CES Affiliated Faculty

European Studies 2008-09 Faculty List

Agricultural & Life Sciences

Prof. Emeritus Richard C. Bishop | Email
Environmental and resource economics with emphasis on valuation, renewable resource management, and sustainability

Prof. Dan Bromley | Email
Economics of natural resources and the environment, institutional foundations of the economy, property rights

Prof. Thomas Cox | Email
Interregional analysis of domestic and international dairy policy; world dairy trade issues; marketing and production economics; nonparametric and econometric methods; analysis of demand, efficiency, and technical change

Associate Prof. Mark Rickenbach | Email
Forest and natural resources.

Anthropology

Prof. Emeritus T. Douglas Price | Email
Archaeology, European prehistory, archaeological chemistry, hunter-gatherers, origins of agriculture

Art History

Prof. Barbara Buenger | Email
Twentieth-century European art, modern German art, feminism and art history

Prof. Nicholas Cahill | Email
Ancient Art, Greek and Roman

Associate Prof. Jill Casid | Email
Visual Culture, early modern to contemporary, Europe and the Americas; Colonial Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Theory;Media and Technology Studies; Gender Studies and Queer Theory

Prof. and Department Chairperson Thomas Dale | Email
Early Christian, Medieval and Byzantine art; Romanesque art (representations of the body); San Marco in Venice; the cult of the saints

Senior Lecturer Dan Fuller | Email
History of Photography

Prof. Gail Geiger | Email
Italian Renaissance and Baroque art

Prof. Jane C. Hutchison | Email
Dutch, Flemish and German painting and graphic arts, 1350-1700; history of graphic arts, with emphasis on Durer, Rembrandt

Associate Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall | Email
Nineteenth-century French Art, Victorian Britain

Prof. Narciso Menocal | Email
18th, 19th and 20th century European Architecture

Business

Prof. Mark Browne| | Email
Asymmetric information, Employee benefits, Government insurance programs, International insurance, Social security, Tort reform

Prof. Randall Dunham| | Email
Distance education, Global issues, Organizational behavior

Prof. Stephen Malpezzi| | Email
Economic development, Economics of regulation, Housing and urban economics, Real estate, Urban economics

Prof. Urban Wemmerlov| | Email
Cellular manufacturing, Change, initiating and implementing, Cross-functional management, Implementation, Just-in-time systems, Manufacturing information systems, Manufacturing management

Prof. John Wild| | Email
Corporate governance, Earnings quality, Financial accounting, Financial reporting, International accounting, International business, Managerial accounting and control

Classics

Associate Prof. William Aylward | Email
Greek and Roman Archaeology; Roman Provincial Studies, History of Architecture

Assistant Prof. Jeffrey Beneker | Email
Ancient Biography & Historiography ; Republican and Augustan Literature and Civilization

Prof. and Department Chairperson Laura McClure | Email
Greek Literature, Ancient Gender Studies, Classical Tradition

Prof. James McKeown | Email
Latin Literature, especially Ovid

Prof. Silvia Montiglio | Email
Greek Literature, Cultural Studies

Prof. Carole Newlands | Email
Latin Literature, Medieval Studies, Comparative Literature

Prof. Emeritus Barry Powell | Email
Mythology, Greek Literature, particularly Homer

Prof. Patricia Rosenmeyer | Email
Archaic Greek Literature, Hellenistic Greek Literature, Literary Theory

Communication Arts

Associate Prof. Kelley Conway | Email
French film of all eras, gender studies, music and film, and the intersections between film and other forms of popular culture

Comparative Literature

Prof. Mary Layoun | Email
Nationalism and gender, narrative, politics and culture, feminisms, international trade regimes and intellectual property

Associate Prof. Christopher Livanos | Email
Byzantine literature, allegory, medieval European poetry, Renaissance humanism, epic, individualism and community, literature and religion, heroes and monsters

Prof. Prospero Saiz (retired)
Literary theory and criticism; literature and philosophy; poetry; aesthetics; late medieval literature; genre theory

Associate Prof. and Department Chairperson Max Statkiewicz | Email
Classics, history of ancient philosophy, theory of literature, Continental philosophy

