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The Office of the Dean has announced the hiring of 12 new faculty
members in tenure-track positions this academic year. They are:
David C. Art (assistant professor, political science), received
his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
and his bachelor of arts degree from Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
His teaching interests include comparative politics, international
relations, political economy and globalization. The recipient of several
academic fellowships, Art spent a year studying Russian and Eastern
European history at Oxford University as Yale’s Henry Fellow.
Alison L. Bryant (assistant professor, psychology), earned her Ph.D.
and master of arts degree at the University of Michigan and her bachelor
of arts degree at Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. Interested in
adolescent development, socialization in urban and rural environments,
achievement motivation and school misbehavior and adolescent substance
use, she is co-author of The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood
(2002). Previously, she taught in the College of Education at the
University of Missouri, Columbia.
Ricardo Dobles (assistant professor, education), earned his Ed.D.
and M.Ed. at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education,
Cambridge, Mass., and his bachelor of arts degree from Columbia College,
Columbia University, in New York City. Co-author of Learning as a
Political Act: Struggling to Learn and Learning to Struggle (Harvard
Educational Publishing Group, 1999), he has taught at Trinity College,
Harvard University and Salem ( Mass.) State College. Previously, he
taught literature, creative writing and expository writing at the
high school level.
Daniel P. Klinghard (assistant professor, political science), earned
his Ph.D. at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass., and his bachelor
of arts degree at Rhodes College, Memphis, Tenn. Specializing in American
government, the presidency, congress, political parties, and campaigns
and elections, he has taught at Brandeis, Clark University, and most
recently, The College of Charleston in Charleston, S.C.
Steven Levandosky (assistant professor, mathematics and computer
science), earned his Ph.D. at Brown University, Providence, R.I.,
and his bachelor of arts degree at Holy Cross. Interested in partial
differential equations and dynamical systems, he has taught at Stanford
( Calif.) University, where he received the Harold M. Bacon Memorial
Teaching Award; the University of Texas at Austin; and Brown University,
where he was named an honorable mention for the President’s
Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Victor A. Matheson (assistant professor, economics), earned his
Ph.D. and master of arts degree at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
and his bachelor of arts degree at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn.
The author of numerous articles and book chapters, he has expertise
in sports economics, public finance, the economics of lotteries and
gambling, and natural resource economics. Matheson has taught at Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass., Lake Forest ( Ill.) College, and the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Gwenn A. Miller (instructor, history), earned her Ph.D. and master
of arts degree at Duke University, Durham, N.C., and her bachelor
of arts degree at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. The author of
Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America (2002), she specializes
in North American colonial and early republican history, and the Russian
colonization of Alaska. Miller was an instructor and teaching assistant
at Duke University; prior to that she taught history at the high school
level.
Jonathan D. Mulrooney (assistant professor, English), received his
Ph.D. from Boston University, his master of arts degree from the University
of Toronto in Canada, and his bachelor of arts degree from Boston
College. His teaching interests include British Romantic literature,
Romantic-period theater and public culture, 19th-century British and
American literature, poetry, film and theatrical performance. Previously,
he taught courses in literature and English composition at Boston
University.
Karen A. Ober (assistant professor, biology), earned her Ph.D. at
the University of Arizona, Tucson, and her bachelor of science degree
at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Specializing in ecology,
evolution and entomology, she has conducted field research in Malaysia,
Ecuador, Costa Rica and Panama, as well as in many sites throughout
the United States. The recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships,
Ober is the author of several articles in scientific journals.
Stephen A. Shapiro (assistant professor, modern languages and literatures,
French), received his Ph.D. and master of arts degree from New York
University and his bachelor of arts degree from Yale University, New
Haven, Conn. He has served as a visiting assistant professor of French
at Holy Cross since 2002. Prior to that, he taught at New York University
and the Université de Paris V. In addition to serving as a
regular reviewer for French Review, Shapiro works as a translator
for a variety of production companies.
Cathrine A. Southern (assistant professor, chemistry), received
her Ph.D. and master of science degree from the University of Chicago
in Illinois and her bachelor of science degree from the University
of Notre Dame in Indiana. Previously, she taught chemistry and biochemistry
at Amherst College ( Mass.) and chemistry and physical chemistry at
the University of Chicago. Her scholarly articles appear in the Journal
of Physical Chemistry and Polymer.
Karen Teitel (assistant professor, economics), earned her Ph.D.
and B.B.A. at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and her master
of science degree at Bentley College, Waltham, Mass. Her teaching
interests include external financial reporting by business enterprises,
preparation of financial statements and disclosures, and financial
reporting policy and regulation. Prior to joining the Holy Cross faculty,
she was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School
of Business and a senior auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co., L.L.P.
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