Faculty & Staff

Contemporary Challenges

Jorge Santos

Cluster Director
Associate Professor, English
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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Giulia Andreoni

Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D, Cornell University
World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

 

 

Robert Bellin

 

Professor, Biology
Ph.D., Iowa State University
Fields: Biochemistry, Cancer Biology
Email: rbellin@holycross.edu 
Office: O'Neil 331 Phone: (508) 793-3422
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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

Jennie Germann Molz

Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
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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Gabriel Morrison

Assistant Director, Center for Writing 
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Writing Studies, Multimodal and Digital Composition, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Center Studies, Social Justice Pedagogies
Email: gmorriso@holycross.edu 
Office: Dinand 212 Phone: 508-793-2287
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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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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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Daniel Armenti

Visiting Lecturer, Italian Studies
Email: darmenti@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453      Phone: 508-793-3438  

 

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

 

Jonathan Mulrooney

Professor, English
(Ph.D. Boston University)
Fields: British Romantic Literature; Romantic-period Theater and Public Culture; Nineteenth-Century British & American Literature; Film; Romantic Historicisms
Email: jmulroon@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 212  Phone: 508-793-3440
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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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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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Matthew Eggemeier

Professor, Religious Studies
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 Phone: 508-793-3948
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Isabelle Jenkins

Director, Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning
Email: ijenkins@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 323
Phone: 508-793-3007

 

 

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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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 PO Box 176A Phone: (508) 793-2244
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Hayley Stefan

 

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
Office hours:  M/W 1-2, Th 10–11 via Zoom, & by appt.
Phone: 508-793-3331
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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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Nina Barzachka

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Fields: 
Email: nbarzach@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick Hall 308  Phone: 508-793-2779
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Diana Dukhanova

Visiting Assistant Professor, Russian Studies
Email: ddukhano@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453  

 

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

 

Juan G. Ramos

Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Fields: Modernismo and Avant-Gardes in Latin America, World Literature and Latin America, Decolonial Thought and Latin American cultural production
Email: jramos@holycross.edu 
Office: Stein 408 Phone: (508) 793-2607 
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Morgan Rocks

Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: mrocks@holycross.edu

 

 

Annie Storr

Ph.D., University of Delaware
Visiting Lecturer, Visual Arts

 

 

 

Natural World

Florencia Anggoro

Cluster Director
Associate Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Fields:  Conceptual development; science learning; relational thinking; culture, language, and cognition
Email: fanggoro@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 323   Phone: (508) 793-2748
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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

 

Kendy Hess

Brake-Smith Associate Professor in Social Philosophy and Ethics
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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Sarah Luria

Professor, English
Ph.D., Stanford University
Fields: 19th Century American Literature; American studies (Intersections Between Visual/Material Culture, History, and Literature); 19th Century Political Oratory and Rhetoric; 19th Century Sentimentalism; Robert Lowell "For the Union Dead" Website
Email: sluria@holycross.edu  
Office: Fenwick 211  Phone:  508-793-3443
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Allison Richardson

Professor of Practice 
M.B.A., Bryant University
Office:  Stein 522A     Phone:  508-793-3725
Email: arichard@holycross.edu

 

 

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

Cluster Director
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