Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Susan Crawford Sullivan

Professor, Department Chair
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: religion, poverty and public policy, family,community-based learning, and Catholic social teaching
Email:ssulliva@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 225 Phone: (508) 793-2531
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Renée L. Beard

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Fields: medical sociology, social gerontology, illness narratives, Alzheimer's, social movements
Email: rbeard@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 218  Phone: (508) 793-3054
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Emily B. Campbell

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center 
Fields: political sociology; race and ethnicity; the sociology of human rights; cultural sociology; drugs and society; transnational sociology, especially Latin America and Europe
Email: ecampbel@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 221 Phone: (508)793-3753
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Susan M. Cunningham

Lecturer, Associate Director Center for Interdisciplinary
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Fields: sociology, children and violence, women and drinking
Email:scunning@holycross.edu 
Office: Smith 331 Phone: (508) 793-2703
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Jeffrey C. Dixon

Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Fields: social stratification/work, political sociology, race/ethnicity/immigration, research/quantitative methods, and European Union enlargement/integration
Email: jdixon@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 224 Phone: (508) 793-3474
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Ara A. Francis

Associate Professor
Director Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Studies
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Fields: micro sociology; deviance and social disruption; death and dying; families; qualitative methods
Email: afrancis@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 211 Phone: (508) 793-2487
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Selina Gallo-Cruz

Associate Professor
On Leave 2020-2021
Ph.D., Emory University
Fields: culture; global political and economic change; social movements and peace movements; gender and women's movements;  NGOs; nonviolence; methods; social theory
Email:sgallo@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 202 Phone: (508) 793-3468
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Jennie Germann Molz

Professor
Ph.D., Lancaster University
Fields: mobilities, cosmopolitanism, globalization, technology, travel and tourism, digital nomads, mobile families, educational travel, critical hospitality studies
Email: jmolz@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 215 Phone: (508) 793-3596
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Sarah Emily Ihmoud

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Fields: Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism, Violence, Militarization, Occupation, Intimacy, Borderlands and Border Spaces, Israel/Palestine, Arab Diasporas in Latin America, Transnational Black and Indigenous Feminisms
Email: sihmoud@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 227  Phone: 508-793-2409
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Daina Cheyenne Harvey

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers
Fields: risk; social disruption/dislocation; climate; social suffering; urban inequality and marginality; environmental sociology; culture and cognition; food; symbolic interaction
Email: dharvey@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 231 Phone: 609-865-0651
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Alvaro Jarrin

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Duke University
Fields: medical anthropology; science and technology studies; race, class and gender inequality in Latin America; queer theory; social justice; environmental activism
Email:ajarrin@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 216 Phone: (508) 793-2774
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Ellis Jones

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Fields: corporate social responsibility, mass media, social movements, sustainability, peace and conflict, ethical consumerism
Email: ejones@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 219 Phone: (508) 793-3478
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Jeremy Jones

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: political and economic anthropology; African studies; informal economy and the anthropology of development; youth and masculinity; time and temporality.
Email:jjones@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 203 Phone: (508) 793-3050
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Thomas M. Landy

Lecturer
Director for the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: Global Catholicism, civil society, and urban sociology
Email: tlandy@holycross.edu 
Office: Smith 304 Phone: (508) 793-3723
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Ann Marie Leshkowich

Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: social anthropology, gender, economic transformation, neoliberalism, middle classness, fashion, social work, and transnational adoption in Vietnam
Email: aleshkow@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 230 Phone: (508) 793-2788
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Tsitsi Masvawure

Professor of Practice in Health Studies, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
DPhil Anthropology (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Fields:  medical anthropology, HIV/AIDS, gender equity and women’s rights, reproductive and sexual health, international development, global health, public health, health promotion, program design, management and evaluation
Email:tmasvawu@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 312   Phone: 508-793-3581
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Melissa F. Weiner

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: Racism, colonialism, enslaving
Email:mfweiner@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 226 Phone: (508) 793-2217
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Samantha Eddy

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Racism, Racecraft, Gender, Strategies for Social Change, and Digital Communities
Email: seddy@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 206  Phone: 508-793-3597
PO Box: 50A
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 Douglas Bafford

Visiting Instructor
MA in Anthropology, Brandeis University
Fields: Anthropology of religion; evangelical Christianity; racial inequality in post-apartheid South Africa; cross-cultural epistemology; legal anthropology
Email: dbafford@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 216 PO Box: 50A Phone: 1-443-823-6364
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Ronnie Shepard
 

Visiting Lecturer
Email: rshepard@holycross.edu

 

 

 

 

Staff

Paula Hall

Administrative Assistant
Email: phall@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 220    Phone: 508-793-2288

 

 

 

Faculty Emeriti

 

Carolyn Howe

 

 

Professor Emerita

 

 

 

 

David M. Hummon

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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Email:dhummon@holycross.edu 
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Jerry L. Lembcke

Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Email:jlembcke@holycross.edu 
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Susan Rodgers

Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Ethics and Society, Holy Cross
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: anthropology of literature, print literacies, anthropology of art and museums, Indonesia, Sumatra  
Email:srodgers@holycross.edu 
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Edward H. Thompson Jr.

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University
Email: ethompson@holycross.edu 
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