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Meet the 2009-2010 DAAD Research Ambassadors! |
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Find someone who conducted research where you want to go in Germany, who specializes in your field, or who comes from your home state or college, and ask them everything you ever wanted to know about research in Germany!
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Dr. Marybeth Boger |
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Director, Center for Academic and Professional Enrichment -- New Jersey Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Education - Social and Learning Issues
University/Research Institution in Germany: Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Fachhochschule Dortmund, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen
Email: boger (at) daad.org
Marybeth Boger is the Director of the Center for Academic and Professional Enrichment at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Passionate about her calling, Marybeth spends her days motivating and helping to inspire academic and personal development in students. Marybeth contends that it is necessary to think outside of the box when examining and employing various strategies to engage students in their learning process as they experience the challenges transitioning from high school to post secondary education. Academic success is one factor, but along side of that is the development of a “person”. For Marybeth, it is extremely rewarding to be a part of the personal and scholarly development of post secondary students.
Throughout most of her graduate studies, Marybeth was a Schomburg Fellow and in 1999 became a recipient of a DAAD grant to conduct research in Germany where she examined the racial climate at a German Comprehensive High School (Gesamtschule) in Dortmund. This afforded her the opportunity to explore the social trends within an educational setting by conducting hours of interviews with German and non German students. She worked under the guidance of colleagues at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut in Essen, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, and Fachhochschule Dortmund.
In 2001, Marybeth was awarded a PhD in Global Education from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Since 1989, Marybeth has spent a total of 4.5 years residing in Germany in the capacity of a student, employee, or researcher. For Marybeth, Germany is a rich landscape for further research projects with focus on social and educational themes.
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Corey Campion |
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PhD candidate in history -- Georgetown University
Research Interests: Modern Europe (Germany & France)
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Freiburg
Email: campion (at) daad.org
Corey Campion is an instructor and doctoral candidate in modern European history at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is completing his dissertation, "Living with the Enemy: A Comparison of French and American Cultural Occupation Policies in Germany, 1945-1949," which examines the implementation of Allied reeducation policies and the intersection of French, American, and German cultural models in French-occupied Freiburg and American-occupied Stuttgart. The project reflects his broader interests in Franco-German cultural and diplomatic relations and the transmission of culture in occupied societies.
With the help of a research grant from DAAD Corey conducted archival research in Germany from 2005-2007. He worked most in the municipal archives of Freiburg and Stuttgart, the state archives of Baden-Württemberg and the archives of the Catholic Archdiocese in Freiburg. He also has worked in both the French and American national archives. Please feel free to contact him with any questions that you might have about conducting historical research in Germany.
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Dr. Martin Habekost |
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Assistant Professor, School of Graphic Communications Management -- Ryerson University, Toronto
Research Interests: Color & color differencing equations, digital print technologies and quantification of printed metallic inks
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Hannover, German Institute of Rubber Technology
Email: habekost (at) daad.org
Martin Habekost is Assistant Professor at the School of Graphic Communications Management at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. The program is the only university-based four-year program geared towards the printing industry in Canada. His research has been focused on color, the visual perception of color differences and their numerical expression using various color differencing equations. This research endeavor has led to numerous conference presentations at the Technical Association of the Graphic Arts (TAGA) and peer-reviewed publications. He has also authored a chapter in the upcoming book Digital Photography for Print (Printing Industries of America, 2009).
Before researching and teaching at Ryerson University, Dr. Habekost worked for 10 years in the printing ink manufacturing industry in Germany and Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Hanover, Germany, in analytical chemistry in conjunction with the German Institute of Rubber Technology (www.dikautschuk.de). Recently, the School of Graphic Communications Management and the Hochschule der Medien (HdM) in Stuttgart have started a faculty exchange and a student exchange is in preparation.
