History at College of the Holy Cross

24 faculty and 35 courses in History at College of the Holy Cross.

Faculty

• James Powers, Professor Emeritus h-index 38
  Notable: “A HIF1α Regulatory Loop Links Hypoxia and Mitochondrial Signals in Pheochromocytomas” (2005) · 436 citations
• William A. Green, Professor Emeritus h-index 15
  Notable: “Slaves and Missionaries: The Disintegration of Jamaican Slave Society” (1983) · 415 citations
• Thomas W. Worcester, S.J., Professor Emeritus h-index 11
  Notable: “‘The Slightest Suspicion of Avarice’: The Finances of the English Jesuit Mission” (1988) · 15 citations
• Lorraine Attreed, Professor Emeritus h-index 8
  Notable: “Growing up in Medieval London: The Experience of Childhood in History” (1995) · 168 citations
• Mark Lincicome, Associate Professor Emeritus h-index 7
  Notable: “Japanese Education Reform: Nakasone's Legacy” (2002) · 71 citations
• Theresa McBride, Professor Emerita h-index 6
  Notable: “Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, .” (1997) · 109 citations
• James Flynn, Professor Emeritus h-index 6
  Notable: “Moocs: Disruptive Innovation and the Future of Higher Education” (2013) · 62 citations
• Karen Gottschang Turner, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emerita h-index 5
  Notable: “War, Punishment, and The Law of Nature in Early Chinese Concepts of The State” (1993) · 33 citations
• Rosa Carrasquillo, Helen M. Whall Chair in Social Justice, Director of LALC Studies h-index 5
  Caribbean and Latin American History; Visual Culture; Black Feminism Education Ph.D., University of Connecticut Website Biography Rosa Elena Carrasquillo is the Inaugural Helen M. Whall Chair in Social Justice and professor of Caribbean and
  Notable: “Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America” (2005) · 10 citations
• Kate Bush, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 4
  Premodern Europe, Mediterranean; women and gender; hagiography and religious culture; the Reformations Education Ph.D., The Catholic University of America College of the Holy Cross Social
  Notable: “Higher Prevalence of Retinopathy in Diabetic Patients of South Asian Ethnicity Compared With White Europeans in the Community” (2008) · 144 citations
• Sahar Bazzaz, Professor h-index 4
  Middle Eastern; North African; Islam; Imperial Encounters; History of Science Education Ph.D., Harvard University CV
  Notable: “Reading reform beyond the state: Salwat al-Anfas, Islamic revival and Moroccan national history” (2008) · 12 citations
• Stephanie Yuhl, W. Arthur Garrity Sr. Professor in Human Nature Ethics and Society h-index 3
  Notable: “A Golden Haze of Memory: The Making of Historic Charleston” (2006) · 49 citations
• Mary Conley, Associate Professor h-index 2
  Modern Britain and Empire; Ireland and India; Imperialism and post-colonialism; History of gender, family and childhood; Maritime history Education Ph.D., Boston College College of the Holy Cross Social
  Notable: “You Don't Make a Torpedo Gunner Out of a Drunkard:' Agnes Weston, Temperance, and the British Navy” (1999) · 2 citations
• Cynthia Hooper, Associate Professor, Russian and Eastern European Studies Program Advisor h-index 1
  Russian and Soviet history; comparative dictatorship; culture and politics in 20th century Europe Biography She has served as a Fellow at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center and as a Fellow of the Davis Center at Harvard. She
  Notable: “Bosses in Captivity?: On the Limitations of Gulag Memoir” (2013) · 1 citations
• Christopher Conz, Visiting Assistant Professor
  Africa, southern Africa, environmental history, health, disease, development, agriculture, migration Education Ph.D., Boston University CV Website Social
• CJ Martin, Visiting Assistant Professor
• Daniele Palmer, Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow
• David J. O'Brien, Professor Emeritus, Loyola Professor of Roman Catholic Studies
• Hannah Abrahamson, Assistant Professor
  Early modern Latin America, Indigenous History, Atlantic World, Colonialism, Gender, Sexuality, Digital Humanities Education Ph.D., Emory University Biography Hannah R. Abrahamson is assistant professor of Latin American History at College
• Joanna Linzer, Assistant Professor
  Environmental history; History of science and technology; Japanese history Education Ph.D., Yale University Select Publications “Upstream, Downstream: Iron Mining in Early Modern Japan and the Uneven Spread of Environmental Protection
• John B. Anderson, Associate Professor Emeritus
• Michael West, Associate Professor
• Munya Munochiveyi, Associate Professor, Department Chair
  African Social & Economic History; Theory & Methodology in History; Development Studies Education Ph.D., University of Minnesota Publications “War Vet Nation?”: Beyond ‘Guerrilla Nationalism and the Search for Other Nationalis
• Ross Beales Jr., Professor Emeritus

Courses

• Themes HIST 101
• The Rise of the Christian West to A.D. 1000 HIST 111
• Emerging Europe HIST 112
• Renaissance to Napoleon HIST 113
• Napoleon to the European Union HIST 114
• The Global Environment: Past and Present HIST 119
• Food, Power, & Environment HIST 122
• Colonial Latin America HIST 126
• Modern Latin America HIST 127
• Spirit Worlds: Early America HIST 134
• American Slavery, American Freedom HIST 137
• World War II in East Asia HIST 155
• East Asia History in Print and Visual Culture HIST 192
• African Colonial Lives HIST 196
• Early Africa to 1800 HIST 197
• Modern Africa Since 1800 HIST 198
• Jesuits in the World HIST 199-F01
• History of Global Slavery HIST 199-F14
• The Historian's Craft HIST 200
• America in the Age of Revolutions HIST 202
• Slavery, Industry, Empire 1815-60 HIST 203
• Civil War and Reconstruction HIST 204
• United States in the 20th Century 1 HIST 205
• US in 20th Century II 1945-Present HIST 206
• Hist of Capitalism: US & World HIST 212
• The Civil Rights Movement HIST 225
• Medieval Lives HIST 232
• Renaissance Europe HIST 236
• French Rebels & Revolutionaries HIST 241
• Medicine, Health, and Empire HIST 244
• Imperial Russia/East & West HIST 245
• Soviet Experiment HIST 253
• Eur: Mass Polit/Tot War HIST 255
• Germany: Dictatorship/Democracy HIST 262
• Modern China HIST 282

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.