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Christine A. Anderson Christine Anderson holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Kansas with a specialization in 19th and 20th century British cultural and gender history. She first joined the Humanities & Western Civilization program as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and returned as a Lecturer in 2008. Dr. Anderson also is a Lecturer in the Department of History and her research interests include the fin-de-siècle, urban & consumer culture, notions of 'modernity' & 'femininity', the performing arts, and the women's suffrage movement. |
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Richard Botkin Richard Botkin taught Western Civilization I and II as a Graduate Teaching Assistant while completing his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Kansas and returned to the Humanities & Western Civilization Program as a Lecturer in 2000. Dr. Botkin’s interests are in the areas of symbolic logic, epistemology, ancient Greek philosophy, and the scientific revolution of 17th century Europe. |
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Peter Casagrande Office: 303G Bailey, (785) 864-0168 E-mail: pjc@ku.edu Peter Casagrande came to the University of Kansas in 1967 having received a Ph.D. in English from Indiana University. He joined the Humanities & Western Civilization Program faculty in 1995 and also is a member of the faculty of the Department of English. He has written several books and many articles and reviews on the poet-novelist Thomas Hardy and on the topic of literary creativity. Professor Casagrande is the recipient of many teaching awards. |
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Antha Cotten-Spreckelmeyer Antha Cotten-Spreckelmeyer holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas with a specialization in Old English Literature. She joined the Humanities & Western Civilization Program in 1990 as a faculty lecturer, became Assistant Director of the program in 1995, and is now Associate Director. Professor Spreckelmeyer directs the program’s writing instruction and serves as the coordinator for majors. Publications and scholarly presentations include work in the field of early English religious poetry. |
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Anne Dotter Office: 303-J Bailey, (785) 864-3021 E-mail: annele@ku.edu Anne Dotter, Humanities and Western Civilization Program Lecturer, is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies. Her emphasis is on transnational cultural exchanges between French and American films dealing with teenage adolescence. Ms. Dotter, a native of France, received a Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies (DEA) in American Civilization at Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg. While a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the HWC Program she was named as a Dean’s Instructor and received the Outstanding GTA Award from the Graduate School.. |
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Christopher E. Forth Christopher E. Forth is the Jack and Shirley Howard Teaching Professor of Humanities & Western Civilization and Courtesy Professor of History. His research and teaching interests revolve around the cultural history of gender, sexuality and the body, with an initial focus on France that has expanded in recent years to include American and British culture. The author of Zarathrustra in Paris: The Nietzsche Vogue in France, 1891-1918 (2001), The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (2004) and Masculinity in the Modern West: Gender, Civilization and the Body (2008), he has also co-edited such volumes as Cultures of the Abdomen: Diet, Digestion and Fat in the Modern World (2005) and French Masculinities: History, Culture and Politics (2007). He is currently writing a cultural history of obesity, and maintains an interest in representations of gender in popular culture, notably in film noir, hard-boiled fiction, and science fiction. |
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Diane Fourny Diane Fourny is an Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian and in the Humanities & Western Civilization Program. She also serves as Director of the Center for European Studies, is Co-Director of the Humanities Multicultural Scholars Program, and is heavily involved in the direction of the HWC Program’s Study Abroad in Florence and Paris. Her areas of research are the French Enlightenment (18th Century Novel, J.-J. Rousseau, Diderot), autobiography, and European Studies. Professor Fourny has received the H. Bernard Fink Distinguished Teaching Award and a Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. She received a Ph.D. in French from Stanford University. |
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Jennifer Heller Jennifer Heller, Assistant Director of the Humanities and Western Civilization Program, earned her M.S.Ed. in Teaching and Leadership and her Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas. Her dissertation subject was American evangelical women of the mid-twentieth century. Dr. Heller came to the program first as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and more recently as a Lecturer. In addition to overseeing the Graduate Teaching Assistants and Western Civilization classes, she continues to lecture in Western Civilization I and II courses and is the co-director of CLAS Humanities division of the Multicultural Scholars Program. During her post-graduate years she received numerous teaching and writing awards. |
