Faculty
European Studies draws upon renowned teachers and scholars in the Departments of Anthropology, Economics, English, French and Italian, Germanic and Slavic Studies, History, History of Art, Musicology, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sociology, and Spanish and Portuguese, and in the programs of Jewish Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies.
Core Faculty
Joy Haslam Calico
, Director of the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies; Associate Professor of Musicology; Associate Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Duke), Opera, music and politics; cultural politics in the Soviet Bloc, especially the GDR, 322-2528, joy.calico@vanderbilt.edu
Helmut Walser Smith , Martha Rivers Ingram Professor of History; Professor of European Studies (Ph.D. Yale), Early modern and modern German history 343-1749, helmut.w.smith@vanderbilt.edu
Alexander (Ari) Joskowicz , Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies; Assistant Professor of European Studies; Affiliated Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., Chicago), Jewish history; modern European history, with a focus on Germany and France; minorities and nationalism; political and intellectual history, 322-7371, a.joskowicz@vanderbilt.edu
Zeynep Somer-Topcu , Assistant Professor of Political Science; Assistant Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., California, Davis), Comparative political parties and elections, Representation; European politics, 936-7983, z.somer@vanderbilt.edu
Faculty
Celia Applegate, William R. Kenan, Jr. Chair of History (Ph.D., Stanford), Modern European history, with emphasis on Germany; intellectual and cultural history, 343-1983, celia.applegate@vanderbilt.edu
Robert F. Barsky , Professor of French; Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of English; Professor of Jewish Studies (Ph.D., McGill [Canada]), Comparative literature, especially of the 20th and 21st centuries; Jewish radical thought, 322-2652, robert.barsky@vanderbilt.edu
David Blackbourn , Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Chair of History, (Ph.D. Cambridge), Modern German and European history; social, political and cultural history, the history of religion, environmental history and the history of landscape, transnational history, 343-7196, david.blackbourn@vanderbilt.edu
Michael D. Bess , Chancellor's Professor of History; Professor of History; Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., California, Berkeley), Modern European history, 322-3340, michael.d.bess@vanderbilt.edu
William James Booth , Professor of Political Science; Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Harvard), Memory, Identity, and justice, 322-2491, william.j.booth@vanderbilt.edu
Victoria A. Burrus , Associate Professor of Spanish (Ph.D., Wisconsin), Medieval Spanish literature, 322-6860, victoria.a.burrus@vanderbilt.edu
William Caferro , Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History (Ph.D., Yale), Medieval and Renaissance Italy and Europe, 322-0097 william.p.caferro@vanderbilt.edu
Lauren R. Clay , Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Early modern/modern Europe with a focus on France; social and cultural history; history of business, labor, and commercial society; theater; urban history; French empire. 322-5947, lauren.clay@vanderbilt.edu
Julia P. Cohen , Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish Studies; Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., California, Davis) Jewish history, history of the Ottoman Empire, urban history, inter-communal relations in the modern Mediterranean, Judeo-Spanish (Sephardi) history, Jews in Islamic lands. 322-6202, julia.p.cohen@vanderbilt.edu
Katherine B. Crawford , Professor of History; Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program (Ph.D., Chicago), Gender history, especially early modern France & Europe, 322-5080, katherine.b.crawford@vanderbilt.edu
Cynthia J. Cyrus , Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education; Associate Professor of Musicology (Ph.D., North Carolina, Chapel Hill), Late medieval monasticism, history of the book, Medieval and Renaissance musical repertories, 322-4474, cynthia.j.cyrus@vanderbilt.edu
