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Faculty Spotlights

  • Ciro Incoronato is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French & Italian. What classes do you teach?  ITAL 156- Exploring Rome: History and Culture of the Eternal City ITAL 406- Italian Culture and Globalization What is a book that you think should be more widely read? The Political Unconscious (Fredric Jameson)
  • Suzie Telep is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and a faculty affiliate of the EU Center. What is the focus of your current research? Overall, my research focuses on language, race, and body style in cultural productions such as music, social media, and fashion among Francophone Cameroonians in Paris, France, and Duala, Cameroon. My current book project, provisionally...
  • Jules Woolf is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation, Sport and Tourism Department.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My current work explores the social influence of close others on athletes use or abstinence of performance enhancing and lifestyle drugs. In addition, I study anti-doping education and its influence of...
  • Monika is Brightbill/Sapora Professor in the department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My research focuses on issues of cultural change, quality of life, and their relationship to leisure behavior of ethnic and racial minorities. In 2022-2023, I collected data for the study on the refugee...
  • Julie Gaillard is Assistant Professor of French, in the department of French and Italian.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I currently work on the pronoun "we” at the intersection of political philosophy, literary studies, cultural studies and linguistics. What is the relationship between "I," "you" and "we" in various...
  • Kent Choquette is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I research compound semiconductor laser diodes and their applications. My speciality are vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSELs). What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those...
  • Matthew Soener is an Assistant Professor of Sociology.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? I work on political economy, inequality, and globalization very broadly. This includes some work on how companies have reorganized around financial and global markets. More recently, I am steering my interests towards understanding climate...
  •   Dr. Hunt is an assistant professor in the Germanic department.  What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My first book is provisionally titled Sites of Grief: Mourning, Politics, Forgiveness. It’s an expansion of my dissertation, “Taking the World by Storm: Forgiveness in the Early Writings of Walter Benjamin.” Sites of Grief...
  • Sandy Dall'erba is Professor, Dept. of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and co-director of the Center for Climate, Regional, Environmental And Trade Economics. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? My current research interests focus on environmental economics in general and the impact of climate change on agriculture, food security and the global...
  • Renata Endres has a Joint appointment with the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism and Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. What is the focus of your current work and/or subject of your current research? Agritourism / inclusive access to outdoor recreation. What classes do you teach? What are some of the topics of those classes? Finance in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism...