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The Office of the Dean at the College of the Holy Cross announces the hiring of seven new faculty members in tenure-track positions this academic year. They are:
Melissa Ann Boyle (assistant professor, economics), earned her Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and her bachelor of arts degree at Holy Cross. Her teaching interests include: the economics of health care and aging; public finance; health economics; labor economics; and applied econometrics. Boyle, who is the recipient of several honors, scholarships and fellowships, has written or co-written several papers on economics. She has also taught at MIT.
Sylvia M. Schmitz-Burgard (assistant professor, modern languages and literatures), earned her Ph.D. and master of arts degree at the University of Virginia; she also attended Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and Albertus-Magnus-Universität Köln. Her research and teaching interests include: 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century German literature; Austrian and German cultural history; women writers and feminist theory; 18th-century European novels; literary theory; as well as law and literature. Schmitz-Burgard has taught at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Princeton (N.J.) University; MIT; and the University of Virginia. In 2000, she published a book on novels by Richardson, Rousseau, and Goethe titled Das Schreiben des anderen Geschlechts.
Leon Claessens (assistant professor, biology), received his Ph.D. and master of arts degree from Harvard University and his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His teaching interests include: vertebrate surgery; human functional anatomy; veterinary anatomy; and the biology and evolution of dinosaurs. Earlier this year, Claessens received international media attention after he co-published a study in Nature suggesting that the breathing systems of Tyrannosaurus res are similar to those of living birds.
Diana V. Cruz (assistant professor, English), received her Ph.D. and master of arts degree from Boston College and her bachelor of arts degree from Providence (R.I.) College. Teaching and writing in the fields of American and African-American literature, she has focused on the poetry of Rita Dove. In addition to Dove, Cruz has delivered lectures at various colleges on writers Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor and Grace Nichols. The recipient of several academic fellowships, she has taught at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., and at Boston College.
Cynthia V. Hooper (assistant professor, history), earned her Ph.D. and master of arts degree at Princeton University and her bachelor of arts degree at Harvard College. Her teaching interests include: Russian and Soviet history; the politics of memory; and the practice of dictatorship. The recipient of several fellowships, she has taught at New York University and Princeton University. Her dissertation on Stalin-era repression recently won an international award for the best work by a junior scholar in 20th-century history.
Paola Marconi (assistant professor, modern languages and literatures), received her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., her Diplôme d'Etudes Avancées (D.E.A.) from the Université de Genève, her master of arts degree from the University of Virginia and her bachelor of arts degree from the Università degli Studi di Bologna. She has many years of experience teaching undergraduate literature and language courses in Italian and English—also, in conjunction with cinema. Marconi, who has expertise in Medieval and Early Renaissance Italian literature, has published articles on Dante, Boccaccio, Della Casa and Manzoni.
Paul K. Oxley (assistant professor, physics), earned his Ph.D. at Harvard University and his bachelor of arts degree at Oxford University. His teaching interests include: quantum mechanics; atomic physics; plasma physics; particle and nuclear physics; laser physics; and experimental methods in physics. The co-author of 16 papers and publications, Oxley has taught at the University of Minnesota, Harvard University and Oxford University.
Ann M. Sheehy (assistant professor, biology), received her Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and her bachelor of arts degree from Kalamazoo (Mich.) College; she earned her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania and King's College, London. Sheehy has conducted extensive research on HIV and has published articles on the subject—as well as others in the field of biology. Her significant contribution to science to date has been the discovery of an anti-HIV gene.
Susan Crawford Sullivan (assistant professor, sociology and anthropology), earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University, her M.P.A. at Princeton University and her bachelor of arts degree at Duke University, Durham, N.C. Her research and teaching interests include: religion; poverty and social policy; gender; non-profit organizations; service-based learning; research methods; and applications of sociological research. Sullivan has taught at Harvard University and Princeton University.
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