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The Office of the Dean at the College recently announced the hiring of 17 new faculty members in tenure-track positions for the 2007-08 academic year. They are:
Andrea Borghini (assistant professor, philosophy), earned his Ph.D., M.Phil., and master of arts degree in philosophy at Columbia University in New York City—and his Laurea degree in philosophy at Universitá degli Studi di Firenze in Florence, Italy. Formerly, he taught philosophy and core curriculum at Columbia University. Among his honors, Borghini was the recipient of the Bowdery Fellowship; the GSAS Fellowship; and the Lina Kahn Essay prize, awarded yearly by the department of philosophy at Columbia. He is the author of the forthcoming works, “A Dispositional Theory of Possibility,” in Dialectica (Blackwell Publishing), and, “Counting Individuals with Leibniz,” in Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa.
Rebecca W. Braeu (assistant professor, economics) earned her Ph.D. and master of arts degree in economics and her bachelor of arts degree in mathematics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Specializing in macroeconomics and international finance, she has taught at California State University, Northeastern University and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Braeu was the recipient of the 2003 Leslie Whittington Fellowship and the 2002 Eric Bouvet Foundation Fellowship in Real Business Cycle Theory.
Barbara L. Craig (assistant professor, theatre) received her master of fine arts degree in design and technical theatre from the University of Minnesota and her bachelor of arts degree in English from Barnard College in New York City. From 2004-05, she had been a visiting professor, serving in the theatre department at Holy Cross, as a designer and technical director. Last year, Craig was a visiting professor of scene design in the theatre and dance department at SUNY in Fredonia, N.Y.
Gregory J. DiGirolamo (associate professor, psychology) comes to Holy Cross from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, where he was a tenured lecturer in the department of experimental psychology. He received his Ph.D. and master of arts degree in psychology from the University of Oregon, specializing in cognitive neuroscience; DiGirolamo earned his bachelor of science degree in psychology at Lesley College/Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. He was recently awarded a grant by the University of Cambridge-Science Research Investment Fund, titled Development of Facilities for Cognitive Neuroscience.
Antonis A. Ellinas (assistant professor, political science) received his Ph.D. and master of arts degree in politics from Princeton (N.J.) University, and his bachelor of arts degree in world politics from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. He previously taught courses in European politics and society, and causes of war, at Princeton. Recent publications include: “Phased Out: The far right in Western Europe,” in Comparative Politics (April 2007),and the forthcoming “The electoral dynamics of far right ascendance: The case of Greece,” in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Among his accomplishments,Ellinas, a Greek native, founded and managed StockWatch Ltd, the first and most popular online financial newspaper in Cyprus.
Jumi Hayaki (assistant professor, psychology) earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey; and her bachelor of arts degree at Yale University, New Haven, Conn.. A former postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University, Providence, R.I., she previously taught at St. Olaf College and Macalester College, both in Minnesota and, also, at Rutgers University. Hayaki’s research program examines deficits in emotion regulation seen among individuals with eating disorders and substance abuse.
Baozhang He (assistant professor, modern languages and literatures) has been a visiting professor at Holy Cross since 2003. Receiving his Ph.D. and master of arts degree in Chinese linguistics from The Ohio State University, and his bachelor of arts degree in English language and literature from the Beijing Language Institute, he previously taught at the University of Florida, Harvard University, Indiana University and the University of Michigan. He is co-author (with Claudia Ross, professor of Chinese at Holy Cross) of Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar Workbook, (Routledge, 2006); co-chief-compiler with Mingyang Hu on Elementary Modern Chinese (People’s University Press, China, 2007); and a member of the Chinese SAT committee, where he developed and finalized examination entries.
Timothy A. Joseph ’98 (assistant professor, classics) received his bachelor of arts degree in classics from Holy Cross and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He has been an instructor at Holy Cross since 2005 and, at Harvard University, since 2003; his research interests include Latin historiography and Augustan poetry.