Curriculum & Instruction

Prof. Marianne Bloch | Email
International Education (Africa, Russia, Eastern Europe, Sweden); Culture, Curriculum and Learning; Gender and Education; Early and Elementary Education; Family- School-Community Relationships

Prof. Thomas Popkewitz | Email
Political Sociology of Curriculum, Educational Reform & Change, Teacher Education, Educational Research and Comparative Education

Associate Prof. Simone Schweber | Email
Jewish Studies, Social Studies, Religious Education, Moral Education, History Education

Prof. François Tochon | Email
World language education, French Education, International Studies in Curriculum, Pedagogy & Teacher Education

Economics

Prof. Menzie Chinn | Email
Empirical and policy aspects of macroeconomic interactions between countries; the euro as reserve currency; determinants of the trade deficit; how government debt and fiscal policy affect interest rates, and the interaction between capital controls and financial development.

Prof. Charles Engel | Email
International Economics, Macroeconomics, local-currency pricing and exchange-rate pass-through; empirical exchange rate models

Prof. James Walker | Email
Sweden's welfare state, labor supply, fertility patterns

Prof. Barbara Wolfe | Email
Health economics, public economics

Educational Policy Studies

Prof. Emeritus Andreas Kazamias | Email
Comparative education, cross-national studies of educational problems

Associate Prof. Adam Nelson | Email
History of education in the U.S. and Europe; European-American intellectual exchanges during the first half of the nineteenth century

Assistant Prof. Mark Johnson | Email
Global and comparative history of education, education in Russia and Central Asia, and American international education policy

Prof. William Reese | Email
History of education in Europe and America

Engineering Professional Development

Prof. Patrick Eagan | Email
Industrial environmental engineering, industrial ecology, remediation, design for environment, stormwater, environmental engineering, water quality engineering and regulation, restoration of water resources, environmental management systems

English

Prof. Emily Auerbach | Email
British and American women writers; 19th-century English novel; Jane Austen; Emily Dickinson; Music and Literature

Prof. Richard Begam | Email
Twentieth-century British, Irish and Anglophone literature; modernism and modernity; literary theory and aesthetics, philosophy and literature; Beckett and Joyce

Prof. Emeritus Todd Bender | Email
19th Century British Literature, Victorian poetry, 19th-century novel, Gerald Manley Hopkins and Joseph Conrad

Prof. Michael Bernard-Donals | Email
Rhetorical Theory; Critical Theory, History and Memory

Prof. Susan Bernstein | Email
19th and early 20th-century British literature, cultural studies, feminist theory and women's studies, contemporary autobiography

Associate Prof. Karen Britland | Email
Early modern drama, women’s writing, Shakespeare, literature and politics in early modern England and France

Assistant Prof. Lisa Cooper | Email
Medieval literature, especially twelfth-to-fifteenth-century English and French romance; medieval material culture (especially the intertwined history of labor, technology, and commerce)

Prof. Heather Dubrow | Email
Renaissance (early modern) literature, especially lyric poetry and Shakespeare; genre; narrative and lyric theory; gender

Prof. and Director of the Institute for Research in Humanities Susan Stanford Friedman | Email
Twentieth-Century British, American, post-colonial literature, modernism, women's writing, feminist theory and criticism, global/transnational/border studies, film, anthropology, and geography

Associate Prof. and Director of the Center for the Humanities Sara Guyer | Email
British and Continental Romanticism, Post-Holocaust Literatures, and Critical Theory.

Prof. Theresa Kelley | Email
Literary genre, Romanticism, Romantic women writers, literary theory

Prof. Emeritus Richard Knowles | Email
Shakespeare, textual bibliography, Renaissance iconography

Prof. Caroline Levine | Email
Nineteenth-century literature and culture, critical and cultural theory, aesthetics

Prof. David Loewenstein | Email
Literature, religion, and politics in early modern England, Milton and his contemporaries, historicisms new and old; early modern women writers

Prof. Anne McClintock | Email
Victorian British literature and culture, gender studies and theories of sexuality, colonial and postcolonial literature and culture, Irish literature and culture

