Media Experts

Holy Cross faculty members are experts in their field, and they can help bring important perspective and context to just about any news story.
Our professors are eager to speak with reporters looking for interviews, quotes or background information on any of their fields of expertise. Browse experts by topic below. To set up an interview, please contact Director of Public Relations Nicoleta Jordan at 781-414-9871 (c) or njordan@holycross.edu.
Topics of the Moment
Our media experts can discuss a wide range of subjects, including some of the most pressing issues of the present day.
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D. Neel Smith
Professor EmeritusAreas of ExpertiseAI in classics; digital methods in classical studies; classical archeology; ancient science
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Victor Matheson
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseSports economics; sports stadiums; Olympics; lottery; gambling; economic implications of the pandemic on sports
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Keith Seitter
Distinguished Visiting ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseClimate science; meteorology; climate change; teaching climate change to kids; renewable energy
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Mathew Schmalz
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseGlobal Catholicism; the papacy; Pope Francis; Hinduism; Mormonism; Jehovah's Witnesses; new religions
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Donald Brand
Professor, Co-Director, Charles Carroll ProgramAreas of ExpertiseAmerican national institutions; national public administration
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Alex Hindman
Assistant ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseU.S Constitution; constitutional law and legal studies; judiciary; Congress; the American presidency
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Daniel Klinghard
Dean of Education and Academic Experience, ProfessorAreas of ExpertisePolitical parties and interest groups; politics and technology; American political development
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Ellis Jones
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseEthical consumerism; responsible shopping; supporting local businesses; buying local in the time of Amazon; the value of Wikipedia; hyperconsumption; corporate social responsibility
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Joshua Congdon-Hohman
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseLabor economics; health economics (ACA, Medicare)
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Katherine Kiel
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseHousing markets; Superfund sites; environmental economics
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Victor Matheson
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseSports economics; sports stadiums; Olympics; lottery; gambling; economic implications of the pandemic on sports
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Carmen Alvaro JarrÃn
Associate Professor, Department Chair of Sociology & AnthropologyAreas of ExpertiseMedical anthropology; plastic surgery in Brazil; gender and sexuality; transgender identities; inequality in Latin America
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Stephanie Yuhl
W. Arthur Garrity, Sr., Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society, OmbudAreas of ExpertiseTwentieth-century American history; Southern history; social movements; women soldiers; gender/sexualities; #MeToo movement
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Stephenie Chaudoir
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseSocial psychology; stigma; HIV/AIDS stigma; HIV/AIDS disclosure, health disparities; social inequality; stress
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Joshua Congdon-Hohman
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseLabor economics; health economics (ACA, Medicare)
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Ara Francis
Associate ProfessorAreas of Expertisesocial psychology; social disruption; death and dying; end-of-life care; families; troubled youth; parenting; suffering
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Mary Ebbott
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseClassical Greek literature; Homeric epic; Iliad and Odyssey; Greek tragedy; oral, traditional epic; women's stories in ancient Greek literature
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Cynthia Hooper
Associate Professor, Russian and Eastern European Studies Program AdvisorAreas of ExpertiseRussian history; Russian media; US-Russia relations; Kremlin media strategy
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David Karmon
Professor, Visual Arts Department ChairAreas of ExpertiseSensory experience of buildings and cities; history and theory of architecture and urban form; history and theory of archaeology; preservation practices in early modern Rome
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Thomas Martin
Jeremiah W. O'Connor, Jr., Chair in the ClassicsAreas of ExpertiseAncient Greek history; ancient Roman history; Alexander the Great; Pericles of Athens; Cleopatra; comparisons of the present time with Greek and Roman antiquity
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Edward O'Donnell
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseNineteenth-century American history; ethnic and political history; Irish American experience; Henry George; Gilded Age; Second Gilded Age
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D. Neel Smith
Professor EmeritusAreas of ExpertiseAI in classics; digital methods in classical studies; classical archeology; ancient science
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Stephanie Yuhl
W. Arthur Garrity, Sr., Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society, OmbudAreas of ExpertiseTwentieth-century American history; Southern history; social movements; women soldiers; gender/sexualities; #MeToo movement
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Stephenie Chaudoir
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseSocial psychology; stigma; HIV/AIDS stigma; HIV/AIDS disclosure, health disparities; social inequality; stress
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Ara Francis
Associate ProfessorAreas of Expertisesocial psychology; social disruption; death and dying; end-of-life care; families; troubled youth; parenting; suffering
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Jennie Germann Molz
Montserrat Cluster Director (Core Human Questions), ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseGlobalization; global culture; global citizenship; voluntourism; flashpacking; worldschooling; family travel; mobile lifestyles; digital nomads; the pandemic's impact on the tourism and hospitality industry; (im)mobility and social distancing
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Daina Cheyenne Harvey
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseFood systems; urban agriculture; craft brewing industry; natural disasters; inequality and race; climate change; environmental justice
