Contemporary Challenges
Jorge Santos
Cluster Director
Associate Professor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Ethnic American Literature; Immigrant/Migrant Literature; Ethnic Studies; American Cultural Studies; Graphic Narrative; Asian American Literature
Email: jsantos@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 460 Phone: 508-793-3460
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Lindsey Caola
Visiting Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Developmental psychology; adolescent development, college student motivation and well-being, educational psychology; math learning
Email: lcaola@holycross.edu
Office : Beaven Hall 334
Hayley Stefan
Lecturer, Montserrat Program
Visiting Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States; Digital Humanities; Disability/Mad Studies; Young Adult Literature
Email: hstefan@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 214 Phone: 508-793-3331
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Melissa Geisler Trafton
Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
P.h.D, University of California, Berkeley
Fields: 19th and 20th Century art history; American art and print culture
Email: mtrafton@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 445 Phone: 508-793-3480
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Schuyler Wheldan
Visiting Assistant Professor, Music
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Fields: Ethnomusicology, Latin American Music, Global Popular Music, Music and Politics
Email: swhelden@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 460 Phone: 508-793-2297
Core Human Questions
Shawn Lisa Maurer
Cluster Director
Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: 18th Century British literature and Culture; History and Theory of the Novel; Satire; Feminist and Critical Theory; Women's and Gender Studies; Women Writers; Female Modernism, esp. Dorothy Richardson; 19th and 20th Century Anglo-American Women's Poetry
Email: smaurer@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 229 Phone: 508-793-3444
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Natasha Binek
Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics
Ph.D., Cornell University
Fields: Greek and Latin poetry; Vergil; Aphrodite/Venus and literary treatments of erotic passion
Email: nbinek@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 410 Phone: 508-793-3070
Julie Camarda
Visiting Assistant Professor, English
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Fields: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Global Romanticism(s), Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality, Media Theory, Genre Theory
Email: jcamarda@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227B
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Kyle R. Woolley
Director of Mission Initiatives
Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago
Email: kwoolley@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane Hall 154 Phone: 508-793-2568
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Divine
Susan Crawford Sullivan
Cluster Director
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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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William A. Clark, S.J.
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
S.T.D., Weston Jesuit School of Theolog
Fields: ecclesiology (authority in the Church, Theology of parish, local community); practical and contextual theology; Christian prayer
Email: wclark@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 433 Phone: 508-793-2717
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Isabelle Jenkins,'10
Director, Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Boston
Email: ijenkins@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 323 Phone: 508-793-3007
Matthew B. Koss
Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Tufts University
Fields: Experimental condensed matter and materials physics — dendritic growth; kinetics and morphology of solidification; experimentation in "microgravity".
Email: mkoss@holycross.edu
Office: Haberlin 014A Phone: (508) 793-2406
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Amanda Luyster
Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Medieval and cross-cultural art history
Email: aluyster@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 439 Phone: 508-793-2782
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Frances Maughan-Brown
Lecturer, Montserrat Program
Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Aesthetics, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Kierkegaard, Feminism
Email: fmaughan@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 519 Phone: (508) 793 3453
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Virginia Ryan
Visiting Lecturer, Montserrat
Ph.D., Boston College
Email: vryan@holycross.edu
Richard Schmidt
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Cognitive Science, interpersonal coordination, interlimb coordination, dynamical theories of behavior, ecological psychology
Email: rschmidt@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 330 Phone: (508) 793-2244
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Global Society
Gwenn Miller
Cluster Director
Associate Professor, History
Advisor, Department of History Honors
Ph.D., Duke University
Fields: Colonial and Revolutionary Era America, Native America, Comparative Empire and the Global Connections of Early America
Email: gmiller@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 385 Phone: (508) 793-3449
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Giusy Di Filippo
Assistant Professor, Italian Studies
Email: gdifilip@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453 Phone: 508-793-3438
Diana Dukhanova
Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian Studies
Email: ddukhano@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453
Bridget Franco
Professor, Spanish
Ph.D. University of California - Irvine
Fields: Latin American Film Studies, Digital Humanities, Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) Literature and Memory Studies, Engaged Pedagogy in the Spanish-language Curriculum
Email: bfranco@holycross.edu
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Katherine Lu Hsu
Assistant Professor, Classics
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Greek literature, mythology, violence and heroism, reception, migration in ancient myth
Email: kluhsu@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 426 Phone: 508-793-3959
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Yu-Jung Lin
Assistant Professor, Chinese Studies
Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Fields: Phonology and phonetics (syllable structure, tones, rhythm), Psycholinguistics (the influence of orthography on sound processing), Second language acquisition
(tense and lax vowel distinction by L1 and L2 learners, diphthong production and perception by L1 and L2 learners)
Email: yjlin@holycross.edu Office: Stein 426
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Morgan Rocks
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Email: mrocks@holycross.edu
Alberto Castillo Ventura
Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish
Ph.D. Harvard University
Fields: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Modernism and Politics in Central America and Mexico, Critical Theory, Central American Studies, Migration and U.S.-Latin America Relations.
Email: acastill@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 409A
Natural World
Madigan Haley
Cluster Director
Associate Professor, English
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Fields: 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature; Comparative World Literatures; Transnational Modernism; History and Theory of the Novel; Postcolonial and Global Studies
Email: mhaley@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 223 Phone: 508-793-2523
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Stephanie Crofts
Assistant Professor, Biology
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
Fields: Biomechanics, Functional Morphology, Comparative Anatomy
Email: scrofts@holycross.edu
Office: O'Neil 315 Phone: (508) 793-2594
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Jacob Damm
Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics
Email: jdamm@holycross.edu
Ann Glennie
Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics
Ph.D., The Florida State University
Fields: archaeology, art, and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean; ecology, hydraulic engineering, and water management
Email: aglennie@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 408 Phone: 508-793-3494
Catherine Roberts
Faculty Associate, Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University, A.B., Bowdoin College
Fields: Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling
Email: croberts@holycross.edu
Christopher Staysniak
Lecturer, Montserrat Program
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: U.S. environmental history; American food and food systems; American religion; American social and protest movement
Email: cstaysni@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 384 Phone: 508-793-3451
Self
Denise Schaeffer
Cluster Director
Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Fordham University
Fields: History of political philosophy; philosophy and literature; feminist theory
Email: dschaeff@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 307 Phone: 508-793-3403
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Morris Collins
Lecturer, Montserrat Program
Visiting Assistant Professor, English
MFA, Pennsylvania State University
Email: mcollins@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 218 Phone: 508-793-2333
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Colleen Fitzgerald
Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual Art
M.F.A. Parsons School of Design
B.A. Boston College
Fields: Photography & Related Media
Email: cfitzger@holycross.edu
Studio: Millard Media Lab, Photography Studio Office: Fenwick 431
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Neal E. Lipsitz
Lecturer, Psychology
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Counseling
Email:nlipsitz@holycross.edu
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CJ Martin
Visiting Lecturer, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Email: cjmartin@holycross.edu
Mary Doyle Roche
Associate Professor, Religious Studies
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 Phone: 508-793-2585
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Ana Ugarte
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Fields: Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean literature, health humanities, disability studies, indigenous languages and cultures, science fiction, 20th and 21st century Latin American fiction, and contemporary Yucatec Maya literature
Email: augarte@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 402 Phone: 508-793-3309
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