Prof. John Niles | Email
Old and Middle English Language and Literature, especially Beowulf; comparative medieval literature (English, Old Norse, Celtic, Old French), comparative folklore and mythology; theory of oral literature

Assistant Prof. Mario Ortiz-Robles | Email
19th century compative literature, literary theory, the novel

Prof. Cyrena Pondrom | Email
Modern British and American literature, esp. poetry and poetics, the avant garde, the role of women in the rise of modernism, and contemporary feminist poetry in the United Kingdom. Emphasis on Moore, Eliot, Pound, Stein, Sitwell, Richardson, and Woolf

Prof. Emerita Sherry Reames | Email
Chaucer and his contemporaries, saints' legends, Middle English language, medieval liturgy and church history, medieval drama, women in medieval and Renaissance society

Assistant Prof. Anja Wanner | Email
Theory of grammar, English syntax and morphology, lexical semantics, text analysis, genres of academic discourse, and language change

Prof. Howard Weinbrot | Email
18th-century British literature, satire, novel, poetry, Johnson, Pope, Anglo-French relations, classical contexts

Prof. Michael Witmore| Email
Shakespeare, renaissance drama, early modern intellectual history, rhetoric, theories of narrative and interpretation, the history of materialism

Environment, Textiles & Design

Prof. Emerita Virginia Boyd | Email
20th century architectural design, history of European interiors

Prof. Joy Dohr | Email
Creativity--creative thinking and production--, design development--seeing, planning, and conceptualizing design principles and elements in forms and spaces, and color

Prof. Wei Dong | Email
Design visualization which refers to the use of both manual and digital media to visualize buildings and their associated interior and exterior spaces; integration of digital media into the environmental design process

Prof. Beverly Gordon | Email
Design history, women's self-expression in a domestic context, consumer and textile history

European Studies

ESA Executive Director Elizabeth Covington | Email

Finance

Prof. Antonio Mello | Email
Asset pricing, Corporate finance, International finance, Privatization, Valuation theory

French

Associate Prof. Thomas Armbrecht | Email
20th century prose fiction, theater as literature and in performance, Queer Studies

Prof. Emeritus William Berg | Email
The 19th-century French novel, Emile Zola, literature and painting

Prof. and Dean of International Studies Gilles Bousquet | Email
19th century French literature and 19th and 20th century French society and culture, in particular social and intellectual life since the sixties, French for business

Prof. Keith Busby | Email
Old French language and literature, manuscript studies

Prof. Emerita Janet H. Caulkins | Email
Medieval French Literature; French Civilization and Culture, French for Business; French women writers from the Middle Ages to the present, contemporary French-Swiss women writers

Prof. Martine Debaisieux | Email
Late 16th and 17th century French literature and intellectual history (with particular emphasis on the Baroque period and women writers)

Prof. Richard Goodkin | Email
Comparative literature, Proust

Faculty Associate Nelly Halzen | Email
Phonetics; The use of technology in teaching French as a second language; 19th and 20th century French Society and Culture

Prof. Ullrich Langer | Email
Early modern French and Italian literature and intellectual history

Prof. Sally Sieloff Magnan | Email
French linguistics, particularly second-language acuiqistion theories and methodology of foreign language teaching

Distinguished Lecturer Laurey Martin-Berg | Email
19th century novel, literature and the visual arts, second language acquisition and foreign language teaching methodology

Senior Lecturer Eva Miernowska | Email
20th-century French Literature, second language acquisition

Prof. Jan Miernowski | Email
French literature of the 16th century; poetics and philosophy in the Renaissance

Assistant Prof. Nevine El-Nossery | Email
North African and French Candadian literatures, metafictional historiography, migrant writing and exile, women's autobiography, Middle Eastern literature and culture.

