People in Germanic
OSU Faculty members with Germanic- or Ashkenazic-related specializations from other departments
CHARLES M. ATKINSON, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina). Professor of Music. Specializations: music and music theory of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Articles on: Musicological Society; Earliest Agnus Dei Melody and its Tropes; Schriftbild der einstimmigen Musik; Handwörterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie; Changes in the Concept of Tonus in the 9th & 10th centuries; Geschichte der Musiktheorie; various translations for Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Major courses taught: Music History and Literature; Medieval Music; Music in the Renaissance; Theory and Practice of the 14th Century; Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven; Carolingian Chant and Liturgy.
ALAN D. BEYERCHEN, Ph.D. (University of California, Santa Barbara). Associate Professor of History. Specializations: nineteenth- and twentieth-century German cultural history. His publications include a study of Scientists under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich (1977); translated into Japanese (1979), German (1980); Italian (1981); Dutch (1982); Turkish (1985). He has published articles on the relationships among German science, politics, economics and culture; nonlinear science (self- organizing systems, chaos, fractals, etc.), and the liberal arts; Clausewitz and nonlinear science; racism and the Holocaust. Major courses taught: Nineteenth-Century Germany; Twentieth- Century Germany; World in the 20th Century; The Holocaust; Readings in German History; NATO and Postwar European Politics; Nonlinear Science and the Liberal Arts.
JON ERICKSON is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and adjunct faculty in the Department of Art at the Ohio State University. His book, The Fate of the Object: From Modern Object to Postmodern Sign in Performance, Art, and Poetry, was published by the University of Michigan Press in 1995. He has published articles on performance, drama, art, poetry, and cultural and critical theory in Boundary 2, Discourse, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, among others journals. His most recent projects have included examinations of the definition of politics and ethics within performance theory, and an analysis of the construction of ideal spectators by performance theorists. As well as teaching dramatic literature and performance theory, he has taught critical theory in the Department of English at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Of late he has moved away from the now-orthodox post-structuralist, neo-marxist and psychoanalytic theoretical canons to examine both the analytical tradition in philosophy (especially as it applies to political and moral philosophy) and theories where the analytical and continental traditions intersect, as in the work of Paul Ricoeur and Jürgen Habermas.
CAROLE FINK, Ph.D. (Yale University). Professor of History. Professor Fink has published widely on European international history and historiography. Her publications include Marc Bloch: A Life in History (1989), the first biography of France's soldier-patriot-historian, which has been translated into four languages; The Genoa Conference: European Diplomacy, 1921-22 (1984), which was awarded the George Louis Beer Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book in European International History; an introduction to and translation of Bloch's Memoirs of War, 1914-15 (1980); and edited volumes on German Nationalism, European Reconstruction in 1921-1922, The Establishment of Frontiers in Europe after the two World Wars, 1968: The World Transformed, and Human Rights in Europe since 1945. Professor Fink has been a section editor of the AHA Guide to Historical Literature and of Peace/Mir: An Anthology of Historical Perspectives to War. Professor Fink teaches courses in 19th and 20th century European international history and European Historiography. Her current research focuses on the Polish Minority Treaty of 1919, the first international effort to establish and enforce minority rights. A second project is on the impact of the Six-Day War (1967) on Europe.
FRITZ GRAF, Ph.D. (University of Zurich, Switzerland). Professor of Classics. Professor Graf has published widely on Greek and Roman religion, mythology, and magic, on the classical tradition (esp. in Renaissance and Baroque emblematics) and on the history of Greek and Latin studies in the 18th and 19th centuries. He is a co-editor of Johann Jacob Bachofen's Collected Works and of Jacob Burckhardt's 'History of Greek Culture' ('Griechische Culturgeschichte'). Currently, he is working on a book-long study on the Greek god Apollo through the ages, and on an edition of a tractate by Christoph Gottlieb Heyne on Greek mythology (1772).
