Contemporary Challenges
Joshua Boucher
Visiting Instructor, Political Science
Ph.D. (expected 12/18) Baylor University
Fields: American Foreign Policy, International Relations, American Political Thought
Email: jboucher@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 321 P.O. Box: 49A Phone: 508-793-2744
Lauren Capotosto
Assistant Professor and Joseph H. Maguire '58 Fellow in Education
Ed. D., Harvard Graduate School of Education
Fields: literacy development and instruction across the lifespan, home-school engagement, research methods in education
Email: lcapotos@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 437 PO Box: EDUC Phone: 508-793-3755
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Jennie Germann Molz
Professor
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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Vickie Langohr
Montserrat Cluster Director, Contemporary Challenges
Associate Professor, Political Science
Ph.D. Columbia University
Fields: Middle East politics, nationalism and democratization; religion and politics
Email: vlangohr@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 326 PO Box: 167A Phone: 508-793-2763
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Danielle Poché
Visiting Instructor
Ed.D., University of Portland
Email: dpoche@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 432 Phone: 508-793-3731
Eric Ruggieri
Associate Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science
Ph.D., Brown University, Sc. M., Brown University, B.A., Providence College
Fields: Statistics
Email:eruggier@holycross.edu
Office: Swords 325 Phone: (508) 793-2400
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Sanjog Rupakheti
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Email: srupakhe@holycross.edu
Office: O’Kane 391 PO Box: 165 A Phone: 508-793- 3496
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Ann M. Sheehy Ph.D.
Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Fields: Immunology and Virology
Email: asheehy@holycross.edu
Office: O'Neil 235 Phone: (508) 793-2255
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Core Human Questions
Nancy E. Andrews
Associate Professor, Classics
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Hellenistic poetry, Greek and Roman epic poetry, Greek and Roman mythology
Email:nandrews@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 424 Phone: 508-793-2549
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Greg Chase
Visiting Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Boston University)
Fields: American and British Modernism; Philosophy and Literature; African American Literature; Southern Literature
Email: gchase@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 222
Phone: 508-793-2658
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Pedrag Cicovacki
Montserrat Cluster Director, Core Human Questions
Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Rochester
Fields: Kant, Dostoevsky, Schweitzer, Gandhi; Problems of evil and violence; Theories of Values
Email: pcicovac@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 518 Phone: (508) 793 2467
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Matthew Farley
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Email: mfarley@holycross.edu
Office: Smith Hall 429 Phone: 508-793-3979
Shawn Lisa Maurer
Professor
(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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Divine
Peter J. Fritz
Divine Cluster Director, Montserrat
Edward Bennett Williams Fellow, Associate Professor
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 Phone: 508-793-3501
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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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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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Karen V. Guth
Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Fields: Christian social ethics, public and political theologies, feminist ethics and theologies
Email: kguth@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 430 Phone: 508-793-3359
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Hayley Stefan
Visiting Assistant Professor
Fields: Multi-ethnic Literature of the United States; Disability/Mad Studies; Digital Humanities
Email: hstefan@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 225
Office hours: Mon & Wed 3:30 – 5:00PM; Tue 10 – 11AM, and by appt.
Phone: 793-3331
Virginia Ryan
Lecturer, Montserrat Program and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Catholic Theological Ethics, Christian Social Ethics, Bioethics, Environmental Ethics
Email: vryan@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 454 Phone: (508)-793-3467
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Global Society
Bridget Franco
Montserrat Cluster Director, Global Society
Associate Professor, Spanish
Ph.D. University of California - Irvine
Fields: Contemporary Latin American Literature; 20th- & 21st-Century Southern Cone Literature and Film; Philosophy and Politics in Literature
Email: bfranco@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 412 Phone: (508) 793-2291
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Ellen Lokos
Lecturer, Montserrat Program and Spanish
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Golden Age Spanish Literature; Women's Writing; Literature & Performance
Email: elokos@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 441
Edward T. O'Donnell
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields: Nineteenth-century U.S. urban; ethnic; and political history; Irish American experience; Public history
Email: eodonnell@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 361 Phone: (508) 793-3730
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Victor Pacheco
Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts
MFA Rhode Island School of Design
Fields: Sculpture, Visual Arts
Email: vpacheco@holycross.edu
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Jorge Santos
Associate Professor
(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: Fenwick 225 Phone: 508-793-3460
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Noa Shaindlinger
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Toronto
Email: nshaindl@holycross.edu Phone: 508-793-3966
Office: O'Kane 358
Natural World
Rodrigo Fuentes
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Ph.D. Cornell University
Fields: Prose Fiction in Spanish; Narrative and Visual Arts; Central American Testimonial Literature
Email: rfuente@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 410
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Madigan Haley
Assistant 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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Kendy Hess
Brake-Smith Associate Professor in Social Philosophy and Ethics, Philosophy
Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder
Fields: Ethics; applied ethics (business, professional, and environmental); environmental philosophy; philosophy of the mind; Nietzsche
Email:khess@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 523 Phone: (508) 793 2574
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Jeannette Jones
Visiting Assistant Professor, Music
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: History, Renaissance, Disability Studies, popular music
Email: jdjones@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 243 Phone: (508) 793-2699
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Julia Paxon
Montserrat Cluster Director, Natural World
Associate Professor, Biology
Ph.D., Yale University, D.V.M. Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine
Fields: Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Email: jpaxson@holycross.edu
Office: O'Neil 335 Phone: (508) 793-3418
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Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard
Associate Professor, Program Coordinator German
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Fields: 20th-, 19th-, and 18th-Century German Literature and Culture, Austrian Cultural History, 18th-Century European Novel, Women Writers, Law and Literature, Contemporary Literary Theory
Email: sschmitz@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 461 Phone: 508-793-3305
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Christopher Staysniak
Lecturer, Montserrat Program
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Boston College
Email:cstaysni@holycross.edu
Self
Renee Beard
Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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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Morris Collins
Lecturer, Montserrat Program and English
MFA
The Pennsylvania State University
Email: mcollins@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 218 Phone: 508-793-2333
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Helen Freear-Papio
Director of the Foreign Language Assistants Program
Senior Lecturer
Ph.D. University of Connecticut
Fields: Contemporary Spanish Drama written by Women; 20th Century Drama and Novel; Directed Independent Language Instruction; Technology in the Language Classroom
Email: hfreear@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 458 Phone: (508) 793-2765
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Matthew Gamber
Associate Professor
M.F.A., Tufts University
Fields: Photography
Email: mgamber@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 402 Phone: 508-793-3845
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Neal E. Lipsitz
Lecturer, Psychology
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Counseling
Email:nlipsitz@holycross.edu
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Elizabeth O'Connell-Inman
Director of the Directed Independent Spanish and Pedagogical Coordinator
Senior Lecturer
M.A. Brown University
Fields: Technology in the Language Classroom; Directed Independent Language Instruction; Contemporary Latin American Literature
Email: einman@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 312 Phone: (508) 793-3412
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Justin D. Poché
Montserrat Cluster Director, Self
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: Catholicism in the U. S. United States History, 1865-Present; American Religious History;
Latin American History; U.S. Latino/a History
Email: jpoche@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 390Phone: (508) 793-3448
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Megan Ross
Visiting Assistant Professor, Music
Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fields: Critical Reception Theory, Beethoven Studies, Hip-Hop
Email: mross@holycross.edu
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Karen Teitel
Associate Professor
Program Coordinator, Accounting Program
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fields: Financial Reporting
Email: kteitel@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 537 Phone: 508-793-2679
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