MALS Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Suzanne Bergeron, Associate Professor of Women's Studies & Social Sciences
4071 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-4591
sbergero(at)umd.umich.edu
Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History
Director of the Honors Program
3018 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-5135 or 593-5183
sbolkosk(at)umd.umich.edu
Erik Bond, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature
3074 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-5168
erikbond(at)umd.umich.edu
Elaine Clark, Professor of History
2100 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-593-5177
eclark(at)umd.umich.edu
William DeGenaro, Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition
3067 CASL Building (CB)
313-583-6383
billdeg(at)umd.umich.edu
Orin Gelderloos, Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies
115A Science Building (SB)
313-593-5339
ogg(at)umd.umich.edu
Georgina Hickey, Associate Professor of History
1220 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-583-6405
ghickey(at)umd.umich.edu
Paul Hughes, Professor of Philosophy
3085 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-4941
pmhughes(at)umd.umich.edu
David James, Professor of Mathematics
2069 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-5242
djames(at)umd.umich.edu
Carolyn Kraus, Associate Professor of Communications
Director of Humanities Internship
3028 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-5537
cwells(at)umd.umich.edu
Joe Lunn, Associate Professor of History
1250 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-593-9184
joelunn(at)umd.umich.edu
Gerald Moran, Professor of History
Director, Co-op Program
2075 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-593-5284
gmoran(at)umd.umich.edu
Bruce Pietrykowski, Professor of Economics
1280 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-593-9970
bpie(at)umd.umich.edu
Jonathan Smith, Professor or English
3084 CASL Building (CB)
313-436-9187
jonsmith(at)umd.umich.edu
Stéphane Spoiden, Associate Professor of French
3095 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-5129
spoiden@umd.umich.edu
Ronald Stockton, Professor of Political Science
2065 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-593-5384
rstock(at)umd.umich.edu
Jacqueline Vansant, Professor of German
3091 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-5153
jvansant(at)umd.umich.edu
Kathleen Wider, Professor of Philosophy
3087 CASL Building (CB)
313-593-4938
kwider(at)umd.umich.edu
Randal Woodland, Associate Professor of Composition
3018A CASL Building (CB)
313-436-9192
woodland@umd.umich.edu
Staff
Karen Bankovich
Administrative Assistant
1080 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-593-1183
kbankovi(at)umd.umich.edu
Carol Ligienza
Graduate Program Coordinator
1080 Social Sciences Building (SSB)
313-593-1183
cligienz(at)umd.umich.edu
Kathleen Wider
Kathleen Wider has a doctorate in philosophy and a masters in English, and has been interested in interdisciplinary studies for many years. Her teaching areas in philosophy range from the history of philosophy (the ancients, the philosopher/scientists of the 17-18 centuries, 19th century philosophy) to philosophy of mind, philosophy of art, and existentialism. In the MALS program, she teaches a course on the self in philosophy and literature and another course on the nature of emotion from the perspectives of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Her main research area has been in the philosophy of mind, focusing in particular on the nature of consciousness and the nature of the self.
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Suzanne Bergeron
Suzanne Bergeron, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Social Sciences, teaches the Women’s Studies Core Seminar, Gender and Globalization, and Ecological Economics in the MALS program. She has written widely on the gendered and colonial discourses of development and globalization. Some recent articles include “Challenging the World Bank’s Narrative of Inclusion” in World (Bank) Literatures and “Political Economy Discourses of Globalization and Feminist Politics”in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her book Fragments of Development: Nation, Gender and the Space of Modernity was recently published by University of Michigan Press. Suzanne is the founding director of the Women in Learning and Leadership program at the University of Michigan Dearborn, in which students combine course work in women’s studies with co-curricular programming where they develop leadership skills through civic engagement and social activism. She is an active member of a number of international organizations, including the International Association for Feminist Economics, the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, and the International Studies Association. She received UMD’s Susan B. Anthony Award in 2002, and the distinguished teaching award in 2004.
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Sidney Bolkosky
Sidney Bolkosky has been teaching at the UM-Dearborn since 1972. A European intellectual historian, he is the last William E. Stirton Professor, Professor of History, Director of the Honors Program and Director of the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive at the Mardigian Library. His most recent, fifth book is _Searching for Meaning in the Holocaust (2002) and he has published over 45 articles and reviews on European intellectual history, the history of psychoanalysis, the Holocaust and the history of ideas. His interdisciplinary classes have included Gardner's _Ancient Egyptian Grammar_, Joyce's _Finnegans Wake_, the scores of works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, films from the Weimar Republic, oral histories, as well as texts by philosophers, linguists, historians of science and others.
