Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Sahar Bazzaz

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Professor, Chair Department of History
Ph.D., Harvard ÌýUniversity
Fields:ÌýMiddle Eastern; North African; Islam; Imperial Encounters; History of Science
Email:Ìýsbazzaz@holycross.eduÌý
Office: O'Kane 373ÌýPhone: (508) 793-2781
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Hannah Abrahamson

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D.,ÌýPh.D., Emory University
Fields:Ìýearly modern Latin America, Indigenous History, Atlantic World, Colonialism, Gender, Sexuality, Digital Humanities
Email:Ìýhabraham@holycross.edu
Office: Okane 363
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Lorraine C. Attreed

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Professor
Ph.D., Harvard ÌýUniversity
Fields: Medieval Europe, medieval England, diplomacy and law, Renaissance, medieval biography, film and history
Email:lattreed@holycross.eduÌý
Office: O'Kane 389ÌýPhone: (508) 793-2358

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Arman Azimi

Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY
Fields: Middle East, Medicine, Social Movements
Email:Ìýaazimi@holycross.eduÌý
Office:Ìý O'Kane 358Ìý ÌýPhone: (508) 793-3966

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Kate Bush

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Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D., The Catholic University of America
Fields: premodern Europe, Mediterranean; women and gender; hagiography and religious culture; the Reformations.
Email:Ìýkbush@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 385

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Rosa E. Carrasquillo

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ProfessorÌý
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields:ÌýLatin America; Afro-Caribbean History; Gender History; History of Latino/as in the United States
Email: rcarrasq@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 358ÌýPhone: (508) 793-3450
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Noel D. Cary

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ProfessorÌý
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Fields:ÌýModern Germany; Europe, especially since 1945; History of science
Email: ncary@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 357ÌýPhone: (508) 793-2705
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Mary A. Conley

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Modern Britain and Empire; Ireland and India; Imperialism and post-colonialism; History of gender, family and childhood; Maritime history
Email:mconley@holycross.eduÌý
Office: O'Kane 372ÌýPhone: (508) 793-2493

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Cynthia V. Hooper

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Associate ProfessorÌý
Ph.D., Princeton University
Fields:ÌýRussian and Soviet history; comparative dictatorship; culture and politics in 20th century Europe
Email: chooper@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 383ÌýPhone: (508) 793-3447
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Joanna Linzer

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Fields: Environmental history; History of science and technology; Japanese history
Email:Ìýjlinzer@holycross.edu
Office: 508-793-3454

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Gwenn A. Miller

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Associate ProfessorÌý
Advisor, Department of History Honors
Ph.D., Duke University
Fields:ÌýColonial and Revolutionary EraÌýAmerica, Native America, Comparative Empire and the Global Connections of Early America
Email: gmiller@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 385ÌýPhone: (508) 793-3449
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Munya Bryn Munochiveyi

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Associate ProfessorÌý
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: African Social & Economic History; Theory & Methodology in History; Development Studies
Email:Ìýmmunochi@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 387Ìý Phone:Ìý508-793-3654
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Edward T. O'Donnell

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields:ÌýNineteenth-century U.S. urban; ethnic; and political history; Irish American experience; Public history
Email: eodonnell@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 361ÌýPhone: (508) 793-3730
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Justin D. Poché

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields:ÌýCatholicism in the U. S. United States History, 1865-Present; American Religious History;
Latin American History; U.S. Latino/a History
Email: jpoche@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 390Phone: (508) 793-3448
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Kristofer Ray

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Associate Visiting Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Fields: Indigenous North America, 15th-19th Centuries; Native Trans-Appalachia; Transnational Indigeneity
Email: kray@holycross.edu

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Ke Ren

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Fields:Ìýlate imperial and modern Chinese history, Cultural and intellectual history, Sino-Western exchanges, cosmopolitanism, and transnational movements
Email: kren@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 369 Phone: (508) 793-2764

