Holy Cross Announces New Tenure-Track Faculty Hires

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Office of the Dean at the College of the Holy Cross announces the hiring of 12 new faculty members in tenure-track positions this academic year. They are:

David C. Art (assistant professor, political science), earned his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. from Yale University. His teaching interests include comparative politics, international relations, political economy, and globalization. The recipient of several academic fellowships, Art spent a year studying Russian and Eastern European history at Oxford University as Yale's Henry Fellow.

Alison L. Bryant (assistant professor, psychology), earned her Ph. D. and M.A. from the University of Michigan and her B.A. from Colgate University. Interested in adolescent development, socialization in urban and rural environments, achievement motivation and school misbehavior, and adolescent substance use, she is co-author of The Decline of Substance Use in Young Adulthood (2002). Previously, she taught in the College of Education at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Ricardo Dobles (assistant professor, education), earned his Ed.D. and M.Ed. at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and his B.A. from Columbia College. Co-author of Learning as a Political Act: Struggling to Learn and Learning to Struggle (Harvard Educational Publishing Group, 1999), he has taught at Trinity College, Harvard University and Salem State College. Previously, he taught literature, creative writing and expository writing at the high school level.

Daniel P. Klinghard (assistant professor, political science), earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and his B.A. from Rhodes College. Specializing in American government, the presidency, congress, political parties, and campaigns and elections, he has taught at Brandeis, Clark University, and most recently, The College of Charleston.

Steven Levandosky (assistant professor, mathematics and computer science), earned his Ph.D. from Brown University and his A.B. from Holy Cross. Interested in partial differential equations and dynamical systems, he has taught at Stanford University, where he received the Harold M. Bacon Memorial Teaching Award, the University of Texas at Austin, and Brown University, where he was named an honorable mention for the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Victor A. Matheson (assistant professor, economics), earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and his B.A. from St. Olaf College. The author of numerous articles and book chapters, he has expertise in sports economics, public finance, the economics of lotteries and gambling, and natural resource economics. Matheson has taught at Williams College, Lake Forest College, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Gwenn A. Miller (instructor, history), earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University and her B.A. from Bowdoin College. The author of Contact and Conquest in Colonial North America (2002), she specializes in North American colonial and early republican history, and the Russian colonization of Alaska. Miller was an instructor and teaching assistant at Duke University; prior to that she taught history at the high school level.

Jonathan D. Mulrooney (assistant professor, English), earned his Ph.D. from Boston University, his M.A. from the University of Toronto, and his B.A. from Boston College. His teaching interests include British Romantic literature, Romantic-period theater and public culture, 19th-century British and American literature, poetry, film, and theatrical performance. Previously, he taught courses in literature and English composition at Boston University.

Karen A. Ober (assistant professor, biology), earned her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, and her B.S. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Specializing in ecology, evolution, and entomology, she has conducted field research in Malaysia, Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Panama, as well as in many sites throughout the United States. Ober is the recipient of numerous research grants and fellowships, and is the author of several articles in scientific journals.

Stephen A. Shapiro (assistant professor, modern languages and literatures, French), earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from New York University and his B.A. from Yale University. He has served as a visiting assistant professor of French at Holy Cross since 2002. Prior to that, he taught at New York University in France and Université de Paris V. In addition to serving as a regular reviewer for French Review, Shapiro also works as a translator for a variety of production companies.

Cathrine A. Southern (assistant professor, chemistry), earned her Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Chicago and her B.S. from the University of Notre Dame. She previously taught chemistry and biochemistry at Amherst College and chemistry and physical chemistry at the University of Chicago. Her scholarly articles appear in the Journal of Physical Chemistry and Polymer.

Karen Teitel (assistant professor, economics), earned her Ph.D. and B.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her M.S. from Bentley College. Her teaching interests include external financial reporting by business enterprises, preparation of financial statements and disclosures, and financial reporting policy and regulation. Prior to joining the Holy Cross faculty, she was an assistant professor at the University of Connecticut School of Business and a senior auditor at Arthur Andersen & Co., L.L.P.