Institute for European Studies
Academics
European Studies Minor
Students from any college may choose an undergraduate minor in European studies.
About
The Institute for European Studies (IES) advances scholarship and teaching on Europe by placing Europe in a global context that acknowledges its role in both the history of modernization and colonization of other countries within and outside Europe.
Simone Pinet
Professor, Romance Studies
Simone Pinet's teaching and research focus on medieval and early modern Spanish literatures and cultures, from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries, especially in relation to spatiality, economics, poetics, and translation.
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Suman Seth
Marie Underhill Noll Professor of the History of Science
Suman Seth works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of science and medicine. His interests include the history of medicine, race, and colonialism, the physical sciences (particularly quantum theory), & gender and science.
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Philip Lorenz
Associate Professor, English
Philip Lorenz received his PhD from New York University. His teaching and research focus on English and Spanish literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in relation to problems of sovereignty and political theology. Related areas of interest include International Law, Religion, Psychoanalysis, Translation and Poetics and Theory.
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Leslie A. Adelson
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of German Studies Emerita
Leslie Adelson’s teaching and research concentrate on German literature from 1945 to the present and additionally reflect interdisciplinary as well as transnational approaches to culture and history. Her focal interests include German literature of the post-war and post-socialist eras, emergent literatures often associated with minority and migrant populations (especially regarding Jews, Turks, and Black Germans), and postcolonial theories of difference and approximation.
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Maria Goula
Professor, Landscape Architecture
Maria Goula is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Her research focuses on coastal tourism, especially coastal dynamics and the interpretation and reinvention of leisure patterns.