Three Women Join the Faculty at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts

The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, has 10 new tenure-track faculty on campus this fall. Three of the 10 new hires are women.

Monica Carney is a new assistant professor of economics. Her research is focused on labor economics. She spent two years in South Africa as a volunteer for the Peace Corps. Dr. Carney is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she majored in economics and public policy. She holds a master of public administration degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Aditi Malik was hired as an assistant professor of political science at the College of the Holy Cross. A native of New Delhi, India, some of Dr. Malik’s research focuses on political violence in Kenya and India. She is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she majored in government and economics. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge in England and a Ph.D. in political science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Melissa Schoenberger was appointed an assistant professor of English. For the past two years, she has been a visiting assistant professor of English at the college. She is an expert in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British poetry. Dr. Schoenberger is a graduate of the University of Rochester in New York, where she majored in English, Spanish, and Latin. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in English from Boston University.