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Erik Bond
Erik Bond (B.A. University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. NYU) joined the faculty in 2003 and is Assistant Professor of Restoration and 18th-century British Literature with special interests in urban theory, narratology, and the history of genre. His research centers upon the nature of eighteenth-century imagination and the literary critic's role in London. Professor Bond teaches courses that read Restoration drama, 18th-century satire, the 18th-century novel, poetry and prose written during the "Age of Johnson," and postmodern critical theory.
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Elaine Clark
Elaine Clark is a Professor of History. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), with areas of concentration in medieval studies and the history of law. She teaches courses on the Middle Ages, Reformation society, Victorian England, and historical autobiography. Her current research focuses on the interplay of religion and politics in medieval and modern England.
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William DeGenaro
William DeGenaro (Ph.D. The University of Arizona) is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the Department of Humanities, teaching courses in first-year writing, creative writing, and working-class studies. He is author of New Rhetorics of Working-Class Consciousness, an interdisciplinary exploration of class-consciousness within the rhetorical tradition, that is currently under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press. Professor DeGenaro has written articles for journals including The Journal of Basic Writing, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Disability Studies Quarterly, and The Community College Journal of Research and Practice. His research focuses on open-access education movements, working-class rhetorics and culture, and the teaching of developmental writing. Methodologically, his scholarship draws on literacy studies, cultural studies, history, rhetorical analysis, and the anthropology of higher education. Currently, he is writing about his great-grandfather D.B. Husted, a farmer and poet, as am embodiment of a working-class poetics. Husted published during the Great Depression a chapbook called The New Deal, a libertarian tract with verses critiquing FDR; Professor DeGenaro is at work analyzing Husted's poetry as a site where Husted constructed his working-class identity and articulated contradictory attitudes toward social class.
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Orin G. Gelderloos
Orin G. Gelderloos is Professor of Biology, Professor of Environmental Studies, and Director of the Environmental Interpretive Center at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (UM-D.) He teaches two courses in the MALS program, namely, the focus or concepts course for the Environmental Studies Track and Watershed Analysis. He also serves as Program Advisor of the Environmental Studies program. Professor Gelderloos has a B.A. in biology from Calvin College, a M.A. from Western Michigan University, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University where he concentrated on environmental physiology, especially on the circadian rhythms of desert iguanas. Since 1970 he has been teaching Field Biology on the Rouge River flood plain and surrounding natural areas on the UM-D campus. He holds a Federal Bird Banding Permit and directs the Avian Research Program at UM-D. He has directed and served as a faculty member on seven National Science Foundation Summer Institutes for teachers of the Detroit Metro area--the programs focused on the biological, chemical, and social issues of the Rouge River. Professor Gelderloos is currently engaged in research on urban ecology as well as floodplain forest ecology. In recent years he has taught "Ecology of the Indian Tropics" during January in South India for students from North America and Bishop Heber College for the Heber Au Sable Institute. He also serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies. He has received awards for distinguished teaching and the Governor’s Service Award for Service-Learning Educator of the Year in 2000.
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Georgina Hickey
Georgina Hickey is an Associate Professor of History in the Social Sciences Department. Her professional interests include women, cities, race, and social movements. Her first book, Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940, is a social and cultural history of Atlanta during a period in which many of the great debates of the day -- debates over order, respectability, and growth – called up images of the city's female residents. She has also published several articles on women, race, and welfare. Georgina is currently at work on a second, as of yet unnamed, book on women and public space in twentieth century U.S. cities. She is particularly interested in the ways that narratives of danger and codes of etiquette have restricted women's access to urban spaces and the challenges that women have mounted against these restrictions. Her MALS class, "Women and Public Space," is an outgrowth of this research.
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Paul Hughes
Paul M. Hughes is a professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities. He holds a B.A in philosophy from the University of Massachusetts, and an M.A and a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Illinois-Chicago. His areas of research specialization are political philosophy, ethics, and jurisprudence. He has published numerous scholarly articles, encyclopedia entries, and book reviews on such topics as truth and reconciliation committees, reparations, legal entrapment, and the ethics of commercial markets in human bodily organs. Professor Hughes has also traveled to South Africa to research the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and to participate in international conferences on human rights. Professor Hughes served as Chair of the Humanities Department from 1998-2002. His teaching areas in philosophy range from introductory courses in ethics to upper level offerings in Marxism, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Religion, and Contemporary Political Philosophy. In the MALS program, Professor Hughes teaches a seminar on "Human Rights, Globalization, and World Proverty."
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Carolyn Kraus
Carolyn Kraus, Associate Professor specializing in Journalism and Nonfiction Narrative, is a longtime writing teacher at UM-D. Her work has appeared in textbooks, anthologies and a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and Threepenny Review. She is writing a memoir, chapters of which have appeared in Colorado Review and Antioch Review.
