Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Susan Amatangelo

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Professor, Italian Studies
Director, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Studies
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: 19th- and 20th-century Italian literature, Giovanni Verga, Italian women writers, and the representation of women in literature
Email:samatang@holycross.edu
Office:  Stein 404     Phone: 508-793-3347
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Hannah R. Abrahamson

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Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Ph.D., Emory University
Fields: early modern Latin America, Indigenous History, Atlantic World, Colonialism, Gender, Sexuality, Digital Humanities
Email: habraham@holycross.edu
Office: Okane 363
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Giulia Andreoni

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Italian
Email: gandreon@holycross.edu
Office:  Stein 453

 

Nancy Andrews

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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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Natasha Binek

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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

 

 

Laurie Ann Britt-Smith

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Director, Center for Writing 
Office: Dinand 210  Phone: (508) 793-3681
Email: lbrittsm@holycross.edu
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Danuta Bukatko

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Distinguished Professor of Education 
Professor, Psychology
Affiliate, Women's and Gender Studies

Ph.D., University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Fields: Child development, cognitive development in early childhood including memory and representation, social cognition, gender-role development
Email:dbukatko@holycross.edu 
Office:Beaven 322 Phone: (508) 793-3433
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Rosa Carasquillo

Rosa Carasquillo Professor of History

Professor 
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Latin America; Afro-Caribbean History; Gender History; History of Latino/as in the United States
Emailrcarrasq@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 358 Phone: (508) 793-3450
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Julie Carmada

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Visiting Assistant Professor, English

Ph.D., Rutgers University

Fields:  Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Global Romanticism(s), Poetry and Poetics, Gender and Sexuality, Media Theory, Genre Theory
Email: jcamarda@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227B
Office hours: W 12-3 PM and by appt.

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Sydney Carr

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Assistant Professor, Political Science 
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Fields: American Public Opinion, race, ethnicity, and politics, media and political communication
Email: scarr@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick Hall 324

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Clarissa Carvalho

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Fields: Gender, sexuality and women’s studies; anthropology of birth; mass media and journalism; social movements; web activism; urban studies; health communication.
Email: ccarvalho@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 206 Phone: 508-793-3597

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Stephenie Chaudoir

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Associate Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Social and health psychology, stigma, disclosure, HIV/AIDS and other concealable stigmatized identities, health disparities
Email:schaudoi@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 326  Phone: 508-793-3620
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Mary A. Conley

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Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Modern Britain and Empire; Ireland and India; Imperialism and post-colonialism; History of gender, family and childhood; Maritime history
Email:mconley@holycross.edu 
Office: O'Kane 372 Phone: (508) 793-2493
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Susan Cunningham

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Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology
Associate Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Ph.D., University of Maryland
Fields: sociology, children and violence, women and drinking
Email:scunning@holycross.edu 
Office: Smith 331/329 Phone: (508) 793-2703
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Daniel J. DiCenso

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Associate Professor 
Ph.D., University of Cambridge
Fields: History, Early Music, Chant, Rock, Hip-Hop
Emailddicenso@holycross.edu
Office:Brooks 343 Phone: (508) 793-2390
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Ara A. Francis

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Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Fields: micro sociology; deviance and social disruption; death and dying; families; qualitative methods
Email:afrancis@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 211 Phone: (508) 793-2487
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Eduardo Gonzalez

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Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: global liberation theologies, Catholicisms of the Global South, contemporary systematic theology, decolonial thought
Email: egonzalez@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 423  Phone: 508-793-3815

 

Karen Guth

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Associate Professor, Religious Studies
Ph.D. University of Virginia
Fields: Social Ethics
Email:kguth@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 430
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Sarah Ihmoud

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Assistant Professor, Sociology and Anthropology 
Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Fields: Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism, Violence, Militarization, Occupation, Intimacy, Borderlands, Palestine, Diaspora, Transnational Black, Indigenous and Decolonial Feminisms
Email: sihmoud@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 227  Phone: 508-793-2409

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Marat Iliyasov

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Fields: History of the Russo-Chechen interaction -Post-Soviet conflicts, Religious radicalization and governance of religions in Russia, Post-conflict developments in the former Soviet Union, Chechnya
Email: miliyasov@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 327 Phone: 508-793-3994