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Dr. George Heffernan |
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Professor, Department of Philosophy -- Merrimack College
Research Interests: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Ethics (esp. Contemporary Moral Problems,e.g. environmental, medical, technological issues)
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: University of Cologne (PhD 1981, sabbatical research 1998); Freie Universitaet Berlin (sabbatical research 2003)
Email: heffernan (at) daad.org
Concentrating on contemporary European philosophy, Professor Heffernan specializes in phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism, focusing on evidence, understanding, and meaning. He has presented numerous papers at scholarly conferences, including the World Congress of Philosophy, the International Husserl Circle, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, and the International Humanities Conference. He has published numerous monographs, including in Phaenomenologica, Husserl Studies, The New Yearbook for Phenomenology, and the International Journal of the Humanities. He has received three one-year grants from DAAD. Presently Professor Heffernan is completing an edition of Augustine’s Against the Academicians that addresses the perennial issues raised by Hellenistic skepticism, recast by Cartesian rationalism, and revised by contemporary epistemology.
As a DAAD Fellow, Professor Heffernan met his future wife, Dr. Young-Hee Kim, who studied at the University of Cologne and has served as an ambassador for the Republic of Korea. German is their common language; Korean, Turkish and Indian are their favorite foods; and Greece is their choice vacation destination. They know from experience that intercultural education widens people’s horizons, deepens mutual understanding, furthers international commerce, and strengthens world peace. During a sabbatical in Berlin in 2003 Professor Heffernan was elated to finish the Berlin Marathon in a respectable time and honored to be beaten by a determined Kenyan on his way to a new world record.
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Dr. Kurt Hübner |
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Professor, Director, Institute for European Studies; Chair for German and European Studies -- University of British Columbia
Research Interests: German Technology Studies
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Mannheim, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Email: huebner (at) daad.org
After my training as an economist, Kurt Hübner turned his interest to Political Economy. From the beginning he was very much focused on comparative work and also on the area of globalization. In theoretical terms much of my work is founded on version of regulation theory, an area that recently has been reinvented under the name of varieties of capitalism.
The relationships between economic globalization, innovation, and sustainability were guiding one important segment of Dr. Hübner's work. Another segment deals with currency regimes and currency policies. Those topics are all embedded in his work on European integration and the position of the German Political Economy in the global.
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Dr. Jim Hurley |
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Manager New Product Development -- PolyOne Corporation, Kennesaw, GA
Research Interests: Applied Polymer Chemistry
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
Email: hurley (at) daad.org
Jim Hurley is the New Product Development Manager for Wilflex Inks, a division of PolyOne Corporation. In his research, he is focused on developing new environmentally friendly and sustainable printing inks for the specialty graphics industry. This work provides him many opportunities to deal directly with scientists at German chemical giants BASF, Lanxess, Evonik and Altana-- key suppliers of raw materials to this market. Prior to Wilflex, Dr. Hurley worked at Cookson Electronics developing electronic packaging materials and also spent eight years with BASF in both Germany and the US, focusing on engineering thermoplastics.
After completing his B.S. (SUNY Stony Brook) and M. Phil. Degree (Syracuse University), Hurley received a DAAD research fellowship from 1986-1989, which enabled him to complete his dissertation in Marburg under Prof. Ch. Elschenbroich (Promotion 1989). Since 1998, He has lived in Atlanta with his wife Dr. Annette Bretschneider and their two children. He looks forward to discussing life and study in Germany with any interested parties.
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Dr. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt |
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Linguistics -- University of Oregon
Research Interests: General Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Typology
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Koeln, Universitaet Muenster
Email: jingschmidt (at) daad.org
Dr. Jing-Schmidt is currently visiting assistant professor of linguistics at the University of Oregon (2008-2010). She was a recipient of the DAAD annual research fellowship (1999-2000) during her graduate studies at UCLA. She continued to study in Germany after that year and received her PhD in linguistics in Cologne (Promotion 2003). She has received generous financial support from the Lise-Meitner program and the Fritz-Thyssen Foundation during her postdoc research. Dr. Jing-Schmidt has recently been awarded a three-year research grant by the DFG (German Research Foundation). If you have questions regarding graduate, postdoctoral or faculty research in linguistics and funding possibilities in Germany, please feel free to contact her.
