Rex Clark , Ph.D.
Alumnus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rex
Clark received an M.A. from the Freie Universität Berlin
and completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Illinois.
His research areas are 18th-century travel literature and
utopian fiction, history of the novel, definitions of culture
in German thought, and representations of colonialism in German
literature. He has also worked extensively with instructional
technology and language learning, serving from 1999-2001 on
the Technology Committee of the American Association of Teachers
of German (AATG). He has helped create the Alexander von Humboldt
Digital Library project at the Max Kade Center for German-American
Studies.
Rex
Clark's Homepage: http://www.ku.edu/home/rexclark/
Contact: rexclark@ku.edu
Jim Morrison
Alumnus of the University of Kansas
Jimmy
D. Morrison has over twenty years experience in international
business, both in the United States, Europe and South America.
He has dealt in international transportation, telecommunications,
data transmission, power generation and distribution as well
as the automotive industry.
Mr.
Morrison is currently involved in lecturing at the University
of Kansas on international business issues as well as German
business culture. He is also Associate Director of the Center
for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
at the university
Mr.
Morrison holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Kansas
and attended the Universitaet Erlangen/Nürnberg. He is
certified by the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce as
an "Industriekaufmann" after having completed an
accredited program with Siemens in Germany covering all aspects
of commercial administration.
Mr.
Morrison has served as member of the board of directors of
the American Public Transit Association (APTA) as well as
the Railway Progress Institute (RPI) governing board. He currently
sits on the advisory board of the Max-Kade Center for German-American
Studies at the University of Kansas and the university's Center
for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).
Contact: jdmorr@ku.edu
Scott Seeger
Alumnus of the University of Kansas
G. Scott Seeger (Ph.D., University of
Kansas) is the coordinator for the Elementary and Intermediate German
language program at KU and the program director for the Low German
Revitalization and Heritage Project, a Kansas State Humanities Council
funded program. He received his BA in German from the University of
Colorado at Denver in 1995, and his MA in German from Colorado State
University in 1997. His particular areas of interest and research are
Low German Dialects, Teaching Methodology, and German-American Studies.
Scott has extensive experience abroad including 11/2 years of study
abroad at the Carl von Ossietsky Universität in Oldenburg and two years
at the Christian-Albrecht Universität in Kiel with The University of
Kansas' Graduate Direct Exchange (GDX) and the German Academic Exchange
Service (DAAD). He has also functioned as assistant director for the
KU's Summer Language Institute in Eutin (2000, 02, 03, and 04).
Currently he is instructing German 800: Methodology of Teaching German
as a Foreign Language and German 444: German Conversation for Everyday Use.
Contact: gsseeger@ku.edu