Halverson-Bascom Prof. Aliko Songolo | Email
French and African languages and literature; Francophone literatures; cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and North America; cultural studies; Francophone and African cinema

Prof. François Tochon | Email
French language education, language teaching and methods, applied semiotics, video-based research

Associate Prof. Florence Vatan

Associate Prof. and Department Chairperson Anne Vila | Email
18th century French novel and theater; the body in literature and medicine; Enlightenment philosophy (sensualism, materialism, libertinism, anthropology); the Encyclopédie; the figure of the homme/femme de lettres from Fontenelle to Balzac

Prof. Steven Winspur | Email
Modern French poetry; theories of narrative, rhetorical theories of the lyric Back to Top

French House

Director Andrew Irving | Email

Geography

Prof. and Department Chairperson Robert Kaiser | Email
Political Geography, Ethnic Geography, Population Geography, Eurasian (Soviet, post-Soviet and East European) Studies.

Prof. Kris Olds | Email
Geographical organization of power in relation to contemporary socio-economic and spatial transformations

Prof. Robert Ostergren | Email
Historical geography, Europe, North America, American immigration and ethnicity, conservation

German and Dutch

Prof. Hans Adler | Email
German literature from the 18th - 20th century; aesthetics; functions of literary and artistic discourses; history of rationality and reason; interrelationship between philosophy and literature

Professor Emeritus Klaus Berghahn | Email
German literature and culture since the 18th century, history of criticism, history of utopian thinking, history of German-Jewish relations, anti-Semitism

Associate Prof. Salvatore Calomino | Email
Medieval German literature, Middle High German language, heroic and courtly epic, paleography, hagiography

Prof. Monika Chavez | Email
Foreign language production, the acquisition of German as a first, second, and foreign language

Prof. Sabine Groß | Email
Literary theory, narratology, stylistics, reading research, image/text relations, contemporary German-language authors, theater and film

Prof. Emeritus Jost Hermand | Email
German literature and culture since 1750, with special emphasis on democratic traditions, German-Jewish relations, fascism, and Germany after 1945, as well as on schools of criticism and a comparative arts approach to German culture

Prof. Rob Howell | Email
Explanatory models of linguistic change, explanatory models of linguistic change, ranging from early Germanic phonology to sociolinguistic factors influencing the development of Early Modern Dutch and German

Prof. Charles James | Email
Language testing, primarily placement and proficiency testing, teaching and learning methodology

Prof. Nancy Kaiser | Email
Feminist literary and cultural studies, German literature and aesthetics around 1800, and questions of gender in emancipatory discourses

Prof. and Academic Program Director Cora Lee Kluge | Email
Eighteenth century literature and culture, German-American studies, history of German studies in America

Prof. Mark Louden | Email
Syntactic theory, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic factors in language contact and syntactic change, synchrony and diachrony of languages strongly affected by contact, including Yiddish, Pennsylvania German, and pidgins and creoles

Distinguished Lecturer Carla Love | Email
Teaching language and literature to undergraduates

Associate Prof. B. Venkat Mani | Email
20th century German literature, especially literature written by authors of non-German heritages, feminist literature, gay and lesbian literature

Senior Lecturer Sara Markham | Email
19th and 20th century literature, culture, and history in German-language and comparative contexts

Associate Prof. Sabine Mödersheim | Email
Early Modern literature and culture, emblematics, rhetoric

Prof. Joseph Salmons | Email
Theories of phonology, language change and morphology using data from historical and contemporary Germanic languages, including German dialects in America

Prof. and Department Chairperson Marc Silberman | Email
German cinema, Bertolt Brecht, 20th century, culture, literary historiography

Prof. James Steakley | Email
20th-century German and Dutch gay history

Associate Prof. Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor | Email
Dutch and German literature and culture, Dutch (anti-) colonial writing, Dutch- and German-Jewish literature, and exile writings

Hebrew & Semitic Studies

Max and Frieda Weinstein-Bascom Prof. Rachel Feldhay Brenner | Email
Women writers and the Holocaust

History

Prof. Laird Boswell | Email
Modern French history (1800-present), 20th-century European social and political history, rural history, European Socialism, history of voting behavior

Prof. Charles Cohen | Email
Colonial British America, Early American Religious History, Native Peoples of the Eastern Woodlands, 1500-1800

Prof. Emeritus William Courtenay | Email
Medieval European intellectual and religious history

Prof. Suzanne Desan | Email
Early modern French cultural history, particularly the French Revolution

Prof. Emeritus Laurence Dickey
European intellectual, social, and political theory (esp. Germany & Britain). Current Research: The "Protestant Ethic" and the theories of "Civil Society."

