Christine Mahoney
Associate Professor, Political Science
Director, Center for European Studies
Dr. Christine Mahoney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Moynihan European Research Centers in the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She conducts research on lobbying, advocacy, interest groups, and civil society in the EU, the US and the developing world. Her book Brussels vs. the Beltway: Advocacy in the United States and the European Union (2008) is the first large-scale empirical study of lobbying in the US and the EU based on over 150 interviews she conducted with advocates in Washington D.C. and in Brussels, Belgium. Her research has been supported by a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Syracuse University’s European Union Center of Excellence, a Fulbright Fellowship to the European Union, a RGSO Fellowship, a visiting position at the Free University of Brussels and a position as visiting scholar at Oxford University. She has published in European Union Politics, West European Politics, the Journal of Public Policy, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods and numerous edited volumes. Her Ph.D. is from the Pennsylvania State University.
Havva Karakas Keles
Assistant Director, Center for European Studies;
Jaklin Kornfilt
Professor, Language, Literature & Linguistics
Executive Committee Member, Center for European Studies
Glyn Morgan
Associate Professor, Political Science
Executive Committee Member, Center for European Studies
Dr. Morgan is the author of The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration (Princeton University Press, 2005) and Missionary Liberalism: Interventions towards Progress (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). Recent writings include: “Realism and European Integration,” European Political Studies (July 2005); “The Realism of Raymond Geuss,” Government and Opposition (Winter 2005); and “Hayek, Habermas, and European Integration,” Critical Review (Summer 2003). He is currently writing a book on Just and Unjust Forms of Political Violence and co-directing (with Margarita Estevez-Abe) a research project on Social Justice and the Varieties of Capitalism. Morgan's interests include contemporary political philosophy, modern social theory, the philosophy of the social sciences, theories of international relations, nationalism, federalism, and European integration.
John Western
Professor, Geography
Executive Committee Member, Center for European Studies
Dr. Western's interests range broadly across social, cultural, political, and urban geography, with a particular interest in qualitative methods. For a number of years he helped create and team-teach trans-disciplinary lower-division social science courses in the Maxwell School. From 1997 through 2000 he was Resident Director of Syracuse University's Division of International Programs Abroad program in Strasbourg, France, and then from 2000 through 2003 served as Chair of Department.
Sven Stafford
Master candidate of Public Administration
Master candidate of International Relations
Graduate Assistant, Center for European Studies and European Union Center
Sven is from Evanston, Illinois, near Chicago and is a fan of the Chicago White Sox and Northwestern Wildcats. He attended Johns Hopkins University, getting a degree in international relations. After graduating in 2004 he worked as a global missionary with the Lutheran church in Oldenburg, Germany, as a nurse for mentally disabled adults. He then joined the Peace Corps and worked as a language instructor in Shortandy, Kazakhstan, for two years. He is in the joint MPA/MAIR program at the Maxwell School and is focusing on state and local government, global markets and national security.
Elena Babkova
Master candidate of International Relations
Graduate Assistant, Center for European Studies and European Union Center
Elena is originally from Chelyabinsk, Russia. She was a Fulbright scholar receiving her Master's degree in TESL from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then working there as a visiting lecturer for one year. She also interned at Global Action on Aging, an NGO in consultative status with the UN Headquarters and did her research on aging and issues of the elderly in Russia. She is in MAIR program at the Maxwell School and her concentrations include Transnational Organizations & Leadership and Foreign Policy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CES Affiliates
Ricardo Abrantes Bernardo
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Licenciado in art history and Medieval art, University Complutense, Madrid. Adjunct professor in Spanish art for American programs at the University of Madrid since 1979, and for the Ortega and Gasset Foundation. Teaches a course on modern Spanish art and leads study tours.
Beverly Allen
Professor of Languages, Literature and Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Rafael Amaya
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Simone Anselmi
Instructor DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
MBA, Univerita SDA Bocconi, Milan. Laurea in Economics, University of Florence. Certificate in Marketing, New York University. Certified trainer in NLP (Neruo Linguistic Programming). Anselmi has extensive experience training, consulting and teaching entrepreneurship, marketing, advertising, personal development and coaching. She also has executive-level experience with international companies in market research and advertising. Anselmi is a member of the ICF (International Coach Federation) and of the ICF Italian Chapter organizing committee.
Almudena Ariza
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate in Arab Studies at the University of Madrid. Ariza leads the Summer Program, Muslim and Jewish Culture in Spain and teaches Al Andalus: the History of Islamic Spain and History of Spain and Islamic Countries.
Raymond Bach
Instructor DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A. Amherst College; M.A., Ph.D. Stanford University. Bach is the Resident Academic Director of the SU Center and Professor of French Literature. Bach has published numerous scholarly articles on French and Comparative Literature. Contact...
Angel Badillo
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. University of Salamanca. Badillo is an Adjunct professor of Communications he teaches a course on Visual Issues in the Media.
Timothy Barr
Lecturer, Whitman School of Management
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Mercedes Barrero Civera
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Barrero is Licenciada in philosophy and letters and a doctoral candidate in geography and history at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares. Barrero eaches a geography course.
Dorothea Barrett
Instructor DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. and Research Fellowship, Cambridge University (UK). Barrett has taught at Beijing Normal University (China), Glasgow University (Scotland), and the University of Florence. She is the author of Vocation and Desire: George Eliot's Heroines and various articles on Greene, Swinburne, women novelists of the romantic period and Victorian narrative structures. Editor of works by George Eliot, Wilde, Forster, Joyce, and Mansfield. Barrett teaches Italian literature in translation and English and textual studies, and runs the SU Florence Writing Center.
Caroline Barriere
Instructor DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Economics, Université de Paris I-Pathéon-Sorbonne. Barriere teaches courses on multinational corporations and the economic policies of the European Union. Contact...
Crystal Bartolovich
Associate Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D English Emory University. Interests include Marxism, early modern studies, cultural studies. Contact...
Erik Baum
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate, Dept of Journalism, U of Madrid, Complutense; M.A., Mass Communications, University of Iowa. Baum was formerly program director for the World Press Institute and production coordinator/ reporter for KUNI Public Radio. Baum teaches courses in public communications and web design.
Kenneth Baynes
Professor, Philosophy
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Baynes works primarily in social and political philosophy, with a special focus in critical theory (the "Frankfurt School") and modern and contemporary German philosophy. He is a co-editor of After Philosophy: End or Transformation? (MIT Press), and Discourse and Democracy (SUNY Press), and the author of The Normative Grounds of Social Criticism: Kant, Rawls and Habermas (SUNY Press). His current interests are in the normative or obligatory character of rules and practices, attempts to ground moral principles in practical reason, and the relationship between democracy and basic rights, including "multicultural rights" Contact...
Guillermo Becerra
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., University of Alcalá de Henares, Madrid. Becerra was formerly coordinator of the North American Studies Center, University of Alcalá de Henares, and administrator of the British Home Academy, Majadahona. Teaches an anthropology course.
Frederick Beiser
Professor, Philosophy
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Fred Beiser has been a major contributor to work on the history of modern philosophy, especially the history of German philosophy (Kant and German idealism) and the English Enlightenment. His book The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte won the 1987 Thomas J. Wilson Prize for the Best First Book. He has won Thyssen and Humboldt research fellowships to study at the Free University of Berlin and was a 1994 Guggenheim Fellow. He received a 1999-2000 NEH Faculty Fellowship (at Indiana University), and he has won awards for his outstanding undergraduate teaching.. Contact...
Maria Luisa Benito
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Licenciada. Educated at the University Complutense, Madrid. Benito has taught history, literature, and Spanish in Spain, Great Britain and the U.S.. Benito currently teaches beginning Spanish courses.
James Bennett
Associate Professor, Political Science
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
PhD. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research interests include conflict management in Southeastern Europe, Comparative expansions of the European Union International negotiation, especially negotiators’ language exploratory data analysis. Contact...
