William E. Reiser S.J.
Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: New Testament Theology, Christology, Christian Spirituality, Systematic Theology
Email:wreiser@holycross.edu
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Alan J. Avery-Peck
Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies,
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: Judaic studies, history and literature of early Rabbinic Judaism, Hebrew language
Email:aavery@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 405
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Todd Lewis
Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields: Buddhism, Hinduism, East Asian religions, anthropology of religions, modernization, ecology and religion
Email:tlewis@holycross.edu Additional Information
Office: Smith 425
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Tat siong Benny Liew
Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: synoptic gospels, gospel of John, cultural and racial interpretations and receptions of the Bible, apocalypticism, Asian American history and literature
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Joanne M. Pierce
Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: liturgical studies, medieval Christianity, ritual studies, ecumenical theology, theology and speculative/science fiction
Email:jpierce@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 423
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William A. Clark S.J.
Associate Professor
S.T.D., Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Fields: ecclesiology (authority in the Church, Theology of parish, local community); practical and contextual theology; Christian prayer
Email:wclark@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 433
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Caner K. Dagli
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Fields: Islamic studies
Email:cdagli@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 435
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Matthew T. Eggemeier
Associate Professor
On Leave 2017-2018
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: modern and contemporary Christian theologies; political and liberation theologies; postmodern theology
Email:meggemei@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 432
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John F. Gavin S.J.
Associate Professor
S.T.D., Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome, Italy
Fields: Catholic theology, patristics
Email:jgavin@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 421
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Caroline E. Johnson Hodge
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: New Testament, Paul, women in early Christianity, kinship and ethnicity, domestic religious practices
Email:chodge@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 429
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Mary M. Doyle Roche
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Boston College
Fields: Catholic moral theology and social teaching, Christian ethics, virtue ethics, bioethics, feminist ethics
Email:mroche@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 428
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Mathew N. Schmalz
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: global Catholicisms, Hinduism, Catholic esotericism, modern religious movements
Email:mschmalz@holycross.edu
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Peter J. Fritz
Edward Bennett Williams Fellow, Associate Professor
On Leave 2017-2018
Ph.D, University of Notre Dame
Fields: Catholic systematic theology (especially the theology of Karl Rahner, SJ), modern Christian history, theological aesthetics, theology and visual art, critical responses to neoliberal capitalism
Email:pfritz@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 434
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R.L. Green
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara
Fields: religion in the Americas; indigenous religious traditions; African diaspora; Spanish Catholic thought
Email:rgreen@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 433
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Karen V. Guth
On Leave Spring 2018
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Fields: Social Ethics
Email:kguth@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 430
Gary P. DeAngelis
Lecturer, Associate Director of Special Studies
Ph.D., Boston University/Harvard University
Fields: Asian religions, mysticism, Chinese religions, Japanese religions
Email:gdeangel@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 326
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Bernadette J. Brooten
Lecturer, Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Christian Studies at Brandeis University
Ph.D., Harvard University
Christopher Frechette
Visiting Lecturer
Th.D., Harvard University
Fields: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Mesopotamian religion, trauma hermeneutics, post-colonial biblical criticism
Email: cfrechet@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 431
Virginia Ryan
Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Catholic Theological Ethics, Christian Social Ethics, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics
Email: vryan@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 454
Mary E. Hobgood
Associate Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Temple University
Fields: Christian social ethics, Catholic social teaching, economic ethics, feminist ethics
Email:mhobgood@holycross.edu
Alice L. Laffey
Associate Professor Emerita
S.S.D., Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome
Fields: Hebrew scriptures/ Old Testament, feminist Hermeneutics, ecology and the Bible
Email:alaffey@holycross.edu
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James B. Nickoloff
Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Fields: Theology of Liberation
Email:jnickolo@holycross.edu