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European Studies 2006-07 Faculty List

Agricultural & Applied Economics | Anthropology | Art History | Business | Classics | Communication Arts | Comparative Literature | Curriculum & Instruction | Economics | Educational Policy Studies | Engineering | English | Environment, Textiles & Design | European Studies | Finance | French | French House | Geography | German and Dutch | Hebrew & Semitic Studies | History | History of Science | International Business | Italian | Journalism and Mass Communication | La Follette School of Public Affairs | Landscape Architecture | Languages and Cultures of Asia | Law | Management and Human Resources | Marketing | Medical History and Bioethics | Memorial Library | Music | Philosophy | Political Science | Population Health Sciences | Professional French Masters Program | Scandinavian Studies | Social and Administrative Pharmacy | Sociology | Spanish and Portuguese | Theatre | Urban and Regional Planning | Women's Studies |

Agricultural & Applied Economics

 

Prof. 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

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Anthropology

 

Prof. T. Douglas Price | Email

   

Archaeology, European prehistory, archaeological chemistry, hunter-gatherers, origins of agriculture

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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

 

Assistant 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. Thomas Dale | Email

   

Early Christian, Medieval and Byzantine art; Romanesque art (representations of the body); San Marco in Venice; the cult of the saints

 

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

 

Assistant Prof. Nancy Rose Marshall | Email

   

Nineteenth-century French Art, Victorian Britain

 

Prof. Narciso Menocal | Email

   

18th, 19th and 20th century European Architecture

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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

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Classics

 

Assistant Prof. Katarzyna Allen | Email

   

Social and cultural history of Greece; ethnicity; Greek historiography and epigraphy

 

Assistant 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. Laura McClure | Email

   

Greek Literature, Ancient Gender Studies, Classical Tradition

 

Prof. James McKeown | Email

   

Latin Literature, especially Ovid

 

Associate Prof. Silvia Montiglio | Email

   

Greek Literature, Cultural Studies

 

Prof. Carole Newlands | Email

   

Latin Literature, Medieval Studies, Comparative Literature

 

Prof. Barry Powell | Email

   

Mythology, Greek Literature, particularly Homer

 

Prof. Patricia Rosenmeyer | Email

   

Archaic Greek Literature, Hellenistic Greek Literature, Literary Theory

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Communication Arts

 

Assistant 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

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Comparative Literature

 

Prof. Mary Layoun | Email

   

Nationalism and gender, narrative, politics and culture, feminisms, international trade regimes and intellectual property

 

Assistant 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 | Email

   

Literary theory and criticism; literature and philosophy; poetry; aesthetics; late medieval literature; genre theory

 

Assistant Prof. Max Statkiewicz | Email

   

Classics, history of ancient philosophy, theory of literature, Continental philosophy

 

Prof. 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

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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

 

Assistant Prof. Simone Schweber | Email

   

Jewish Studies, Social Studies, Religious Education, Moral Education, History Education

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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. Robert Staiger | Email

   

International economics, GATT and the WTO, regionalism vs. multilateralism, dynamics of trade liberalization, antidumping law, collusion

 

Prof. James Walker | Email

   

Sweden's welfare state, labor supply, fertility patterns

 

Prof. Barbara Wolfe | Email

   

Health economics, public economics

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Educational Policy Studies

 

Prof. Andreas Kazamias | Email

   

Comparative education, cross-national studies of educational problems

  Assistant 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
 

Prof. William Reese | Email

   

History of education in Europe and America

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Engineering Professional Development

 

Associate 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

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English

 

Prof. Emily Auerbach | Email

   

British and American women writers; 19th-century English novel; Jane Austen; Emily Dickinson; Music and Literature

 

Associate 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. 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

 

Associate Prof. Susan Bernstein | Email

   

19th and early 20th-century British literature, cultural studies, feminist theory and women's studies, contemporary autobiography

 

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. Alger Doane | Email

   

Old English poetry and language, Chaucer, medieval manuscripts

 

Prof. Heather Dubrow | Email

   

Renaissance (early modern) literature, especially lyric poetry and Shakespeare; genre; narrative and lyric theory; gender

 

Prof. and Chair 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

 

Assistant Prof. 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. Richard Knowles | Email

   

Shakespeare, textual bibliography, Renaissance iconography

 

Associate 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

 

Prof. Jacques Lezra | Email

   

Comparative literature and literary theory; Shakespeare; the literary and visual culture of Early Modern Europe

 

Assistant Prof. Mario Ortiz-Robles | Email

     
 

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. 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. Henry Turner | Email

   

Renaissance Drama, early modern intellectual history, history of sexuality and the family, medieval literary, social, and intellectual history; contemporary critical theory, esp. Marxism, Foucault, and Derrida

 

Assistant Prof. Rebecca Walkowitz | Email

   

British literature and culture of the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, violence and creativity in the twentieth-century British novel; James Joyce and later British and American "vernacular fictions"

 

Prof. Howard Weinbrot | Email

   

18th-century British literature, satire, novel, poetry, Johnson, Pope, Anglo-French relations, classical contexts

 

Prof. Suzanne Wofford | Email

   

Renaissance literature, drama, narrative.

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Environment, Textiles & Design

 

Prof. 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

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European Studies

 

ESA Executive Director Elizabeth Covington | Email

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Finance

 

Prof. Antonio Mello | Email

   

Asset pricing, Corporate finance, International finance, Privatization, Valuation theory

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French

 

Assistant Prof. Thomas Armbrecht | Email

   

20th century prose fiction, theater as literature and in performance, Queer Studies

 

Prof. 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. 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

 

Lecturer Nelly Halzen | Email

   

Phonetics; The use of technology in teaching French as a second language; 19th and 20th century French Society and Culture

 

Associate Prof. Deborah Jenson | Email

   

19th century French literature and culture; poetry; French women's writing; 19th century Caribbean, Francophone and Creolophone studies

 

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

 

Lecturer Eva Miernowska | Email

   

Polish

 

Prof. Jan Miernowski | Email

   

French literature of the 16th century; poetics and philosophy in the Renaissance

 

Prof. Nicholas Rand | Email

   

19th- and 20th-century poetry and prose; critical approaches to literature; theory and practice of literary translation, stylistics, psychoanalysis and literature

 

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. 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

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French House

 

Director Andrew Irving | Email

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Geography

 

Prof. Robert Kaiser | Email

   

Political Geography, Ethnic Geography, Population Geography, Eurasian (Soviet, post-Soviet and East European) Studies.

 

Associate 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

 

Prof. Jamie Peck | Email

   

Political Economy, Labor Geography, Politics of Economic Development, Urban and Regional Development, Employment/Welfare Policy, Theories of Economic Regulation and Governance

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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

 

Prof. 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. 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. 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

 

Senior Lecturer Carla Love | Email

   

Teaching language and literature to undergraduates

 

Assistant 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

 

Associate Prof. 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. Joseph Salmons | Email

   

Theories of phonology, language change and morphology using data from historical and contemporary Germanic languages, including German dialects in America

 

Prof. 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

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Hebrew & Semitic Studies

 

Prof. Rachel Feldhay Brenner | Email

   

Women writers and the Holocaust

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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. William Courtenay | Email

   

Medieval European intellectual and religious history

 

Prof. Suzanne Desan | Email

   

Early modern French cultural history, particularly the French Revolution

 

Prof. Laurence Dickey | Email

   

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

 

Prof. 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

 

Associate Prof. Francine Hirsch | Email

   

Russian and Soviet History. French history, German and Central European history

 

Assistant Prof. Marc Kleijwegt |