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, problem behaviors (e.g., eating disorders, substance use, dropout), religiosity, caffeine use
Email: aludden@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 334 PO Box 114A Phone: (508) 793-3898
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Cynthia V. Hooper
Montserrat Cluster Director, Contemporary Challenges
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Princeton University
Fields: Russian and Soviet history; comparative dictatorship; culture and politics in 20th century Europe
Email: chooper@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 383 Phone: (508) 793-3447
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Debra Gettelman
Montserrat Cluster Director, Core Humanities
Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: 19th Century British Literature and Culture; the Novel; Book History; Film Adaptation
Email: dgettelm@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227B Phone: 508-793-2759
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Timothy Joseph
Montserrat Cluster Director, Divine
Associate Professor, Classics
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Latin historiography and epic poetry
Email: tjoseph@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 427 Phone: 508-793-3780
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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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Stephanie Reents
Montserrat Cluster Director, Natural World
Associate Professor, English
M.F.A., University of Arizona
Fields: Fiction; Contemporary American Fiction; Experimental Narrative Writing
Email: sreents@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 230 Phone: 508-793-2709
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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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