As a special program within the Holy Cross curriculum, Montserrat is guided by faculty members, including a director of the overall program and a director for each cluster. These professors are deeply involved in all cluster-related activities, widening the group of faculty members you will get to know as mentors.
Alison Bryant Ludden
Montserrat Director
Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Adolescent development, youth risk and resiliency, motivation and schooling, adolescents' use of caffeine and other substances, and civic engagement
Email: aludden@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 225 PO Box: 114A Phone: (508) 793-3003
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Jorge Santos
Montserrat Cluster Director, Contemporary Challenges
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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Shawn Maurer
Montserrat Cluster Director, Core Human Questions
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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Peter Fritz
Montserrat Cluster Director, Divine
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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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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Florencia Anggoro
Montserrat Cluster Director, Natural World
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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Renee Beard
Montserrat Cluster Director, Self
Associate Professor, Sociology/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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