Ellen Adams received her Ph.D. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 2007. Her scholarly interests include modern and contemporary art in the United States and Europe and gender studies. She has lectured and published on various aspects of art and culture of the twentieth century. Prof. Adams has also traveled extensively throughout Europe and lived (too briefly) in Paris.

Brian Danoff, Ph.D. in Political Science at Rutgers University, M.A. in Liberal Studies at the New School for Social Research, B.A. in Politics at U.C. Santa Cruz. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Miami University.  Dr. Danoff teaches political theory courses at the Oxford campus. In the summer of 2009, he will teach a course at the Luxembourg campus on modern European political thought. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Educating Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and Leadership in America (SUNY Press). His articles on modern political theory and American political thought have appeared in The Review of Politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Politics and Policy, Perspectives on Political Science, and Social Policy.

George Vascik, Associate Professor, Ph.D. (1988) University of Michigan. Research: A 1988 graduate of the University of Michigan, my research interests have included 19th century German politics and political economy, the Industrial Revolution, and the sugar industry. With the new millennium, I became more interested in ways that GIS technology can reopen previously closed historical questions. I am currently completing Peasants and Jews: Anti-Semitism and Rural Politics in Northwest Germany. Further details on this and other projects and papers can be found at http://peasantsandjews.org. Teaching: My primary role at Miami University is as a classroom teacher. In addition to regularly offering sections of Western Civilization and the introductory historical methods seminar, I teach a variety of upper division classes focusing on Modern Europe. I have led spring break workshops to Vienna and Berlin, and in Summer 2009 will be teaching at Miami’s Luxembourg campus. I am deeply involved in campus initiatives to effectively integrate advanced technology into the classroom and provide access to non-traditional, first-generation, or underprivileged students. Service: I have most recently been professionally active in the (American) Social Science History Association, the European Social Science History Association, The Historical Society, and the Ohio Academy of History. In addition to the normal range of university committees, I have been the academic director of four Teaching American History grants funded by the US Department of Education. See http://americasjourney.org and http://evergrowingfreedom.org

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