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Dr. Sami Khuri |
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Professor of Computer Science -- San Jose State University
Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Dortmund (1994-95), Technische Universitaet Muenchen (1999-2000)
Email: khuri (at) daad.org
Sami Khuri holds a PhD. in Computer Science from Syracuse University, NY, USA. He is a Professor of Computer Science at San Jose State University, where he mainly teaches bioinformatics. His main research interests lie in the development of probabilistic algorithms, such as Hidden Markov Models and Genetic Algorithms, for detecting patterns in DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Fulbright, the Dana Research, NSF, NIH, and two DAAD. As a DAAD scholar, he spent 1994-1995 in the Computer Science Department of Dortmund University where he taught and conducted research in Evolutionary Algorithms and Coding Theory. His second stay as a DAAD recipient, in 1999-2000, was in the Lehrstuhl fuer Efficiente Algorithmen at the Technical University of Munich where he taught and conducted research in the analysis of algorithms and in data compression. He is also very interested in computer science education.
His international experience includes visiting positions at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Dortmund University and the Technical University of Munich in Germany, universities in Finland, Spain, Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Lebanon. Being a strong proponent of international and intercultural exchanges, he was honored and pleased to be chosen as a DAAD Research Ambassador and looks forward to be in touch with students and faculty who are thinking of studying/teaching/researching in Germany. To learn more about his professional interests, please visit: www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/khuri
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Jennifer Ronyak |
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PhD candidate in musicology -- Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Research Interests: German art song, music in German culture, performance studies, language and music
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
Email: ronyak (at) daad.org
Jennifer Ronyak is a Ph.D. candidate at the Eastman School of Music in musicology, where she serves as a Graduate Instructor. She is currently completing her dissertation, Performing the Lied, Performing the Self, which looks at the performance of art song in early nineteenth-century Germany, considering how the communicative practice of singing complicated the predominant intellectual emphasis on autonomy and interiority in German thought. This dissertation emerges from her longstanding scholarly interests, which center on the relationship of language and music to one another in performance and the larger aesthetic and philosophical questions that emerge from this intersection.
Jennifer was the recipient of a ten-month doctoral research grant from the DAAD in 2007-08. During her stay in her Berlin, she primarily conducted research at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, as well as at the Goethe-und-Schiller Archiv, Weimar. She also served as a guest lecturer (Gast Dozent) at the Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar of the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, where she co-taught a course in music and gender (conducted in English) within a primarily German-language curriculum. If you have questions concerning research opportunities in musicology, music theory, or related disciplines and sources of funding please feel free to contact her.
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Dr. Ayguen Sahin |
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Instructor in Neurosurgery -- Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Research Interests: Cancer Research, Gene and Cellular Therapy
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Bonn, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Email: sahin (at) daad.org
Ayguen Sahin, Ph.D., is a faculty member of Harvard Medical School. She was born and grew up in Frankfurt/M. She moved to Istanbul, Turkey with her family and received her B.S. in Biology and M.S. with honors in Applied Biology in Hacettepe University, Ankara, where she was also appointed as a Research and Teaching Instructor. She decided to go back to her motherland, where she received her Ph.D. degree with honors in Genetics at University of Bonn, Department of Molecular Pathology. She conducted part of her doctoral work in Institute Pasteur, Lille, France. As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bochum, she built and run the Neuro-Oncology laboratory before she accepted a postdoctoral position at MGH-HMS Center for Nervous System Disease at the Carter Laboratory in 2006.
Since her Ph.D., her research has been focusing on molecular and cellular mechanisms of brain cancer and discovering novel genetic and cellular therapy approaches for this deadly disease, in hope to taking these experimental therapies into patients. In 2008, her work on Adoptive Immunotherapy for Glioblastoma was awarded with a two-year Research Fellowship Award from the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA). She received a number of awards and honors during her academic career and served as an active board member in many committees. Her multicultural lifestyle and international academic and research experience broaden her perspective in many aspects, and she encourages international students and scientists to consider conducting research abroad.
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Dr. Joerg Schlatterer |
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Research Associate in Biochemistry -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York City)
Research Interests: Biophysics, Nanotechnology
University/Research Institution in Germany: Freie Universitaet Berlin (1999), Universitaet Heidelberg (PhD 2003)
Email: schlatterer (at) daad.org
Joerg Schlatterer is a faculty member in the department of biochemistry at Einstein. His research spans multiple aspects of nucleic acids chemistry including organic synthesis, design and application of in vitro evolution methods, structural investigation of RNA catalysts, exploration of the dynamic of ribozymes, and biophysical characterization of biopolymers and their complexes. The goal of his research is to understand basic principles of nucleic acids chemistry and structural biology in order to create better molecular tools.
