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CGES Administration & Staff
Dr. Sabine Engel CGES Director 309 Soc Sci
612-626-7705
cges@umn.edu
tba CGES Program Specialist 309 Soc Sci
612-626-7705
cges@umn.edu
Abby Molzahn CGES Office Specialist 309 Soc Sci
612-626-7705
cges@umn.edu
Jessica Oakes CGES Office Specialist 309 Soc Sci
612-626-7705
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Sarah Wolff CGES Office Specialist 309 Soc Sci
612-626-7705
cges@umn.edu
CGES Affiliated Faculty
Frank Adler
Professor
Political Science Macalester College
651-696-6415
adler@macalester.edu
Comparative politics and political theory
Ben W. Ansell
Assistant Professor
Political Science 1474 Soc Sci
612-624-4078
ansell@umn.edu
International political economy and comparative political economy, with specific focus on examining the political economy of human capital
William O. Beeman
Professor
Anthropology 395 HHH Ctr.
612-624-8990
wbeeman@umn.edu
Peasant and nomadic societies; philosophic anthropology; opera
Daniel Brewer
Professor
French & Italian 304 E Folwell Hall
612-624-0565
dbrewer@umn.edu
Early modern French literature and culture; contemporary literary and cultural theory
Gary Cohen
Professor
History 918 Heller Hall
612-624-9811
gcohen@umn.edu
Austrian Studies, Central and Eastern Europe, Modern European social history
Giovanna Dell'Orto
Assistant Professor
Journalism and Mass Communication 217 Murphy Hall
612-626-2951
dell0014@umn.edu
Role of media in international relations, discourses of transatlantic relations
John Freeman
Professor
Political Science 1246 B Soc Sci
612-624-6018
freeman@polisci.umn.edu
Political economy, methodology, political-economic equilibria of democratic market systems
Donna Gabaccia
Professor
History 1116 Heller Hall
612-625-5573
drg@umn.edu
International migration, women and gender, culinary studies
Jane Gingrich
Professor
Political Science 1209 Soc Sci
612-626-2906
gingrich@umn.edu
comparative politics; European politics; social policy
David Good
Professor Emeritus
History 1110 Heller Hall
612-624-7834
goodx001@umn.edu
European economic history, Austria
Catherine Guisan
Assistant Professor
Political Science 1337 Soc Sci
612-624-9879
cguisan@polisci.umn.edu
European Integration politics, comparative European politics
Thomas Haakenson 
Professor
Liberal Arts Minneapolis College of Art
and Design
612-874-3821
thaakenson@mcad.edu
Visual culture, contemporary art, history of science, critical theory
Francis Harvey
Associate Professor
Geography 468 Soc Sci
612-625-4026
fharvey@geog.umn.edu
Geographic Information Systems, GIS Implementation in Local Government, Geographic Information Overlay
Rembert Hueser
Associate Professor
GSD 323 B Folwell Hall
612-625-0999
huese002@umn.edu
German cultural studies, film studies, literary criticism
Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres
Professor
GSD 328 G Folwell Hall
612-625-9034
joere001@umn.edu
German women’s literary, social, and cultural history, 18th- to 20th-centuries; feminist/gender theories, cultural studies
David Karjanen
Visiting Assistant Professor
Global Studies; American Studies 104 Scott Hall
612-626-7267
karjanen@umn.edu
Czech and Slovak Republics, postsocialism, informal economies, migration, gender
Timothy Kehoe
Professor
Economics 4-101 Herbet M. Hanson Jr. Hall
612-625-1589
tkehoe@econ.umn.edu
General equilibrium theory, international trade, and public finance
Helga Leitner
Professor
Geography 435 Soc Sci
612-625-9010
helga.leitner-1@umn.edu
Urban, political, international migrations, social theory, GIS & society, Europe, European Union
Michael Lower
Associate Professor
History 1122 Heller Hall
612-624-7543
mlower@umn.edu
Medieval Europe, the Crusades, popular religion, the Papacy
Alex Lubet
Professor
Music 122 Ferguson Hall
612-624-7840
lubet001@umn.edu
Theory, composition, Jewish Studies, encounters between cultures and musical traditions
M.J. Maynes
Professor
History 1010 Heller Hall
612-624-2391
mayne001@umn.edu
Modern German history, European social history, women's history
Richard McCormick
Professor
GSD 320 G Folwell Hall
612-625-8549
mccor001@umn.edu
Film studies, German studies, German film history, 20th-century German literature, feminism, film and cultural history, gender studies
Charlotte Melin
