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EUS draws upon renowned teachers and scholars in the Departments of Art & Art History, Communication Studies, Economics, English, French and Italian, Germanic and Slavic Studies, History, Musicology, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Spanish and Portuguese.
  
Helmut Walser Smith, Director, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History (Ph.D. Yale), Early Modern and Modern German History 322-2528, helmut.w.smith@vanderbilt.edu
 
Florence Faucher-King (Arts & Science) Associate Professor of European Studies (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.
 
Tracy Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Italian (Ph.D., California, Berkeley), Italian language and literature, 322-6912, tracy.barrett@vanderbilt.edu
 
Robert F. Barsky, Professor of Comparative Literature (Ph.D., McGill [Canada]), Professor of French and Italian, Canadian & Quebec Studies, 322-2652, robert.barsky@vanderbilt.edu
 
Vereen M. Bell, Professor of English (Ph.D., Duke), Modern British literature, 322-3324, vereen.m.bell@vanderbilt.edu
 
Fräncille Bergquist, Associate Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Texas Tech), Spanish linguistics, 322-2844, francille.bergquist@vanderbilt.edu
 
Michael D. Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History and Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., California, Berkeley), Modern European history, 322-3340, michael.d.bess@vanderbilt.edu
 
James Booth, Professor of Political Science (Ph.D., Harvard), Identity and memory, 322-2491, william.j.booth@vanderbilt.edu
 
Christopher J. Brummer, Assistant Professor of Law, (J.D., Columbia; Ph.D., Chicago), International business law and private international law, 322-3490, chris.brummer@Vanderbilt.Edu.
 
Victoria A. Burrus, Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Wisconsin), Medieval Spanish literature, 322-6860, victoria.a.burrus@vanderbilt.edu
 
William Caferro, Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Yale), Medieval and Renaissance Italy and Europe, 322-0097 william.p.caferro@vanderbilt.edu
 
Joy Haslam Calico, Associate Professor of Musicology, Associate of European Studies(Ph.D., Duke), Opera, music & politics, cultural politics in the Soviet Bloc, especially the GDR, 322-7675, joy.calico@vanderbilt.edu
 
Lauren Clay, Assistant Professor of History, reasearch interests: Early modern/modern Europe with a focus on France; social and cultural history; history of business, labor, and commercial society; theater; urban history; French empire. 322-5947, lauren.clay@vanderbilt.edu
 
Julia P. Cohen, Assistant Professor of History, Jewish History, History of the Ottoman Empire, Urban History, Inter-Communal Relations in the Modern Mediterranean, Judeo-Spanish (Sephardi) History, Jews in Islamic Lands. 322-6202, julia.p.cohen@vanderbilt.edu
 
Katherine B. Crawford, Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., Chicago), Gender history, especially early modern France & Europe, 322-0097, katherine.b.crawford@vanderbilt.edu
 
Cynthia J. Cyrus, Associate Professor of Musicology (Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Late medieval monasticism, history of the book, Medieval and Renaissance musical repertories, 322-7693, cynthia.j.cyrus@vanderbilt.edu
 
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Toronto), Continental philosophy, 322-2265, idit.dobbs-weinstein@vanderbilt.edu
 
Robert A. Driskill, Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), International trade, 343-1516, robert.a.driskill@vanderbilt.edu
 
Sara L. Figal, Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D., Harvard), 17th and 18th Century German literature, 322-2747, sara.figal@vanderbilt.edu
 
Lynn E. Enterline, Professor of English (Ph.D., Cornell), Early modern British literature, 343-3815, lynn.enterline@vanderbilt.edu
 
James A. Epstein, Professor of History (Ph.D., Birmingham [England]), Modern British history, especially 19th Century, 322-3351, james.a.epstein@vanderbilt.edu
 
Edward F. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology (PhD 1996, Tulane University). 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
 
Leonard Folgarait, Professor of Art History (Ph.D., California, Los Angeles), European art, 322-0090, leonard.folgarait@vanderbilt.edu
 
William P. Franke, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian (Ph.D., Stanford), Italian literature, 322-6902, william.p.franke@vanderbilt.edu
 
Edward H. Friedman, Professor of Spanish, Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Early modern Spanish literature, 322-6929, edward.h.friedman@vanderbilt.edu
 