Nathalie A. Debrauwere-Miller, Associate Professor of French Jewish Studies (Ph.D., Emory), 20th Century French literature and culture and feminist theory, 322-6906, n.debrau@vanderbilt.edu
Nathalie Dieu-Porter , Senior Lecturer in French (D.E.A., Mons-Hainaut [Belgium]), French language and culture, 322-6908, nathallie.d.porter@vanderbilt.edu
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein , Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies (Ph.D., Toronto [Canada]), Continental philosophy, 322-2265, idit.dobbs-weinstein@vanderbilt.edu
Robert A. Driskill , Professor of Economics (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), International trade, 322-2128, robert.a.driskill@vanderbilt.edu
Lynn E. Enterline , Nancy Perot Mulford Professor of English (Ph.D., Cornell), Early modern British literature, 322-3705, lynn.enterline@vanderbilt.edu
James A. Epstein , Distinguished Professor of History (Ph.D., Birmingham [England]), Modern British history, especially 19th Century, 322-3372, james.a.epstein@vanderbilt.edu
Edward F. Fischer , Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for Latin American Studies (Ph.D., Tulane). Cultural anthropology, political economy, indigenous revitalization with a focus on the Maya of highland Guatemala and contemporary German labor relations. 322-2527. edward.f.fischer@vanderbilt.edu
Leonard Folgarait , Professor of History of Art (Ph.D., California, Los Angeles), European art, 322-0090, leonard.folgarait@vanderbilt.edu
William P. Franke , Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of Italian; Professor of Religious Studies (Ph.D., Stanford), Italian literature, 322-6902, william.p.franke@vanderbilt.edu
Edward H. Friedman , Gertrude Conaway Professor of Spanish, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of European Studies, Director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins), Early modern Spanish literature, 322-6929, edward.h.friedman@vanderbilt.edu
Marc G. Froment-Meurice , Professor of French (Ph.D., Nice, Sophia-Antipolis [France]), Modern French poetry and poetics, 322-2833, mfment@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
Jay Geller , Associate Professor of Theology; Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Studies (Ph.D., Duke), Antisemitism, modern Jewish identity, the Shoah and film, 343-3968, jay.geller@vanderbilt.edu
Lenn E. Goodman , Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities; Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Religious Studies (Ph.D., Oxford University), Metaphysics and ethics, 343-3158, lenn.e.goodman@vanderbilt.edu
Roy Gottfried , Professor of English (Ph.D., Yale University), Modern British fiction, especially Irish literature, 322-2326, roy.k.gottfried@vanderbilt.edu
Barbara Hahn , Distinguished Professor of German (Ph.D., Freie, Berlin [Germany]), Modern German literature with a special interest in women's studies, 322-2611, barbara.hahn@vanderbilt.edu
M. Donald Hancock , Professor of Political Science, Emeritus (Ph.D., Columbia), European Union and comparative European politics, donald.hancock@vanderbilt.edu
Joel F. Harrington, Professor of History (Ph.D., Michigan), Early Modern Europe, especially Germany, 322-3351, joel.f.harrington@vanderbilt.edu
Mark Jarman , Centennial Professor of English (M.F.A., Iowa), British and American poetry, 322-2618, mark.jarmin@vanderbilt.edu
John Lachs , Centennial Professor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Yale), 19th century German idealism, 343-0321, john.lachs@vanderbilt.edu
Leah S. Marcus , Edwin Mims Professor of English, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies (Ph.D., Columbia) 16th and 17th Century literature, Shakespeare, and Renaissance drama, 322-2330, l.marcus@vanderbilt.edu
John A. McCarthy , Professor of German, Emeritus; Professor of Comparative Literature, Emeritus; Professor of European Studies, Emeritus (Ph.D., SUNY, Buffalo), 18th-20th century German literature, culture, and society 322-6782, john.a.mccarthy@vanderbilt.edu
Anthère Nzabatsinda , Associate Professor of French (Ph.D. Montreal [Canada]), Francophone literature, linguistics and literature, 322-6914, anthere.nzabatsinda@vanderbilt.edu
