Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Caroline E. Johnson Hodge

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Professor,ÌýDepartment Chair
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields: New Testament, Paul, women in early Christianity, kinship and ethnicity, domestic religious practicesÌý
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Office: Smith 429ÌýPhone: 508-793-3405
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Alan J. Avery Peck

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Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic StudiesÌýÌý
Ph.D., Brown University
Fields:ÌýJudaic studies, history and literature of early Rabbinic Judaism, Hebrew language
Email: aavery@holycross.eduÌý
Office: Smith 405ÌýPhone: 508-793-3411

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William A. Clark, S.J.

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Associate Professor
S.T.D., Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Fields: ecclesiology (authority in the Church, Theology of parish, local community); practical and contextual theology; Christian prayer
Email: wclark@holycross.eduÌýÌý
Office: Smith 433ÌýPhone: 508-793-2717
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Caner K. Dagli

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., Princeton University
Fields: Islamic studies
Email: cdagli@holycross.eduÌý
Office: Smith 435ÌýPhone: 508-793-2384
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ÌýGary P. DeAngelis

Lecturer
Ph.D., Boston University / Harvard University
Email:Ìýgdeangel@holycross.edu

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Mary M. Doyle Roche

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Professor
Director, Vocare Advising and Mentoring
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Catholic moral theology and social teaching, Christian ethics, virtue ethics, bioethics, feminist ethicsÌý
Email: mroche@holycross.eduÌýÌý
Phone: 508-793-2585
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Matthew T. Eggemeier

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On Leave Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: modern and contemporary Christian theologies; political and liberation theologies; postmodern theology
Email:Ìýmeggemei@holycross.eduÌý
Office: Smith 432 Phone: 508-793-3948
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Peter J. Fritz

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Edward Bennett Williams Fellow, Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields:ÌýCatholic systematic theology (especially the theology of Karl Rahner, SJ), modern Christian history, theological aesthetics, theology and visual art, critical responses to neoliberal capitalism
Email: pfritz@holycross.eduÌýÌý
Office: Smith 434ÌýPhone: 508-793-3501
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John F. Gavin, S.J.

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Associate Professor
S.T.D., Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, Rome, Italy
Fields:ÌýCatholic theology, patristics
Email:Ìýjgavin@holycross.eduÌýÌý
Office:ÌýSmith 421Ìý ÌýÌýPhone:Ìý508-793-3446
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EduardoÌýGonzález

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields:Ìýglobal liberation theologies, Catholicisms of the Global South, contemporary systematic theology, decolonial thought
Email:Ìýegonzalez@holycross.edu
Office:ÌýSmith 423Ìý Phone:Ìý508-793-3815


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Karen V. Guth

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Associate Professor
Ph.D.,ÌýUniversity of Virginia
Fields: Christian social ethics, public and political theologies, feminist ethics and theologies
Email:Ìýkguth@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 430ÌýPhone: 508-793-3359
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Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

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Associate ProfessorÌý
Ph.D., New York University
Fields: Hebrew Bible, Ancient Middle East Studies
Email: mleonard@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 431ÌýPhone: 508-793-3435
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Todd Lewis

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Professor
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields:ÌýBuddhism, Hinduism, East Asian religions, anthropology of religions, modernization, ecology and religionÌý
Email:Ìýtlewis@holycross.eduÌýÌý
Office:ÌýSmith 425Ìý Ìý ÌýPhone:ÌýÌý 508-793-3436
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Tat siong Benny Liew

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Class of 1956 Professor in New Testament Studies
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: synoptic gospels, gospel of John, cultural and racial interpretations and receptions of the Bible, apocalypticism, Asian American history and literature
Email:Ìýtliew@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 422Ìý ÌýPhone:ÌýÌý508-793-3846
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Jacques Linder

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Visiting Instructor
Ph.D., Villanova University
Fields: Political Theology, Nuclear Humanities, Theories of Violence and Peace, Social Movement Organizing, Catholic Social Teaching
Email: jlinder@holycross.eduÌý
Office: O'Kane 454Ìý

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Fr. Bryan Lobo, S.J.

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International Visiting Jesuit Fellow
Fields: theology of religions, theological aspects of Christian proclamation and mission that consider the unique insights of Christian theology in a religious and culturally pluralistic world
Email: blobo@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 410

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Peter Nguyen, S.J.

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Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
S.T.D., Regis College, University of Toronto
Fields: Systematic Theology with a focus on 20th Century Christian Martyrdom as it intersects with Totalitarian Movements
Email: penguyen1@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 436 ÌýPhone: 508-793-2796
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William E. Reiser, S.J.

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On Leave Fall 2024 - Spring 2025
Professor
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: New Testament Theology, Christology, Christian Spirituality, Systematic Theology
Email:Ìýwreiser@holycross.eduÌýÌý
Office: Smith 401 Phone: 508-793-3412

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Chanelle Robinson

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AssistantÌýProfessor
Ph.D., Boston College
Fields: Black Feminist and Womanist theology; African diasporic religions; Ecotheology; Theological anthropology; Decolonial studies
Office: Smith 437Ìý Phone: 508-793-3549
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Audrey Seah

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Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields: Liturgical studies, global Catholicism, Deaf and disability theology
Email:Ìýaseah@holycross.edu
Office:ÌýSmith 424ÌýÌýPhone:Ìý508-793-3087

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Mathew N. Schmalz

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ProfessorÌý
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields:Ìýglobal Catholicisms, Hinduism, Catholic esotericism, modern religious movementsÌý
Email:Ìýmschmalz@holycross.eduÌýÌý
Office:ÌýÌýSmith 404ÌýÌýÌý ÌýÌýPhone:Ìý508-793-2557
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Nathan D. Wood-House

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Ph.D.ÌýInstitution: Boston College
Fields of study: Black liberation theology, political theology, critical race studies, Blackness studies, critical theory, political philosophy
Phone number in office:Ìý508-793-3567
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Staff

Katherine Barrett

Academic Administrative Coordinator
Departments of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Email:Ìýkbbarret@holycross.edu
Office: Smith Hall 403Ìý ÌýPhone: 508-793-3404Ìý
PO Box: 42AÌý

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Faculty Emeriti

Mary E. Hobgood

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Associate Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Temple University
Fields:ÌýChristian social ethics, Catholic social teaching, economic ethics, feminist ethicsÌý
Email:Ìýmhobgood@holycross.edu

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Alice L. Laffey

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In Memoriam | December 1, 1944 - July 30, 2023
Associate ProfessorÌýEmerita
S.S.D., Pontifical Biblical Institute of Rome
Fields:ÌýHebrew scriptures/ Old Testament, feminist Hermeneutics, ecology and the BibleÌý

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James B. Nickoloff

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Associate Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Fields:ÌýTheology of Liberation
Email:Ìýjnickolo@holycross.edu

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Joanne M. Pierce

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Professor, Emerita
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
Fields:Ìýliturgical studies, medieval Christianity, ritual studies, ecumenical theology, theology and speculative/science fictionÌý
Email: jpierce@holycross.eduÌýÌý
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