Faculty & Staff

Department Members

Sarah Luria (Environmental Studies and English)

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Professor
Chair, Environmental Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University
Fields:  American Literature and Environmental History, Literature and the making of Worcester, Henry David Thoreau and Walden
Email: sluria@holycross.edu  
Office: Fenwick 229      Phone: (508)793-3444
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Justin McAlister (Marine Science)

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Professor
Ph. D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fields: Marine and Organismal Biology, Oceanography
Email:jmcalist@holycross.edu  
Office: Swords 232      Phone:  (508) 793-3417
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Sara Mitchell (Geoscience and Environmental Studies)

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Professor
Ph.D., University of Washington
Fields: Geology
Email:smitchel@holycross.edu  
Office: Swords 234      Phone:  (508) 793-3420
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Holly Moulton (Environmental Studies)

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Oregon
Fields: Gender and climate justice, high mountain ecosystems
Email: hmoulton@holycross.edu 
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Core Faculty

Christopher Amante (Environmental Studies)

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Visiting Lecturer
Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder
Fields: Geographic Information Science (GIS), Coastal Elevation Modeling, Flood Risk
Emailcamante@holycross.edu
Office: TBA      Phone:  TBA
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Amy Singleton Adams (World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

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Professor, Russian Studies
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison
Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture
Email:aadams@holycross.edu 
Office:   Stein 454     Phone:   508-793-2543
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Conor Carney (Economics)


Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Fields: Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Labor Economics
Emailccarney@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 522    Phone: 508-793-3973
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Loren Cass (Political Science)

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Professor
Ph.D., Brandeis University
Fields: International relations; comparative politics
Email: lcass@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 309      Phone:  508-793-3683
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Phillip J. Dugger

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Professor
PhD, Environmental Science, University of Massachusetts Boston
Fields: Forest community ecology, network ecology, food web interactions, mutualistic species interactions
Email: pdugger@holycross.edu
Office: HAB 131    Phone:
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Amy D. Finstein (Visual Arts)

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Fields: Modern architecture and urbanism
Email: afinstei@holycross.edu 
Office:  Fenwick 401    Phone:  508-793-3098
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 Daina Harvey (Sociology)

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Rutgers
Fields: Sociology of risk, social disruption; violences; social suffering; urban inequality and marginality; environmental sociology; social problems, policy and justice; culture and cognition; research methods
Email: dharvey@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 231      Phone: (609)865-0651
Office Hours: T/W 11am-1pm
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Kendy Hess (Philosophy)

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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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Amber Hupp (Chemistry) 

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Email:ahupp@holycross.edu  
Office: Haberlin 334       Phone:  (508) 793-2502
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David Karmon (Visual Arts)

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Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, M. Arch., Yale School of Architecture
Fields: Early modern art, architecture, and urbanism
Email: dkarmon@holycross.edu  
Office:  Fenwick 438    Phone:  508-793-2253
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Katherine Kiel (Economics)

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Professor 
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego
Fields: Environmental Economics, Urban Economics
Email: kkiel@holycross.edu  
Office: Stein 503      Phone: (508)793-3710
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 Todd Lewis (Religious Studies)

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Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields: Buddhism, Hinduism, East Asian religions, anthropology of religions, modernization, ecology and religion 
Email:tlewis@holycross.edu  
Office: Smith 425      Phone:  508-793-3436
Office Hours: M 7-8:30pm, and by appt.
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Joanna Linzer

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Fields: History of Science; Environmental Technology; Japan
Emailjlinzer@holycross.edu 

 


 

 Leila Philip (English) 

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Professor
M.F.A, Columbia University
Fields: Creative Writing/Non-fiction
Email: lphilip@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 215      Phone: (508)793-2393
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Justin Poche (History)

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Associate Professor
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 390      Phone:  (508) 793-3448
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Cristi Rinklin (Visual Arts) 

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Professor
M.F.A., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Fields: Painting
Email:crinklin@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 443      Phone:  508-793-2387
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Gareth E. Roberts (Mathematics and Computer Science)