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Marike Janzen Marike Janzen is a Lecturer in the Humanities & Western Civilization Program, teaching World Literature. She also serves as a Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Dr. Janzen earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in twentieth-century German and Latin American literature. Before coming to the University of Kansas, Dr. Janzen was Assistant Professor of German at Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. She has published work on the East German writer Anna Seghers, and is interested in issues of solidarity, authorship, and social criticism in diverse cultural contexts of the Cold War. |
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Martha Rabbani Martha Jalali Rabbani joined the Humanities & Western Civilization Program faculty in 2004 as a Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies. A Brazilian, she holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from universities in Brazil, an advanced diploma in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution from the European Peace University in Schlainnin, Austria, and a doctorate in Humanities from Jaume I University in Spain. Dr. Rabbani's teaching and research are in peace education, global democracy and world citizenship. She has authored several articles on peace education and a book on Education for World Citizenship. |
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Sarah Trulove Sarah Trulove has served as a Lecturer in the Humanities and Western Civilization Program since 1997. She has been an editor of the textbook, Patterns in Western Civilization, since 1991, and was a managing editor for the fourth edition now in use. Currently, she is the instructor for HWC 204 and HWC 205 offered through KU Continuing Education. She is also developing online versions for those courses that will be available for enrollment in 2009. |
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Dale Urie Dale Urie received her Ph.D. from the University of North Texas in Modern European History. She is the Director of the Western Civilization Honors Program. Her current research focuses on issues surrounding the growing Muslim population in Europe. Her publications center on the life of the English author Rebecca West and her exploration of events and ideas that shaped the twentieth century. After teaching on the faculties of Northeastern University and the Art Institute of Boston as well as the Anglo-American College in Prague, Czech Republic, Dr. Urie joined the Humanities and Western Civilization Program as a Lecturer in 2000. She also teaches in the European Studies Program and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards. |
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Robert Vodicka Robert Vodicka is a Lecturer in the Humanities & Western Civilization Program. He received a B.A. from Pomona College and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Kansas. He has served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in American Studies, the HWC Program, and the Applied English Center. Mr. Vodicka’s interests are popular culture, labor, labor in the academy, and cultural theory. |
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Matthew Waldschlagel Matthew Waldschlagel is a Lecturer in Humanities & Western Civilization Program, having taught previously in the program as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. He is a recipient of the prestigious Carlin Award for outstanding teaching. A Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy, Matt received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of New Hampshire and an M.A. in Philosophy at Kent State University. His areas of interest are ethical theory and the history of philosophy. Matt also teaches courses in ancient Greek philosophy and the philosophy of religion for the Department of Philosophy. |
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James Woelfel James Woelfel has been Director of the Humanities and Western Civilization Program since 1985 and also serves as a Professor of Philosophy. Professor Woelfel received a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of St. Andrews, and has served on the KU faculty since 1966. His teaching and research have been primarily 19th and 20th century European philosophical and religious thought. Among the books he has authored are Bonhoeffer’s Theology, Borderland Christianity, Albert Camus on the Sacred and the Secular, Portraits in Victorian Religious Thought, The Existentialist Legacy and Other Essays on Philosophy and Religion, and is an editor of Patterns in Western Civilization fourth edition. Professor Woelfel was a 1997 recipient of the Kansas Humanities Council’s Silver Anniversary Public Scholar Award, and in 1998 received a Kemper Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching. |
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Karenbeth Zacharias Karenbeth Zacharias, Lecturer in the Humanities and Western Civilization Program, the Department of History and African & African -American Studies. She received her J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in May 2002, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in British History. She has taught as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Associate Instructor in the History Department and the HWC Program. She serves as the co-director for the British Seminars at the Hall Center for the Humanities. |
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Sandra Zimdars-Swartz Sandra Zimdars-Swartz is a Professor in the Humanities and Western Civilization Program. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion from Claremont Graduate School. Her research interests are religious experience and popular religion with Christian traditions. Professor Zimdars-Swartz is the author of Encountering Mary: from La Salette to Medjugorje. She is the HWC Ambassador to the Center for Teaching Excellence, and has received a Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. |
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