Associate Professor
GSD 327 F Folwell Hall
612-625-8037
melin005@umn.edu
Postwar German poetry, second-language acquisition, transnational literary
relations
Leslie Morris
Associate Professor
GSD 327 A Folwell Hall
612-624-4047
morri074@umn.edu
20th-century German & Austrian literature, poetry, Jewish Studies
Fred Morrison
Professor
  N208 Mondale Hall
612-625-0321
morrison@umn.edu
Constitutional law, international law, local government, and comparative public law
Karen Painter
Associate
Professor
Music 132 Ferguson Hall
612-626-7063
kpainter@umn.edu
19th- and 20th-century German and Austrian music, intellectual history,
aesthetics and ideology
James Parente
Professor
GSD 215 Johnston Hall
612-624-9839
paren001@umn.edu
Medieval and early modern German, Netherlandic, and Scandinavian literature and culture
Glenn Pederson
Professor
Applied Economics 217 B Ruttan Hall
612-625-8770
gpederso@apec.umn.edu
Analysis of financial institutions and capital markets, financial structure and investment decisions, development in transition economies
Matthias Rothe
Assistant Professor
GSD 320 N Folwell Hall
612-624-1041
mrothe@umn.edu
History of Emotions/Affections; contemporary protest culture and 18th century literary culture
Joachim Savelsberg
Professor
Sociology 1144 Soc Sci
612-624-0273
savelsbg@atlas.socsci.umn.edu
Institutions and ideas, especially law and collective memory; use of force (including criminal punishment) by governments and other collective actors; focus on Germany and the United States
Linda Schulte-Sasse Professor German Macalester College
651-696-6401
schultesasse@macalester.edu
German and American film, German literature, and the analysis of American political discourse
Eric Sheppard
Professor
Geography 515 Soc Sci
612-625-5840
shepp001@umn.edu
Economic geography, GIS and society, environmental justice, the geography of development, urban systems change, telecommunications and geography
Phillips Shively
Professor
Political Science 1460 Soc Sci
612-624-4395
shively@polisci.umn.edu
Research methodology, voting behavior, electoral choice in Europe and the United States
Stephen Schondelmeyer
Professor
Pharmaceutical Care and Health Systems 7-159 Weaver-Densford Hall
612-624-9931
schon001@umn.edu
Public policy related to prescription drug coverage in Medicare and Medicaid; Drug benefit design and coverage in managed care and private insurance plans; Economics, competition, structure and organization of the pharmaceutical market;
Affordability and access to drug therapy and pharmaceutical care; Pharmacoeconomics and outcomes assessment
Henning Schroeder
Professor and Dean
Graduate School 321 Johnston Hall
612-625-5695
schro601@umn.edu
Cardiovascular pharmacology; regulation of antioxidant genes; cell signaling and communication; transatlantic scientific cooperative projects
Theofanis G Stavrou
Professor
History 327 Soc Sci
612-332-5734
stavr001@umn.edu
Russia, modern Greece, Eastern Orthodox history
Arlene Teraoka
Professor
GSD 327 E Folwell Hall
612-625-2080
terao001@umn.edu
20th-century and minority German literature; German intellectual history; cultural criticism
David Walsh
Associate Professor
Music 268 Ferguson Hall
612-624-6596
walsh057@umn.edu
Opera, opera theatre
Ray Wakefield
Associate Professor
GSD 328 D Folwell Hall
612-625-4898
wakef001@umn.edu
Second-language acquisition, medieval German literature, Dutch
Eric Weitz
Professor
History 1214 Heller Hall
612-624-7506
weitz004@umn.edu
German history, modern social and political history, genocides and human rights
Peter Wells
Professor
Anthropology 395 HHH Ctr.
612-624-6845
wells001@umn.edu
archaeology, material culture, fontiers, culture contact; early Germans, Roman Europe, Roman & early Medieval Period; cultural origins for E.U.
Barbara Wolbert
DAAD Visiting Professor
Anthropology 395 HHH Ctr.
612-624-6551
wolbert@umn.edu
European migration, globalization, ethnicization, visual culture, media; Turkey; Germany
Thomas Wolfe
Associate Professor
History 914 Heller Hall
612-624-1886
wolfe023@umn.edu
Russia, Culture of journalism, communications
Jack Zipes
Professor Emeritus
GSD 223 Fowell Hall
612-624-1041
zipes001@umn.edu
Fairy tales, 20th-century literature; German, GDR, women's, and Jewish studies

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