International Studies

Picture	Name	Contact
	Aiyub Palmer Sainthood in Early Islam, Islamic Authority, Social movements in Early Islam, Arabic language pedagogy, TAFL, Early Islamic Texts, Islamic Manuscript Studies	aiyub.palmer@uky.edu 1063 Patterson Office Tower (859)-257-7011
	Cynthia A. Ruder Professor, Russian Studies, Convener for Russian Studies Russian language, Language Pedagogy, Pre-WWII Stalinist Culture	cynthia.ruder@uky.edu 1041 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-7026
	Doug Slaymaker Professor, Japan Studies Contemporary Japanese literature and culture, especially fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries	dslaym@uky.edu 1477 Patterson Office Tower (physical), 1055 Patterson Office Tower (mail) 859-257-7557
	Emily Beaulieu Bacchus Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, Director of International Studies, Associate Chair, Interim Director of Graduate Studies	eabeau2@uky.edu 1627 & 1461 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-9677
	Ghadir Zannoun Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Coordinator of the Arabic Program Modern Arabic Literature. Arab Women Writers. Comparative Literature. Literature and Nationalism	ghadir.zannoun@uky.edu 1073 Patterson Office Tower
	Gloria Allaire Associate Professor, Italian Studies Italy, Italian, Andrea da Barberino, chivalric epic, Arthurian romances	allaire@uky.edu 1439 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-7098
	Haralambos Symeonidis (Χαράλαμπος Συμεωνίδης) Professor of Spanish Linguistics, Co-Director of ALGR (Atlas Lingüístico Guaraní-Románico), Professor at Middlebury Language School Summer 2010, Professor at Middlebury Language School (Buenos Aires) Summer 2012-today, Invited scholar at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (March 2017), Invited scholar at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Hispanic Linguistics, Spanish and Portuguese in South America (Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil), Judaeo-Spanish, Language Contact, Eurovision Song Contest and Language Use	haralambos.symeonidis@uky.edu 1129 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-2629
	Harald Höbusch Professor of German Studies, Associate Chair, MCLLC, Editor, Colloquia Germanica 20th century German Cultural Studies, with a focus on sports history (mountaineering), World Language Pedagogy, esp. the preparation and training of graduate TAs	hhoebu@uky.edu POT 1067 257-1873
	Ioana Raluca Larco Associate Professor in Italian Studies, Language coordinator Women's Literature and Gender Studies, 20th Century Poetry, autobiography, teaching methodologies and technologies	ioana.larco@uky.edu 1463 Patterson Office Tower
	Jackie Murray Associate Professor, Classics, African American & Africana Studies, Gender & Women Studies Hellenistic Poetry, Greek and Latin literature, Caribbean Culture and Literature, race studies and racial formation, Imperial Greek Literature	jmu245@g.uky.edu 1077 Patterson Office Tower
	Janet P. Stamatel Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Graduate Studies, Faculty Affiliate, Center for Equality and Social Justice Global Criminology, Violence Against Women, Political Sociology, Quantitative Methods	jstamatel@uky.edu 1571 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-4220
	Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Professor of Russian Studies, Folklore and Linguistics Vernacular Religion, Russian Rituals and Holidays, Verbal semantics, Cognitive Linguistics, Legends and Urban Legends	j.rouhier@uky.edu 1061 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1756
	Jeffrey N. Peters Professor, French and Francophone Studies, Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Early modern literature and culture, literary and critical theory, poetics and rhetoric, posthumanism, Film Studies	jnp@uky.edu 1031 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-3761
	Jesse C. Johnson Associate Professor, Director of Peace Studies International Security, International Cooperation	j.johnson@uky.edu 1649 Patterson Office Tower
	Jillienne Haglund Associate Professor Human Rights, International Organization, International Law	jill.haglund@uky.edu 1657 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-2709
	Julie Human Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies, MCLLC, Director of Introductory French (FR 101, 102, 106, 201, 202) Medieval French literature, Medieval romance, gender, women's studies, Pedagogy, curriculum design, Arthurian legend	julie.human@uky.edu 1017 Patterson Office Tower (859) 218-3731