Prof. Emeritus James Donnelly | Email
Modern Britain, 1688-present; modern Ireland since 1750, popular religion in Europe

Prof. Colleen Dunlavy | Email
History of American political economy; comparative industrialization; history of American technology; American business history, historiography, impact of politics, broadly construed, on the process of industrial change

Assistant Prof. John W. Hall | Email
Native American and Early American history, military history

Associate Prof. Francine Hirsch | Email
Russian and Soviet history, Modern European history, comparative empires

Prof. Marc Kleijwegt | Email
Community and society in the Roman Empire, childhood and youth, slavery

Prof. Rudy Koshar | Email
Modern German social and cultural history; modern European social history; national memory and monuments in Germany and modern Europe; the history of tourism and commercial culture in modern Europe

Prof. Maureen Mazzaoui | Email
Medieval Europe, Italy, economic and social history in Renaissance Italy, history of technology to 1600

Prof. and Department Chairperson David McDonald | Email
The History of Imperial Russia (1649-1917); social, intellectual, political and diplomatic

Prof. Emeritus Stanley Payne | Email
Modern Europe

Assistant Prof. Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen | Email
U.S. intellectual and cultural history, history of philosophy, and the transatlantic flow of intellectual and cultural movements

Prof. William Reese | Email
History of education in Europe and America

Prof. Mary Louise Roberts | Email
Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe, particularly in France. Women and gender, particularly the problem of gender and change, "eccentric" women throughout Europe and America as well as France

Associate Prof. Karl Shoemaker | Email
Medieval Legal History, including the English common law, medieval Roman and canon law; the barbarian codes, and late-imperial Roman law; history of criminal law and punishment

Prof. Johann Sommerville | Email
English Political, Social and Intellectual History in the periods from the later Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century

Prof. David Sorkin | Email
European Jewish history in the 17th through 20th centuries, German Jewry in the 18th and 19th centuries, European religion in the 18th century

Prof. and EUCE Director Jeremi Suri | Email
Cultural & Diplomatic, America since 1789, history of American foreign relations since the eighteenth century, global upheavals of the 1960s, Great Power relations since 1815

Prof. Lee Palmer Wandel | Email
Reformation, Early modern European culture and religion

Prof. and WAGE Director Jonathan Zeitlin | Email
Modern European industrial history, encompassing labor history, business history, history of technology, economic history, and history of economic and social policy

History of Science

Associate Prof. and Department Chairperson Thomas Broman | Email
Science and medicine in the Enlightenment, the role of science in the public sphere, 18th-century German intellectual and cultural history

Associate Prof. Florence Hsia | Email
Early modern European science; Jesuit science; science and European expansion (esp. into East Asia)

Associate Prof. Richard Keller | Email
European and colonial medicine and public health, history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, science and race

Prof. and Academic Program Director Gregg Mitman | Email
History of ecology; environment and health, 20th century life sciences; science in America; science and film

Prof. Lynn Nyhart | Email
History of biology, especially natural history, genetics, and evolution, and marine biology; biology and society; feminist approaches to science, technology, and gender

Associate Prof. Eric Schatzberg | Email
History of technology, technology and culture, science and technology in the postwar era

Prof. Michael Shank | Email
Broad interests in the physical sciences and their analogues and contexts before 1700. Primary research interests focus on late medieval natural philosophy and astronomy, with special attention to the Viennese tradition and Johannes Regiomontanus

Associate Prof. Richard Staley | Email
History of physics in Europe and America, 19th and 20th centuries

Human Ecology

Prof. Lydia Zepeda | Email
Sustainable consumption and production, farm family labor, food labeling, and qualitative and quantitative methods

International Business

Senior Lecturer Emeritus Rod Matthews | Email
International business, real estate law Back to Top

Italian

Prof. Stefania Buccini | Email
Early modern Italian literature with special focus on autobiography, travel accounts, theater, Baroque poetry and prose, philantropy and human rights at the age of the Enlightenment