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Joe Lunn
Joe Lunn is Associate Professor of History at the UM-D. Having received a joint Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993, he teaches undergraduate courses in both of his areas of specialization--in Modern European and African history. Author of the award winning Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War, he is currently working on a second book, African Voices from the Great War: An Anthology of Senegalese Soldiers' Life Histories, which will further explore the First World War's impact on the lives of West Africans. He teaches Libs 570, A History of Warfare in the Age of Gunpowder, 1500-2000, in the MALS Program, which seeks to assess the evolution of human stife during the past half millennium from a series of wide ranging interdisciplinary and cross cultural vantage points.
Homepage: http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~joelunn/.
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Jonathan SmithProfessor Smith's interdisciplinary interests in science and literature began when he was an undergraduate double major in English and Chemical Engineering at Rice University. After completing his Ph.D. in English at Columbia University, he joined the UMD English faculty in 1991. His teaching and research specialties are 19th-century British literature and culture, literature and science, and science and technology studies. He is the author of Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination as well as numerous articles on Victorian literature and science, and his most recent project, Seeing Things: Charles Darwin, John Ruskin, and Victorian Visual Culture, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. In the Winter of 2002 he held the Jack Williamson Visiting Endowed Chair in Science and Humanities at Eastern New Mexico University, and he will be one of the keynote speakers at the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs' 2004 Annual Conference, "Where Science Meets the Arts." Professor Smith is also the Director of UMD's new Science and Technology Studies Program and has received two major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its development. He teaches a MALS Core Seminar on "Literature, Science, and Science Studies."
Stéphane SpoidenStéphane Spoiden (Ph.D. in French, Ohio State University) is Associate Professor of French. He teaches courses in all levels of French language, French and Francophone literatures, business, film, culture, as well as courses on the European Union, transatlantic relations, and French cinema. Professor Spoiden has published two books, entitled La Littérature et le sida. Archéologie des représentations d’une maladie (PUM, 2001) and Etonnante Amérique. La face cachée de la politique américaine (L’Aube, 2005); and he has edited a collection of essays on media studies, entitled Régis Debray et la médiologie (CRIN/Rodopi, 2007); he has also published several book chapters and many articles in scholarly journals. Stéphane Spoiden has read numerous papers at national and international conferences. He also co-organized two international conferences on Gender Studies in Montréal ( Canada) in 2000 and on Media Studies in Antwerp ( Belgium) in 2002. Professor Spoiden is particularly interested in questions of cultural transmission and is currently working on a book project on the cultural development of the European Union. He is also an editorial board member of the journal Contemporary French Civilization
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Ron Stockton
Ron Stockton is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and a Research Associate at the University of Michigan Center for Middle East and North African Studies. He is co-author of A Time of Turmoil, a book on public opinion and is the author of Decent and in Order, a book on church conflict. He has written articles for Public Opinion Quarterly, The Middle East Journal, The Journal of Palestine Studies, The Armenian Review, The Michigan Academician and PS: Teaching and Political Science. He also has written for various newspapers. His 173-page curriculum unit, The Israel-Palestinian Conflict, now on the internet, is in its second edition and is used in classrooms around the country. An area of ongoing interest is the role of religion and religious groups in the political process, a topic on which he has several articles. He has been Chair of the Social Sciences Department, Executive Director of the Michigan Committee on US-Arab Relations, an association of educators, twice President of the Michigan Conference of Political Scientists, and Interim Director of the Center for Arab-American Studies. He frequently speaks to teacher workshops and community groups on Middle East topics. He is active in community and inter-faith activities. He has escorted study groups to Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Jerusalem.
Stockton has been the recipient of five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to organize summer Teacher Training programs, four as Project Director or co-Director. The awards were to bring thirty teachers from across the country to the region for a month of lectures and orientation programs for how to integrate Middle East materials into their classes. He is currently a Principle Investigator on the Detroit Arab American Study, a landmark study of a representative sample of 1,016 Arab Americans and Chaldeans.
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Jacqueline Vansant
Jacqueline Vansant's (Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin) research has focused on identity construction in Austrian literature, memoirs, and film created since 1945 and on the image of Austria in American cinema. Her earliest research dealt primarily with representations of women in postwar Austrian fiction and her more recent research has focused on the intersection of ethnicity and Austrian national identity. Her publications include two scholarly books, two textbooks, numerous articles and encyclopedic entries, literary translations, and edited volumes. Her course on memory in the MALS Program is a result of her interdisciplinary work on memory related to her book "Reclaiming ‘Heimat’: Trauma and Mourning in Memoirs of Jewish Austrian Reémigrés" (2001). From 2000-2005 she served as co-editor of the scholarly journal "Modern Austrian Literature" and is currently working on a book project entitled "Austria: Made in Hollywood."
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