LIST OF EXPERT – FloridaInternationalUniversity
Nicol C. Rae,
Professor, Political Science
ProgramDirector, Undergraduate Certificate in European Studies
Co-Director,Miami EUC
Area of Specialization:Comparative American and European politics; hisresearch focusing primarily on the contemporary U.S. Congress and the impact of political parties on national institutions.Dr. Rae is the author or co-author of nine books
His most recent book (co-edited with Timothy Power) is Exporting Congress: The Influence of the US Congress on World Legislatures(Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthcoming). Other books include Impeaching Clinton: Partisan Strife on Capitol Hill (with Colton Campbell); and Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress. Professor Rae has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters on American and European politics and government. He was chosen for an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship in 1995-1996, and was Gwylim Gibbon Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College Oxford from 1985-1988.
Pascal Becel
Chair, Modern Languages
Associate Professor of French and Director of French Program
Area of Specialization: French
Christine Gudorf
Professor and Chair, Religious Studies
Areas of Specialization: Religious Ethics, Modern Christianity, Feminism and Development
Alan Gummerson
Lecturer, Economics
Area of Specialization: Macroeconomics, economic development
Alan Kahan
Associate Professor, History
Area of Specialization: Modern Europe
Books
Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, a new translation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Volume One, June 1998. Volume Two, 1999.
Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1992.
The Liberal Moment: Liberalism, the Suffrage Question, and Bourgeois Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe, in progress.
Other Publications
"Burckhardt and Modernity," in Beitraege zu Jacob Burckhardt, Schwabe Verlag, forthcoming.
"Defining Opportunism: The Political Writings of Eugène Spuller," History of Political Thought (1994).
"Liberalism and Realpolitik in Prussia, 1830-52: The Case of David Hansemann," German History (October 1991).
"Guizot et le modèle anglais" in François Guizot et la culture politique de son temps (1991).
"The Victory of German Liberalism? Rudolf Haym, Liberalism and Bismarck," Central European History (March 1990).
"Tocqueville's Two Revolutions," Journal of the History of Ideas (October 1985).
Book Reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Modern History, Nineteenth-Century Prose,Canadian Journal of History.
George Kovacs
Professor, Philosophy
Area of Specialization: Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Late Modern Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Contemporary French Philosophy, Love and Sexuality, and Philosophy of Death.
Lara Kriegel
Assistant Professor, History
Area of Specialization:History of Modern Britain
Professor Lara Kriegel is a cultural historian who specializes in the history of modern Britain. Her current research addresses industrial culture, museums, and the practices of display in nineteenth-century England.
Dr. Kriegel teaches general surveys of European history. Her upper division and graduate offerings include courses in British history, European women’s history, European imperialism and decolonization, and Museum history. In the future, she plans to offer a Graduate Seminar entitled “Atlantic Britain.”
Tatiana Kostadinova
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Area of Specialization:Comparative Politics.
Her research and teaching interests include political institutions with a special emphasis on electoral systems and reform, East European democratic transition, public support for international institutions, and comparative environmental policies. She has been the recipient of several grants, among the most recent of which is an award from the German Marshall Fund of the United States for a research fellowship program to evaluate the effectiveness of European environmental agreements. Dr. Kostadinova is the author of Bulgaria 1879-1946: The Challenge of Choice (Columbia University Press) which explores Bulgarian parliamentary elections, party strategies, and voter behavior. Her other publications include book chapters on political representation, and journal articles in American Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies, Journal of Peace Research, European Journal of Political Research, and Party Politics. Dr. Kostadinova has done field research in Bulgaria, Serbia, and Macedonia. She is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association,the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Felice Lifshitz
Associate Professor, History
Area of Specialization: Medieval
Sarah Mahler
Associate Professor , Sociology/Anthropology
Director, Transnational and ComparativeStudiesCenter
Area of Specialization: International migration
Dr. Mahler is a cultural anthropologist and a specialist on international migration and the transnational ties that migrants sustain and build between their homelands and their adoptive countries. Her research has focused primarily on migrations from Central America and the Caribbean to the United States. In recent years she has pioneered research on how gender relations are negotiated transnationally and co-authored a special volume of the journal Identities: Global Studies on Culture and Power in 2001. She is currently studying the role religion plays in the lives of different immigrant groups in Miami and the transnational religious ties that link several countries, including Cuba and Nicaragua, to Miami. Among her publications are two books documenting the lives of Salvadorans in the U.S., American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the Margins and Salvadorans in Suburbia.
Paul Mullen
Assistant Professor, Political Science
Area of specialization:Comparative Governments, Law and Courts
Professor Paul Fabian Mullen spent several years as an attorney in private practice and several years as an Assistant State Attorney General before returning for his Ph. D. studies. He was the 1998-1999 European Community Studies Association Marshall Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He studies comparative government, focusing on the European Union and United States,and is particularly interested in law and courts in these two regions. Most recently, he published a chapter in Cowles and Smith, eds.State of the European Union: Risks, Reforms, Resistance and Revival (Oxford University Press, 2001) that dealt with translation and the internal operation of the European Court of Justice. He is currently researching of how judicial institutionsaffect outcomes in court cases, the effects of enlargement on the European Court of Justice on the performance of that Court, and how voters use information in judicial elections.
Asher Milbauer
Associate Professor English
Areas of Specialization:20th Century English and American Literature; Exile Literature; Eastern EuropeanLiterature; Jewish Literature (both in Yiddish and Hebrew); Literature and Society;
Literature of the Holocaust.
Joseph Patrouch
Associate Professor, History
(Berkeley, 1991) Associate Professor
Area of Specialization:Professor Patrouch is the author of a monograph on rural authority and religious change among the Austrian Habsburgs in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. (A Negotiated Settlement: The Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg Province of Upper Austria, Brill Academic Publishers, 2000). He currently is researching the life and undertakings of an Austrian Habsburg archduchess, Elizabeth (1554-1592). This research seeks to study the intersections of court, dynastic, Holy Roman Imperial, gender, rural, and urban histories through an analysis of a wide variety of seigniorial, artistic, architectural, literary, financial, and epistolary evidence.
Professor Patrouch also has an interest in the history of Vienna and will be leading a number of seminars on this topic at the University of Vienna in Spring, 2004. Recently, in addition to an article about the status of convents in Vienna in the 1580’s, he has published a series of entries on topics related to his research in the following reference works: Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003); Amazons to Fighter Pilots: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women (Greenwood Press, 2003);Women in World History (Yorkin Publications, 2000); Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing. (Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999); Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature. (ABC-Clio, 1998). Professor Patrouch has also published various articles, chapters, and book reviews in related areas.
His teaching concentrates on central and western Europe between the mid-fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Seminar and lecture topics regularly taught include Early Modern Court Societies, the Counter-Reformation, Vienna: Today and Yesterday, the Habsburg Dynasty, Europe in the Later Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation Europe, Europe in the Seventeenth Century, and the Social History of Early Modern Europe.
Elisabeth Prügl
Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Geography.
Area of Specialization:Gender and Global Economic Governance; European Union, International Organizations, and women’s labor.
Her articles on gender in international relations, women in European agriculture, home-based workers, and women in development have been published in top journals of the field. She also is the author of The Global Construction of Gender: Home-based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century (Columbia, 1999), co-editor of Gender Politics in Global Governance (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999) and of Homeworkers in Global Perspective: Invisible No More (Routledge, 1996).
Meri-Jane Rochelson
Associate Professor English
Area of Specialization:Victorian Fiction; Late Victorian Fiction; Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literatureand Culture; Women in Victorian Literature and Culture, Israel Zangwill
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