Research Interests
- Russia and the Soviet Union
- Eurasian history
Sean F. Dunwoody
Associate Professor
History; Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Research Interests
- Early Modern Europe, German lands/Holy Roman Empire
- Religious history
- History and social theory
Research Interests
- Yiddish Language
- History
- Holocaust
Robert E. Guay
Professor, Undergraduate Director; TRIP Courtesy Title
Philosophy; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Modern European philosophy
- moral and political philosophy
- philosophy of art
Jeffrey Kirkwood
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Art History
Research Interests
- Media theory and history
- Theory and history of the digital
- Psychoanalysis
- Cinema
- Cultural techniques
Giovanna Montenegro
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages; Director of LACAS
Comparative Literature; Latin American and Caribbean Area Studies Program
Research Interests
- Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean
- Environment
- Material and Visual Culture
- Cartography
- Indigenous and Maroon Studies
- Public Humanities
- Digital Humanities
Ania Nikulina
Research Assistant Professor, Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow; Lecturer
German and Russian Studies; Theatre
Research Interests
- State-sponsored dance
- Artistic protest and censorship
- Dance and Archives
- Dance Ethnography
- Cultural Diplomacy
Maxim A. Pensky
Professor; Co-Director
Philosophy; Institute of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP)
Research Interests
- Social and political philosophy
- continental philosophy
- philosophy of law and international relations
Alexander Sorenson
Lecturer
Comparative Literature; German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- German literature and thought ca. 1800-1917
- Literary, philosophical and artistic accounts of the relation between human communities and the natural world (ecocriticism, nature writing, eco-phenomenology, posthumanism, etc.)
- Modern European intellectual and cultural history
- Convergences between the natural and human sciences
Kaitlyn Sorenson
Assistant Professor; Undergraduate Director
Comparative Literature
Research Interests
- Central and Eastern European literature and social thought
- Critical Theory
- Yugoslav neo-avant-garde movements
- Late Socialism
- The Non-Aligned Movement
- Canonicity in Continental Philosophy
Julia Walker
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Art History
Research Interests
- Modern and contemporary architecture
- Post-reunification Germany
- Cultures of architecture and urbanism
- Architectural theory and criticism
- Architecture and gender
Research Interests
- Kant
- Philosophy of art
- Social and political philosophy