Faculty & Staff

Contemporary Challenges

Jorge Santos

Cluster Director
Associate Professor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
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:  O'Kane 460   Phone: 508-793-3460
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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

 

Hayley Stefan

Lecturer, Montserrat Program
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  Phone: 508-793-3331
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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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Schuyler Wheldan

Visiting Assistant Professor, Music 
Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Fields: Ethnomusicology, Latin American Music, Global Popular Music, Music and Politics
Email: swhelden@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 460   Phone: 508-793-2297
 

 

 

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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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

 

 

Julie Camarda

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
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Kyle R. Woolley

Director of Mission Initiatives
Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago
Email: kwoolley@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane Hall 154  Phone: 508-793-2568
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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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Isabelle Jenkins,'10

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

 

 

Matthew B. Koss

Professor, Physics
Ph.D., Tufts University
Fields: Experimental condensed matter and materials physics — dendritic growth; kinetics and morphology of solidification; experimentation in "microgravity".
Email: mkoss@holycross.edu
Office: Haberlin 014A  Phone: (508) 793-2406
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Amanda Luyster

Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Medieval and cross-cultural art history
Email: aluyster@holycross.edu  
Office:  Fenwick 439   Phone:  508-793-2782
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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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Virginia Ryan

Visiting Lecturer, Montserrat
Ph.D., Boston College
Email: vryan@holycross.edu
 

 

 

 

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  Phone: (508) 793-2244
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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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Giusy Di Filippo

Assistant Professor, Italian Studies
Email: gdifilip@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 453   Phone: 508-793-3438

 

 

 

Diana Dukhanova

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

  

 

Bridget Franco

Professor, Spanish
Ph.D. University of California - Irvine
Fields:  Latin American Film Studies, Digital Humanities, Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, Uruguay) Literature and Memory Studies, Engaged Pedagogy in the Spanish-language Curriculum
Email: bfranco@holycross.edu 
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Katherine Lu Hsu

Assistant Professor, Classics
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Greek literature, mythology, violence and heroism, reception, migration in ancient myth
Email: kluhsu@holycross.edu
Office:  Fenwick 426   Phone:  508-793-3959  
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Yu-Jung Lin

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 426     
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Morgan Rocks

Visiting Assistant Professor, History
Email: mrocks@holycross.edu

 

 

Alberto Castillo Ventura

Visiting Assistant Professor, Spanish
Ph.D. Harvard University
Fields: Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Modernism and Politics in Central America and Mexico, Critical Theory, Central American Studies, Migration and U.S.-Latin America Relations.
Email: acastill@holycross.edu   
Office: Stein 402

 

Natural World

Madigan Haley

Cluster Director

Associate Professor, English
Ph.D. University of Virginia 
Fields: 20th- and 21st-Century British Literature; Comparative World Literatures; Transnational Modernism; History and Theory of the Novel; Postcolonial and Global Studies
Email: mhaley@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 223   Phone: 508-793-2523
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Stephanie Crofts

Assistant Professor, Biology
Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
Fields: Biomechanics, Functional Morphology, Comparative Anatomy
Email: scrofts@holycross.edu
Office: O'Neil 315  Phone: (508) 793-2594
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Jacob Damm

Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics
Email: jdamm@holycross.edu

 

 

 

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

 

 

Catherine Roberts

Faculty Associate, Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University, A.B., Bowdoin College
Fields:  Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Modeling
Email: croberts@holycross.edu 

 

 

 

Christopher Staysniak

Lecturer, Montserrat Program 
Visiting Assistant Professor, History
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  Phone: 508-793-3451

 

 

Self

Denise Schaeffer

Cluster Director

Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Fordham University
Fields: History of political philosophy; philosophy and literature; feminist theory
Email: dschaeff@holycross.edu 
Office: Fenwick 307  Phone: 508-793-3403
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Morris Collins