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This spring, seven faculty members have been promoted to
the rank of associate professor with tenure.
Nancy E. Andrews, of the classics department, earned a bachelor's
degree from Wellesley College, and both a master's
and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A member of the Holy Cross
faculty since 1996, Andrews has served on the Committee on
Faculty Affairs and also as president of the College's
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She is the recipient of the Harvard-Danforth
Award for Distinction in Teaching. Andrews is author of "Philosophical
Satire in Callimachus' Aetia Prologue," Hellinistica
Groningana III (1998). She is a resident of Worcester.
Bertram D. Ashe, of the English department, earned a bachelor's
degree from San Jose State University, a master's degree
from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Ph.D. from the
College of William and Mary. A member of the Holy Cross faculty
since 1996, Ashe has served in the College's Odyssey
program for the past three years and has held the post of
director of the African-American Studies Program since 1999.
A past Holy Cross Summer Research Fellow, he is author of
the forthcoming From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American
Fiction (New York: Routledge). Ashe resides in Worcester.
Francisco Gago-Jover, of the Spanish department, received
a bachelor's degree from the University of Valladolid
in Spain, and both a master's and Ph.D. from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison. A member of the Holy Cross community
since 1996, Gago-Jover has served as both a judicial and
faculty advisor. He has received two Hewlett-Mellon grants
to develop course materials at Holy Cross. Gago-Jover is
author of Arte de bien morir y Breve confesionario (1999),
and editor of the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language.
Gago-Jover resides in Worcester.
Lee Oser, of the English department, earned a bachelor's
degree from Reed College, and both a master's and Ph.D.
from Yale University. A member of the Holy Cross community
since 1998, Oser is one of the College's Edward Bennett
Williams Fellows. In addition to serving on the Committee
on Faculty Affairs, he is a member of the Philosophy Reading
Group. The author of T.S. Elliot and American Poetry (Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 1998), Oser is currently working
on two book projects with the help of a Ford Foundation Grant.
He is a resident of Worcester.
Denise Schaeffer, of the political science department, earned
a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and
both a master's and Ph.D. from Fordham University.
A member of the Holy Cross community since 1995, Schaeffer
is an active member in the Women's Studies Committee.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities
Fellowship for College Teachers. Schaeffer has served as
chair of the American Political Science Association in the
politics and literature division. She is author of the forthcoming
article, "The Utility of Ink: Rousseau and Robinson
Crusoe" (The Review of Politics). Schaeffer is a resident
of Natick.
Edward John Soares, of the mathematics department, earned
a bachelor's degree from Providence College, and both
a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.
A member of the Holy Cross community since 1996, Soares has
served on the Committee on Faculty Affairs and the Sub-Committee
on the Economic Status of the Faculty. He also serves as
assistant professor of nuclear medicine at the University
of Massachusetts Medical Center. Soares is co-author of "Noise
characterization of block-iterative reconstruction algorithms:
I. Theory." He is a resident of Worcester.
Madeline Vargas, of the biology department, earned a bachelor's
degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a
Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. A member of the
Holy Cross community since 1995, Vargas serves on the Academic
Affairs Council. She is currently the biochemistry concentration
coordinator. The recipient of numerous awards, including
one from the American Society of Cell Biology, Vargas is
the author of "Liposome-mediated DNA uptake and transient
expression in Thermotoga." She currently resides in
Worcester.
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