Kelly Oliver , W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Women's Studies and Gender Studies (Ph.D., Northwestern),19th and 20th century continental philosophy, 343-0334 , kelly.oliver@vanderbilt.edu
John F. Plummer , Professor of English (Ph.D., Washington), Medieval literature, 322-2317, john.f.plummer@vanderbilt.edu
Lynn T. Ramey , Associate Professor of French; Chair of the Department of French (Ph.D., Harvard), Medieval and Renaissance French literature and culture, 322-6904, lynn.ramey@vanderbilt.edu
Matthew Ramsey , Associate Professor of History (Ph.D., Harvard), France in the late 18th and 19th centuries, 322-0096, matthew.ramsey@vanderbilt.edu
Philip D. Rasico , Professor of Spanish and Catalan Language and Linguisitics (Ph.D., Indiana), Catalan and Spanish language and history, 322-6859, philip.d.rasico@vanderbilt.edu
Michael A. Rose , Associate Professor of Composition, (Ph.D., Eastman), 322-5817, michael.a.rose@vanderbilt.edu
Allison Schachter , Associate Professor of Jewish Studies; Associate Professor of English (Ph.D. California, Berkeley), Comparative Jewish literature, Hebrew and Yiddish modernism, and French Jewish culture, 343-3186, allison.schachter@vanderbilt.edu
Thomas Alan Schwartz , Professor of History; Professor of Political Science; Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Harvard), History of international relations, 343-4328, thomas.a.schwartz@vanderbilt.edu
Virginia M. Scott , Professor of French and Applied Linguistics ; Director of Second Language Studies (Ph.D., Emory), Second language acquisition, and French language, 322-6903, virginia.m.scott@vanderbilt.edu
Peggy Setje-Eilers , Assistant Professor of German (Ph.D., Virginia), Modernism (specifically Expressionism), cinema, and art history, 343-3190, peggy.setje-eilers@vanderbilt.edu
Jeffrey S. Tlumak , Associate Professor of Philosophy; Chair of the Department of Philosophy (Ph.D., Massachusetts), 17th and 18th Century Western European philosophy, 343-5909, jeffrey.tlumak@vanderbilt.edu
Barbara Tsakirgis , Associate Professor of Classics; Associate Professor of History of Art (Ph.D., Princeton) Classical archaeology, art, and architecture, 343-4112, barbara.tsakirgis@vanderbilt.edu
Holly A. Tucker , Professor of French; Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society (Ph.D., Wisconsin), Early modern French literature,322-6905, holly.tucker@vanderbilt.edu
Martina Urban , Associate Professor of Religious Studies; Associate Professor of Jewish Studies (Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem [Israel]) Jewish intellectual history with a focus on German Jewish thought, 322-6340, martina.urban@vanderbilt.edu
Bettina C. Warnke , Assistant Professor of European Studies; Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies (Ph.D., Columbia), Yiddish literature, language, and culture, Jewish theater, Holocaust drama, 322-2967, nina.warnke@vanderbilt.edu
Francis W. Wcislo , Dean of the Ingram Commons; Associate Professor of History; Associate Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Columbia), Modern Russian history, 322-4948, francis.w.wcislo@vanderbilt.edu
Meike G. J. Werner , Associate Professor of German; Associate Professor of European Studies (Ph.D., Yale), 19th and 20th century German literature and culture, 343-0404, meike.werner@vanderbilt.edu
Bronwn Wickkiser , Assistant Professor of Classical Studies (Ph.D. Texas) Greek history and culture, Ancient religion and medicine, Augustan culture.322-1007, bronwyn.wickkiser@vanderbilt.edu
Mark A. Wollaeger , Professor of English (Ph.D., Yale), Modern British fiction, 322-7463, mark.wollaeger@vanderbilt.edu
David C. Wood , W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy; Professor of European Studies; Professor of Art (Ph.D., Warwick [United Kingdom]), Contemporary European philosophy, 343-7189, david.c.wood@vanderbilt.edu
Andres Zamora , Associate Professor of Spanish; Associate Professor of European Studies; Associate Professor of Political Science (Ph.D., Southern California, Los Angeles), 19th and 20th Century Spanish literature, 322-6858, andres.zamora@vanderbilt.edu
Christoph Mirko Zeller , Associate Professor of German (Ph.D., Stuttgart [Germany]), 18th to 20th Century German literature, 322-2821, christoph.m.zeller@vanderbilt.edu