Prof. Thomas Cravens | Email
Italian Linguistics and Romance Linguistics

Prof. Emeritus Christopher Kleinhenz | Email
Medieval Italian literature, art and literature in the Middle Ages, philology and textual criticism, Italian language and culture

Prof. Ernesto Livorni | Email
Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature; Italian Romanticism in the European context; Avant- garde literature and the visual arts; Hermeticist Poetry; Neo-Realism; literature and religion; hermeneutics

Associate Prof. Grazia Menechella | Email
19th- and 20th-century Italian literature, theories of irony and parody, women writers, cultural studies

Assistant Prof. Kristin Phillips Court | Email
Italian Renaissance literature and culture

Prof. Patrick Rumble | Email
Cinema and 20th-century literature, especially recent Italian filmmakers, the cinema of the fascist period, theories of ideology, reception, filmic adaptation

Assistant Prof. Jelena Todorovic | Email

Life Sciences Communication

Associate Prof. and Director of Undergraduate Studies Dominique Brossard | Email
Mass media and public opinion, media effects, strategic communication, science communication, health communication

John E. Ross Prof. and Director of Graduate Studies Dietram Scheufele | Email
Public opinion and public opinion polling, public attitudes toward science and technology, political communication, internet and democracy.

La Follette School of Public Affairs

Assistant Prof. Mark Copelovitch | Email
International Political Economy, Global Financial Governance, Exchange Rates and Monetary Institutions, the effects of Global Captial Flows on National Economic Policies, and Theories of International Cooperation.

Assistant Prof. Isao Kamata | Email
International trade and macroeconomics, development economics, and applied microeconomics

Prof. Barbara Wolfe | Email
Health economics, public economics

Landscape Architecture

Prof. Emeritus Arnold Alanen | Email
Landscape history and cultural resource preservation

Languages and Cultures of Asia

Prof. Sarah Atis | Email
Turkish Literature and Folklore; Travel Writing; Women's Studies, Turkish Oral Narrative and Poetry; The Romance Tales of Turkish Minstrels; Social Science and Social Realism in Turkey 1932-1992

Law

Prof. and Associate Dean Heinz Klug | Email
Constitutional transitions, constitution-building, human rights, international legal regimes and natural resources

Prof. Emeritus David Trubek | Email
Civil Procedure, Jurisprudence, Law and Social Science, Legal Profession

Clinical Prof. Emerita Louise Trubek | Email
Health Law, Lawyering in the Public Interest, and Post-Regulatory Law and Lawyering

Assistant Prof. Jason Yackee | Email
International Law, International Institutions and International Politics; International Trade and Investment Law and Policy, International Business Transactions, Administrative Law and Regulation

Management and Human Resources

Prof. Mason Carpenter | Email
Corporate governance, Global firms, Strategy, Venture development

Assistant Prof. Phillip Kim | Email
Entrepreneurial team and social network configurations, Political economy of entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship in highly regulated industries

Prof. Anne Miner | Email
Entrepreneurship, Gender issues, Industry learning, Inter-organizational relationships, New product development, Strategic marketing management, Technological change Back to Top

Marketing

Prof. Jan Heide | Email
Channels of distribution, Inter-organizational relationship, Strategic decisions, Vertical market restrictions

Medical History and Bioethics

Associate Prof. Richard Keller | Email
European and colonial medicine and public health, history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, science and race

Assistant Prof. Walter O. Schalick III | Email
History of medieval medicine and pharmacology, and the history of children with disabilities in 19th- and 20th-century US and Europe

Memorial Library

European Humanities Bibliographer John Dillon | Email

Western European History and Social Sciences Librarian Julianne Haahr| Email

Bibliographer/Humanities-English Emerita Yvonne Schofer | Email

Music

Prof. Leslie Blasius | Email
Music theory, historical musicology , 18th-century theories of the origin of music

Prof. and Associate Dean Susan Cook | Email
Musicology, contemporary and American music of all kinds, German Opera

Prof. David Crook | Email
Musicology

Prof. Charles Dill | Email
History of opera and the Classical period

Prof. Lawrence Earp | Email
Late medieval music and its reception, history of Western music

