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This spring, seven members of the Holy Cross faculty have
been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.
Susan Amatangelo, of the modern languages and literatures
department, earned her Ph.D. in Italian literature from Harvard
University. While at Holy Cross, she has been a member of
the Academic Affairs Council as well as a study abroad liaison
for students studying in Florence. Founding the Holy Cross
chapter of the Italian honor society, Gamma Kappa Alpha,
in 1998, Amatangelo has served as both president and vice
president of the Holy Cross chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She
is the author of the forthcoming book, Figuring Women: A
Thematic Study of Giovanni Verga’s Female Characters
(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). Amatangelo is a resident
of Worcester.
Shawn Lisa Maurer, of the English department, earned her
Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. A member of the Holy
Cross faculty since 2000, she is the director of the English
Honors Program and an active participant in the women’s
and gender studies concentration. Last fall, Maurer received
a Holy Cross Research and Publication Award. Author of Proposing
Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century
English Periodical (Stanford University Press), she has edited
Elizabeth Inchbald’s 1796 novel Nature and Art for
Broadview Press. Maurer lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass. with
her husband and their two children.
Edward T. O’Donnell ’86, of the history department,
earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. A member of the
Holy Cross faculty since 2001, he serves on the Community
Standards Board and the Academic Affairs Council. The author
of three books, including the forthcoming Talisman of a Lost
Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (New York: Columbia
University Press), O’Donnell also writes a column called
the “Hibernian Chronicle” in the Irish Echo.
A 1986 Holy Cross graduate, O’Donnell lives in Holden,
Mass., with his wife, Stephanie, and their four daughters,
Erin, Kelly, Michelle and Katherine.
Ellen Perry, of the classics department, earned her Ph.D.
in classical art and archaeology from the University of Michigan.
A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1997, she has served
on the Academic Affairs Council and the Curricular Goals
Committee. Perry is the author of the forthcoming The Aesthetics
of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome (Cambridge
University Press). She is a resident of Auburn, Mass.
Catherine A. Roberts, of the mathematics and computer science
department, earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University.
A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2001, she serves
on the Curricular Goals Committee and, also, on the Committee
on Academic Standing. Roberts has received several research
grants, including three from the National Science Foundation
(NSF). She was recently appointed editor of Natural Resource
Modeling, an interdisciplinary journal published by the Rocky
Mountain Mathematics Consortium and the Resource Modeling
Association. Roberts lives in Jefferson, Mass., with her
husband, a professor at WPI, and their two sons.
John A. Schmalzbauer, of the sociology and anthropology
department, earned his Ph.D. from Princeton University.
A member of the
Holy Cross faculty since 1998, he serves on numerous College
committees, including the Winter Convocation Planning Committee,
the Honorary Degree/Commencement Speaker Committee and
the Faculty Catholic Studies Reading Group Committee.
He is the
author of People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American
Journalism and Higher Education (Cornell University Press,
2003), a book based on interviews with 40 high-profile
Catholics and evangelicals in journalism and academic
social sciences,
including Cokie Roberts, Fred Barnes and Peter Steinfels.
Ward J. Thomas, of the political science department, earned
his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. A member
of the Holy Cross faculty since 1997, he has served on
a number
of College committees, including the Student Life Council,
the Athletic Council and the Faculty Affairs Committee.
He is the author of The Ethics of Destruction: Norms
and Force
in International Relations (Cornell University Press,
2001). Since Sept. 11, he has appeared on several panels
and round
tables addressing the U.S. response to terrorism; his
essays have appeared in The Boston Globe and Holy Cross
Magazine.
Thomas lives in West Boylston, Mass., with his wife,
Kari, and their two sons, Jack and Patrick.
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