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This spring, seven members of the Holy Cross faculty have
been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.
Michael Beatty of the visual arts department earned
his M.F.A. in sculpture from the Massachusetts College of
Art in Boston. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1997,
he has served on the Cantor Art Gallery Committee, the Academic
Affairs Committee and the Educational Technology Advisory
Group. He has exhibited his sculpture and drawings throughout
New England and recently completed a commission for the new
Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston. He currently resides in Newton,
Mass.
Lawrence E. Cahoone of the philosophy department
earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University
of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Dilemma
of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture and Anticulture; The Ends
of Philosophy: Pragmatism, Foundationalism, and Postmodernism;
and Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal
Practices. He is also the editor of From Modernism
to Postmodernism: An Anthology. A member of the Holy
Cross faculty since 2000, Cahoone has served as a member
of the Peace and Conflict Studies Advisory Committee and
the College Curriculum Committee. He lives in Wrentham, Mass.,
with his wife Elizabeth Baeten, a philosopher at Emerson
College, their two children and his mother.
Mark C. Hallahan of the psychology department earned
his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He had been an assistant
professor at Clemson University and a lecturer at Harvard
before joining the Holy Cross faculty in 1999. A member of
the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the
American Psychological Society, Hallahan serves as a reviewer
for several professional journals, including the Personality
and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of
Applied Social Psychology. He is a resident of Holden,
Mass.
Suzanne R. Kirschner, assistant professor in the
psychology department, earned her Ed.D. from Harvard University.
She is the author of The Religious and Romantic Origins
of Psychoanalysis: Individuation and Integration in Post-Freudian
Theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996) as well as
numerous articles and book chapters. In 2001, Kirschner received
the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Psychological
Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, she has served
on the Pre-medical and Pre-dental Advisory Committees and
also on the Academic Affairs Council. Kirschner currently
resides in Cambridge, Mass.
Rev. James J. Miracky, S.J., of the English department
earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Entering the Society
of Jesus in 1977, he was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood
in 1988. His specialty areas include the 19th- and 20th-century
British novel; history and theory of the novel; gender studies;
and modern and contemporary drama. His book, Regenerating
the Novel: Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair,
and Lawrence (Routledge Press) will be out this spring.
A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, Fr. Miracky
has served on the Academic Affairs Council and also on the
Alumni Association’s board of directors. He is a resident
of Worcester.
Rev. William E. Stempsey, S.J., of the philosophy
department received his M.D. from the State University of
New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. He had been a resident
in pathology in Boston before joining the Jesuits in 1982.
After ordination to the priesthood, Fr. Stempsey studied
the philosophy and ethics of medicine at Georgetown University,
where he received his Ph.D. in 1996. A member of the Holy
Cross faculty for the past six years, he has expertise in
the concepts of health and disease; ethical issues in death
and dying; organ transplantation; and medical education.
He is the author of Disease and Diagnosis: Value-Dependent
Realism. Fr. Stempsey serves on several ethics committees
in Worcester and regularly celebrates liturgies on campus
and in a local parish. He is a resident of Worcester.
Michael R. West of the history department earned
his Ph.D. from Columbia University. The 2001 recipient of
the Hewlett-Mellon Presidential Discretionary Fund Grant,
he has focused his research on African-American history;
African-American intellectual history; the U.S. Civil Rights
movement; and U.S. radicalism. West, who joined the Holy
Cross faculty in 1997, currently serves on the Academic Affairs
Committee and the Afro-American Studies Program Committee;
he is also the faculty advisor to the Black Student Union.
West’s book on Booker T. Washington and the ideological
origins of the civil rights movement is to be published by
Columbia University Press. He is a resident of Cambridge,
Mass.
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