James Bergeron
Instructor DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Phillipa Beveridge
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Phillipa Beveridge holds a degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Greenwich, London. She studied sculpture, painting and glass at the fine arts school, the Escola Massana, in Barcelona where she now lives and works as a glass artist and teacher. Her teaching experience includes The Studio at Corning, Urban Glass and the Barcelona Glass Center, the Fundació Centre del Vidre, where she also studied.
Alexandra Bloss
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Graham Bolton
Instructor DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Bolton is a professional in business start-ups and growth organizations with a background in the sales and marketing of financial services. He holds M.A. degrees in Marketing and Management. Bolton has lectured extensively on the Diploma in Marketing course for the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Open University and former Senior Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Bolton teaches marketing and management courses at SULC
Molly Bourne
Lecturer DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Harvard University. Fellowships and Awards: Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti; J.B. Harley Research Fellow in the History of Cartography, British Library; Harvard University Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Teaching. Bourne has published numerous articles on court culture, artistic patronage, villa design, cartography, and the domestic interior in the Italian Renaissance. Currently completing a book on the artistic patronage of Francesco II Gonzaga (1484-1519), Fourth Marquis of Mantua, forthcoming (in English) with Bulzoni Editore. Bourne has taught art history and architectural history for Syracuse in Florence since 1999.
Mark Bowles
Lecturer DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate, University of Oxford; B.A., U. of Liverpool. Former tutor, Wadham College, Oxford. Teaches English and textual studies for SULC.
Zachary Braiterman
Assistant Professor, Religion
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor Braiterman works in the field of modern Judaism, specializing in the 20th century. His latest project examines shifting aesthetic canons defined by Jugendstil, Expressionism, and Bauhaus as they shape modern Jewish thought and culture in Germany prior to the Holocaust. Braiterman's research and teaching interests touch upon the impact of modernity upon Jewish self-expression, ritual, text-interpretation, and community life. These include modern Jewish philosophy, theoretical aesthetics, and classical Jewish sources. Contact...
Marie Brunache
Lecturer DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A. Université de Nice; M.A. Wayne State University. Teaches French language.
Ramon Buckley
Lecturer DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Romance Philology from the Universidad de Madrid Complutense. Buckley has served as a visiting professor in the U.S. at Duke, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Southern California, he is a journalist and recognized critic of Spanish narrative. Buckley leads the Mare Nostrum Orientation Seminar and teaches courses on Spanish and comparative literature.
Dympna Callaghan
Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Callaghan's teaching and research interests include feminism, early modern culture and theory. She is author and editor of seven books and 35 articles, and has particular expertise in Shakespeare and poetry and drama of the Renaissance. She is also an appointed member of the Humanities Council in The College of Arts and Sciences. Between 1999-2002, she served as the William P. Tolley Distinguished Professor in the Humanities. Contact...
Margarita Cantarero
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Titulada Superior in Hispanic philology, University Complutense, Madrid. Teaches advanced grammar, phonetics and composition courses.
John Caputo
Professor, Religion
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor Caputo specializes in continental philosophy of religion, working on approaches to religion and theology in the light of contemporary phenomenology, hermeneutics and deconstruction, and also the presence in continental philosophy of radical religious and theological motifs. He has special interests in the "religion without religion" of Jacques Derrida; the "theological turn" taken in recent French phenomenology (Jean-Luc Marion and others); the critique of onto-theology; the question of post-modernism as "post-secularism;" the dialogue of contemporary philosophy with St. Augustine; the recent interest shown by philosophers in St. Paul; the link between Kierkegaard and deconstruction; Heidegger's early theological writings on Paul and Augustine; "secular" and "death of God " theology; medieval metaphysics and mysticism. He is currently working on the notion of the "weakness of God." He conducts a series of biennial conferences on these themes, the first of which (April, 2005) will be entitled "St. Paul Among the Philosophers." Recently, two books have appeared about his work: A Passion for the Impossible: John D. Caputo in Focus, ed. Mark Dooley (SUNY Press, 2002) and Religion With/Out Religion: The Prayers and Tears of John D. Caputo, ed. Ed. James Olthius (Routledge, 2002). Prof. Caputo joined the department in Fall, 2004 after retiring from Villanova University where he taught from 1968 to 2004.
Jeffrey Carnes
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Teaches Ancient Greek and Latin
Theo Cateforis
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Theo Cateforis is an Assistant Professor of Music History and Cultures in the Fine Arts Department at Syracuse University. His research is in the areas of American Music, Popular Music Studies and Twentieth-Century Art Music. Professor Cateforis’s publications include the edited anthology The Rock History Reader (Routledge, 2007) and a forthcoming book Are We Not New Wave? Popular Music and Modernity at the Turn of the 1980s (University of Michigan Press). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Music, The Journal of Popular Music Studies and Ethnomusicology and in the collections Musics of Multicultural America (Schirmer, 1997) and Progressive Rock Reconsidered (Routledge, 2002). He has also delivered papers at the meetings of the American Musicological Society, American Studies Association, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Society for American Music, Society for Ethnomusicology, Feminist Theory and Music and numerous other conferences. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Cateforis has been a regular “record reviews” contributor to the highly regarded rock music magazine The Big Takeover since 1994.
Sandra Chai
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1989. Modern American art, Modern European art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, Dada and Surrealism
Craige Champion
Associate Professor, History
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1993. Ancient Greek and Roman History, Greek and Roman Historiography, Ethnic Identity Formation in Classical Antiquity, Politics of Culture in Ancient Greece and Rome, Greek Democracy and Republican Rome, Imperialism in Classical Antiquity
Sara Chetin
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., University of Kent (England). Associate Professor and Director of the Honors Program at Richmond, the American International University, London. Chetin's research interests include Third World women's writing, Post-Colonial literature, globalization and literature.
Tania Chiaromonte
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. Université de Strasbourg. Teaches French language.
Giorgio Ciucci
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor of History of Architecture at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura in Venice (I.U.A.V.) from 1971-1996; Chairman, School of Architecture (1980-1983); Member of the Presidential Board (1992-1995); Director, Ph.D. Program (1994-1996). Since 1996, Professor of History of Architecture at School of Architecture, University of Roma 3. Formerly, Visiting Professor at M.I.T. (1976, 1984) and Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York (1978, 1979); at the G.S.D., Harvard University (1985, 1986, 1988, 1989); and at the Polytechnic of Zurich (1993-94). Ciucci is the author of numerous books and essays on Rome and on the history of 20th century architecture. He is also a writer and editor for Italian and foreign magazines as well as and scientific editor of exhibition catalogs. Ciucci teaches Italian Renaissance and modern architectural history for the M.Arch II program and Survey of Italian Architecture, 1909-1959. Contact...
Matthew Cleary
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. University of Chicago, Democratization and Democratic Theory, Ethnic politics and ethnic conflict, Latin American Politics. Contact...
Cathleen Compton
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Political Economy/Development and International Politics. Recipient of Landy Foundation Fellowship. Compton teaches a course in international organizations Contact...
Christopher Cook
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A., Honors, U. of Cambridge. Producer and Director for BBC Television and Radio; scriptwriter and film critic for The Listener Magazine. Cook has worked extensively for the media in the UK, including producing arts magazine programs and documentaries for BBC Radios 2, 3, 4, and 5 and BBC World Service. Cook teaches a television/radio/film course at SULC and lectures in "Politics and Media in England" summer program Contact...
Jennifer Cook
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
William Coplin
Professor, Public Affairs
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
William D. Coplin, Ph.D. is currently a Professor of Public Affairs and the Director of the Public Affairs Program of the Maxwell School in Syracuse University. He received his B.A. in Social Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1960, and his M.A. (1962) and Ph.D.(1964) in International Relations from American University.
Dr. Coplin has published more than fifty books and articles in the fields of international relations, public policy analysis, political risk analysis and social science education Contact...
