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CGES Administration & Staff
Dr. Sabine Engel	CGES Director	309 Soc Sci 612-626-7705 cges@umn.edu
Anna Burger	CGES Office Specialist	309 Soc Sci 612-626-7705 cges@umn.edu
Jessie van Berkel	CGES Office Specialist	309 Soc Sci 612-626-7705 cges@umn.edu
Allison Nunnikhoven	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	395C Humphrey 612-624-8990 wbeeman@umn.edu	Peasant and nomadic societies; philosophic anthropology; opera
Daphne Berdahl Associate Professor (in memoriam)	Anthropology		Gender; Nationalism; National Identity; Trans-global processes and local communities; GDR; German unification
Daniel Brewer Professor	French & Italian	260 Folwell 612-624-0565 dbrewer@umn.edu	Early modern French literature and culture; contemporary literary and cultural theory
Gary Cohen Professor	History	314 Soc Sci 612-624-9811 gcohen@umn.edu	Austrian Studies, Central and Eastern Europe, Modern European social history
Stephen Feinstein Director, CGHS (in memoriam)	History		Holocaust Studies, European history
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	Elmer L. Andersen Library, Suite 311 612-625-5573 drg@umn.edu	International migration, women and gender, culinary studies
Jane Gingrich Assistant Professor	Political Science	gingrich@umn.edu	comparative politics; European politics; social policy
David Good Professor Emeritus	History	727 Soc Sci 612-624-7834 goodx001@umn.edu	European economic history, Austria
Catherine Guisan	Political Science	1368 Soc Sci 612-624-9879 cguisan@polisci.umn.edu	European Integration politics, comparative European politics
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	230 Folwell 612-625-0999 huese002@umn.edu	German cultural studies, film studies, literary criticism
Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres Professor	GSD	235 Folwell 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 Visisiting 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	1168 Heller 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	527 Soc Sci 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	614 Soc Sci 612-624-2391 mayne001@umn.edu	Modern German history, European social history, women's history
Richard McCormick Professor	GSD	221 Folwell 612-625-8549 mccor001@umn.edu	Film studies, German studies, German film history, 20th-century German literature, feminism, film and cultural history, gender studies
Michael Meng Visiting Asssistant Professor	History	mengx057@umn.edu	Twentieth-Century German and Polish History, transnationalism, colonialism, migration, Jewish Studies
Leslie Morris Associate Professor	GSD	142 Folwell 612-624-4047 morri074@umn.edu	20th-century German & Austrian literature, poetry, Jewish Studies
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	212 Johnston Hall 612-624-9839 paren001@umn.edu	Medieval and early modern German, Netherlandic, and Scandinavian literature and culture
Glenn Pederson Professor	Applied Economics	248h ClassOff 612-625-8770 gpederso@apec.umn.edu	Analysis of financial institutions and capital markets, financial structure and investment decisions, development in transition economies
Guriqbal (Bali) Sahota Assistant Professor	Asian Languages & Literatures	417 Folwell 612-626-5940 sahota@umn.edu	Romanticism; dialectical thought; translingual concept history
Joachim Savelsberg Professor	Sociology	1181 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
Theofanis G Stavrou Professor	History	327 Soc Sci 612-332-5734 stavr001@umn.edu	Russia, modern Greece, Eastern Orthodox history
Arlene Teraoka Professor	GSD	205 Folwell 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	215 Folwell 612-625-4898 wakef001@umn.edu	Second-language acquisition, medieval German literature, Dutch
Eric Weitz Professor	History	782 Soc Sci 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	368 HHH Ctr. 612-624-6551 wolbert@umn.edu	European migration, globalization, ethnicization, visual culture, media; Turkey; Germany
Thomas Wolfe Associate Professor	History	780 Soc Sci 612-624-1886 wolfe023@umn.edu	Russia, Culture of journalism, communications
Jack Zipes Professor	GSD	223 Folwell 612-624-1041 zipes001@umn.edu	Fairy tales, 20th-century literature; German, GDR, women's, and Jewish studies