	Koji Tanno 丹野幸治 Assistant Professor of Japan Studies, Japanese Language Program Coodinator L2 Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Computer-assisted Language Learning, Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse Markers	Koji.Tanno@uky.edu 1467 Patterson Office Tower
	Leon Sachs Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies history and culture of education; history and theory of republicanism; literature, film and war; World War I and French theater; 19th and 20th century French culture	leon.sachs@uky.edu 1033 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-1896
	Liang Luo Professor, Chinese Studies Theater and Performance studies, Propaganda, Sino-Japanese cultural relations, Film Studies, Chinese language and culture, Korean language and culture, Gender Politics, intersectionality, Folklore, Popular Culture, 20th Century Music and Literature, the international avant-garde	llu222@uky.edu 1453 Patterson Office Tower (physical address), 1055 Patterson Office Tower (mailing address) 859-257-9139, 859-257-3743 (fax)
	Mark P. Whitaker Professor of Anthropology	mark.whitaker@uky.edu 214 Lafferty Hall 859-257-2611
	Michael Samers Professor of Economic and Urban Geography, and affiliated faculty, International Studies Economic and urban geography; migration and immigration	michael.samers@uky.edu 859 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-6966
	Milena Minkova Professor of Classics, Director of Graduate Studies, Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, On sabbatical leave AY 2021/22 Latin literature in its continuity and Neo-Latin, 12th century Renaissance, Latin Composition, Latin Pedagogy and Active Latin	mmink2@uky.edu 1037 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-5710
	Mohammad Zannoun Race and Ethincity, Social inequality, Sociology of Religion, quantative research	mohammad.zannoun@uky.edu 317 Patterson Office Tower 859 2574125
	Molly T. Blasing Associate Professor of Russian Studies, University Senate (A&S Humanities Representative, 2020-2023) Russian Literature, Language Pedagogy, Theater and Performance studies, Film, Digital Humanities, 20th Century Poetry	mtblasing@uky.edu 1053 Patterson Office Tower
	Mónica Díaz Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and History, Chair of Hispanic Studies, Marie Rich Endowed Professor Indigenous peoples and religion, Race, Coloniality, Visual studies, Women's writings, Gender and ethnic identity, Cultural studies, Catholic studies	monica.diaz@uky.edu 1105 Patterson Office Tower (859) 257-7091
	Monica Udvardy Associate Professor Sociocultural Anthropology; Gender; Cultural Property & Heritage Ethics., Global traffic in non-Western cultural property; cultural identity politics & anthropological ethics., Expressions of gender in culture and society, ideology, symbolism, kinship and social organization; Indigenous women’s organizations.	udvardy@uky.edu 210 Lafferty Hall 859 257-6919
	Nisrine Slitine El Mghari Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, and French and Francophone Studies Maghrebi literature and culture, Colonial and post-colonial studies, Literature and culture of Muslim Spain, urban space, Cultural memory studies, Gender studies, feminist geography, Film and visual culture	nslitine@uky.edu 1015 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-7016
	Sadia Zoubir-Shaw Professor, Linguistics & French & Francophone Studies, KFLC Conference - Executive Director (2014-2022), Director of the Foreign Language and International Economics Program (FLIE) - 2018 to present, Convener for French and Francophone Studies (2017-2021)), Administrator of the Karen and Garland Dever Endowed Fellowship Phonetics and Phonology, Language Development and SLA, translation studies, Intercultural Studies, Foreign Language and International Economics, Language in Performance, Reading/Writing/Textual Analysis, Academic Program Design	szoubir@uky.edu szs.shaw@gmail.com 1023 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-5729
	Sheila E. Jelen Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Zantker Professor of Jewish Literature, Culture and History Gender and Jewish literature, Popular Ethnography and American Jewish Identity, Post-Holocaust Jewish Identity, Hassidic Narratives and Secular Culture, Documentary Photography and Post-Holocaust Identity, Translation and Jewish American Identity, Literature of the Holocaust, The Ethics of Representation, Testimony and Trauma	sjelen@uky.edu 1475 Patterson Office Tower 7-7557
	Valerio Caldesi Valeri Associate Professor of Classics, President of the Kentucky Philological Association Classical Mythology, Classical Historiography, Greek Epigraphy	vcaldesiv@uky.edu 1021 Patterson Office Tower

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