Mariadonata Costantini
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Laurea cum laude in English Literature, University of Chieti; laurea cum laude in Linguistics, University of Firenze. Specialization in the Methodology of Teaching Italian as a Second Language and Teaching Italian Literature to Foreigners, Università per Stranieri di Perugia. Fellowship: Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica of the Italian Government for post-graduate specialization (1991). Costantini is a visiting professor for Università per Stranieri di Perugia; Georgetown University, Washington D.C.; and Tokyo University of Foreign Language, Tokyo, Japan (1996-1998). Costantini has been teaching Italian as a second language at Syracuse University in Florence since 1989 including a course on Contemporary Italian Language and Society since 1999. Constantini is the author of numerous articles, and holds teacher training courses for the acquisition of Italian as a second language in primary and secondary schools. Contact...
John Crowe
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., U. of Cambridge; M.Sc. in Business Administration, Bath University. Business Studies advisor and visiting lecturer at several institutions, including Colleges of Art and Design, City University and City Polytechnic. Crow is the former head of Management Studies at Royal College of Art. He teaches a fashion retailing course for SULC Contact...
Angelo D'Agostino
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Renee de Nevers
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Renée de Nevers is an Assistant Professor in Public Administration at The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Previously she taught at the University of Oklahoma, and was a Program Officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She has been a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her research interests are international security, with a current focus on sovereignty and the war on terror. Her book, Comrades No More: the Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe, was published by the MIT Press in 2003. Contact...
Barbara Deimling
DIPA-Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Antonina Distefano
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Laurinda Dixon
Professor of Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Laurinda Dixon, a professor at Syracuse University since 1982, teaches a variety of courses, from the large, introductory Arts & Ideas lecture to specialized graduate seminars. She teaches Ancient art, Northern Renaissance art, Women in Art, and various other courses on art and science and art and music for the Department of Fine Arts. Professor Dixon's background is interdisciplinary, including a degree from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and a Ph.D. in art history from Boston University. Her scholarly specialty is the relationship of art and science before the Enlightenment, and she lectures widely on the subject at Universities and Museums throughout the world. Her many articles in such journals as The Art Bulletin, Oud Holland, and Gazette des Beaux-Arts address the relationship of art to such subjects as chemistry, cartography, and gynecology. Professor Dixon has edited and authored nine books, most recently Hieronymous Bosch (Phaidon Press, 2003), In Sickness and in Health: Disease as Metaphor in Art (University of Delaware Press, 2003), and Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine (Cornell University Press, 1995). She has been honored by the College of Arts and Sciences as the William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. Contact...
Kwame Dixon
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Visiting Professor, African American Studies, Syracuse University. Professor David Kwame Dixon received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Clark-Atlanta University. He was a Blaustein Human Rights Fellow in 1989 and a Ralph Bunche Human Rights Fellow from June 1988 to January 1990. Currently a visiting professor in SU's African American Studies program, Professor Dixon also teaches political science courses for the Division of International Programs Abroad, including the summer program, "From Dictatorship to Democracy: Civil Rights in Spain." Contact...
Robert Dodds
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Luis Dorrego
Instructor, DIPA- Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate and Professor of Spanish theater, University Complutense, Madrid, cinematographer and director of professional theatre. Teaches courses on Spanish cinema
Michal Downie
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Joseph Downing
DIPA- Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Joseph Downing received his Doctor of Music degree in Composition from Northwestern University and did his undergraduate work at Brigham Young University. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists.
His compositions have received numerous awards, including the Ostwald Award of the American Bandmaster’s Association. He has received commissions from such organizations as the American Guild of Organists, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Barlow Foundation and has participated in several ‘Meet the Composer’ projects.
Contact...
Ciaran Driver
Lecturer DIPA-London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Economics, CNAA 1984, external supervision, U. of Cambridge. M.Sc. in Economics, U. of London; M.A. in Systems Engineering, U. of Lancaster; B.E., Electrical Engineering, National University of Ireland. Driver was previously Economic Advisor at the NEDO. Consultant to the DTI, NEDO, WRC, the Irish National Economic and Social Council and to a number of private firms. Teaches a course on international economics for SULC. Contact...
Sue Dunderdale
Lecturer DIPA-London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Joint honors degree in English and Drama, U. of Manchester. Arts Council Drama Director and Artistic Director Soho Theatre Company and Greenwich Theatre. Dunderdale is a Freelance TV and film director. She founded Pentabus touring company. Selected for BBC Director course. Team-teaches a drama/women's studies course for SULC. Contact...
Matteo Duni
Lecturer DIPA-Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence. Grants and fellowships: Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, École française de Rome, Università di Firenze, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti. Duni is the author of: “Tra religione e magia. Storia del prete modenese Guglielmo Campana (1460?-1541)” (1999). His other publications include articles in various historical journals as well as contributions to collective volumes. Duni is currently writing a volume on the history of magic, witchcraft and the Inquisition in Renaissance Italy
Dennis Earle
Assistant Professor, Interior Design, School of Art and Design
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.Arch. University of Pennsylvania Contact...
Michael Ebner
Assistant Professor, History
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004
History of modern Europe, Italy, Fascism, and political violence. Contact...
Michael Echeruo
Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
William Safire Professor of Modern Letters. Shakespeare, African literature and Culture, and literary theory Contact...
Rosa Escobar
Adjunct Professor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Kathy Everly
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Kathy Everly has published Catalan Women Writers and Artists: A Revisionist View from a Feminist Space (2003) with Bucknell University Press. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in Revista monográfica, Letras peninsulares and Catalan Review.She is an active member of the North American Catalan Society, Asociación Internacional de Literature Femenina Hispánica, Instituto Cervantes and the MLA. Contact...
Charles Ewell
Adjunct Professor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Florida State University; M.A., University of Virginia; B.A., Yale University. Associate Director, Excavations at Cetamura del Chianti (1990-2001). Ewell teaches Etruscan and Roman Art and Archaeology and Ancient Greek Mythology and Religion. Contact...
Sandra Faulkner
Assistant Professor DIPA Madrid/London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State University. Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies, Syracuse University. Faulkner teaches courses on presentational speaking and sexual communication in Madrid (fall 2005) and London (spring 2006).. Contact...
Angela Fernandez
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Fernandez teaches Religion, Magic and Popular Culture.
Javier Fernandez
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
MBA, IESE, Barcelona. Product Manager at Terra Lycos in Madrid. Teaches Corporation Finance..
Jose Miguel Fernandez-Dols
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Doctorate in educational psychology, University Complutense, Madrid. Professor of social psychology, Autónoma University, Madrid. Fernandez-Dols teaches cross-cultural psychology Contact...
Maria Fernandez-Shaw
Director of Spanish DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Medieval art and museology, University Complutense, Madrid. Teaches Spanish painting in the Prado Museum for several American programs at the University of Madrid. Fernandez-Shaw teaches courses on art history and the arts of Spain. Contact...
Carmen Fleta
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Licenciada in Spanish philology, Central University of Barcelona. Project director for Spanish/North American Committee on Language Teaching (1984-90). Teacher- trainer for Spanish and foreign languages, Ministry of Education. Fleta teaches Spanish language classes.
Michael Fosmire
Instructor DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Doctoral candidate in English, University Complutense, Madrid. Adjunct professor of English language and American literature, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid. Fosmire teaches a creative writing course.
Antonella Francini
Instructor DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. and M.A. in English Literature, Drew University (Madison, N.J.); Laurea in Modern Languages and Literature, University of Florence, Italy. Francini has authored several publications on Italian and American authors and articles on translation, travel literature, and comparative poetry which have appeared in various academic journals. Contact...
Wayne Franits
Professor, Chair, Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph. D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Wayne Franits is a specialist in seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish art. He is the author of Paragons of Virtue; Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth- Century Dutch Art (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting; Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution (Yale University Press, 2004). Moreover, Franits served as editor for Looking at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art; Realism Reconsidered (Cambridge University Press, 1997) and The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer (Cambridge University Press, 2001). And between 1998-2005, Franits was the series editor for Cambridge University Press's former book series, Cambridge Studies in Netherlandish Visual Culture. In addition, he has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews in journals, books, and exhibition catalogues both in the United States and in Europe. Contact...
Ken Frieden
Professor, Religion
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Yale University. Professor Frieden teaches Judaic Literature, specializing in Yiddish and Hebrew texts. He is the Director of the Judaic Studies Program and has held the B.G. Rudolph Chair in Judaic Studies at Syracuse University since 1993. He also directs a series, Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art, at Syracuse University Press. Contact...
