Affiliated Faculty

Name	Contact	Specialties
Anderson, Gordon, Librarian for Scandinavian & Slavic Studies and Coordinator of Arts, Humanities, & Area-Studies Collections	ganderso@umn.edu	Central & Eastern Europe (including Germany) since 1850; Scandinavian (particularly Swedish)-American history
Bischof, Laura Dale, Librarian for German and Dutch, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Linguistics and ESL	bisch004@umn.edu	Linguistics; Foreign Language Librarianship
Bachrach, Bernard, Professor, Department of History	bachr001@umn.edu	Medieval Europe before 1200; the Renaissance; medieval military
Cohen, Gary B., Professor, Department of History	gcohen@umn.edu	Austrian studies; Eastern Europe; modern European social history
Karras, Ruth, Professor, Department of History	rmk@umn.edu	Medieval Europe; women's history; gender history
Kobialka, Michal, Professor, Department of Theatre Arts & Dance	kobia001@umn.edu	Theater historiography; medieval theater; postmodern theater; Eastern European theater
Leitner, Helga, Professor, Department of Geography	eqj6139@umn.edu	Central Europe
Leppert, Richard, Regents Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	leppe001@umn.edu	Music; visual culture; critical theory; aesthetics; history of modernity
Maynes, Mary Jo, Professor, Department of History	mayne001@umn.edu	19th- and 20th-century German history; social history; women's history
Mowitt, John W., Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Department of English	mowit001@umn.edu	Contemporary literary theory
Painter, Karen, Assoc. Professor, School of Music	kpainter@umn.edu	Relationship between music, listening, and ideology in the context of 19th-century German social history; fin-de-siècle cultural debates; World War I, Austro-German socialism, and Nazism.
Reyerson, Kathryn, Professor, Department of History	reyer001@umn.edu	Medieval Europe, the Mediterranean, and France; social, economic, and legal history
Savelsberg, Joachim, Professor, Department of Sociology	savel001@umn.edu	Sociology and criminology
Thomas, Gary, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature	thoma002@umn.edu	Gay and lesbian studies; German music and literature; 17th- and 18th-century literature
Tracy, James, Professor, Department of History	tracy001@umn.edu	Renaissance and Reformation history; early modern Netherlands; 16th- and 17th-century European expansion and trade
Weitz, Eric, Professor, Department of History	weitz004@umn.edu	Modern German history
Wolbert, Barbara, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology	wolbert@umn.edu	Visual cultural studies; anthropology of art; visual anthropology; anthropology of media; migration studies; ritual theory; Berlin, Germany; Istanbul, Turkey; Europe

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