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Advisory Committee
Max Kade Center for European and German Studies
2006-08
Michael Bess (Arts & Science), Chancellor's Professor of History (Ph.D., California, Berkeley), is a specialist in twentieth-century Europe, with a particular interest in the social and cultural impacts of technological change. He is the author of three books: Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II (2006); The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 (2003); and Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and Their Strategies for Peace, 1945-1989 (1993). He is currently working on a book entitled Artificial Persons: Shifting Boundaries of the Human in the Age of Robots and Clones. 322-3340, michael.d.bess@Vanderbilt.Edu .
Cynthia Cyrus (Blair), Associate Professor of Musicology and Affiliated Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies, (Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill), specializes in l ate medieval monasticism, history of the book, Medieval and Renaissance musical repertories. Her recent scholarly work has concentrated on scribes and libraries in women’s convents of late medieval Germany and on musical literacy in late medieval France. 322-7693, cynthia.j.cyrus@vanderbilt.edu.
Ellen Fanning (Arts & Science), Stevenson Professor of Molecular Biology and Professor of Biological Sciences (Ph.D., University of Cologne, Germany), is an expert on DNA replication and damage repair in mammalian cells. Before working at Vanderbilt, she was an assistant professor of molecular genetics at the University of Konstanz, a visiting professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, and a professor and acting chair at the Institute for Biochemistry at the University of Munich. 343-5677, ellen.h.fanning@vanderbilt.edu.
Florence Faucher-King (Arts & Science) Visiting Associate Professor of Political Science (Ph.D. Aix en Provence). From 1997-2000 Dr. Faucher-King taught at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, before joining Sciences-Po (Paris) in 2000. She has conducted comparative research on the British and French Greens while a postdoctoral fellow at St. Peters, Oxford University; she has also conducted ethnographic research on British political parties. Her special interests include: Green politics, political parties, modern British and French politics, contemporary forms of political activism and the application of anthropological methods to the study of political parties; European Union. 322-6222, florence.faucher-king@vanderbilt.edu.
Edward F. Fischer (Arts & Science), Associate Professor of Anthropology (Ph.D., 1996, Tulane University), specializes in cultural anthropology and political economy, with a focus on the Maya of highland Guatemala and contemporary German labor relations. 322-2194, edward.f.fischer@vanderbilt.edu.
William Franke (Arts & Science), Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies; currently the 2006-07 Fulbright-University of Salzburg Distinguished Chair in Intercultural Theology and Study of Religion (Ph.D., Stanford), is the author of Dante’s Interpretive Journey (University of Chicago Press, 1996, Religion and Postmodernism series) and of the two-volume On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature and the Arts (forthcoming in March 2007, University of Notre Dame Press). 322-6902, william.p.franke@vanderbilt.edu.
Edward H. Friedman (Arts & Science), Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), centers his research on early modern Spanish literature, with special emphasis on Cervantes, picaresque narrative, the Comedia, and the ways in which this literature anticipates contemporary theory, with its focus on the relationships between centers and margins, and on the dialectics of politics and rhetoric. 322-6929, edward.h.friedman@vanderbilt.edu.
Henning Grunwald (Arts & Science) DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor of History(Ph.D. Cambridge, 2003), teaches twentieth century German and European history. He is the author of Party Lawyers, Political Trials and Judicial Culture in the WeimarRepublic (forthcoming), and co-editor of Krisis. Krisenszenarien, Diagnosen und Diskursstrategien (forthcoming) and Performanz des Rechts: Inszenierung und Diskurs (2006). Together with three colleagues from Humboldt-Universitaet, Berlin and the University of Oxford, he has initiated the research network (De-)Europeanization in History: Concepts, Conflicts, Cohesion 1890-1989 co-funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Other current research interests include political justice and political theatre as well as memory and medial representations of the Holocaust. 343-1749, henning.grunwald@vanderbilt.edu.
Richard Haglund (Arts & Science), Professor of Physics (Ph.D., UNC-Chapel Hill), is an expert in condensed-matter and applied optical physics; laser interactions with materials; nanoscale optics; nonlinear optics and phase transitions in nanoparticles; laser processing of organic and inorganic materials; laser spectroscopy and near-field microscopy. His honors and visiting appointments include: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award, 2003; Visiting Professor of Applied Physics, Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Linz, Austria, 1998; Visiting Lecturer, Universitá di Padova, Padua, 1996; Monbusho Foundation Visiting Lecturer; Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1996; Visiting Lecturer, Graduierten-Kolleg and Zentrum für Materialwissenschaften, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, 1995; Heraeus Foundation Visiting Professor, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, 1991; and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow 1982-83. 322-7964, richard.haglund@vanderbilt.edu.
