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Steering Committee

Students are advised in their concentration by a steering committee member of their choice.

The director interfaces with the college administration, faculty and inquiring students on behalf of the program; keeps track of the total number of concentrations, collects copies of all major research projects, and ensures that requirements are being fulfilled; and leads occasional steering committee meetings.

DIRECTOR: KIARINA A. KORDELA (GERMAN STUDIES)

Steering Committee Members

Erik Davis
  • Erik Davis
  • Associate Professor, Religious Studies
  • current focus: collective and ritual creativity associated with social protest movements in urban Cambodia and Southeast Asia.
  • 651-696-6152
Rothin Datta
  • Rothin Datta
  • Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Political theory; racial capitalism; value-form theory; non-western political thought; history of economic thought
Joanna Inglot
  • Joanna Inglot
  • Edith M. Kelso Associate Professor, Art History
  • Focuses on modern and contemporary art, particularly in Europe and the United States
  • 651-696-6657
David Martyn
  • David Martyn
  • Professor, German and Russian Studies
  • Focuses on comparative literature, literary theory, culture from the 18th century to the present, philosophy, and literature written in German by “foreign”-language authors
  • 651-696-6547
David Chioni Moore
  • David Chioni Moore
  • Associate Professor, International Studies and English
  • Literary interactions in the Black Atlantic world, notably Africa, the Caribbean, and African America; post-colonial and/as the post-Soviet; comparative literature; cultural theory; globalization.
  • 651-696-6242
Khaldoun Samman
  • Khaldoun Samman
  • Professor of Sociology
  • Focuses on world historical-comparative and urban sociology, globalization, sociology of religion, and modes of identities in the Middle East
  • 651-696-6845