Berlin
Meet the Faculty
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Classes at the Berlin Program are taught by local faculty, the Center Director, and by one Stanford Faculty in Residence per quarter. Many professors hold regular appointments at German universities or have served in prominent positions in policy organizations, research institutes, and editorial boards. Courses are taught in English during autumn and winter quarters and a mix of English and German during spring quarter.
Upcoming Faculty-in-Residence
| Quarter | Professor | Department |
|---|---|---|
| Autumn 2007-08 | Rush Rehm | Drama |
| Winter 2007-08 | ||
| Spring 2007-08 | Janice Ross | Drama |
| Autumn 2008-09 | Regina Casper | Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences |
| Winter 2008-09 | Charlotte Fonrobert | Religious Studies |
| Spring 2008-09 | Orrin Robinson | German Studies |
Local Faculty
- Maria E. Biege
- Associate Director, Stanford Program in Berlin
Language Instructor - E-Mail Maria Biege »
- In addition to serving as Associate Director for the Stanford Program in Berlin, Maria is a German instructor and coordinator of the language program. Maria studied at the Friedrich Wilhelm-Universität Bonn and at Stanford University (1976 - 1982, M.A. in 1978). Maria currently teaches the second-year German course (GERLANG 22B).
- Students can be in touch with Maria concerning:
- Language program, language partners/Tandems
- Mentors for E40, E50 and other technical courses
- Events at the Center, Bing Field Trip
- Creative Writing
- Dr. Ulrich Brueckner
- E-Mail Dr. Brueckner »
- Uli has studied political science, German Literature, and European Studies in Wuerzburg and Berlin. His field of interest is European integration. From 1994-2002, he held the Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration at the Department of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He was also a visiting professor in Szczecin, Shanghai, Stanford, and Moscow. In 2003, Uli Bruckner was appointed EU Jean Monnet Professor at Stanford University/Berlin.
- Uli's courses include:
- The European Module: An Introduction to the European Integration
- A People's Union? Money, Markets, and Identity in the EU
- External Affairs of the EU
- Dr. Knut Ebeling
- Knut is an art critic and philosopher. He teaches art and architecture courses and studied philosophy and art history in Paris (with Gilles Deleuze) and Berlin (with Friedrích Kittler). He is interested in the history of artistic and aesthetic discourses in modernity - and how they interact. He specializes in 20th century art/architectural history and aesthetic theory. He also writes for numerous publications and was awarded the Carl Einstein Preis für Kunstkritik in 1998.
- Recent publications include:
- Die Falle - Zwei Lektüren zu Georges Batailles ‘Madame Edward’, Passagen-Verlag Wien, 2000;
- Moskauer Tagebuch: Doppelbelichtung (with foreword by Michail Ryklin), Passagen-Verlag Wien 2001;
- Die Aktualität des Archäologischen - in Kulturwissenschaft, Medien und Künsten," Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt 2004;
- Das Archiv brennt (with Georges Didi-Huberman), Kadmos Kulturverlag Berlin 20
- Dubravka Friesel-Kopecki
- Language Instructor
- E-Mail Dubravka Friesel-Kopecki »
- Dubravka studied German Studies, Balkan Studies, and Slavic Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin (Advanced Degree from FU-Berlin, 1987).
- Dubravka currently teaches:
- German Studies 3B / Third Quarter German
- Dr. Martin Jander
- E-Mail Martin Jander »
- Dr. Martin Jander studied history, political science, and German literature at the Freie Universität Berlin (M. A. in history 1983; Ph. D. in history 1995). His fields of interest are National Socialism and the politics of the two German states after WW II. Martin currently works as an historian and journalist. He writes for Der Tagesspiegel and die tageszeitung, two Berlin dailies.
- His books include:
- Berlin (DDR). Ein Politischer Stadtspaziergang;
- Formierug und Krise der DDR-Opposition (1998)
- He is currently working on a book about how the German Democratic Republic dealt with the National Socialist past. If you want to know more about Martin just visit his website: http://www.unwrapping-history.com
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- Dr. Wolf-Dietrich Junghanns
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- Wolf studied philosophy at the University Rostov on Don, Russia (Diploma 1984), and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Dr. phil. 1990). He has taught at the Technische Hochschule Magdeburg (1984-86), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1986-87, 89-90), Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA (1992). In addition to teaching, Wolf serves as coordinator of the Krupp Internship Program for Stanford Students in Germany.
- His courses include:
- Theory from the Bleachers: Reading German Sports and Culture (Winter Quarter)
- Sports, Culture and Gender in Comparative Perspective (Spring Quarter)
- Dr. Ingo Klein
- Lecturer
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- Ingo studied international economics in Berlin and has conducted research and teaching at several German Universities (Humboldt Universität, Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Universität Leipzig), as well as institutions in the US, East Europe, India, and South Korea. He has worked on international business development projects in Western and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, the US, Japan, China, and North Africa.
- Ingo has been a visiting professor in the department of economics at Portland State University, Oregon since 1992 and a Lecturer at the Stanford in Berlin Program since 1999. His main fields of interest include: Present German Economy, German Economic History of the 20th Century, Development Economics, Globalization.
- His courses include:
- The German Economy - Past and Present (Autumn Quarter)
- The German Economy in the Age of Globalization (Winter Quarter)
- Dr. Karen Ruoff Kramer
- Director
- E-Mail Dr. Kramer »
- Karen has been the Director of the Stanford Program in Berlin
since 1980 and teaches:
- Contemporary Theater
- Culture and Politics in Modern Germany
- Split Images: A Century of Cinema
- Students can get in touch with Karen concerning:
- Academic advising, including courses at German universities, directed reading, and honors thesis research.
- Courses and curriculum
- General advising and concerns
- Christa Maerker
- Christa Maerker is a film professional who has made documentaries as writer/director/ producer, among them profiles of James Cagney, Theo Angelopoulos, Federico Fellini, & Philip Roth; she has written 12 screenplays (five of which were produced for the cinema, among them Die Schweizermacher "The Swissmakers") and 12 Radio Dramas. Christa has been on the staff of the Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival) since 1976 in various capacities (film selection, editing of the full documentation catalogue, hosting film celebrities). She has been a voting member of the European Film Academy since 2004. Visiting professor of Creative Writing at Hollins University since 2003.
- Christa currently teaches:
- Film(ed) Experience: Berlin at Eye Level
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- Dr. Franz Neckenig
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- Franz has taught social and art history at the Stanford-in-Berlin Program since its founding. He studied at the Freie Univerisitaet Berlin (M.A. in History, Archeology and Religious Studies, 1972; Ph.D. in Art History, Philosophy and History, 1981). Franz has also been an instructor with Duke University's Berlin Program and Portland State University's Summer Program.
- His Stanford-in-Berlin courses include:
- The Industrial Revolution and its Impact on Art, Architecture and Theory
- Architecture and the City, 1871-1990
- Berlin vor Ort
- Dr. Matthias Pabsch
- Matthias studied Art History at Göttingen University and at Humboldt University in Berlin (Ph.D. in 2001). His particular fields of interest are contemporary art and architecture. He has lectured at Humboldt University (2001-2003) and Basel University in Switzerland (2004). Since 2003 he has been lecturing in the Duke in Berlin Program.
- Dr. Pabsch is the author of the following books:
- Zweimal Weltstadt. Architektur und Städtebau am Potsdamer Platz (Twice a Metropolis. Architecture and Urban Design at the Potsdamer Platz), 1998;
- Pariser Platz - Architektur und Technik. Vom manuellen zum Digitalen Zeitalter (Pariser Platz - Architecture and Technology. From the Manual to the Digital Age), 2002;
- Berlin und seine Künstler (Berlin and its Artists), 2006
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- Dr. Sylke Tempel
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- In 2005 Sylke published Globalisierung - was ist das?; and in 2006, in cooperation with Germany's most renowned TV-News program, Die Tagesschau erklaert die Welt. Sylke attended the Universität München (M.A. Political Science) and the Universität der Bundeswehr (Ph.D. in History, Political Science and Jewish Studies). Sylke currently works as a journalist in Berlin. She has previously published a cultural history of ancient Rome (2001).
- In 2003, Sylke encouraged and edited an exchange of letters between Odelia Ainbinder, a young Israeli, and Amal Rifa'i, a young Palestinian woman. We both want to live here. A difficult friendship in Jerusalem, appeared in Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and was also published in the US by St. Martins Press. In October 2003 We both want to Live Here received the renowned Quadriga Prize as the Project of the Year.
- Her course offerings include:
- Nationalism and Political Culture in Contemporary Germany
- Globalization: International Challenges, Regional Responses
- Wotan´s Demise: the Threatened Environment in Historical Perspective
- Jochen Wohlfeil
- Language Instructor
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- Jochen studied at the Universität Hamburg, Indiana University (M.A. in Anglo Studies and German Studies, 1982), and the Freie Universität Berlin (M.A. in American Studies). Since 1988, he has served as resident director for Duke University's Berlin Program.
- He teaches:
- Accelerated First-Year German (Quarter 1 & 2 in Autumn Quarter; Quarter 2 & 3 in Spring Quarter)