Faculty and Staff Profiles

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program coordinator

Catherine Peebles

Coordinator of Humanities Program; Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

G19 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3638
E-mail: catherine.peebles@unh.edu

see profile below

 

core faculty

Roger Brown

Associate Professor of German

210B Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3589
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: rsbrown@cisunix.unh.edu

 


Education:
A.B., Emory University, 1966
M.A., University of Kansas, 1969
Ph.D., ibid., 1971

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 592: Special Topics/The Blues
GERM 401-402: Elementary German
GERM 525: Intro to German Culture and Civilization
GERM 632: Advanced Communication Skills II
GERM 728: Modern German Literature

Fields of Research: 
German language, culture, and civilization

 


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Warren Brown

Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities

323 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3225
Fax: (603) 862-0178
E-mail: warren.brown@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Willamette University, 1966
M.A., Claremont Graduate School and University Center, 1972
Ph.D., ibid., 1976

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 500: Critical Methods in Humanities
HUMA 700: Seminar/Political Ambition and Power
HUMA 730: Justice and Freedom in the American Republic
POLT 401: Politics and Society
POLT 520: Justice and the Political Community
POLT 797I/897I: Seminar in Political Thought

Fields of Research: 
political thought, humanities

 


Willem deVries

Willem deVries

Professor of Philosophy

44 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3077
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: willem.devries@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Haverford College, 1972
M.A., University of Pittsburgh, 1975
Ph.D., ibid., 1981

Selected Courses Taught:
PHIL 447: Computer Power and Human Reason
PHIL 520: Existentialism
PHIL 580: Modern Philosophy Decartes to Kant
PHIL 616: 19th Century Philosophy
PHIL 618: 20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy

Fields of Research: 
philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology, history of philosophy

 


Marco Dorfsman

Marco Dorfsman

Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

210F Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3448
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: marcod@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1985
M.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1988
Ph.D., ibid., 1992

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 500: Critical Methods in Humanities
ECS 550: Critical Methods in Cultural Studies
SPAN 631: Advanced Conversation and Composition
SPAN 653: Intro Latin American Literature and Thought
SPAN 797/897Q: Latin America
SPAN 997: Graduate Seminar/The Baroque

Fields of Research: 
Latin American literature and culture, cultural studies

 


R. Valentine Dusek

Val Dusek

Professor of Philosophy

45 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3076
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: Valdusek@aol.com


Education:
B.A., Yale University, 1963
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1972

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 514: 20th Century, 1900-1945
PHIL 424: Science, Technology, and Society
PHIL 435: Human Nature and Evolution
PHIL 444: Remaking Nature/Ethics and Politics
PHIL 616: 19th Century Philosophy
PHIL 780: Special Topics/Social Construction

Fields of Research: 
science and philosophy

 


Patricia Emison

Patricia Emison

Professor of Art History and Humanities

Paul Creative Arts Center
Phone: (603) 862-1409
Fax: (603) 862-2191
E-mail: pae@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Bryn Mawr College, 1978
M.A., Columbia University, 1980
M.Phil., ibid., 1982
Ph.D., ibid., 1985

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 510: Culture of Greece and Rome
HUMA 511: Medieval World: Interdisciplinary Introduction
HUMA 513: Modern World
ARTS 682: High Rennaissance & Mannerist Art
ARTS 683: Baroque Art in Southern Europe
ARTS 691: A History of Venetian Art

Fields of Research: 
European art history

 


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Michael Ferber

Professor of English and Humanities, and Director of English Graduate Studies

52A Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3973
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: mferber@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1966
M.A., Harvard University, 1969
Ph.D., ibid., 1975

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 510: Culture of Greece and Rome
HUMA 511: Medieval World: Interdisciplinary Intro
HUMA 515: The 20th Century 1945-1999
ENGL 651: Comparative Literature
ENGL 718: English Linguistics and Literature
ENGL 769: English Romantic Period

Fields of Research:
Romantic poetry, western literature from the Greeks forward, war and peace studies

 


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Jan Golinski

Professor of History and Humanities, and Chair of the Department of History

Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3789
Fax: (603) 862-1502
E-mail: jan.golinski@unh.edu
Website


Education:
B.A., Cambridge University, England, 1979
Ph.D., The University of Leeds, England, 1983

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 511: Medieval World: Interdisciplinary Intro
HUMA 514: 20th Century 1900-1945
HUMA 515: The 20th Century 1945-1999

Fields of Research: 
history of science, intellectual history, historiography

 


David Hiley

Professor of Philosophy

27 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1040
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: david.hiley@unh.edu

 


Education:
B.A., Auburn University, 1966
M.A., University of Georgia, 1969
Ph.D., ibid., 1972

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 510: Culture of Greece and Rome
HUMA 515: 20th Century, 1945-1999
PHIL 430: Society and Morals
PHIL 444: Honors/ Remaking Nature/ Ethics
PHIL 580: Modern Philosophy Decartes to Kant
PHIL 780: Special Topics