Marc Froment-Meurice, Professor of French (Docteur ès lettres, Université de Nice), Modern French poetry and poetics,  mfment@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
 
Jay Geller, Senior Lecturer, Modern Jewish Culture (Ph.D., Duke), Department of Religious Studies, Divinity School, 322-2776, jay.geller@vanderbilt.edu
 
Lenn E. Goodman, Professor of Philosophy, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities (D.Phil., Oxford University), Metaphysics and ethics, 343-3158, lenn.e.goodman@vanderbilt.edu
 
Roy Gottfried, Professor of English (Ph.D., Yale), Modern British fiction, especially Irish literature, 322-2326, roy.k.gottfried@vanderbilt.edu
 
Henning Grunwald, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor of History and European Studies (Ph.D., Cambridge) Party lawyers, political trials and judicial culture in the Weimar Republic; Europeanization: history, concepts, and conflicts, 343-1729, henning.grunwald@vanderbilt.edu
 
Barbara Hahn, Distinguished Professor of German (Ph.D., Free University of Berlin), Modern German Literature with a special interest in women's studies, barbara.hahn@vanderbilt.edu
 
M. Donald Hancock, Professor of Political Science (Ph.D., Columbia), European Union and comparative European politics, 322-6234, donald.hancock@vanderbilt.edu
 
Joel F. Harrington, Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Michigan), Early Modern Europe, especially Germany, 322-2528, joel.f.harrington@vanderbilt.edu
 
Gregg M. Horowitz, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Critical theory of culture, 322-2637, gregg.horowitz@vanderbilt.edu
 
Mark Jarmin, Professor of English (M.F.A., Iowa), British and American poetry, 322-2618, mark.jarmin@vanderbilt.edu
 
Alexander (Ari) Joskowicz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and European Studies, Affiliated Assistant Professor of History (PhD, Chicago), Jewish History; Modern European History, with a focus on Germany and France; Minorities and Nationalism; Political and Intellectual History Telephone: 615-322-7371 a.joskowicz@vanderbilt.edu
 
Kassian A. Kovalcheck, Jr., Associate Professor of Communication Studies (Ph.D., Indiana), Politics, history, and government of Ireland, 322-2060, kassian.a.kovalcheck@vanderbilt.edu
 
Konstantin V. Kustanovich, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature (Ph.D., Columbia), Russian literature and culture, 322-2751, Konstantin.v.kustanovich@vanderbilt.edu
 
John Lachs, Centennial Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Yale), 19th century German Idealism, 343-0321, john.lachs@vanderbilt.edu
 
Angela H. Lin, Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D., Princeton), Nineteenth and Twentieth-century German literature and culture, 343-3188, a.lin@vanderbilt.edu
 
Andrea Maneschi, Professor of Economics, Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), International economics, 322-2993, Andrea.maneschi@vanderbilt.edu
 
Leah Marcus, Edwin Mims Professor of English, (Ph.D., Columbia) Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Literature, 322-2330, l.marcus@vanderbilt.edu
  
John A. McCarthy, Professor of European Studies, Professor of German, Professor of Comparative Literature (Ph.D., SUNYaB), 18th-20th century German literature, culture, and society 342-2527, john.a.mccarthy@vanderbilt.edu
 
Robert L. Mode, Associate Professor of Art History (Ph.D., Rochester), Italian Renaissance, 322-0254, robert.mode@vanderbilt.edu
 
Jonathan Neufeld, (Ph.D., Columbia), Assistant Professor of Philosophy, English & Continental aesthetic thought with heavy emphasis on the German thinkers, Assistant of European Studies 343-8670, jonathan.a.neufeld@vanderbilt.edu.
 
Anthère Nzabatsinda, Associate Professor of French  (Ph.D. Université de Montréal),  Francophone literature; linguistics and literature, 322-6914, anthere.nzabatsinda@vanderbilt.edu
 
Kelly Oliver, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Women's Studies, (Ph.D., Northwestern), Nineteenth and twentieth century continental philosophy, 343-0334 , kelly.oliver@vanderbilt.edu
 
Morna O'Neill, Mellon Professor of Art History, specialist in late nineteenth-century European art, in particular the conjunction of art, design, and politics, 322-0125, morna.oneill@vanderbilt.edu
 
John F. Plummer, Professor of English, Medieval  literature (Ph.D., Washington), 322-2317, john.f.plummer@vanderbilt.edu
 