Michael K. McLendon (Peabody), Associate Professor of Public Policy and Higher Education (Ph.D., University of Michigan), specializes in state policy for higher education, particularly the role of political institutions and post-secondary governance structures in shaping finance, accountability, and governance policies in the states. 322-2355,
Robert Robert Mode (Arts and Science), Associate Professor of Art History (Ph.D. University of Michigan), specializes in Italian Renaissance and British Art. He is now working on Hogarth's Enraged Musician, and the Raphaelite paradigm in early modern art theory and practice. His publications appear in Art Bulletin and Burlington Magazine. 322-0254, robert.mode@vanderbilt.edu.
Jonathan A. Neufeld (Arts & Science) Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. Columbia), Dr. Neufeld’s research interests are in Philosophy of Music, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, and Philosophy of Law. He is particularly interested in problems surrounding performance and interpretation. 936-7236, jonathan.a.neufeld@vanderbilt.edu.
Allison Schachter (Arts and Science), Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley), specializes in Jewish modernism, Hebrew and Yiddish literature, and comparative Jewish literature. Fluent in Hebrew and Yiddish, as well as in French, she will teach courses on “Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in Jewish Literature,” “Introduction to Hebrew Literature,” and “Jewish Literary Centers.” 343-3187, allison.schachter@Vanderbilt.Edu .
Thomas Schwartz (Arts & Science), Professor of History (Ph.D., Harvard). Thomas Schwartz teaches courses in the history of American foreign relations, with an emphasis on the twentieth century. He is the author of America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany, a study of U.S. policy toward Germany immediately after World War II, and Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (2003), an examination of alliance politics during the Vietnam War. Schwartz's research interests include the interaction between domestic politics and foreign policy, transnational coalitions and alliance politics, the role of the American presidency in alliance leadership, and the new international history of the Cold War. He is currently working on two book projects: one is a short history of the Cold War, tentatively entitled, The Long Twilight Struggle, and the other is a biography of the former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, tentatively entitled, Henry Kissinger and the Dilemmas of American Power. 343-4328, thomas.a.schwartz@vanderbilt.edu.
Craig T. Smith (Law), Associate Professor of Law (J.D. U of Michigan LL.M. Universität Potsdam), serves as President of the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) and as a member of the editorial boards of Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing and German Law Journal. He has worked as a Bosch Foundation Fellow with Germany's Federal Justice Ministry and various courts, and taught at Germany's Potsdam University. In addition to directing and teaching in Vanderbilt's Legal Writing Program, Professor Smith teaches a course for international LL.M. students and often teaches in Germany. 343-4832, craig.t.smith@law.vanderbilt.edu.
Bart Victor (Owen), Professor of Management, Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership (Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill), specializes in ethics, social responsibility, and governance; leadership and communications; and organization studies and human resource management. His research interests include the social and moral consequences of new organizational forms, the process of strategy making, and the development and application of organizational knowledge for strategic advantage. 322-4642, bart.victor@owen.vanderbilt.edu.
Meike Werner (Arts & Science), Associate Professor of German (Ph.D. Yale), specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and cultural studies. Her research focuses on modernism, print culture, modern intellectuals, women writers, cult books, and the history of Germanistik. Currently, she is working on a book about the writer Helene Voigt-Diederichs. 343-0404, meike.werner@vanderbilt.edu.
David C. Wood (Arts & Science), Centennial Professor of Philosophy; Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D. University of Warwick), Dr. Wood's interests lie in the possibilities of reading and thinking opened up by contemporary continental philosophy and by nineteenth century German thought. Current philosophical projects include: reworking/displacing Heidegger's treatment of time within fundamental ontology; developing a nonprescriptive post humanistic approach to ethics; providing an account of truth that does justice both to its normative, 'existential' and metaphysical dimensions; various different approaches to the philosophy of nature (environmental philosophy, animals rights, thinking boundaries etc.). 3243-7189, david.c.wood@vanderbilt.edu.
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