Rev. Thomas W. Worcester, S.J., associate professor of history, was recently named the 2005-06 recipient of the Mary Louise Marfuggi Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship. Made possible by a gift from Richard A. Marfuggi, M.D., ’72, in honor of his mother, the award recognizes faculty with an exemplary record of scholarship and outstanding achievement in the creation of an original work in the arts and sciences.
“Tom was a key player in creating the highly acclaimed exhibition Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800 at the Worcester Art Museum last year,” says James Kee, interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College, who presented the award. “The exhibition brought a great deal of favorable coverage to the city, to the museum, and to Holy Cross, and the exhibition was also a great critical success, reviewed favorably by, among others, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and National Catholic Weekly.”
A faculty member since 1994, Fr. Worcester is active in several professional associations. He is the author of Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Mouton de Gruyter, 1997) and was one of five co-curators of a 1999 exhibition at Boston College, Saints and Sinners: Caravaggio and the Baroque Image. Fr. Worcester earned his bachelor’s degree at Columbia University and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He received a master of theological studies degree from the Harvard Divinity School, a licence en philosophie from the Institut Supérieur de Théologie et de Philosophie de la Compagnie de Jésus, Paris, and a licentiate in sacred theology from the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass.
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