Nathalie Dieu Porter, Senior Lecturer in French and Italian (M.A., Université de Mons-Hainaut [Belgium]), French language and culture, 322-6908, nathalie.d.porter@Vanderbilt.Edu
 
Lynn T. Ramey, Assistant Professor of French (Ph.D., Harvard), Medieval and Renaissance French literatuer and culture, 322-6904, lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu
 
Matthew Ramsey, Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Harvard), France in the late 18th and 19th centuries, 322-0096, matthew.ramsey@vanderbilt.edu
 
Philip D. Rasico, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese (Ph.D., Indiana), Catalan and Spanish language and history, 322-6859, philip.d.rasico@vanderbilt.edu
 
James Lee Ray, Professor of Political Science (Ph.D., Michigan), International relations, 322-6235, james.l.ray@vanderbilt.edu
 
Michael A. Rose, Associate Professor of Composition, (Ph.D., Eastman), 322-5817, michael.a.rose@vanderbilt.edu
 
Allison Schachter, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley), Comparative Jewish literature, Hebrew and Yiddish modernism, and French Jewish culture, 343-3187, allison.schachter@vanderbilt.edu
 
Thomas Alan Schwartz, Professor of History, Professor of European Studies(Ph.D., Harvard), History of international relations, 343-4328, thomas.a.schwartz@vanderbilt.edu
 
Virginia M. Scott, Associate Professor of French (Ph.D., Emory), Second language acquisition, and French language, 322-6909, virginia.m.scott@vanderbilt.edu
 
Peggy Setje-Eilers, Mellon Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D., Virginia), Modernism (specifically Expressionism), cinema, and art history, 343-3190, peggy.setje-eilers@vanderbilt.edu
 
Dieter H. O. Sevin, Professor of German Language and Literature (Ph.D., University of Washington), 19th and 20th century German exile literature, 343-3191, dieter.h.sevin@vanderbilt.edu
 
Helmut Walser Smith, Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History, Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Yale), Modern German history, 322-3325, helmut.w.smith@vanderbilt.edu
 
Jeffrey S. Tlumak, Associate Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Massachusetts), 17th and 18th Century Western European philosophy, 343-5909, jeffrey.tlumak@vanderbilt.edu
 
Barbara Tsakirgis, Associate Professor of Classics and Art History , (Ph.D., Princeton) Classical archaeology, art, and architecture, 343-4112, barbara.tsakirgis@vanderbilt.edu
 
Holly A. Tucker, Associate Professor of French (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison), Early modern French literature,322-6905, holly.tucker@vanderbilt.edu
 
Martina Urban, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies/Jewish Studies Program, (Ph.D.  Hebrew University of Jerusalem ) 19th and 20th Century German-Jewish Intellectual History and Religious Thought, 322-6340, martina.urban@vanderbilt.edu
 
Nina Warnke, Assistant Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Columbia), Yiddish literature, language, and culture, Jewish theater, Holocaust drama, 322-2967, nina.warnke@vanderbilt.edu
 
Francis W. Wcislo, Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Columbia), Modern Russian history, 322-3413, francis.w.wcislo@vanderbilt.edu
 
Meike J. G. Werner, Associate Professor of German, Associate Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Yale), 19th and 20th century German literature and culture, 343-0404, meike.werner@vanderbilt.edu
 
Mark A. Wollaeger, Professor of English (Ph.D., Yale), Modern British fiction, 322-6527, mark.wollaeger@vanderbilt.edu
 
Bronwyn Wickkiser , Assistant Professor of Classics, Greek history and culture, Ancient religion and medicine, Augustan culture.322-1007, bronwyn.wickkiser@vanderbilt.edu
 
David Charles Wood, Centennial Professor of Philosophy; Joe B. Wyatt Distinguished Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Warwick), Contemporary European philosophy, 343-7189, david.c.wood@vanderbilt.edu
 
Andres Zamora, Associate Professor of Spanish, Associate Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., University of Southern California, Los Angeles), 19th and 20th Century Spanish literature, andres.zamora@vanderbilt.edu
 
Christoph Zeller, Assistant Professor of German, (Ph.D., Stuttgart), Eighteenth to Twentieth Century German literature, 322-2821, christoph.m.zeller@vanderbilt.edu

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