Amber Gebicke
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
J.D., University of Alabama School of Law. Comusnaveur, Dept. of Defense, United States Navy, London. Adjunct Professor of Sociology/Pre-law and Communications, Hawaii Pacific University, 2002. Gebicke's teaching interests include legal history, legal writing, constitutional law, women in law, and British law.
Peter Gilbert
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., University of Essex. Gilbert is Freelance writer, critic and reviewer. Gilbert has published poetry, articles and reviews in a variety of magazines. His first novel, Laughter in a Dark Wood, published in 1999. He is currently working on sequel.
Maria Gomez
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate in Spanish Philology, Universidad Alcalá de Henares. Gomez teaches Spanish language classes.
Mike Goode
Assistant Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. University of Chicago. His teaching and research interests include: British Romantic Literature and Culture; History of the Novel; Early Victorian Literature and Culture; Historiography (history & theory of history-writing); Heritage Industry; Conspiracy; Poststructuralist Critical Theory; Gender Studies Contact...
Gerald Greenberg
Associate Dean of the Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Associate Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Slavic Studies, Cornell University. Associate Professor of Russian. Contact...
Jean-Philippe Grille
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., D.E.A. in Geography, Université de Dijon, Agrégation de Géographie. Grille teaches contemporary French history. Contact...
Erika Haber
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Michigan. Professor Haber teaches Russian language classes as well as courses on 19th and 20th century Russian literature, culture, film, journalism, fairy tales and folklore. She has published four books: The Myth of the Non-Russian: Iskander and Aitmatov's Magical Universe (2003); Russian-English/English-Russian Dictionary and Phrasebook (2003); Mastering Russian (1994); and Russian Phrasebook and Dictionary (1991, 2nd ed. 1994, reprinted 1998). Her research interests center on post-Stalinist literature, especially the stylistics of non-Russian authors writing in Russian. She is currently studying the writings of Anatolii Kim, a contemporary Russian-Korean author as well as working on a project dealing with subversive Soviet fairy tales for adults.
Miguel Jose Hagerty Fox
Instructor, DIPA- Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., University of Granada. Adjunct Professor of Arabic at the School of Interpreters and Translators, University of Granada. Hagarty teaches a course on Arabic words and letters of al-Andalus Contact...
Catherine Haill
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., Art History; B.A., English. Curator with the Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, with extensive acting experience. Lecturer on theatre history and specialist in popular entertainment. Books include Theatre Posters, Illustrated Music Sheets, and Fun Without Vulgarity - Edwardian Theatre Posters. Contributor to the Dictionary of National Biography. Teaches a drama course for SULC. Contact...
Jack Hanning
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Advanced degrees, Oxford University. Former Head of the Media and Public Relations Department at the Council of Europe. Hanning is currently Head of Relations with International Organizations. He teaches a communications course
Dennis Harrod
Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Spanish language coordinator Contact...
Robert Hatfield
Professor DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Harvard. Fulbright Scholar. Fellow, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti. Hatfield is the former director of the Florence Seminar on archival research of the Renaissance Society of America. Author of Botticelli's Uffizi Adoration: A Study in Pictorial Content and The Wealth of Michelangelo, as well as numerous articles in Art Bulletin, Journal of the Warburg Courtauld Institute, and other scholarly journals. Teaches both graduate and undergraduate art history courses. Coordinates undergraduate and graduate Fine Arts Programs. Contact...
Brooks Haxton
Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Brooks Haxton has published five collections of poems with Alfred A. Knopf: Dominion, Traveling Company, The Sun at Night, Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero, and Uproar. His two book-length narrative poems are The Lay of Eleanor and Irene and Dead Reckoning. As a translator, he has published two collections from the ancient Greek, Fragments: The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus and Dances for Flute and Thunder, and a bicentennial selection of poems by Victor Hugo, all three from Viking Penguin. His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C. Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
Contact...
Susan Henderson
Associate Professor, Architecture DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Columbia University, History of Architecture. Associate Professor of Architecture at Syracuse University. Henderson teaches the Pre-Architecture program in Florence. Contact...
Carmela Hernandez
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Doctorate, Spanish language and literature, University Complutense, Madrid. Ph.D. in Spanish literature, New York University. Hernandez teaches Spanish language and literature courses.
Samantha Herrick
Assistant Professor, History
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. History - Medieval Europe, Harvard University. Medieval European History, Saints and Hagiography, Memory, Literacy, Power, Fraud. Contact...
Peter Herzog
Crandall Melvin Professor of Law Emeritus
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor Herzog was a New York assistant attorney general, Columbia University Project on International Procedure staff member, and New York State Joint Legislative Committee on Metropolitan Area Studies staff member. He was associate director of the Columbia University Project on European Legal Institutions, consultant to the New York Commission on Eminent Domain, and a visiting professor at the universities of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne), Dijon, and Fribourg. He writes and co-writes many books and articles on comparative law, conflicts of law, the European Communities, and torts. Professor Herzog received the Chancellor’s Citation for Academic Excellence in 1983. Contact...
Lanna Hollo
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
LL.B. McGill University, Montreal; M.A. University of Toronto. Consultant in the Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, Council of Europe. Hollo specializes in international law, human rights law and minority rights law. She teaches a course on diversity and a summer course on human rights
Eric Holzwarth
Assistant Dean for Religion
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Eric Holzwarth pursued French hermeneutical theory with the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur at the University of Chicago, receiving his Ph.D. in Religion and Literature in 1985. He has traveled extensively in India, and retains strong family ties there. His academic interests include hermeneutics (interpretation theory), literary theory, and modern religious thought. He enjoys long walks with his family, running, skiing, and reading, and lively conversations with students. He attends lectures, concerts, plays, and dance performances as often as he can. He is also Part-time Assistant Professor of Religion. Contact...
Rodney Hudson
Assistant Professor, Drama
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
A professional actor for more than 25 years, he has performed in the major regional theaters in the United States, including as a company member with the famed American Repertory Theatre, Harvard University. As a soloist, singing the Broadway repertoire, he has sung with major orchestras, including the Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and the Houston Symphony. Expertise in Dramatic Scene Study and Musical Theater Performance. Contact...
Richared Ingersoll
Instructor, DIPA Italy
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Paul Isbell
Instructor- DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., University of Dar es Salaam and B.S.F.S., Edmund G. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Isbell is an essayist and journalist, economic journalist, and lecturer in Economics and International Affairs at University of Alcalá, Antonio Nebrija University and various American programs. Teaches economics and political science class for SU Madrid.
Steven Jeppesen
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
MFA, Goldsmiths College, University of London; BA (Honours), Canterbury College of Art.
Eric Johnson
Assistant Professor; Co-Chair, Voice Department
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Eric Johnson, co-chair of the voice department and director of the Opera Workshop at the Setnor School of Music, earned an artium baccalaureus (bachelor of arts) cum laude from Harvard University and a master of music degree from Indiana University. A bass, Mr. Johnson has appeared in more than 150 professional opera productions in an international career that has spanned more than 20 years. He has been heard on the stages of the Washington Opera, Dallas Opera, Cleveland Opera, and the Chicago Opera Theatre among many other American houses. He spent 10 years in Europe, where he was lead bass of the Stadttheater Giessen in Germany and made numerous guest appearances including those in Leipzig, Santo Domingo, Wiesbaden, Wupperthal, and Freiburg. Concert credits include the New York Philharmonic, St. Luke’s Chamber Orchestra, and Rochester Philharmonic. Mr. Johnson has worked with leading conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Zubin Mehta, John Nelson, Mark Elder, and Kurt Mazur. A frequent performer with the Syracuse Opera, he made his Syracuse Symphony debut in 2003 and continues an active performing schedule. Mr. Johnson is a student of the eminent New York voice teacher Armen Boyajian. Other important teaching influences include Jean Deis, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, John Wustman, John Moriarty, and Ralph Appleman. As director of the SU Opera Workshop since 2001, he annually produces and directs fully-staged productions featuring mostly undergraduate casts, including Dido and Aeneas, The Gondoliers, Gianni Schicchi, and Figaro’s Wedding, his own adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro. n 2006, more than one dozen members of Opera Workshop traveled to Florence to participate in the world premiere of Snow White by Luigi Zaninelli at the famous Maggio Musicale.
