Faculty Tenure Decisions Announced at Holy Cross

WORCESTER, Mass. – This spring, seven members of the Holy Cross faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure. They are:

Micheal Beatty of the visual arts department earned his M.F.A. in sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Mass. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1997, he has served on the Cantor Art Gallery Committee, the Academic Affairs Committee and the Educational Technology Advisory Group. He has exhibited his sculpture and drawings throughout New England and recently completed a commission for the new Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston. He currently resides in Newton, Mass.

LawrenceE. Cahoone of the philosophy department earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of The Dilemma of Modernity: Philosophy, Culture and Anticulture , The Ends of Philosophy: Pragmatism, Foundationalism, and Postmodernism and Civil Society: The Conservative Meaning of Liberal Practices, and the editor of From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2000, he has served as a member of the Peace and Conflict Studies Advisory Committee and on the College Curriculum Committee. Cahoone lives in Wrentham, Mass. with his wife, Elizabeth Baeten, a philosopher at Emerson College, their two children and his mother.

Mark C. Hallahan of the psychology department earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He was an assistant professor at Clemson University and a lecturer at Harvard before joining the Holy Cross faculty in 1999. A member of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology and the American Psychological Society, Hallahan serves as a reviewer for several professional journals, including the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and the Journal of Applied Social Psychology. He is a resident of Holden, Mass.

Suzanne R. Kirschner, associate professor in the psychology department, earned her Ed.D. from Harvard University. She is the author of The religious and romantic origins of psychoanalysis: Individuation and integration in post-Freudian theory (Cambridge University Press, 1996) as well as numerous articles and book chapters. In 2001, Kirschner received the Distinguished Service Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, she has served on the Pre-medical and Pre-dental Advisory Committees and on the Academic Affairs Council. She currently resides in Cambridge, Mass.

Rev. James J. Miracky, S.J., of the English department earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1977 and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1988. His specialty areas include 19th and 20th century British novel, history and theory of the novel, gender studies, and modern and contemporary drama. His book, Regenerating the Novel: Gender and Genre in Woolf, Forster, Sinclair, and Lawrence (Routledge Press) will be out this spring. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1996, he has served on the Academic Affairs Council and on the Alumni Association's Board of Directors. He is a resident of Worcester, Mass.

Rev. William E. Stempsey, S.J., of the philosophy department received his M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. He was a resident in pathology in Boston before joining the Jesuits in 1982. After ordination to the priesthood, he studied the philosophy and ethics of medicine at Georgetown University, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1996. A member of the Holy Cross faculty for the past six years, he has expertise in the concepts of health and disease, and ethical issues in death and dying, organ transplantation, and medical education. He is the author of Disease and Diagnosis: Value-Dependent Realism. Fr. Stempsey serves on several ethics committees in Worcester, and also regularly celebrates liturgies on campus and in a local parish. He is a resident of Worcester, Mass.

Michael R. West of the history department earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University. The 2001 recipient of the Hewlett-Mellon Presidential Discretionary Fund Grant, his research interests include African American history, African American intellectual history, the U.S. Civil Rights movement, and U.S. radicalism. West joined the Holy Cross faculty in 1997. He is presently serving on the Academic Affairs Committee, the Afro-American Studies Program Committee, and as faculty advisory to the Black Student Union. His book on Booker T. Washington and the ideological origins of the civil rights movement is to be published by Columbia University Press. West is a resident of Cambridge, Mass.