CHRISTOPHER JONES, Ph.D. (University of Toronto). Professor of English. Dr. Jones teaches Old English language and literature as well as medieval Latin. His research interests include language contact and linguistic interference in the Middle Ages, as well as manuscript studies, medieval liturgy, and the history of monasticism. In addition to various essays on early medieval language and culture, he has published A Lost Work by Amalarius of Metz (Henry Bradshaw Society, 2001), and Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham (Cambridge, 1998), which both received the John Nicholas Brown Prize from the Medieval Academy of America and the Beatrice White Prize from the English Association of the U.K.
ROBIN JUDD, Ph.D. (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor). Assistant Professor of History. Professor Judd joined the Department in 1999 as a specialist in Jewish and European History. She completed her doctoral degree at the University of Michigan "German Jewish Rituals, Bodies, and Citizenship" in May 2000. Professor Judd has won several prestigious fellowships. She has presented conference papers in the United States, Europe, and Israel. She teaches modern Jewish history, German history and Women's history. Professor Judd is currently working on We Jews Who Feel Most German: Religion & Modern German Jewish Life 1043-1933. Professor Judd received the 2001 NEH summer stipend grant and has also received the 2001 Clio award for teaching.
KAREN L. NEWMAN, Ph.D. (Indiana University). Assistant Professor of Foreign & Second Language Education. Specializations: Foreign and second language pedagogy and teacher education, nonnative English speaking teachers (NNESTs) in K-12 education, nonnative foreign language teachers, language teacher professional development and Waldorf education. She has taught a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses including German, language teaching methods, materials development, pedagogical grammar, research methods, content-area literacy, and academic skills. She spent the fall of 2006 conducting research at the Seminar für Waldorf Pädagogik in Stuttgart, Germany, and is currently working on a publication about Waldorf language teacher education.
LISA A. SHABEL, Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania), Associate Professor of Philosophy. Professor Shabel's current research interests include Kant, the history of modern philosophy, the philosophy of mathematics and the history of the philosophy of mathematics. She received numerous fellowships and awards, the most recent recognition was the National Science Foundation Scholars Award, 2002-2003. Her dissertation "Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy: Reflections on Mathematical Practice" was selected as the best dissertation produced at the University of Pennsylvania between July 1997 and June 1999 in any field of the Humanities or Fine Arts. Professor Shabel has written several published and forthcoming articles on mathematics in Kant.
GRAHAM R. WALDEN, M.S.L.S., M.L.S. (Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, State University of New York at Albany), Professor, University Libraries. Professor Walden's primary research area is in the bibliography of public opinion polls and survey research. He has published three books, namely Public Opinion Polls and Survey Research: A Selective Annotated Bibliography of U.S. Guides and Studies from the 1980s (1990), Polling and Survey Research Methods 1935-1979: An Annotated Bibliography (1996), Survey Research Methodology, 1990-1999: An Annotated Bibliography (2002). Professor Walden has written several articles on survey research. He is also a book reviewer for Choice, ARBA (American Reference Books Annual), and Library Journal. Currently he is working on the second volume of a two volume bibliographic set on focus groups (the first to be published in 2008, and the second in 2009).
JULIA WATSON, Ph.D. (University of California, Irvine). Associate Professor in Comparative Literature. Professor Watson specializes in THE studY[ies] of autobiographical narrative. Her research and teaching interests include feminist theory and women's writing, as well as twentieth-century postcolonial West African, multicultural U.S., and German narrative. She has, with Sidonie Smith, co-written Reading Autobiography: A Guide to Interpreting Live Narrative (2001) and co-edited four collections: De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography (1992); Getting a Life: The Everyday Uses of Autobiography (1996); Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader (1998); and Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance (2002). Their collection, Unusual Subjects: American Women's Personal Narratives, 1819-1919 is in preparation. Professor Watson has recently published an essay on and translation of Charlotte Salomon in SIGNS (28:1, AUTUMN 2002) and has another essay on her forthcoming in Interfaces. She is at work on a book on autoethnographic writing and reading practices.
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