 

Inaash Islam

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Assistant Professor, Sociology
Ph.D., Virginia Tech
Fields: intersections of race, anti-Muslim racism, gender, religion, identity, and digital media, post-9/11 implications of anti-Muslim racism, Islamic feminism, and anti-Black racism in the lives of Muslim women and Black Muslims in America
Email: iislam@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 202

Carmen Alvaro Jarrin

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Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Duke University
Fields: medical anthropology; science and technology studies; race, class and gender inequality in Latin America; queer theory; social justice; environmental activism
Email:ajarrin@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 216 Phone: (508) 793-2774
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Jayati Lal

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Visiting Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Cornell University
Fields: gender, global capitalism, neoliberalism, labor, transnational feminism, social reproduction, ethnography, global South, post/decolonial theory and epistemologies, India.
Email: jlal@holycross.edu 
Office Phone: 508-793-3622   Office: Beaven 213   PO Box: 50A

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Vickie Langohr   

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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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Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

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Assistant Professor 
Ph.D., New York University
Fields: Hebrew Bible, Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Emailmleonard@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 431 Phone: 508-793-3435
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Ann Marie Leshkowich

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Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: social anthropology, gender, economic transformation, neoliberalism, middle classness, fashion, social work, and transnational adoption in Vietnam
Email:aleshkow@holycross.edu 
Office: Beaven 230  Phone: (508) 793-2788
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Yu-Jung Lin

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Assistant Professor, Chinese Studies
Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Fields: Phonology and phonetics (syllable structure, tones, rhythm), Psycholinguistics (the influence of orthography on sound processing), Second language acquisition
(tense and lax vowel distinction by L1 and L2 learners, diphthong production and perception by L1 and L2 learners)
Email: yjlin@holycross.edu
Office: Stein Hall 427    

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Shawn Lisa Maurer

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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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Michelle Mott

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Visiting Assistant, Sociology
Ph.D.,  University of Texas at Austin
Fields: Race, Racism, and Anti-racism; Gender; Sexuality; Reproduction of inequality; Gentrification and School Choice
Email: mmott@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 221A

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Joseph Nelson

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Visiting Assistant Professor, Music
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: 17th and 18th -Century Music, Sound Studies, Opera, Popular Music, Philosophy
Email: jnelson@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 457  Phone: 508-793-2294  

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Ke Ren

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Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Fields: late imperial and modern Chinese history, Cultural and intellectual history, Sino-Western exchanges, cosmopolitanism, and transnational movements
Email: kren@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 369  Phone: (508) 793-2764

 

Paige Reynolds

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Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: Modern and Contemporary Irish Literature; Irish Studies; 20th Century British and American Literature and Culture; Modern Drama and Performance.
Email: preynold@holycross.edu  
Office: Fenwick 228   Phone: 508-793-2695
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Sanjog Rupakheti

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Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Email:srupakhe@holycross.edu 
Office: O’Kane 391     Phone: 508-793- 3496
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Özge Savaș

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Assistant Professor, Psychology
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Decolonial feminist psychology; Intersectionality; Politics; Migration;Globalization
Email: osavas@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven Hall Rm 331  Phone: 508-793-3375

 

Susan Elizabeth Sweeney

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Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction (American and European); Literary Revisions of Popular Narrative Genres (Folktale, Detective Story, Gothic Romance); 19th Century American Literature, esp. Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson; 20th Century Comparative Literature, esp. Nabokov
Email: ssweeney@holycross.edu  
Office: Fenwick 220  Phone: 508-793-2690
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Jessica Waldoff

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Professor, Director of Academics, Graduate Studies Advisor, Study Abroad Advisor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Fields: 18th-and 19th-Century Music History, Mozart, Opera, Song
Email: jwaldoff@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 456 Phone: (508) 793-2298

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Stephanie Yuhl

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W. Arthur Garrity, Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and Society
Faculty Associate, Critical Conservation Program, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Ph.D., Duke University
Fields: Twentieth-century United States history, Gender and Sexuality history, Public history and memory, Social movements, Southern history
Email:syuhl@holycross.edu 
Office: O'Kane 368    Phone: 508-793-2783
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