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Morgan Rocks

Visiting Assistant Professor
Email:Ìýmrocks@holycross.edu

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Sanjog Rupakheti

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Associate Professor
Ph.D.,ÌýRutgers University
Fields:ÌýGlobal/International; South Asia; Caste; Colonialism; Gender; Kingship; Law; Modernity; Nationalism
Email:srupakhe@holycross.eduÌý
Office:ÌýO’Kane 391ÌýÌý PO Box:Ìý165 AÌý ÌýPhone:Ìý508-793- 3496
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Liat Spiro

Assistant Professor
Alexander F. Carson Faculty Fellow in the History of the United States
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Nineteenth-century U.S. history, history of capitalism, history of technology, imperialism and international political economy, and modern German history
Email:Ìýlnspiro@holycross.edu
Office:ÌýO'Kane 369Ìý ÌýPhone:Ìý508-793-2784Ìý
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Christopher Staysniak

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Lecturer
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: U.S. environmental history; American food and food systems; American religion; American social and protest movement
Email:cstaysni@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 384Ìý ÌýPOBox: MONTÌý Phone: 508-793-3451

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Michael R. West

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields:ÌýAfrican American history; African American intellectual history;
U.S. Civil Rights movement; US radicalism
Email:Ìýmwest@holycross.eduÌý Ìý
Office:ÌýO'Kane 364ÌýPO Box:Ìý24AÌýPhone:Ìý508-793-2750

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Stephanie E. Yuhl

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Professor of History
W. Arthur Garrity, Sr. Professor in Human Nature, Ethics and SocietyÌý
Faculty Associate, Critical Conservation Program, Harvard University Graduate School of DesignÌý(2016-2022)Ìý
Ph.D., Duke University
Fields:ÌýTwentieth-century United States history, Gender and Sexuality history, Public history and memory, Social movements, Southern history
Email:syuhl@holycross.edu Ìý
Office:ÌýO'KaneÌý368ÌýPO Box:Ìý95AÌýPhone:Ìý508-793-2783

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Staff

Yolanda Youtsey

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Administrative Assistant
Email:yyoutsey@holycross.edu
Office:ÌýO'Kane 383ÌýPO Box:Ìý61AÌýPhone:Ìý508-793-2465

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Faculty Emeriti

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John B. Anderson

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Associate Professor Emeritus
M.A., Notre Dame
Fields:Ìý19th and 20th century Unites States; American political
Email:Ìýjbanders@holycross.edu Ìý

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Ross W. Beales, Jr.

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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Fields:ÌýColonial America; American Revolution; Family history; Historical editing
Email:rbeales@holycross.edu Ìý
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James T. Flynn

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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Clark University
Fields:ÌýImperial Russia; Poland; 18th and 19th century
Email:Ìýjflynn@holycross.edu Ìý
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William A. Green

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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields:ÌýBritish Empire; Modern Europe; Historiography
Email: wgreen@holycross.eduÌýÌý
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Mark E. Lincicome

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Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields:ÌýEarly modern and modern Japanese history and culture; Japanese intellectual history;
educational reform movements and the politics of education in modern Japan; globalization in Asia
Email: mlincico@holycross.eduÌýÌý

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Theresa M. McBride

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Professor Emerita, History
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Fields:ÌýModern French history; Women's history; Modern Italian history; Environmental history
Email: tmcbride@holycross.edu
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David J. O'Brien

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Professor Emeritus, Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies
Ph.D., Rochester University
Fields:ÌýRoman Catholic Studies
Email: dobrien@holycross.edu Ìý
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James F. Powers

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Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Fields:ÌýMedieval Europe; Spain; Medieval urban; Medieval military
Email: jpowers@holycross.eduÌýÌý

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Karen L. Turner

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Professor, Emerita
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields:ÌýComparative law; Chinese legal history; Vietnamese history;
Women and war; Law and human rights in Asia; Comparative empires
Email:Ìýkturner@holycross.edu
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Thomas W. Worcester S.J.

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Professor, Emeritus
Ph.D., Cambridge
Fields:ÌýEarly modern Europe; the Reformation; religion and politics in seventeenth-century France
Email: tworcest@holycross.edu Ìý

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