Prof. Tyrone Greive | Email
Violin; violin in Poland and Polish violin repertoire

Prof. Brian Hyer | Email
Construction (and reconstruction) of historical modes of cognition for music of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, music of Bach, Rameau, Mozart, Schubert, and Wagner

Professor and Director, Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Pamela Potter | Email
Music and culture in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany and the impact of German immigration on American music and scholarship

Prof. Jeanne Swack | Email
Music of the German baroque, especially J. S. Bach and Georg Philip Telemann, as well as antisemitism in musical texts

Philosophy

Prof. Harry Brighouse | Email
Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Education Policy (US and UK)

Prof. Claudia Card | Email
Ethics (Kant, character, virtues & vices, evil); social & political philosophy (justice; crime & punishment); Holocaust and genocide studies; feminist philosophy; environmental philosophy; lesbian culture

Prof. Paula Gottlieb | Email
Ancient Greek Philosophy and Ethics

Prof. Lester Hunt | Email
Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law

Prof. and Department Chairperson Steven Nadler | Email
History of early modern philosophy and Jewish philosophy

Prof. Lawrence Shapiro | Email
Evolutionary psychology, the psychology of perception, embodied cognition, and artificial intelligence, multiple realizability

Prof. Ivan Soll | Email
Continental European Philosophy, Aesthetics, Literary Theory, Philosophical Foundations of Psychology, Philosophy of Education

Political Science

Assistant Prof. Richard Avramenko | Email
Ancient and continental political thought

Associate Prof. Scott Gehlbach | Email
Formal theory and the political economy of postsocialist states

Prof. Jon Pevehouse | Email
International relations theory, international security, foreign policy, international political economy, and political methodology

Prof. Emeritus Patrick Riley | Email
Poltical Philosophy

Assistant Prof. Nils Ringe | Email
European Union politics (in particular the institutions of the European Union), political parties, legislatures, and elections

Population Health Sciences

Prof. Barbara Wolfe | Email
Health economics, public economics Back to Top

Professional French Masters Program

Executive Director Ritt Deitz | Email

Scandinavian Studies

Assistant Prof. Julie Allen | Email
Danish and German literature, concentrating on Dano-German interserctions, 19th and 20th century Danish literature and cultural studies

Prof. and Academic Program Director, CES Director Susan Brantly | Email
Scandinavian languages and literature

Prof. Thomas DuBois | Email
Folklore and Folklife, Finnish, Estonian, and Sami Languages and Literature

Senior Lecturer Peggy Hager | Email
Second language acquisition, pedagogy, CALL (computer assisted language learning), issues in reading and writing and 20th century Norwegian prose

Prof. James Leary | Email
Folklore of the Upper Midwest's diverse peoples, with particular emphases on musical and narrative performances, on pluralism and creolization, and on public folklore

Senior Lecturer Scott Mellor | Email
Scandinavian Medieval Studies

Senior Lecturer Agnete Schmidt | Email
Women's Literature and poetry, in the U.S., England, and Scandinavia

Associate Prof. Tanya Thresher | Email
Contemporary Scandinavian drama and performance art, feminist/gender theory, Scandinavian film, and postmodern literature

Prof. and Department Chairperson Kirsten Wolf | Email
Old Norse Studies

Slavic Languages and Literature

Associate Prof. Karen Evans-Romaine | Email
Boris Pasternak, intertextuality in Russian Modernism, interrelationship of music and literature, German-Russian literary relations, European Modernism and Romanticism; foreign language pedagogy

Prof. and Department Chairperson Tomislav Longinovic | Email
South Slavic literatures and cultures; Serbo-Croatian language; literary theory; Central and East European literary history; comparative Slavic studies; translation studies; cultural studies

Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Prof. John Scarborough |Email
Greek and Roman medicine and pharmacy

Sociology

Associate Prof. Ivan Ermakoff | Email
Class Analysis and Historical Change, Historical (comparative) Sociology, Organizational and Occupational Analysis, Political Sociology

Prof. Joan Fujimura | Email
Sociology of Science and Technology, Sociology of Medicine, Qualitative Methods, Theory, Gender, Sociology of Culture, Sociology of Work and Organizations

