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.

Susan Amatangelo, of the modern languages and literatures department, earned a Ph.D. in Italian literature from Harvard University. While at Holy Cross, she has served on the Academic Affairs Council and as a study abroad liaison for students studying in Florence. She founded the Holy Cross chapter of Gamma Kappa Alpha, the Italian honor society, in 1998, and has served as both president and vice president of the Holy Cross chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. Amatangelo is the author of the forthcoming Figuring Women: A Thematic Study of Giovanni Verga’s Female Characters (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press). She is a resident of Worcester.

Shawn Lisa Maurer, of the English department, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2000, she is the director of the English Honors Program and an active participant in the Women’s and Gender Studies Concentration. Last fall, she received a Holy Cross Research and Publication Award. Maurer is the author of Proposing Men: Dialectics of Gender and Class in the Eighteenth-Century English Periodical (Stanford University Press) and has edited Elizabeth Inchbald’s 1796 novel Nature and Art for Broadview Press. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Mass. with her husband and their two children.

Edward T. O’Donnell, of the history department, earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2001, he serves on the Community Standards Board and the Academic Affairs Council. The author of three books, including the forthcoming Talisman of a Lost Hope: Henry George and Gilded Age America (New York: Columbia University Press), O’Donnell also writes a column called the “Hibernian Chronicle” in the Irish Echo. A 1986 Holy Cross graduate, O’Donnell lives in Holden, Mass. with his wife Stephanie, and their four daughters, Erin, Kelly, Michelle and Katherine.

Ellen Perry, of the classics department, earned a Ph.D. in classical art and archaeology from the University of Michigan. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1997, she has served on the Academic Affairs Council and the Curricular Goals Committee. She is the author of the forthcoming The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press.) Perry is a resident of Auburn, Mass.

Catherine A. Roberts, of the mathematics and computer science department, earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 2001, she serves on the Curricular Goals Committee and on the Committee on Academic Standing. Roberts has received several research grants, including three from the National Science Foundation (NSF). She was recently appointed editor of Natural Resource Modeling, an interdisciplinary journal published by the Rocky Mountain Mathematics Consortium and the Resource Modeling Association. Roberts lives in Jefferson, Mass., with her husband, a professor at WPI, and their two sons.

John A. Schmalzbauer, of the sociology and anthropology department, earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1998, he serves on numerous College committees, including the Winter Convocation Planning Committee, the Honorary Degree/Commencement Speaker Committee and the Faculty Catholic Studies Reading Group Committee. He is the author of People of Faith: Religious Conviction in American Journalism and Higher Education (Cornell University Press, 2003) a book based on interviews with 40 high profile Catholics and evangelicals in journalism and academic social sciences, including Cokie Roberts, Fred Barnes, and Peter Steinfels.

Ward J. Thomas, of the political science department, earned a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1997, he has served on a number of College committees including the Student Life Council, the Athletic Council and the Faculty Affairs Committee. He is the author of The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and Force in International Relations (Cornell University Press, 2001). Since Sept. 11, he has appeared on several panels and roundtables addressing the U.S. response to terrorism, and his essays have appeared in The Boston Globe and Holy Cross Magazine. Thomas lives in West Boylston, Mass. with his wife, Kari, and their two sons, Jack and Patrick.