David E. Karmon (assistant professor, visual arts) joins the Holy Cross community from Pennsylvania, where he taught art history at the University of Pittsburgh and, then, at Pennsylvania State University. He earned his Ph.D. in the history of art and architecture at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; his master of architecture degree at the Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Conn.; and his bachelor of arts degree at the University of California at Berkeley. Karmon previously served as a lecturer at the American University of Rome—and taught on-site in Rome, Florence and Siena. Among his honors, he was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Newberry Library.
Jude A. Kelley (assistant professor, chemistry) earned his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and his bachelor of arts degree in chemistry and anthropology at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. He was previously a postdoctoral appointee at Sandia National Laboratory; a senior applications scientist at RAPT Industries; and a teaching assistant at Yale. Among his professional achievements, Kelley received the Brown Fellowship from Yale; he is a member of the American Chemical Society.
Viraj Kumar (instructor, mathematics and computer science) earned his Ph.D. and master of science degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; his master of science degree in applied statistics and informatics at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India; and his bachelor of science degree in mathematics at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University, Delhi, India. He previously taught in the computer science department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was rated “outstanding” on the Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students.
Eugenia Lao (instructor, classics) is pursuing her Ph.D. in classics at Princeton (N.J.) University. She received her master of studies degree in Greek and Latin languages and literatures from the University of Oxford and her bachelor of arts degree in classics (Latin) from Harvard-Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass. Lao previously taught at Colgate University in Hamilton, N.J., and, also, at Princeton.
Jennie Germann Molz (assistant professor, sociology and anthropology) earned her Ph.D. in sociology at Lancaster University in the United Kingdom; her master of arts degree in popular culture studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio; and her bachelor of arts degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Molz previously taught at Bowling Green State University and, also, at Lancaster University, where she recently completed a research fellowship in the Centre for Mobilities Research. She is co-editor of Mobilizing Hospitality: The Ethics of Social Relations in a Mobile World (Ashgate).
Stephanie J. Reents (assistant professor, English) received her master of fine arts degree in creative writing from the University of Arizona; her bachelor of arts degree at Amherst (Mass.) College; and a second bachelor of arts degree from Oxford University in England where she was a Rhodes Scholar. A former Stegner Fellow in fiction at Stanford (Calif.) University, she has published short stories in several publications including Story Quarterly, Epoch and The O. Henry Prize Stories of 2006. Reents previously taught at Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pa.; worked on public education reform in New York City; and wrote for a daily newspaper as a reporter in rural Idaho. She is currently at work on a novel.
Mary M. Doyle Roche ’90 (assistant professor, religious studies) has been a visiting professor in religious studies at Holy Cross since the fall of 2005. She earned her Ph.D. in theological ethics at Boston College; her master of arts degree in theological studies at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge; and her bachelor of arts degree in religious studies at Holy Cross. Roche previously taught Perspectives in Western Culture and Christian Theology at Boston College.
Thibaut A. Schilt (assistant professor, modern languages and literatures) earned his Ph.D. and master of arts degree in French at The Ohio State University and his maitrise in English at the Université de Nancy 2, in Nancy, France. He previously taught at Bucknell University in Lewiston, Pa.; Ohio State; The Military Academy of the Transportation Corps in Tours, France; and Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.
Caroline Yezer (assistant professor, sociology and anthropology) received her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Duke University, Durham, N.C.; her master of arts degree in anthropology from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; and her bachelor of arts degree in speech from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Her fieldwork on postwar village life in the Andes was awarded funding by the United States Institute of Peace, the H.F. Guggenheim Foundation and the School for Advanced Research. Yezer’s research on trans-nationalism, indigenous peasants, structural violence, war and peacekeeping inform her courses on the “dirty wars” and drug wars in Latin America; indigenous rights and cultural politics; and current issues of transnational aid, human rights and reparations. Yezer is also currently developing classes on the growth of Pentecostalism and born-again Christianity in the Third World.
Caroline E. Johnson Hodge (assistant professor, religious studies) was hired last year and joined the campus community this fall. See the fall 2006 edition of HCM for additional information.
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