Seth Jolly
Associate Professor, Political Science
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Dr. Jolly is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. He received his Ph.D. from the Political Science department at Duke University in 2006 and graduated from Centre College in 1998. He was formerly an Instructor and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago where he taught International Political Economy and European Union courses in the master's program. At Syracuse, he teaches European politics, comparative political parties, and ethnic conflict and does research on regionalist political parties in Europe, political institutions and political economy.
Harold Jones
Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor Jones’s research has focused primarily on Golden Age bibliography (books and manuscripts in the Barberini Collection of the Vatican Library), medieval and Golden Age poetry (Juan Ruiz, “ Soneto a Cristo crucificado”), drama (Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón, “ comedias sueltas”), and prose ( Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quixote). He has also worked on other topics, such as Jorge Luis Borges, English medieval texts, Christopher Columbus, translation, language pedagogy, and Latino literature.
He has published two books and some thirty articles, and has read ten conference papers beside those that have appeared in print. In recognition of his investigations in the Vatican Library he was elected a corresponding member of The Hispanic Society of America. He has been supported by several grants, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a Fulbright Scholarship. Professor Jones is currently working on two projects, a book on Jorge Luis Borges and the novel, and an annotated catalog of Hispanic books in the Vatican Library, excluding those in the Barberini collection. Contact...
Bevan Jones
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A., U. of London. Media consultant. Former Policy Advisor to the Home Secretary. Jones freelanced for British Film Institute, regional government, and in television. She teaches communications courses and supervises internships at SULC. Contact...
Catherine Jordy
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. A specialist in 19th and 20th century painting, Jordy's most recent publication is L’Alsace vue par ses peintres. Jordy teaches art history and cinema courses. Contact...
Mary Karr
Trustee Professor, English
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Mary Karr's four volumes of poetry are Sinners Welcome,Viper Rum (New Directions), The Devil's Tour, and Abacus. Her poems and essays have won Pushcart prizes and have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Parnassus. Her memoir, The Liar's Club, was a New York Times bestseller for more than a year and was selected as one of the best books of 1995 by many periodicals, including The New Yorker, Time, People, and Entertainment Weekly. Cherry (Viking), her follow up to The Liar's Club, was a bestseller for The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle, and was named "Best Book" of 2000 by Entertainment Weekly, Us, and Amazon.com. She was a Bunting Fellow at Radcliffe College and is now the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry in 2004.
Thomas Kattau
Instructor, DIPA- Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. and Doctorate in Law, University of Bremen, (Germany). Former Human Rights Representative of the Council of Europe in Chechnya. Kattau is currently responsible for developing and implementing Council of Europe assistance programs for central and eastern Europe in the filed of social policies. Teaches a course on social policy in Europe.
William Kavanagh
Instructor-DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Oxford University. Professor of anthropology at Comillas University, Madrid. Kavanagh teaches anthropology for the Center for International Studies, the Ortega and Gasset Founda-tion, and the Syracuse University program in Madrid. Contact...
Malcom Keir
Instructor DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., U. of Essex, B.A., U. of Keele. Former Senior Lecturer in Politics, Thames Valley University, London and Visiting Tutor in Government, The Open University. Keir has run twice for Parliament in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographics Society, as well as a journalist and broadcaster. Keir teaches courses on government for SULC and lectures on public policy issues for summer seminar, "Politics and Media in London." Contact...
Yong Kim
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Yong Kim's primary interests have been morphosyntactic analyses of second language and bilingual speech contexts. Currently she is working on several research projects about code switching, acquisition of third or fourth language, L2 Spanish in the US, Canada, and Brazil, and Processing Input Instruction and Focus on Form applied to L2 pedagogy. Contact...
Claudia Klaver
Associate Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University. Nineteenth-Century British Literature and Culture, Victorian Studies (cross-disciplinary with literature, history, and gender studies), Women's Studies and Gender Studies, Feminist Theory, Postcolonial criticism and theory, Queer Theory, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Poststructuralist Critical Theory Contact...
Carlotta Kliemann
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. in Drama History from Bologna University, Italy. Kliemann is a regular contributor of essays on film and reviews to Psicologia contemporanea. She teaches Italian cinema, a film course in women's studies and a course on contemporary international cinema. Contact...
Jaklin Kornfilt
Associate Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Peter Koveos
Professor, Whitman School of Management
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University. Professor Koveos is interested in exploring international financial market behavior, especially as it pertains to economic systems in transition. His current work is on the theory and practice of financial system reform. Much of his research is focused on Asia in general, and China and Shanghai in particular. Koveos is editor of the Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, housed in the Whitman School. Contact...
Louis Kriesberg
Professor Emeritus, Sociology
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Louis Kriesberg (Ph.D. 1953, University of Chicago) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, and founding director of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (1986–1994), all at Syracuse University. In addition to over 125 book chapters and articles, his published books include: Constructive Conflicts (1998, 2003, 2007), International Conflict Resolution (1992), Timing the De-Escalation of International Conflicts (co-ed., 1991), Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformation (co-ed., 1989), Social Conflicts (1973, 1982), Social Inequality (1979), Mothers in Poverty (1970), Social Processes in International Relations (ed., 1968), and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (ed., Vols. 1-14, 1978-1992). He was President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (1983–1984), and he lectures, consults, and provides training regarding conflict resolution, security issues, and peace studies.
Dieter Kuhl
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Chris Kyle
Associate Professor, History
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Interests include the topnomology, society, law and culture of Westminster and London, and the social history of Parliaments in early modern Britain.
Victor Lazarow
Associate Professor, Drama
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. University of Georgia. Member, Actors' Equity Association. Concentrates on Acting and Theater History. Directs Department of Drama productions.. Contact...
Roberto Leporatti
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Doctorate in Literature, University of Pavia. Leporatti has published two books and numerous articles. He teaches Early Italian Literature for the SU Florence Center.
Anthony Lewis
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor Lewis's primary areas of research and expertise are in the fields of Spanish Phonetics and Phonology. His most recent research is in Variationist Theory, in particular the utility of Corpus Linguistics to augment our understanding of language variation and sound change. Contact...
Meredith Lillich
Professor of Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Meredith Lillich is the recipient of the Wasserstrom Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching 1987 and the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement 1999. She is a member of Corpus Vitrearum (international organization to study stained glass). She has received fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; the National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts; the National Endowment for Humanities; the American Council of Learned Societies; as well as a Fulbright Grant for research (Paris). Her books include The Queen of Sicily & Gothic Stained Glass in Mussy & Tonnerre (1998); The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France 1250-1325 (1994)(Getty Publication Award); Rainbow Like an Emerald: Stained Glass in Lorraine in the 13th & Early 14th Centuries (1991)(College Art Association monograph); The Stained Glass of Saint-Pere de Chartres (1978)(Meiss Publication Award, CAA). She is the editor of the series Studies in Cistercian Art and Architecture (1982-ongoing, vols I-V have appeared). She has published articles in Art Bulletin; Gesta; Studies in Iconography; Cahiers archeologiques; Zeitschrift fuer Kunstgeschichte; Metropolitan Museum Journal; Journal of Medieval History; Traditio; Archivum Heraldicum; Burlington Magazine; Gazette des beaux-arts; Journal of Society of Architectural Historians; Journal of Glass Studies (Corning); International Congress of the History of Art (1986, 1992, 2000) Contact...
Anne Lous-Moise
Instructor-DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Pat Longstaff
Professor, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Dr. Longstaff is an educator and analyst specializing in the business and public policy issues affecting the communications industry in the US and internationally. Her teaching assignments at Newhouse include classes on current trends in the communications industry, global communication issues and communications law/policy. She is also a Research Associate at Harvard University's Center for Information Policy Research where she works on issues of global communications policy. Her most recent work there involves the role of communications in the resilience of local populations who suffer a "surprise" such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster. She is also a member of the US State Department Advisory Committee on International Communications Policy, and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society. In addition to a law degree and a master's degree in mass communication form the University of Iowa, she received a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard in 1994. She practiced communication and corporate law for 18 years, representing newspapers, broadcasters, advertising agencies, and telephone companies. Her most recent book, The Communications Toolkit: How to Build or Regulate Any Communications Business, was published by MIT Press in 2002.
