darker 'Big Deal':  Concealing Party Corruption, 1945-1953" in Living in Late Stalinism (Routledge, 2006); "Terror of Intimacy:  Family Politics in the 1930s Soviet Union" in Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia (University of Indiana Press, 2005); "Terror From Within:  Participation and Coercion in Soviet Power, 1924-1964" (dissertation, awarded international Fraenkel Prize).

chooper@holycross.edu

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Anthony J. Kuzniewski, S.J.
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1973
Professor

Fields: U.S. immigration and urban 19th-century social and political, American education and religion, American heroism, America from Kennedy to Watergate.

Publications: Faith and Fatherland: The Polish Church War in Wisconsin, 1896-1918, winner of the 1973 Kosciuszko Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award (Notre Dame, 1980), Thy Honored Name: A History of the College of the Holy Cross, 1843-1994 (The Catholic University of America Press, 1999), assistant editor of Waclaw Kruszka, A History of the Poles in America to 1908 (multivolume annotated translation of original work, published by the Catholic University of America Press, 1993- ), articles in The Catholic Historical Review, Milwaukee History, Polish American Studies, American National Biography, Eerdmans' Handbook to Christianity in America, The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History, and in separate anthologies edited by Robert Trisco, Frank Mocha, Frank Renkiewicz, and Sally M. Miller.

akuzniew@holycross.edu

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Vincent A. Lapomarda, S.J.
Ph.D., Boston University, 1968
Associate Professor

Fields: U.S. diplomatic, American religious, Jesuit history, Truman administration, Great Leaders, Italian American Heritage, The Holocaust

Publications: The Jesuit Heritage in New England (1977); The Knights of Columbus in Massachusetts (1982,1992, and 2004); The Jesuits and the Third Reich (1989 and 2005), The Order of Alhambra (1994 and 2004), The Boston Mayor Who Became Truman's Secretary of Labor (1995), and Charles Nolcini (1997), The Catholic Church in the Land of the Holy Cross (2003), The Jesuits in the United States (2004), A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Vincent A. Lapomarda (2004), and A Century of Judges of Italian Descent in Massachusetts (2005). Articles in American National Biography, America, American Benedictine Review, Biographical Dictionary of American Mayors, Essex Institute Historical Collections, Journal of Church and State, La Civilta Cattolica, Mid-America, New Catholic Encyclopedia, New England Quarterly, Projet, SJNews, The Italian American Experience, The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America, and The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History. Book reviews in The Catholic Historical Review. Letters to The Boston Globe and a number of other publications. He is the Coordinator of the Hiatt Holocaust Collection and of the Italian American Collection at Holy Cross, the State Historian of the Knights of Columbus in Massachusetts, the Chairman of the Committee on Historical Memorials for the International Order of Alhambra, Member of the Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli International Committee, a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, and a Kentucky Colonel.

vlapomar@holycross.edu

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Mark E. Lincicome
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1985
Associate Professor


Fields: Early modern and modern Japanese history and culture, Japanese intellectual history; educational reform movements and the politics of education in modern Japan.

Publications: "Globalization, Education and the Politics of Identity in the Asia-Pacific," Critical Asian Studies (2005); Principle, Praxis and the Politics of Educational Reform in Meiji Japan (University of Hawaii, 1995); entries in Encyclopedia of Asia (2002); articles in Journal of Asian Studies (1999), New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan (E.J. Brill, 1997), Comparative Education Review (1993), and Windows on Japanese Education (Greenwood Press, 1991).

mlincico@holycross.edu

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Theresa M. McBride
Ph.D., Rutgers University, 1973
Professor

Fields: Modern French history, Women's history, Modern Italian history, Environmental history.

Publications: The Domestic Revolution: The Modernization of Household Service in England and France, 1820-1920 (Holmes & Meier, 1976); articles in Journal of Social History, Journal of Modern History, Signs, Clio, French Historical Studies, Victorian Studies, Gender and History. Editorial Board, Journal of Social History, French Historical Studies.

tmcbride@holycross.edu

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Gwenn A. Miller

Ph.D., Duke University, 2004
Assistant Professor

Fields: Comparative colonial and early American history; American Indian, environmental, economic, and women's history; history of the American West, Alaska and Siberia. 

Publications: "'The Perfect Mistress of Russian Economy': Sighting the Intimate on a Colonial Alaskan Terrain, 1784-1821," in Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History, ed. Ann Laura Stoler (Duke University Press, 2006); "Russian Routes: From Kamchatka to Kodiak Island," in "Pacific Routes," a special issue of the American Antiquarian Society's online journal, Commonplace (January, 2005); "Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America," in Companion To American Women's History, ed. Nancy A. Hewitt (Blackwell, 2002). 

gmiller@holycross.edu

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David J. O'Brien
Ph.D., Rochester University, 1965
Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies

Publications: American Catholics and Social Reform: The New Deal Years (Oxford, 1968); The Renewal of American Catholicism (Oxford, 1972); (co-ed), Renewing the Earth: Catholic Documents on Peace, Justice and Liberation (Doubleday, 1977); Faith and Friendship: Catholicism in the Diocese of Syracuse, 1886-1986 (Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, 1987); Public Catholicism (Macmillan, 1988); Isaac Hecker (1992).

dobrien@holycross.edu

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Edward T. O'Donnell

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1995
Associate Professor

Fields: Nineteenth-century U.S. urban, ethnic, and political history, Irish American experience, Public history.