Dr. Schlatterer is a native German. He studied chemistry in Berlin and received his PhD in Heidelberg. In 2004, he moved to the US and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Florida before he accepted a position as research associate at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2006. Since 2006, Dr. Schlatterer has represented the Einstein postdoctoral community on the institutional and national level. His administrative interests include career development and internationalization of systems of higher education.
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Dr. Conrad Siegers |
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry -- University of Toronto
Research Interests: Polymer Chemistry, Materials Science, Molecular Photovoltaics
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg Materials Research Center
Email: csiegers (at) daad.org
Conrad Siegers grew up in Aachen, and completed his university education at the University of Freiburg, Germany. While pursuing his Chemistry degree (Diplom Chemiker) he also spent one year at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada,as a participant in the Ontario-Baden-Wuerttemberg Exchange Program. For his Masters thesis, Conrad joined the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) and Institute for Polymer Chemistry at the University of Freiburg. During his PhD, he investigated novel energy-transfer sensitizers for the dye solar cell in close collaboration with colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg. After completing his PhD degree in 2007, Conrad became a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, ON, Canada. As of September 2008 he is funded by Saudi-Arabia’s King Abdullah University for Science and Technology. Conrad’s general research interests are interdisciplinary projects in the context of functional organic materials.
Conrad is committed to fostering intercultural exchange. Taking part in the DAAD’s Research Ambassador program is a logical continuation of his past participation in the Freiburg chapter of the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE). Conrad is also a member of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) as well as the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC). Conrad is happy to answer your questions with respect to doing research in Germany (notably in the areas of chemistry and the materials sciences).
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Dr. Gabrielle Siegers |
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Cell Biology -- Princess Margaret Hospital in the Ontario Cancer Institute
Research Interests: Cell therapy, Immunotherapy
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Freiburg, Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology
Email: gsiegers (at) daad.org
Gabrielle Siegers was born in North York, ON and grew up in Bracebridge, Muskoka, Canada. While pursuing an undergraduate degree at the University of Guelph, she studied for one year in Tübingen, Germany, through the Ontario-Badenwürttemberg (OBW) Exchange Program. She graduated in 1997 with an Honours Bachelor of Science with two majors: Biochemistry and German Studies. During her MA studies at Queen’s University, she spent a year in Berlin with the Pädagogischer Austauschdienst, working as a teaching assistant at a Gymnasium and doing research for her Master’s Thesis in German Studies, entitled “The Emancipation of Women in the GDR as Portrayed in Helga Schubert’s Lauter Leben”. While performing in the German Play at Queen’s (Horvath’s Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald) she met Conrad Siegers, an OBW exchange student. She followed him back to Freiburg, Germany, where she earned a PhD from the University of Freiburg in Molecular Immunology in February 2007. Her doctoral work was completed at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology, Freiburg, in the laboratories of Dr. Wolfgang Schamel and Prof. Michael Reth. Her dissertation was entitled “Structural Organization of B and T Cell Antigen Receptors”. Gabrielle is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Cell Therapy Program at Princess Margaret Hospital/Ontario Cancer Institute under the supervision of Dr. Armand Keating. Her project is to establish a pre-clinical chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) mouse model for investigation of human gamma delta T cells (GDTc) as a potential therapy to eradicate minimal residual disease in CML patients. For more about her research, go to http://www.celltherapy.ca/celltherapy/about-us/
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Dr. Patricia Simpson |
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Associate Professor of German Studies -- Montana State University
Research Interests: Age of Goethe, Contemporary Culture, Cultural Theory
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Freie Universitaet Berlin
Email: simpson (at) daad.org
Patricia Anne Simpson (PhD, Yale 1988) became interested in German during a choir tour to West Germany in 1977, and she remained a dedicated student and scholar of German and European culture. She began learning the language in college and pursued German Studies during her graduate career at Yale, where she also studied comparative literature and psychoanalytic theory. Simpson received generous support from DAAD to study in Freiburg and in (West) Berlin. For nearly two decades, she has been teaching all aspects of German-language culture, literature, and popular culture. She is currently Associate Professor of German Studies at Montana State University in Bozeman; she has served as the German Section Coordinator for eight years, advising students about study abroad and the need for intercultural communication skills. In addition, she serves on the Executive Board of the German Studies Association; she is Executive Secretary of the Goethe Society of North American, and co-editor of the Women in German Yearbook. Currently she is the Project Director of a Department of Education Title VI UISFL grant (2008-10) and she continues to support and advise students and colleagues interested in international education.