Santiago Manzarbeitia
Instructor, DIPA- Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., University of Madrid. Manzarbeitia is a guide for the program and class-related study tours to the Prado and other museums in Madrid and Barcelona. Teaches classes in art history and Great Masters for Syracuse University in Spain.
Frederich Marquardt
Assistant Professor, History
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
German social, economic and labor history.
Matilde Mateo-Sevilla
Assistant Professor, VPA
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Matilde Mateo specializes in the art of the Middle Ages, with secondary interests in Classical art and romantic aesthetics. Her research focuses on how medieval art was conceptualized and perceived after the Middle Ages, and her current projects are devoted to the ideological manipulation of Spanish medieval art as a weapon in the shaping of a national identity. Prof. Mateo was born in Spain, where she lived, got her Ph.D. in Medieval Art (University of Santiago de Compostela, 1994), and worked as a professor (University of Vigo), until she moved to the U.S. in 1997. Contact...
John Mathiason
Professor, International Relations
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
John Mathiason is a Professor of International Relations, teaching distance collaboration courses in International Public and NGO Management and in Evaluation of International Programs and Projects. He has been Program Manager for International Education and Distance Learning in the Executive Education Program of the Maxwell School, where he facilitates courses in results-based management. He is the Director of the Geneva Practicum, a summer internship program of the Syracuse Department of International Programs Abroad. He was previously Adjunct Professor of Public Administration at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. Contact...
Sara Matthews- Grieco
Instructor- DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Matthews-Grieco is the Coordinator of the Women's and Gender Studies Syracuse University in Florence, Faculty Associate, History Department Maxwell School & Women's Studies Program. Matthews-Grieco teaches Renaissance and early modern European history with an emphasis on gender issues and a heavy reliance on early visual media as a primary source.
Edward McClennen
Professor, Philosophy
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ned McClennen has focused on foundational issues in decision and game theory, and on the application of these theories to issues in social and political philosophy, public policy, political economy, moral theory, and practical reason. At the level of foundations, his book, Rationality and Dynamic Choice (Cambridge University Press, 1990) is a critique of the various axiomatic constructions of expected-utility theory, and in a series of parallel articles he has similarly critiqued the arguments that are supposed to underpin the theory of games. He was a NEH Fellow in 1989. At the level of applications, he has written extensively and regularly taught courses on both historical and contemporary contractarian approaches to moral, social and political principles, including the works of Gauthier, Rawls and Dworkin. He is presently completing a book that explores what would qualify as a fully rational society.. Contact...
Michael McGinty
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Lecturer. London. Biography:. M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science.
Mark McGuigan
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate, Loughborough University; M.Phil., Loughborough University. Lecturer in International Security Studies at the University of Leicester. Teaches "The Ethics of War" for SULP.
Virginia McLean
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A., Peterhouse, Cambridge. McLean's professional experience includes serving on Hill & Knowlton's (UK) Board of Directors as Board's youngest member. Mclean also founded Village Public Relations and has directed this firm since 2000. She teaches an international public relations courses at SULC.
Alejandro Medina
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Alejandro Medina is professor of philosophy, literature and cultural history at the Syracuse University Center in Madrid, Spain, where he also coordinates and conducts a cultural-historical traveling seminar that studies the art and history of Medieval and Renaissance Spain. Professor Medina has specialized in Renaissance Humanism and has published on the subject of the cultural exchanges between Spain and Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries. Contact...
Judith Meighan
Assistant Professor, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Columbia University. Expertise in Art History. Contact...
Montgomery Meigs
Senior Faculty Advisor, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Montgomery C. Meigs, General USA Ret., is the Louis A. Bantle Professor of Business and Government Policy, and a professor of public administration. Meigs served on active duty for more than 35 years, most recently as Commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe and NATO’s peacekeeping force in Bosnia. He previously was commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth and a professor of history at the U. S. Military Academy. A military analyst for NBC News, Meigs has published various articles on military policy and leadership, as well as a book, Slide Rules and Submarines (National Defense University Press, 1990). Meigs earned his B.S. degree from the United States Military Academy, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Contact...
Isabelle Mertins
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., in French as a Second Language, Université Marc Bloch. Teaches French language.
Stephen Meyer
Associate Professor, Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Stephen Meyer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, specializing in early nineteenth-century opera. Professor Meyer's articles have appeared in The Opera Journal, the Opera Quarterly, and the Cambridge Opera Journal. He is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to Germany, and most recently, a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His article "Terror and Transcendence in the Operatic Prison, 1790-1815" will appear in the 55/3 issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society, and his book Carl Maria von Weber and the Search for a German Opera was published by Indiana University Press in January of 2003. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Meyer maintains an active performing career, serving most recently as the bass of the Concord Ensemble for their 2000-2001 and 2001-2002 seasons. He can be heard on the Ensemble's compact disc entitled "Trionfo d'Amore e della Morte: Florentine Music for a Medici Procession" (recorded with Piffaro), which appeared with Dorian Records in January of 2003.Contact...
Pilar Sanchez Millas
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
María del Pilar Sánchez Millas is from Madrid, Spain. She is a graduate student working towards a Ph.D. in European Studies, with a concentration in Spain’s foreign policy towards Europe. After graduating with a degree in Geography and History from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, she worked in Secondary Education for six years, teaching English and Contemporary History. In January 2002, with a scholarship from the Ortega y Gasset research Institute, she began teaching American college students in Madrid via the Syracuse and Saint Lawrence University Programs. She is currently combining her teaching career and the managing of three-times Minister Francisco Fernández Ordóñez’s Archives to enhance the writing of her Ph.D. dissertation and research on the Spanish Socialist idea of Europe. In the Syracuse University Center, Madrid, she is teaching PSC 300.4 Peace and Conflict: Theory and Practice, which includes a study-tour to the Basque Country through which her students interview both politicians and regular voters of the conflicting parties.
Donald Mills
Associate Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
David Milner
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. in International Relations and Strategic Studies, Lancaster University; Called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn, November 1995; Ph.D. degree candidate at the Center for Human Rights, University of Essex. Milber teaches courses on European politics and religious conflicts.
Don Mitchell
Distinguished Professor of Geography
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Dr. Mitchell specializes in issues related to migratory labor and agricultural landscapes, urban public spaces (including their privatization), the homeless and other marginal populations in U.S. cities, and cultural geography. He is the author of two books, The Lie of the Land: Migrant Workers and the California Landscape (University of Minnesota Press, 1996) and Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction (Blackwell Publishers, 2000), as well as numerous articles on public space, homelessness, migratory workers, and culture. In 1998 Mitchell was awarded a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. His research has also been supported by the National Science Foundation. Mitchell is the founder and director of The People’s Geography Project, which brings the insights of radical and critical contemporary geography to lay audiences, activists, and teachers. He earned his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992. More Info...
Patricia Moody
Associate Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Interests: English linguistics, medieval English literature, literary theory, rhetoric and composition. Contact...
Paul Moran
Instructor, DIPA Madrid/Strasbourg/Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
MBS, Smurfit Business School, Dublin. Ph.D. candidate, ICADE, Madrid. Partner, European Business Solutions. Moran teaches marketing and leads the Eurovision orientation course and the Globalization Summer Program.
Alfredo Moreno
Instructor, DIPA Madrid/Strasbourg/Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Licenciado in Political Science and Economics, University of Madrid. Moreno is a former professor of Political Economics at the National University in Bogotá, Columbia. Teaches a course on the economics of contemporary Spain and the European Union.
