Faculty

Diane Fourny

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1985
Associate Professor, French & Italian and Humanities and Western Civilization
Director, Center for European Studies
Specialization: French and European Enlightenment;20th Century Critique of Enlightenment
E-mail: dfourny@ku.edu
Office: 308 Bailey Hall/European Studies
Phone: (785) 864-9070

Philip Barnard

Ph.D., SUNY at Buffalo, 1987
Associate Professor, English
Specialization: Postmodern and Structuralist Literary Theory in France, Enlightenment Novel
E-mail: philipb@ku.edu
Office: 3118 Wescoe Hall
Phone: (785)864-2522

Hodgie Bricke

Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1972
Assistant Dean of Office of International Programs, Adjunct Courtesy Lecturer, European Studies
Specialization: British History, 18th Century Scottish History, Modern French History, Medieval Europe
E-mail: hbricke@ku.edu
Office: 300 Strong Hall
Phone: (785) 864-6161

Kathryn Conrad

Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania, 1996
Associate Professor, English
Specialization: 20th Century British and Irish Literature, Feminism, Cultural Studies
E-mail: kconrad@ku.edu
Office: 3043 Wescoe Halll
Phone: (785) 864-3314

Ron Francisco

Ph. D., University of Illinois, 1976
Professor, Political Science
Specialization: Germany, Eastern European Politics
E-mail: ronfran@ku.edu
Office: 313 Blake Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9023

Holly T. Goerdel

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2006
Assistant Professor, Public Administration
Specialization: Politics and the Bureaucracy, Strategic Public Management, Comparative Public Policy, European Union governance
E-mail: hgoerdel@ku.edu
Office: 318 Blake Hall
Phone: 785.864.9011

Stephen Grabow

Ph. D., University of Washington, 1973
Professor, Architecture and Urban Design
Specialization: Urban Design History, Architectural Design
E-mail: sgrabow@ku.edu
Office: 417 Marvin Hall
Phone: (785) 864-3186

Juliet Kaarbo

Ph. D., Ohio State University, 1993
Associate Professor, Political Science
Specialization: Comparative Foreign Policies, International Negotiations, Theories of International Relations, Politics Of Western Europe and Parliamentary Systems
E-mail: kaarbo@ku.edu
Office: 312 Blake Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9043

William Keel

Ph. D., Indiana University, 1977
Professor, Germanic Languages and Literatures; Chair, Germanic Languages & Literatures
Specialization: German and Germanic Linguistics. Second Language Acquisition, German Dialectology, German-American Studies
E-mail: wkeel@ku.edu
Office: 2079 Wescoe Hall
Phone: (785) 864-4803

Van Kelly

Ph.D., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1982
Associate Professor, French and Italian
Specialization: 20th Century French literature, with an interest in other European literatures
E-mail: vkelly@ku.edu
Office: 2073 Wescoe Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9073

Jan Kozma

Ph.D. Michigan
Professor: French & Italian
E-mail: jkozma@ku.edu
Office: 2064 Wescoe Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9065

Richard Levy

J.D., University of Chicago, 1984
Professor: Law
Specialization: Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Legislation, Public Benefit Law
E-mail: rlevy@ku.edu
Office: 309B Green Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9220

Thomas Magstadt

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, Political Science, 1972
Lecturer:   Political Science
Specialization: European Union, Comparative Politics, Western/Eastern European Politics, Russian Politics
E-mail: tmagstadt@gmail.com
Office: 308 Bailey
Phone: (785) 864-9070

Leonie Marx

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1976
Professor: Germanic Languages and Literatures
Specialization: 19th and 20th Century German and Scandinavian Literatures
E-mail: marx@ku.edu
Office: 2096 Wescoe
Phone: (785) 864-4803

Jonathan Mayhew

Ph.D., Spanish, Stanford
Associate Professor: Spanish (CLAS)
Specialization: 20th Century Spanish Poetry, Literary Theory
E-mail: jmayhew@ku.edu
Office: 3030Wescoe
Phone: (785) 864-0287

Jim Morrison

M.A., German, University of Kansas

Associate Director and Lecturer, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the University of Kansas
Corporate Executive, Siemens Transportation Systems (1991-1999)
Specialization: Consulting on Transportation and International Business, including Operations and Strategy Formulation, Project Management Skills, German Business Culture
E-mail: jdmorrison@ku.edu
Office: 204 Summerfield Hall
Phone: (785) 864-4803

Isidro J. Rivera

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989
Associate Professor: Spanish (CLAS)
Specialization: Medieval Spanish Language and Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval French Literature, Literary Theory
E-mail: ijrivera@ku.edu
Office: 3087 Wescoe Hall
Phone: (785) 864-3851 or (785) 864-0297

Margaret Schomaker

Ph.D., Strategy and International Management, University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
Assistant Professor, Inernational Business
E-mail: mscho@ku.edu
Office: 315-D Summerfield
Phone: (785) 864-8011

David Smith

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin- Madison, 1988
Associate Professor, Sociology
Specialization: Sociological Theory, Cross-Cultural Social Psychology, Race and Ethnicity
E-mail: emerald@ku.edu
Office: 739 Fraser Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9402

Dale Urie

Ph.D., History, University of North Texas, 1989
Lecturer, Humanities and Western Civilization
Specialization: Modern European History including the history of Women in Europe; Western Civilization
E-mail: durie@ku.edu
Office: 303D Bailey Hall
Phone: (785) 864-0165

Margaret Versteeg

Ph.D, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Assistant Professor, Spanish
Specialization: contemporary peninsular cultural studies, focusing mainly on the 19th and early 20th century
E-mail: versteeg@ku.edu
Office: 2616 Wescoe Hall
Phone: (785) 864-0289

James Woelfel

Ph.D., Religious Studies, University of St. Andrews, 1967
Professor, Philosophy
Professor and Director: Humanities & Western Civilization Program
Specialization: Modern European Philosophical and Religious Thought; Existentialism; Philosophy of Religion; Philosophical and Religious Issues in Modern Literature
E-mail: woelfel@ku.edu
Office: 303H Bailey Hall
Phone: (785) 864-3011

Nathaniel D. Wood

Ph.D., Indiana, 2004, 19th and 20th-Cent. Eastern Europe, Poland, modern Europe, urban and cultural history, the popular press
Assistant Professor: History
E-mail: ndwood@ku.edu
Office: 3641 Wescoe Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9458

Mary K. Zimmerman

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Minnesota, 1976
Professor: Sociology (CLAS) and
Professor:Health Policy and Management (School of Medicine)
Specialization: Medical Sociology, Sociology of Gender, Women's Health and Health Care, Comparative Welfare States Research Methodology
E-mail: mzimmerman@ku.edu
Office: 750 Fraser Hall
Phone: (785) 864-9431