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Dr. Rick White |
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Professor of Chemistry, Sam Houston State University
Research Interests: Organic Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry
University/Research Institution in Germany: Universitaet Würzburg (1998, 2002), Universitaet Siegen (2007)
Email: white (at) daad.org
A native Iowan, Dr. Rick White received a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Iowa in 1977 and taught at Drake University until offered a position at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, TX in 1984. There he carries out research in Organic Photochemistry. In 1998, Professor White received his first DAAD grant to go to the University of Würzburg where he worked with Prof. Waldemar Adam on the photochemistry of phenyl hydroxylamine. Dr. Adam recently retired with 1001 publications. His labs were well organized and quite productive with hard working and helpful students. With help from the DAAD, Dr. White was able to return to Uni Würzburg in 2002 to work on the photochemical extrusion of nitrogen from cyclic azo molecules. He returned to Germany in 2007 to work with Prof. Heiko Ihmels at the Universität Siegen on the photochemistry of oxiranes. Since then, Dr. White's university has established a student/faculty exchange program with Uni Siegen and students have gone to Siegen to continue their studies.
Dr. White and his wife have developed a science-based course in which they take students to Germany to talk about prominent chemists, most of whom are Nobel prize winners, their historical times, how their historical times influenced their work and how their efforts continue to impact our lives. The couple enjoy introducing students to Germany, its culture, its food and its educational system.
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Dr. Wolfgang Wölck |
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Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor, Fellow of the Center for Cognitive Science -- State University of New York, Buffalo
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics (Multilingualism, Ethnolinguistic Minorities)
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Frankfurt, Freiburg, Kiel, Leipzig
Email: woelck (at) daad.org
Wolfgang ("Wolf") Wölck is Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor of the State University of New York, Fellow of the Center for Cognitive Science at the University at Buffalo, Senior Fellow of the Research Center on Multilingualism at the Catholic University in Brussels, and Honorary Professor of the National University of Peru. In Germany Wolf has taught at the universities of Frankfurt, Freiburg, Kiel and Leipzig. His research areas are contact linguistics, bilingualism, dialectology and sociolinguistic methods. He has been senior researcher for the EUROMOSAIC surveys of European minority languages, including Low German, Danish, Frisian and Sorbian in Germany, and is scientific adviser to the multinational research project on linguistic diversity (LINEE) of the European Union. His special expertise includes language attitude studies, language standardization, survey sampling (‘community profiles’) and the analysis and description of ethnic varieties of majority languages (‘ethnolects’). Wolf has also worked on Quechua, the language of the former Inca Empire.
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Dr. Paul Youngman |
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Associate Professor of German; Director of Center for Humanities, Technology and Science -- University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Research Interests: German Technology Studies
Universities/Research Institutions in Germany: Universitaet Karlsruhe, Universitaet Hamburg, German Literature Archive
Email: youngman (at) daad.org
Paul A. Youngman is Associate Professor of German Studies and the Director of the Center for Humanities, Technology, and Science at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. His research focuses on the German cultural reception of various technologies. Black Devil and Iron Angel (Catholic University Press, 2005) deals with the railway in 19th-century Germany and We are the Machine (Camden House, 2009) is an analysis of the literary reception of computing and the internet in contemporary Germany. Professor Youngman has enjoyed several research stays in Germany. Most recently he received a grant from the DAAD to conduct research at the Center for Functional Nanostructures in Karlsruhe. Other significant stays included a Fulbright research grant at the University of Hamburg and two DAAD sponsored visits to the German Literature Archive in Marbach. To learn more about Professor Youngman and his research, please visit www.languages.uncc.edu/pyoungma.
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