Carol Morley
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. in Independent Film and Video, London College of Printing. Morley is an independent, award-winning filmmaker; her work is shown internationally at festivals and on television. Visiting Tutor in Fine Art in Central St. Martins School of Art and regular guest lecturer at The National Film and Television School. Teaches courses on images of women in the media and Video Sketchbook: London Lives for SULC and co-directs the summer program "London Through the Lens."
Forbes Morlock
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Candidate, U. of Oxford. B.A., Yale University. Pulications in critical theory, Marxism, and art history. Contributing editor, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. Teaches English and textual studies courses for SU London Program and leads the pre-semester seminar in Scotland.
Peter Mortenson
Associate Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Interests: Renaissance English literature, culture of the Industrial Revolution. Contact...
Clifford Mould
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
BA, Open University (UK); LRAM, Royal Academy of Music. Principal Lecturer (retired), University of Greenwich (UK). Guildford Cathedral Choir 1963-70 and 1992 - 2001 St Paul's Cathedral Choir 1978-83; The Monteverdi Choir 1966-92; Tenor soloist with The Praetorius Consort of London 1975-1983. Mould appeared as tenor soloist in London at the South Bank, Wigmore Hall, St John's Smith Square, and at major music festivals in the UK, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Holland, Spain, Austria, Yugoslavia, Italy - including Musikverein Vienna, Salzburg Festival and La Scala Milan. Teaches London Classical Music Scene.
Ellen Newman
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism. Diploma in Acting from Central School of Speech and Drama, London. Voice faculty at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Newman teaches theories and issues of modern stage for SULC. Contact...
Eric Nicholson
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Yale University. Numerous fellowships including: Fulbright, grants from Villa I Tatti, Nicholson has published numerous articles on Renaissance drama, including “Romance as Role Model: Early Female Performances of Ariosto and Tasso” in Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (Duke UP, 2000). Nicholson teaches a theater workshop and the history of Italian comedy.
Carmel Nicoletti
Instructor, VPA
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Catherine Nock
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Charles Noel
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Princeton University. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Noel has taught at U.S. and British universities and published articles in leading American, British and Spanish journals on 18th Century Politics and Culture. He has contributed to several jointly-authored books. Currently teaches English history at SULC.
Tomas Nunez Cabezon
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
MBA, The Anderson School at UCLA. Teaches Marketing in Spain and the U.S.
Jay O'Connor
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A. (Hons.) London Guildhall University. O'Connor has been employed in public relations for over ten years, specializing in the promotion throughout Europe of technology products. O'Connor is the co-founder and managing partner of Fuse PR, an award-winning public relations consultancy for technology businesses. Teaches a public relations course at SULP.
Sylvia Oelsner
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Jose Ojeda
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Michael O'Leary
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Vicente Palacio
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid. Palacio teaches a course in international relations for SU/Madrid.
Maria Paladino
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., D.E.A. in Romance Languages, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. Paladino teaches French language courses.
Augustus Pallotta
Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor of Italian Contact...
Caterina Paolucci
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Laurea in Political Science and International Relations, Milan Catholic University; enrolled in Ph. D. program at the European University Institute, Florence. Numerous publications on political issues, including the political party of "Forza Italia". Contact...
Maria del Mar Pastor
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology, University of Madrid. Pastor teaches Spanish language and literature for several American programs in Spain. Pastor also trains teachers of Spanish as a second language at the University of Alcalá de Henares. Teaches intermediate language courses.
Agata Pavone
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Natalia Piombino
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate in Italian History, Royal Holloway, University of London. M.A. in Italian Studies, UCL, London. Postgraduate studies in Modern and Contemporary Italy and in Problems and Methods of Historical Research, University of Florence. Laurea cum laude in Political Science, University of Florence. Research grants: Central Research Fund, University of London. Publications include: Focus on the Family: Germi’s Cinema as a Map of a Country in Transition. Has taught "Italian Cinema, 1945-55". Currently teaches Modern Italian History at SU in Florence.
Elena Postigo
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Doctorate in history, professor of modern and contemporary history, and assistant dean for international relations at the Universidad Autónoma, Madrid. Postigo teaches classes in European, Spanish and Latin American history at the Autónoma, and on American history and the history of women in Spain for Syracuse University in Spain.
Witt Raczka
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Political Science/International Relations, Graduate Institute of International Studies (Geneva); M.A. in International Economics, University of Gdansk (Poland). Raczka teaches courses in history and political science.
Gary Radke
Professor, Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Gary M. Radke is professor of Fine Arts at Syracuse University . A fellow of the American Academy in Rome , he has received fellowship support from the Mellon Foundation, Kress Foundation, ACLS, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, among others. His publications include Viterbo: Profile of a Thirteenth-Century Papal Palace ( Cambridge , 1997) and, with John T. Paoletti, Art in Renaissance Italy, 3rd edition ( London and New York , 2005), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Italian Renaissance architecture and sculpture. He is past president of the Italian Art Society and guest curator for exhibitions of Italian art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta . In 2001 he was guest curator of "Michelangelo: Drawings and other Treasures from the Casa Buonarroti, Florence ". In 2005 he curated “Verrocchio's David Restored” (the exhibition website is accessible at http://www.high.org/david) and is currently at work on a special project regarding the restoration of Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise (see press release from SUNews). Professor Radke's success in the classroom has been recognized by his being named a Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and winning the William Wasserstrom Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching in 2005. In Spring 2006 he is teaching a course on the synergies of historic preservation and sustainable design with a professor in the Whitman School of Management and another on Leonardo da Vinci as artist and engineer with a colleague in Civil Engineering. Contact...
Karen Reid
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A., Oxford University. Called to the Bar in 1983. Legal Officer at the European Court of Human Rights; member of the European Commission of Human Rights. Reid is the author of The Practitioner's Guide to the European Convention on Human Rights. Teaches a course on human rights.
Norman Reuter
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.Sc. in Architectural History; Diploma in Architecture. Reuter is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Extensive experience in architectural practice as well as teaching and designing architectural tours. Teaches a course on the history of London through architecture for SULC.
Nicole Riccardi
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
William C. Ritchie is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Syracuse University. He is co-editor with Tej K. Bhatia of the Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (Academic Press, 1996) and of the Handbook of Child Language Acquisition (Academic Press, 1999). He is co-author with Bhatia of several papers and articles on code-switching and second language acquisition. His area of research is second language acquisition. Other interests include lower-division undergraduate education.
William Ritchie
Associate Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Dennis Romano
Professor, History
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Specializes in Medieval and Renaissance Italy, Early Modern Europe, Venice. Contact...
Francis Rosenstiel
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Doctorate in International Law. Director of the Forum for Democracy at the Council of Europe. Supervises student internships at the Council. Contact...
James Ross
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder. Ross teaches courses on U.S. foreign policy and global perspectives on the media.
Annalisa Rossi
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Masters in Communication and Media, University of Florence. Rossi is Vice President of the Associazione della Comunicazione Toscana; press office and PR for the Centro Studi Uomo-Macchina (CSMU); and consultant for the master course in multimedia at the University of Florence and RAI. Ed., The Techniques of Translation from Italian into English (1991); Italian Grammar Notes (1996); and wrote various articles in Italy and Italy (1992). Writer of 21 episodes for RAI on media in the 20th century in, The Italian Culture in the 20th Century (1998). Teaches Italian language and an Italian language seminar on Mass Communication.
Gerlinde Sanford
Associate Professor, Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Gerlinde Ulm Sanford received her Ph.D. degree in German and Romance Languages from the University of Vienna in Austria. After a few years as Research Assistant at the University of Marburg / Lahn in Germany, she went to Mississippi State University in the USA. Since 1968 she has been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in German for the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University in the USA. She has published a dictionary of Viennese professional names (Wörterbuch alter Wiener Berufsnamen); Andreas Gryphius: Aemilius Paulus Papinianus (text edition and commentary); a concordance for Schiller's philosophical and esthetic writings (Konkordanz zu Schillers philosophischen und aesthetischen Schriften); and numerous essays on modern Austrian writers, including Barbara Frischmuth, Michael Köhlmeier, Felix Mitterer, Robert Schindel, Werner Schwab, Peter Turrini, Josef Weinheber. Her areas of interest are linguistic studies, Goethe, and modern Austrian literature. Presently she is editing and commenting the correspondence between Goethe and his son August.
