Five faculty members at the College of the Holy Cross have been promoted to the rank of full professor. These promotions will be in effect for the 2011-12 academic year.
Miles B. Cahill, of the economics department, earned his B.S. from Binghamton University and both his M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University. He joined the Holy Cross faculty in 1995, and received tenure in 2001. He is the Associate Health Professions Advisor and serves on the Health Professions Advising/Premedical and Predental Committee. In addition, Cahill has served as a judicial advisor on the Community Standards Board, a program instructor in the Summer Business Program, and a faculty advisor to the Best Buddies program. He has been published in numerous journals including The Antitrust Bulletin, American Economist and the Journal of Economic Education. Cahill has been the recipient of two Batchelor (Ford) Summer Faculty Fellowships. His research interests include macroeconomics and monetary, labor, international, and development economics. He resides in Hopkinton.
Katherine A. Kiel, of the economics department, earned her A.B. from Occidental College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1998, she received tenure in 2001. She currently serves as the co-chair of the Presidential Task Force on the Environment, Board of Trustees’ Committee on Finance, the Environmental Studies Committee, and is director of the Economics Department Honors Program. She also participates in the department’s Summer Research Program. Off campus she serves on the Scientific Committee 5-1 of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements, and is on the board of directors of the New England Public Policy Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the New England Economic Partnership. She is the recipient of the College of the Holy Cross Center for Teaching Faculty Development Grant, a Hewlitt-Mellon Grant and several multi-year grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has been published in numerous journals including Land Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, and the Journal of Urban Economics. Her current research focuses on the impact of pollution on housing prices. She resides in Newton.
Kolleen J. Rask, of the economics department, earned her B.A. from Williams College, and her Ph.D. from Yale University. A member of the Holy Cross faculty since 1989, she currently serves as the chair of the economics department, the chair of the Economics and Accounting Department Hiring Committees, the chair of the Economics Major Application Committee, the chair of the New Faculty Development Committee, and the chair of the Committee on Tenure and Promotion Procedures. Rask has been published in numerous scholarly outlets including in The Asymmetries of Globalization, Comparative Economic Studies, and The Economics of Transition. She is the recipient of two Hewlitt-Mellon Grants and has served as Faculty Marshal several times. Her research and teaching interests include transition economics, economic development, international trade, and the history of economic thought. She resides in Southborough.
Andrew M. Futterman, of the psychology department, earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology and aging and development from Washington University. After completing post-doctoral fellowships in clinical pharmacology and geriatrics at Stanford University Medical School, Futterman joined the Holy Cross faculty in 1990. He received tenure in 1996. He has served as the College’s Health Professions Advisor and chair of the Health Professions Advisory Committee since 1996, as the College’s 3-2 Engineering Combined Plan Advisor, on the Committee on Tenure and Promotion, and on the Committee on Faculty Affairs. His research interests focus on the diagnosis and treatment of psychopathology in later life, on the assessment of grief and depression, and on interventions for reducing the burden of caregiving for those with Alzheimer’s disease. Futterman has received grants from the National Institute on Aging to study religious belief and behavior and the response to stress in later life. He has been published in many scholarly journals on aging, psychology, and medicine including the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Psychology and Aging, Annals of Internal Medicine, Psychological Assessment, and the Journals of Gerontology. Futterman is a resident of Worcester.
Ward Thomas, of the political science department, earned his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, a J.D. and an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Holy Cross faculty in 1997, and received tenure in 2004. He currently serves the as chair of the political science department, and as faculty moderator of the Hanify-Howland Memorial Lecture Committee. He is the author of The Ethics of Destruction: Norms and Force in International Relations (Cornell University Press, 2001) and a forthcoming book titled Nonstate Actor Violence and Normative Change in International Relations. His articles have appeared in International Security, Security Studies, Armed Forces & Society, The Journal of Religious Ethics, The SAIS Review of International Studies, Sciences Humaines (Paris), The Boston Globe, and other publications. His teaching and research interests include international security and strategic studies, international relations theory, U.S. foreign policy, international law and institutions, and ethics and international relations. He is the recipient of the Arthur J. O’Leary Faculty Recognition Award (2006) and a Holy Cross Faculty Fellowship (2008). He lives in West Boylston.
