
Evelyn Allgeier
Evelyn received her BA in English and Russian from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2001, where she was also minoring in Business Administration and German. In 2003, she received her MA in German with a minor in TESL from the same university. Since August 2003, she is enrolled in the German program at KU, where she is seeking a PhD in German Applied Linguistics. Currently, she is teaching Elementary German I and Business German.
Contact: lileve@ku.edu
Viktoria Bagi
Viktoria earned her B.A. degree in English at the University of Miskolc and her M.A. in German at the University of Debrecen in Hungary, where she also had a minor in European Studies. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in German Applied Linguistics and teaching GERM 212 as well as tutoring Hungarian.
Contact: bagiv@ku.edu
Audra Bauman
Contact: baumad2@ku.edu

John Paul Dove
Contact: jpdove@ku.edu
Michael Grünbaum
Contact: grunbaum@ku.edu
Maria Khramova
Contact: mascha20@ku.edu
Traute Kohler
Contact: tkohler@ku.edu

Regine Kroh
Contact: reginek@ku.edu
John Littlejohn
Contact: x7lijo@yahoo.com
Lisa Mays
Immediately after she finished her coursework for her Phd. in German, she moved to the Dallas/Fort Worth area to teach German and ESL for three years at Northwest High School. Currently, she is ABD and has recently moved back to Lawrence to devote herself full-time to dissertation research. The topic of her dissertation is "Low German-Speaking Mexican Mennonites in Kansas." A very interesting group of Low German speakers that have maintained their language and Mennonite culture and religion for over 200 years, during migrations from West Prussia to Russia, to Canada and on to Mexico, and recently to Kansas.
Contact:
frau_mays@yahoo.com

Jörg Meindl
Jörg Meindl studied German History and Political Science at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and graduated with a MA degree in 2002. Jörg is PhD student at the University of Kansas since spring 2003 and his pursuing his dissertation about Pennsylvania German in Kansas, currently doing field work with an Old Order Amish group. His main interests of research are German dialects, Sociolinguistics and Historical Linguistics. He is works on the image of Amish in the popular culture and bilingualism in literature.
Contact: meindl@ku.edu
Anne Peterson
Contact: reimann@ku.edu
Melanie Piltingsrud
Contact: piltingsrud@ku.edu
Sonja Sun
Contact: sonja24@ku.edu
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Julia Trumpold
Contact: trumpold@gmx.net
Pia Zwegers
Contact: zwegersp@ku.edu