Elena Sanchez
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Scoula Superiore di Studi Storici, University of San Merino. Adjunct professor in at the Autónoma University of Madrid. Teaches a course on contemporary European history. Contact...
Susana Sartarelli
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Jaun Schehtman
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Economic analyst and consultant. Teaches an economics course on London's Financial Markets at SULC. Contact...
Donatella Sparti
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Sparti is the author of two books and over thirty articles on Italian seventeenth-century art. Teaches art history for SULC. Contact...
Kathryn Spellman
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London. Spellman is the author of Religion and Nation: Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in London. Teaches at Richmond International University and Huron University. SULC courses include "Migration and Diaspora" and "Religion, Identity and Power."
Jacquelyn Sorci
Instructor, Languages, Literature, and Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Debora Spini
Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Debora Spini got her degree from the University of Florence and her PhD from the Scuola di Studi Superiori “Sant’Anna” in Pisa. Spini teaches classes in Political Sciences and Political theory at the Florence Centre of Syracuse University, where she is also serving as a coordinator for the Internship Program. Her current research interests focus on the future of democracy in a globalization, Human rights and democratic legitimacy, Europe as an example of post-national democracy, European political identity, and the “European model” in the development of an international civil society . Spini is a member of various scholarly organization and research groups: among them the “Colloquium on Ethics and International Relations” at the LUISS University in Rome, the Seminar on Political Philosophy of the University of Florence and “Labirinto”, Seminar in Social Philosophy of the School of Political Sciences in Florence. She is currently participating in a number of research projects focusing on Europe, both nationally and internationally, such as the Italian branch of the “Garnet” network of excellence, originated by Framework Program 6 of the EU. Spini is also a member of the Scientific Board of Euroforum, a non profit organization whose mission is to make Italian citizens more aware of European issues.
Sanford Sternlicht
Professor, English and Textual Studies
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Acting Director of the Judaic Studies Program; Drama, 20th Century American, British and Irish Literature, US Immigrant Literature, Syracuse University Press Irish Studies Series Editor.Contact...
Eileen Strempel
Assistant Professor, Fine Arts
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor Strempel holds a joint appointment in both Arts and Sciences and the Visual and Performing Arts, where she works as an Assistant to the Dean. Her research interests focus primarily on the music of women composers, song literature, and issues of performance practice. Strempel joined the Syracuse University family in 1998, just after completing her Doctor of Music from Indiana University. Contact...
Zofia Sztechmiler
Part-time Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Part time instructor of Russian and Polish. Zofia Sztechmiler received her first Master’s Degree in Russian Philology with a concentration in Linguistics from Gdansk University and her second Master’s degree followed by a Ph.D. degree in Slavic Linguistics from Syracuse University.
Having the essential skills and experience in teaching Russian and Polish as a second language combined with the right training in psychology, pedagogy, and methodology, Professor Sztechmiler teaches beginning and advanced Russian language courses as well as beginning and intermediate Polish language courses. Contact...
Richard Tames
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A., History, Cambridge University. M.Sc. Economics, London. Qualified London "Blue Badge" guide. Tames is the author of A Traveller's History of Oxford (2002); as well as nine other books on London, and over 100 books for children. Tames teaches British history for SULC. Contact...
David Tatham
Professor, Emeritus Fine Arts, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
David Tatham, the author of six books and more than eighty scholarly articles and reviews concerning American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, is known especially for his studies of the work of Winslow Homer. At Syracuse University he has received the Chancellor’s Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement (1993), the Wasserstrom Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching (1990), the Post-Standard University Library Award (1989), and several awards for his publications. Among his research and project grants are those from the National Endowment for the Humanities (6 awards), the American Philosophical Society (3 awards), the American Antiquarian Society, and the Archives of American Art. Of the numerous doctoral dissertations and master’s theses he has directed, eight have won Graduate School prizes. Though he attained the status of Professor Emeritus in 2002, Tatham continues to advise student and other projects in American art, maintains an active research and publication schedule, and periodically teaches at the Syracuse University London Centre a course on the role of museums in contemporary culture. Contact...
Brian Taylor
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Taylor's research focuses on the role of state coercive organizations, such as the military and the police, in domestic politics. Taylor's additional interests include comparative state-building and comparative federalism. Taylor's geographic area of specialization is Russia and the post-Soviet region. His current project examines the politics of Russian state coercive agencies particularly law enforcement structure, in Russia's regions. These relations have implications for Russian state-building, federalism, and democratization. Contact...
Kjell Torbion
Instructor, DIPA Strasbourg
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Walter Ullman
Retired Professor Emeritus, History
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Patricia Utermohlen
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
MA, U. of Massachusetts. Teaches art history at SULC.
Florence Vatan
Assistant Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Contact...
Dina Vincow
Instructor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Dina Vincow is a Part-time Instructor and the coordinator of the Hebrew Program at Syracuse University, Vincow has taught the first two years of Hebrew Language at SU since 1974. Before coming to Syracuse, she taught first through fourth year of Russian language for ten years at the University of Washington (Seattle). Contact...
Andrew Waggoner
Associate Dean, VPA
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
D.M.A., Cornell University. Associate Professor and Chair, Composition Department. Waggoner is a composer and violinist. He teaches music theory and music history/appreciation courses and was a faculty leader of the Strasbourg Music Performance Program in Spring 2004 and Spring 2005. Contact...
Mitchel Wallerstein
Dean, Maxwell School of Public Affairs
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Mitchel Wallerstein is the new dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a professor of political science and public administration. He has been engaged in teaching, research and public policy analysis and formulation, working from many vantage points: academe, a policy think tank, government and philanthropy. Professor Wallerstein is the author of numerous books, articles, monographs and other publications. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He is interested in International Relations, U.S. and International Security, and Global Governance Issues. Contact...
Andres Walliser
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Doctorado Political Science and Sociology, Autónoma University of Madrid; Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Sociales, Juan March Foundation, Madrid and Lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona. Project director for study of urban development for the European Union. Teaches courses in political science and sociology in SU/Madrid.
Bruno Wanrooij
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence. Research Fellow CNRS Paris and CNR Rome. Author, Storia del pudore: La Questione Sessuale in Italia 1860-1940. Editor, Otherness: Anglo-American Women in 19th and 20th Century Florence and La Mediazione Matrimoniale: Il Terzo (In)comodo in Europa fra Otto e Novecento. Articles in Journal of Contemporary History, The European Legacy, Belfagor, Il Politico and numerous other academic journals, and contributions to conferences and collective volumes. Teaches a course on family and gender in contemporary Italy and a course on Italian government and politics. Coordinator of the Humanities, Business and Social Sciences Department.
Helen Watterson
Instructor, DIPA Florence
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D., Yale University. Fellowships: Roberto Longhi Foundation, Kress Foundation. Teaches a course on Baroque art and architecture.
Joseph Whelan
Adjunct Professor, VPA
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Whelan is the publications director and assistant marketing director for Syracuse Stage. He has performed numerous roles in theaters in New York and elsewhere. Expertise: Theater history. Contact...
Matt Wolf
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
B.A., Yale University. London theater critic and theater, arts, and film reporter for Variety. London theater critic for the International Herald Tribune. Regular contributor to The Sunday Times and Times Observer, The Economist, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, as well as numerous radio programs (Front Row, Nightwaves, Brief Lives, The Green Room).
Amy Wyngaard
Associate Professor, Languages, Literature, Linguistics
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Professor Wyngaard's interests include Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century French literature and cultural history and interdisciplinary studies Contact...
Amalia Yrizar Fuertes
Instructor, DIPA Madrid
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
Ph.D. candidate in international relations, Autónoma University, Madrid. Assistant Professor in the Modern History Department at the Autónoma University. Teaches a history course on the Golden Age of Spain.
Beverley Zalcock
Instructor, DIPA London
Affiliate, Center for European Studies
M.A. in Philosophy, King's College; Postgraduate diploma in Film, Slade School of Fine Art. Teaches a course on Britain and World Cinema.