Holy Cross Announces New Appointments

WORCESTER, Mass. – The Office of the Dean at the College of the Holy Cross has made the following appointments:

Nancy Baldiga, associate professor of economics, has been appointed Dean of the Class of 2013. She joined the faculty in 1991 as a degree holder from Williams College and Bentley College. She became a licensed CPA in 1983 and earned a Master's Degree in Taxation in 1992. Before Holy Cross, she worked as an audit manager with Price Waterhouse in Boston and taught at Bentley College. Baldiga served for six years as chair of the economics department and for various terms on the Committee on Tenure and Promotion, the Finance and Planning Council, the Committee on Faculty Affairs, the Committee on the Economic Status of the Faculty and the Academic Affairs Committee. Last year she received the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants’ Outstanding Accounting Educator Award.

Isabel Alvarez Borland, professor of modern languages and literatures, has been selected to hold the Monsignor Edward G. Murray Professorship in the Arts and Humanities for three years, beginning on July 1, 2009. A twenty-seven year member of the Holy Cross faculty, Alvarez Borland earned her B.A. at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania, her master’s at Middlebury College, and her Ph.D. at Penn State University. She has written two critically acclaimed books and co-edited two anthologies, and she has served in several capacities for professional societies in her field. Alvarez Borland has also served terms on the Committees on Tenure and Promotion, Fellowships, Research and Publication, and Professional Standards. She has also coordinated the Spanish section of the department and directed the Latin American and Latino Studies Concentration.

Thomas Cecil, professor of mathematics and computer science, will hold the Anthony and Renee Marlon Professorship for a three-year term, effective July 1, 2009. A Holy Cross graduate (’68), Cecil received his Ph.D. at Brown University and briefly taught at Vassar College before returning to his alma mater in 1978. He has nearly twenty years of uninterrupted external funding, and the research supported by these grants has resulted in four books and a lengthy article in the Annals of Mathematics, the leading journal for mathematicians worldwide. Cecil has served as department chair and on every major committee and council that the College has created.