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Carmen Alvaro JarrÃn
Associate Professor, Department Chair of Sociology & AnthropologyAreas of ExpertiseMedical anthropology; plastic surgery in Brazil; gender and sexuality; transgender identities; inequality in Latin America
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Ellis Jones
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseEthical consumerism; responsible shopping; supporting local businesses; buying local in the time of Amazon; the value of Wikipedia; hyperconsumption; corporate social responsibility
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Cynthia Hooper
Associate Professor, Russian and Eastern European Studies Program AdvisorAreas of ExpertiseRussian history; Russian media; US-Russia relations; Kremlin media strategy
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Denis Kennedy
Associate Professor, Political Science Department ChairAreas of ExpertisePeace and conflict studies; humanitarianism; international relations; United Nations; refugees
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Ward Thomas
Edward A. O'Rorke Professorship in the Liberal Arts, Mary Louise Marfuggi Award for Academic Advising 2023Areas of ExpertiseInternational relations (North Korea, Afghanistan, Irak, NATO); foreign policy; U.S. military; war
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Oliver de la Paz
Associate Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies DirectorAreas of ExpertiseCreative writing: poetry; contemporary American poetry; Asian American literature
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Mary Ebbott
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseClassical Greek literature; Homeric epic; Iliad and Odyssey; Greek tragedy; oral, traditional epic; women's stories in ancient Greek literature
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Thomas Martin
Jeremiah W. O'Connor, Jr., Chair in the ClassicsAreas of ExpertiseAncient Greek history; ancient Roman history; Alexander the Great; Pericles of Athens; Cleopatra; comparisons of the present time with Greek and Roman antiquity
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Leila Philip
Professor, Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J. Chair in the HumanitiesAreas of Expertisecreative writing; poetry; journalism
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Paige Reynolds
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseContemporary Irish literature and culture; Irish writers; William Butler Yeats; James Joyce; Elizabeth Bowen; Samuel Beckett; modernism; drama and performance
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Jorge Santos
Montserrat Cluster Director (Contemporary Challenges), Associate Professor of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S.Areas of ExpertiseImmigrant literature; immigrant history; migrants; border consciousness; Latinx; graphic novels; Marvel; Hamilton; Junot Diaz; civil rights movement; Japanese American internment; Congressman John Lewis;
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D. Neel Smith
Professor EmeritusAreas of ExpertiseAI in classics; digital methods in classical studies; classical archeology; ancient science
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Cynthia Hooper
Associate Professor, Russian and Eastern European Studies Program AdvisorAreas of ExpertiseRussian history; Russian media; US-Russia relations; Kremlin media strategy
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Ellis Jones
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseEthical consumerism; responsible shopping; supporting local businesses; buying local in the time of Amazon; the value of Wikipedia; hyperconsumption; corporate social responsibility
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Donald Brand
Professor, Co-Director, Charles Carroll ProgramAreas of ExpertiseAmerican national institutions; national public administration
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Alex Hindman
Assistant ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseU.S Constitution; constitutional law and legal studies; judiciary; Congress; the American presidency
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Ellis Jones
Associate ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseEthical consumerism; responsible shopping; supporting local businesses; buying local in the time of Amazon; the value of Wikipedia; hyperconsumption; corporate social responsibility
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Daniel Klinghard
Dean of Education and Academic Experience, ProfessorAreas of ExpertisePolitical parties and interest groups; politics and technology; American political development
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Ward Thomas
Edward A. O'Rorke Professorship in the Liberal Arts, Mary Louise Marfuggi Award for Academic Advising 2023Areas of ExpertiseInternational relations (North Korea, Afghanistan, Irak, NATO); foreign policy; U.S. military; war
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Denis Kennedy
Associate Professor, Political Science Department ChairAreas of ExpertisePeace and conflict studies; humanitarianism; international relations; United Nations; refugees
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Jorge Santos
Montserrat Cluster Director (Contemporary Challenges), Associate Professor of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S.Areas of ExpertiseImmigrant literature; immigrant history; migrants; border consciousness; Latinx; graphic novels; Marvel; Hamilton; Junot Diaz; civil rights movement; Japanese American internment; Congressman John Lewis;
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Alan Avery-Peck
Religious Studies Department Chair, Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic StudiesAreas of ExpertiseJudaic studies; ancient Judaism; Hebrew language; Jesus and Judaism; Jewish holidays and practices
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Thomas M. Landy
Director of the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and CultureAreas of ExpertiseGlobal Catholicism
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Joanne Pierce
Professor, EmeritaAreas of ExpertiseLiturgical studies; ritual studies; history of Christianity; afterlife; women in Christian history
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Mathew Schmalz
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseGlobal Catholicism; the papacy; Pope Francis; Hinduism; Mormonism; Jehovah's Witnesses; new religions
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Oliver de la Paz
Associate Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies DirectorAreas of ExpertiseCreative writing: poetry; contemporary American poetry; Asian American literature
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Leila Philip
Professor, Rev. John E. Brooks, S.J. Chair in the HumanitiesAreas of Expertisecreative writing; poetry; journalism
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Paige Reynolds
ProfessorAreas of ExpertiseContemporary Irish literature and culture; Irish writers; William Butler Yeats; James Joyce; Elizabeth Bowen; Samuel Beckett; modernism; drama and performance