Faculty & Staff

Renée L. Beard

Associate Professor
On Leave 2017-2018
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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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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Stephanie Crist

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Syracuse University
Fields: inequality, hunger, food justice, food studies, nonprofit organizations, research methods, gender and sexuality
Email:scrist@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 206 Phone: (508) 793-3597
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Jeffrey C. Dixon

Associate Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Fields: political sociology, race and ethnicity, research methods, the EU and Turkey, and social stratification
Email:jdixon@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 224 Phone: (508) 793-3474
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Ara A. Francis

Associate Professor
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

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Emory University
Fields: culture; gender; global change; social movements; NGOs; nonviolence; methods; social theory
Email:sgallo@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 223 Phone: (508) 793-3468
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Jennie Germann Molz

Associate Professor
On Leave 2017-2018
Ph.D., Lancaster University
Fields: mobilities, cosmopolitanism, globalization, technology, travel and tourism, educational travel, critical hospitality studies
Email:jmolz@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 215 Phone: (508) 793-3596
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Daina Cheyenne Harvey

Assistant 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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Nurhaizatul Jamil

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Email:njamil@holycross.edu 

 

 

 

 

Alvaro Jarrin

Assistant 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

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Fields: corporate social responsibilty, 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

Assistant 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

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Pretoria, South Africa
Email:tmasvawu@holycross.edu 

 

 

 

Kenneth V. Mills

Professor, Chair of Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Biochemistry
Email: kmills@holycross.edu 
Office: Haberlin 337 Phone: (508) 793-3380
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Susan Crawford Sullivan

Associate Professor
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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Lihua Wang

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Northeastern University
Fields: Sociology, gender, work, family, globalization, neoliberalism, poverty reduction, and one-child policy in China
Email:lwan@holycross.edu 
Phone: (508) 793-3588
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Melissa F. Weiner

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: race and ethnicity, education, social movements, social justice
Email:mfweiner@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 226 Phone: (508) 793-2217
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Professors Emeriti

 

David M. Hummon

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

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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