Fields of Research: 
political theory, ethics, history of philosophy

 


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John Kayser

Associate Professor of Political Science

214BA Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-1699
Fax: (603) 862-0178
E-mail: john.kayser@unh.edu
curriculum vitae


Education:
B.A., University of New Hampshire, 1962
M.A., Ohio State University, 1964
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School and University Center, 1969

Selected Courses Taught:
POLT 402: Introduction to American Government
POLT 520: Justice and the Political Community
POLT 521: Rights and the Political Community

Fields of Research:
political thought, politics and literature, American presidency, pre-law

 


Edward Larkin

Edward T. Larkin

Professor of German

210H Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3549
Fax: (603) 862-1690


Education:
B.A., St. Peters College, 1971
M.A., St. John's University, 1980
M.A., University of Houston, 1980
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1986

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 401: Introduction to Humanities
GERM 401-402: Elementary German
GERM 503-504: Intermediate German
GERM 721: German Culture and Civilization

Fields of Research:
German language, culture, and civilization

 


Ronald LeBlanc

Ronald LeBlanc

Professor of Russian and Humanities

G10H Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3553
Fax: (603) 862-1690
E-mail: ronald.leblanc@unh.edu


Education:
B.S., U.S. Air Force Academy, 1971
B.A., University of Washington, 1977
M.A. ibid., 1979
Ph.D., ibid., 1984

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 650: Humanities and the Law
HUMA 651: Humanities and Science
RUSS 425: Contemporary Russian Society and Culture
RUSS 522: Morality, Sex, and Revolution in Russian Literature
RUSS 632: Advanced Conversation and Composition
RUSS 790: Advanced Language and Style

Fields of Research: 
history and poetics of the Russian novel, food in literature

 


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Greg McMahon

Associate Professor of History

408 Horton Social Science Center
Phone: (603) 862-3023
Fax: (603) 862-1502
E-mail: gmcmahon@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., University of Kansas, 1975
M.A., Miami University, Ohio, 1979
Ph.D., Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1988

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 401: Introduction to Humanities
HUMA 510: Ancient World
HIST 435: Western Civilization
HIST 575: Ancient Near East
HIST 676/876: Classic & Hellenistic Greek Worlds
HIST 677/877: Roman Republic

Fields of Research:
Ancient Near East, Greek history, Roman history

 


Catherine Peebles

Catherine Peebles

Coordinator of Humanities Program; Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

G19 Murkland Hall
Phone: (603) 862-3638
E-mail: catherine.peebles@unh.edu


Education:
B.A., University of Virginia, 1990
M.A., Binghamton Univeristy, 1994
Ph.D., ibid., 2000

Courses Taught:
HUMA 401: Introduction to the Humanities
HUMA 401: Sex and Love in Literature and Philosophy
HUMA 500: Critical Methods in the Humanities
HUMA 730: Humanities Seminar: Freud: Sex, Power, Ethics
ECS 500: European Cultural Studies Proseminar
LLC 440: Cultural Approaches to Film and Fascism

 


Petar Ramadanovic

Petar Ramadanovic

Associate Professor of English

203 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-0253
Fax: (603) 862-3563
E-mail: petarr@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1989
M.A., State University of New York at Binghamton, 1993
Ph.D., ibid., 1997

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 510: Ancient World
HUMA 515: 20th Century, 1945-1999
ENGL 419: Intro to Literary Analysis
ENGL 619: Critical Approaches to Literature
ENGL 926: Seminar/Literary Theory

Fields of Research: 
critical theory, cultural studies

 


David Richman

David Richman

Professor of Theatre and Humanities

M317 Paul Creative Arts Center
Phone: (603) 862-2218
E-mail: dmr@cisunix.unh.edu


Education:
B.A., Harvard University, 1972
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1978

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 401: Introduction to Humanities
HUMA 592: Special Topics: American Theatre
HUMA 650: Humanities and the Law
THDA 436: History of Theatre I
THDA 438: History of Theatre II
THDA 632: Interpretations of Shakespeare in Theatre
THDA 657: Playreading

Fields of Research and Artistry:
theatre history, Shakespeare, verse drama, humanities; directs productions of plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, and other playwrights

 


Charlotte Witt

Professor of Philosophy

31 Hamilton Smith Hall
Phone: (603) 862-1040
Fax: (603) 862-4214
E-mail: cewitt@cisunix.unh.edu

 


Education:
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1975
M.A., Georgetown University, 1978
Ph.D., ibid., 1980

Selected Courses Taught:
HUMA 510: Ancient World
HUMA 511: Medieval World: Interdisciplinary Intro
HUMA 513: Modern World
PHIL 500: Workshop
PHIL 570: Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 780: Special Topics/Topics in Ancient Philosophy

Fields of Research: 
ancient and medieval philosophy


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