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Seven members of the Holy Cross faculty have been promoted
to the rank of associate professor with tenure.
Jeffrey D. Bloechl, of the philosophy department,
earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit
te Leuven, in Belgium; a member of the Holy Cross faculty
since 1999, he is an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow. The
founding editor and editor in chief of Levinas Studies:
An Annual Review, published by Duquesne University Press,
Bloechl is the author of Liturgy of the Neighbor: Emmanuel
Levinas and the Religion of Responsibility (Duquesne
University Press, 2000); he has edited and translated several
other works in contemporary European thought. Bloechl lives
in Dudley, Mass., with his wife, Catherine Cornille, and
their three children, Tessa, Nicholas and Julia.
Laurie A. Smith King, of the mathematics
and computer science department, earned her Ph.D. in computer
science at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg,
Va. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1998, she has
served on the College Curriculum Committee, the Committee
on Faculty Affairs and the Curriculum Goals Committee. She
has contributed to a number of publications on the topics
of: hardware/software co-design; programming languages; computer
ethics; and pedagogy research. She lives in Marlborough,
Mass., with her husband, Stef, and their children, Madison
and Zephyr.
Matthew B. Koss, of the physics department,
earned his Ph.D. in experimental condensed matter physics
from Tufts University, Medford, Mass. A member of the Holy
Cross faculty since 2000, he was the lead scientist on the
Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment, which flew on the
Space Shuttle Columbia in 1994, 1996 and 1997; he was also
the principal investigator of the Transient Dendritic Solidification
Experiment (TDSE), a flight experiment considered for operation
on the International Space Station. Koss is the author or
co-author of more than 50 technical papers, including an
op-ed in the New York Times; he has prepared or
presented more than 100 technical talks, including testimony
before the Committee on Science of the House of Representatives.
Koss lives in Shrewsbury, Mass., with his wife, Betsy, and
their daughter, Frederica.
Vickie Langohr, of the political science
department, earned her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia
University in New York City. She has served as the Director
of the Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration Committee
at Holy Cross. Langohr, who has published articles in Comparative
Politics, Comparative Studies of Society and History,The
International Journal of Middle East Studies,
the Journal of Democracy, and Comparative Studies
of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle
East, is currently working on a series of articles on
impediments to democratization in the Arab world. She has
been awarded a summer stipend from the National Endowment
for the Humanities and a grant from the Council of American
Overseas Research Centers for research in India and Egypt.
Langhor lives in Watertown, Mass., with her husband, Jai
Puthenveettil.
Sarah Luria, of the English department,
earned her Ph.D. in English from Stanford ( Calif.) University.
While at Holy Cross, she has served on numerous College committees,
including the Planning Steering Committee, Curriculum Action
Committee, English Honors Program Committee and Graduate
Studies Committee. Since 2004, she has been the Chair of
the English Department Curriculum Committee. Luria is the
author of the forthcoming Capital Speculations: Writing
and Building Washington, D.C.—to be published
by University Press of New England this November. She lives
in Newton, Mass., with her husband, Thomas Lewis Schwarz,
and their two children, Martha and Theodore.
Timothy M. Roach, of the physics department,
earned his Ph.D. in physics from Yale University in New Haven,
Conn. In addition to serving as Chair of the College Committee
on the Curriculum, he was co-coordinator of the Undergraduate
Summer Research Symposium, from 2000 to 2003. Roach has been
published in the Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular
and Optical Physics and the Journal of Vacuum Science
and Technology, among others. He lives in Cambridge,
Mass., with his wife and their two sons.
Mathew N. Schmalz, of the religious studies
department, earned his Ph.D. in history of religions at the
University of Chicago. A member of the Holy Cross faculty
since 1998, he is an Edward Bennett Williams Fellow; from
2001 to 2003, Schmalz was the director of Asian Studies.
He has been published in: The History of Religions, The
Religious Studies Review, The Journal of Theological
Reflection, and Expecting Armageddon: Essential
Readings in Failed Prophecy, among others. Schmalz is
on the board of directors for the Society for Hindu/Christian
Studies, and, also, on the editorial board of the Journal
of Christian Higher Education. He lives in Paxton, Mass.,
with his wife, Kristin Steinmetz, and their two daughters,
Anna Teresa and Katherine Dolores.
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