Professor
Department Chair, Mathematics and Computer Science
Ph.D., Boston University, 1999, B.A., Oberlin College, 1992
Fields: Dynamical Systems, Celestial Mechanics
Email:groberts@holycross.edu 
Office: Haberlin 305 Phone: (508) 793-2350
Office Hours: M/W 10-11am, T/Th 1:30-2:30
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Maria Rodrigues (Political Science)

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Professor
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: Environmental politics; Latin American politics
Email: mrodrigu@holycross.edu  
Office: Fenwick 327      Phone:  508-793-3410
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Aaron Seider (Department Chair, Classics)

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: Latin literature; constructions of memory in Roman culture; gender in the ancient world and its modern reception
Email:aseider@holycross.edu 
Office:  Fenwick 423     Phone:  508-793-3976
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Keith Seitter (Environmental Studies)

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Distinguished Visiting Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Fields: Climate Science, Meteorology, Climate Change Communication
E-mail: kseitter@holycross.edu
Office: Haberlin 133   Phone: 508-793-3357
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Sylvia Schmitz-Burgard (World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) 

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Associate Professor
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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William Sobczak (Biology)

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Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Fields: Aquatic and Ecosystem Ecology
Email: wsobczak@holycross.edu  
Office:  O'Neil 221     Phone:  (508) 793-3416
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Christopher Staysniak (History)

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Visiting Assistant Professor
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   POBox: MONT  Phone: 508-793-3451

 

P.J. Torres

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Assistant Professor 
Ph.D., University of Georgia
Fields: Ecology, Freshwater and Tropical Biology
Email: ptorres@holycross.edu
Office: O'Neil 207 Phone: (508) 793-3416
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Kelly Wolfe-Bellin (Biology)

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Director of Biology Laboratories/Lecturer
Ph.D. Iowa State University
Fields: Ecology, Botany, and Environmental Science
Email: kwolfe@holycross.edu  
Office: O'Neil 233     Phone: (508) 793-2212
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Affiliated Faculty

Matthew Eggemeier (Religious Studies)

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Associate Professor
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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 Ann Glennie

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Florida State University
Fields: archaeology, art, and architecture of the ancient Mediterranean; ecology, hydraulic engineering, and water management
Emailaglennie@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 423  Phone: 508-793-3494

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Ellis Jones (Sociology)

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Fields: corporate social responsibility, mass media, social movements, sustainability, peace and conflict, ethical consumerism
Email: ejones@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 219      Phone:  (508) 793-3478
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Patricia Johnston (Visual Arts)

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Rev. J. Gerard Mears, S.J. Chair in Fine Arts, Professor Visual Arts
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: American Art, History of Photography, Modern Art
Email: pjohnsto@holycross.edu  
Office:  Fenwick 442     Phone:  508-793-3715
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Victor Matheson (Economics)

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Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: Sports Economics, Lotteries and Gambling, Forensic Economics, Environmental and Energy Economics
Email:vmatheso@holycross.edu  
Office: Stein 536     Phone:  508-793-2649
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Gwen Miller (History)

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Associate Professor
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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Jonathan Mulrooney (English)

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Professor
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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Catherine A. Roberts

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Professor
  Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1992, A.B., Bowdoin College, 1987
  Fields: Applied Mathematics, Mathematic Modeling
  Email:croberts@holycross.edu 
  Office: American Mathematical Society Phone: (401) 455-4000
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Eric Ruggieri (Math/Computer Science)

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Brown University, 2010, Sc. M., Brown University, 2006, B.A., Providence College, 2005
Fields: Statistics
Email: eruggier@holycross.edu 
Office:  Swords 325     Phone:  (508) 793-2400
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Melissa Schoenberger (English)

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston University
Fields: Restoration and 18th Century British Literature; Poetry; Translation
Email: mschoenb@holycross.edu
Office:  Fenwick 222     Phone:
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Office Staff

Paula Hall

Academic Office Coordinator
Email: phall@holycross.edu
Office Phone:  508-793-2288