Faculty Tenure Decisions Announced at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – Seven faculty members at Holy Cross have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure.

Nancy E. Andrews of the classics department earned a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, and both a master's and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, Andrews has served on the Committee on Faculty Affairs and has served as president of the College's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She is the recipient of the Harvard-Danforth Award for Distinction in Teaching. Andrews is author of "Philosophical Satire in Callimachus' Aetia Prologue," Hellinistica Groningana III (1998). She is a resident of Worcester.

Bertram D. Ashe of the English department earned a bachelor's degree from San Jose State University, a master's from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a Ph.D. from the College of William and Mary. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, Ashe has served in the College's Odyssey program for the past three years, and has served as director of the African-American Studies Program since 1999. A past Holy Cross Summer Research Fellow, Ashe is author of the forthcoming "From Within the Frame: Storytelling in African-American Fiction" (New York: Routledge). Ashe resides in Worcester.

Francisco Gago-Jover of the Spanish department received a bachelor's degree from the University of Valladolid in Spain, and both a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A member of the Holy Cross community since 1996, Gago-Jover has served as both a Judicial and Faculty Advisor. He has received two Hewlett-Mellon grants to develop course materials at Holy Cross. He is author of "Arte de bien morir y Breve confesionario," (1999), and editor of the Dictionary of the Old Spanish Language. Gago-Jover resides in Worcester.

Lee Oser of the English department earned a bachelor's degree from Reed College, and both a master's and Ph.D. from Yale University. A member of the Holy Cross community since 1998, Oser is one of the College's Edward Bennett Williams Fellows. He has served on the Committee on Faculty Affairs and is a member of the Philosophy Reading Group. He is currently working on two book projects with the help of a Ford Foundation Grant. Oser is author of "T.S. Elliot and American Poetry," (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998). He is a resident of Worcester.

Denise Schaeffer of the political science department earned a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College, and both a master's and Ph.D. from Fordham University. A member of the Holy Cross community since 1995, Schaeffer is an active member in the Women's Studies Committee. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers. Outside of Holy Cross, Schaeffer has served as chair of the American Political Science Association in the Politics and Literature Division. She is author of the forthcoming article, "The Utility of Ink: Rousseau and Robinson Crusoe," (The Review of Politics). Schaeffer is a resident of Natick.

Edward John Soares of the mathematics department earned a bachelor's degree from Providence College, and both a master's and Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He has been a member of the Holy Cross community since 1996, and has acted on the Committee on Faculty Affairs and the Sub-Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty. Soares also serves as assistant professor of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is co-author of "Noise characterization of block-iterative reconstruction algorithms: I. Theory." Soares is a resident of Worcester.

Madeline Vargas of the biology department earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. Vargas has been a member of the Holy Cross community since 1995, and serves on the Academic Affairs Council. She is currently the Biochemistry Concentration Coordinator. Vargas is the recipient of numerous awards, including one from the American Society of Cell Biology. She is the author of "Liposome-mediated DNA uptake and transient expression in Thermotoga." Vargas currently resides Worcester.