Prof. Markus Gangl | Email
Sociology of Unemployment, Women's Careers, Income Mobility, Aging, Demography, Economic Sociology

Associate Prof. Chad Goldberg | Email
Historical (comparative) Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements and Collective Action, Sociology of Culture

Prof. and CGES Director Myra Marx Ferree | Email
Class Analysis and Historical Change, Family, Gender, Historical (comparative) Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements and Collective Action, Social Psychology

Professor Emeritus Elizabeth Thomson | Email
Family structure, parenting and child well-being, European fertility and family change

Prof. Erik Olin Wright | Email
Class Analysis and Historical Change, Economic Sociology, Gender, Political Sociology, Theory

Prof. Jonathan Zeitlin | Email
Modern European industrial history, encompassing labor history, business history, history of technology, economic history, and history of economic and social policy

Spanish and Portuguese

Senior Lecturer Mercedes Alcalá-Galán | Email
Early Modern Spanish literature, especially poetics, literary theory, gender studies and cultural studies with regard to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain

Prof. Alda Blanco | Email
Contemporary Spanish literature and culture, gender and cultural production

Assistant Prof. Pablo Ancos Garcia | Email
Medieval Spanish Literature with emphasis on 13th-century cuaderna via poetry

Associate Prof. Kata Beilin | Email
Contemporary Spanish narrative and film, Romanticism in Europe

Prof. and LACIS Program Director Ksenija Bilbija | Email
Contemporary Spanish American writing, cultural studies (including post-traumatic memory), and gender criticism.

Associate Prof. Glen S. Close | Email
20th-century Spanish-American narrative and transatlantic dynamics

Prof. and Department Chairperson Ivy Corfis | Email
Medieval Spanish literature, especially 15th-century prose romances and Celestina

Faculty Associate William Cudlipp | Email
Seventeenth Century Spanish poetry

Associate Prof. Juan Egea | Email
Contemporary Peninsular poetry and film

Assistant Faculty Associate Veronica Egon | Email
Second language acquisition, foreign language pedagogy and methodology and curriculum development

Associate Prof. Diana Frantzen | Email
Second language acquisition, language pedagogy, and applied linguistics

Prof. David Hildner | Email
Spanish Renaissance and Portuguese literature

Prof. Steven Hutchinson | Email
Spanish prose and poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries

Prof. Luis Madureira | Email
European Modernism and Modernity in Latin America, Africa and the Caribbean, Luso-Brazilian colonial and postcolonial studies

Assistant Faculty Associate Deborra Kaaikiola Strohbusch | Email
Late medieval poetics and cancionero poetry, Libro de Alexandre, Golden Age theatre and second- language acquisition

Prof. William Risley | Email
19th and 20th-century Spanish literature

Associate Prof. Kathryn Sanchez | Email
Nineteenth and twentieth century Luso-Brazilian narrative, contemporary women writers, visual culture and gender studies

Associate Prof. Ellen Sapega | Email
Modernist Portuguese literature, Portuguese culture

Prof. Emeritus Juan Temprano | Email
Medieval Spanish literature and linguistics

Prof. Margarita Zamora | Email

Theatre and Drama

Prof. Barbara Clayton | Email
Theatre Research, Continental Drama, Theatre History

Prof. Aparna Dharwadker | Email
Early modern British drama, comparative modern theatre, and postcolonial studies

Prof. Emeritus Robert Skloot | Email
Theatre literature, plays of political and social importance, theatre and the Holocaust

Associate Prof. Mary Trotter | Email
History of Irish theatre; feminism and theatre history; the relationship between identity and performance

Prof. Michael Vanden Heuvel | Email
Modern and postmodern dramatic literature, literary theory, performance studies

Prof. Manon van de Water | Email
Interdependence of meaning and material conditions in theatre for adults and youth, Russian theatre, and Dutch theatre for youth

Urban and Regional Planning

Prof. Harvey Jacobs | Email
Public policy, theory and philosophy for land use and environmental management

Women's Studies

Prof. Susan Bernstein | Email
19th and early 20th-century British literature, cultural studies, feminist theory and women's studies, contemporary autobiography

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