Publications: Land of Promise: The Story of the Irish in America (forthcoming Simon & Schuster); “Hibernians Versus Hebrews?: A New Look at the 1902 Jacob Joseph Funeral Riot,” forthcoming, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era  April 2007 (vol. 6, no. 2);Henry George for Mayor! Irish Nationalism, Labor Radicalism, & Independent Politics in Gilded Age New York City (Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2008); 1001 Things Everyone Should Know About Irish American History (Doubleday/Broadway Books, 2002); co-author, Visions of America: A History of the United States (New York: Addison Wesley Longman, forthcoming); Ship Ablaze: The Tragedy of the Steamboat General Slocum (Doubleday/Broadway Books, 2004). Articles in the Journal of Urban History, American Jewish History, and the American Journal of Economics and Sociology.

eodonnell@holycross.edu

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Karen Turner
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983
Brooks Professor of Humanities

Fields: Comparative law, Chinese legal history, Vietnamese history, Women and war, Law and human rights in Asia.

Publications: Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam (Wiley 1998); The Limits of the Rule of Law in China (U. Washington, 2000); American Perspectives on Chinese Law (in Chinese) (Chinese University of Law and Politics, 1994); China Bound: A Guide to Life and Work in China (National Academy of Sciences Press, 1984 with several reprints); Articles on comparative legal history, early Chinese law, women and war, and women veterans in Vietnam in journals such as Early China, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Journal of Chinese Law, University of British Columbia Law Review, Cultural Dynamics and many collections on China and Vietnam; Documentary films produced and directed include Hidden Warriors: Voices from the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

kturner@holycross.edu

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Michael West
Ph.D., Columbia University
Associate Professor

Fields: African American history, African American intellectual history, U.S. Civil Rights movement, US radicalism. Research Fellow, Du Bois Institute, Harvard University.

Publications: The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations (Columbia University Press, 2006).

mwest@holycross.edu

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Thomas Worcester, S.J.
Ph.D., Cambridge, 1994
Associate Professor

Fields: early modern Europe, the Reformation, religion and politics in seventeenth-century France.

Publications, Research, and Awards: Awarded Holy Cross's Marfuggi Award for Outstanding Scholarship in 2006 in recognition of work on the Hope and Healing exhibition. Co-Curator, Hope and Healing: Painting in italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, at the Worcester Art Museum, April-September 2005; Co-Editor, Exhibition Catalogue of Hope and Healing: Painting in italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 (distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2005); Co-Editor, From Rome to Eternity: Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550-1650 (Leiden: Brill, 2002); Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of the Bishop Camus (Mouton de Gruyter, 1997); articles in the Catholic Historical Review, Seventeenth-Century French Studies, Sixteenth Century Journal, French Colonial History and in collections of essays/conferences proceedings.

tworcest@holycross.edu

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Stephanie E. Yuhl
Ph.D., Duke University
Associate Professor

Fields: Twentieth-century United States cultural and social history, Southern history, Public history, Women's history.

Publications and Awards: A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston (UNC Press, 2005) which was awarded both the 2006 Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association of Women's Historians for the best book published in southern history in 2006

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Visiting Faculty

Administrative Assistant

Yolanda Youtsey

yyoutsey@holycross.edu

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John B. Anderson
M.A., Notre Dame, 1959
Professor Emeritus

Fields: 19th and 20th century U.S., American Political.

jbanders@holycross.edu

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Robert Brandfon
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1962
Professor Emeritus

Fields: 20th century US, New Deal and WWII.

Publications: Cotton kingdom of the new South: A History of the Yazoo Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press, 1967).

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James T. Flynn
Ph.D., Clark University, 1964
Professor Emeritus

Fields: Imperial Russia, Poland, 18th- and 19th-century.

Publications:The University Reform of Tsar Alexander I (Catholic University of America Press, 1988); articles in Journal of Modern History, Slavic Review, Slavonic and East European Review, Jahrbucher fur Geschicte Osteuropas, and several others. Fellow, Russian Research Center, Harvard.

jflynn@holycross.edu

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William A. Green
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1962
Professor Emeritus

Fields: British Empire, Modern Europe, Historiography.

Publications: British Slave Emancipation: The Sugar Colonies and the Great Experiment, 1830-1865 (Oxford, 1976); History, Historians, and the Dynamics of Change (Westport, CT, 1993); Contributor to numerous books on slavery, indentured labor, and plantation society. Articles in The Economic History Review, Victorian Studies, Caribbean Studies, The Journal of African History, The Journal of British Studies, Albion, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, and Comparative Studies in Society and History.

wgreen@holycross.edu

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James F. Powers
Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1966
Professor Emeritus

Fields: Medieval Europe, Spain, Medieval urban, Medieval military.

Publications: The Code of Cuenca: Municipal Law on the Twelfth-Century Castilian Frontier (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000); A Society Organized for War: The Municipal Militias of the Iberian Peninsula during the Central Middle Ages, 1000-1284 (University of California Press, 1988); Articles in the American Historical Review, Speculum, Tradition, and other journals and collections of essays. Book Review Editor, American Academy of Research Historians on Medieval Spain.

jpowers@holycross.edu

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