Department of German
UW-Madison
College of Letters & Science

Faculty in Other Departments

ART HISTORY 

Buenger, Barbara (Ph.D., Columbia University) 
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German Art 
http://www.wisc.edu/arth/bio/buengerbio.html

Hutchison, Jane C. (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
German and Netherlandic Art 
http://www.wisc.edu/arth/bio/hutchisonbio.html

SCHOOL OF HUMAN ECOLOGY  

Boyd, Virginia (Ph.D., University of Michigan) 
Twentieth-century architectural design, history of European interiors 
http://www.sohe.wisc.edu/etd/facstaff/bios/boyd/index.htm

COMMUNICATIONS ARTS 

Bordwell, David (Ph.D. University of Iowa) 
European and avantgarde cinema (emeritus) 
http://www.davidbordwell.net/

SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM & MASS COMMUNICATION

Scheufele, Dietram A. (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Public Opinion, Media and Politics, and Digital Democracy
http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/~scheufele/

HISTORY 

Hamerow, Theodore (Ph.D., Columbia University) 
Nineteenth-century Germany (emeritus) 

Koehl, Robert (Ph.D., Harvard) 
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century German diplomatic history (emeritus) 

Koshar, Rudy (Ph.D., University of Michigan) 
Western European social history and popular culture 
http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/koshar.htm

Michaels,Tony (PhD: Stanford)
Yiddish Culture
http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/michels.htm

Palmer Wandel, Lee (PhD: University of Michigan)
Reformation History
http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/wandel.htm

Sorkin, David (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
History of German-Jewish relations 
http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/sorkin.htm

HISTORY OF SCIENCE 

Broman, Thomas (Ph.D., Princeton University) 
Eighteenth-century German medicine 
http://histsci.wisc.edu/people/faculty/broman.shtml

Staley, Richard (Ph.D., University of Cambridge)
History of science, history of physics in Germany and Europe
http://histsci.wisc.edu/people/faculty/staley.shtml

Nyhart, Lynn (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) 
Nineteenth-century German science 
http://histsci.wisc.edu/people/faculty/nyhart.shtml

Shank, Michael (Ph.D., Harvard University) 
History of science and universities in Austria 
http://histsci.wisc.edu/people/faculty/shank.shtml

MUSIC 

Blasius, Leslie (PhD, Princeton)
Music Theory
http://www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/facultybio.jsp?faculty_id=13

Cook, Susan (Ph.D., University of Michigan) 
Twentieth-century German music 
http://www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/facultybio.jsp?faculty_id=17

Crook, David (Ph.D., Princeton University) 
Sixteenth- and seventeenth century German music 
http://www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/facultybio.jsp?faculty_id=18

Earp, Lawrence (Ph.D., Princeton University) 
Nineteenth-century German opera, Wagner 
http://www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/facultybio.jsp?faculty_id=28

Hyer, Brian (Ph.D., Yale University)
Cultural history of German and European music, Wagner
http://www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/facultybio.jsp?faculty_id=34

Potter, Pam (Ph.D., Yale University) 
Music and culture in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany and the impact of German immigration on American music and scholarship 
http://www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/facultybio.jsp?faculty_id=46

Swack, Jeanne (Ph.D., Yale University) 
Early and Baroque German music 
http://www.music.wisc.edu/faculty/facultybio.jsp?faculty_id=53

PHILOSOPHY 

Hunt, Lester H. (UCSB, Ph.D.)
Nietzsche
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/hunt/

Nadler, Steven (Columbia, Ph.D. 1986)
Philosophy and Jewish Studies. Leibniz
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/nadler/

Soll, Ivan (Ph.D., Princeton University) 
German philosophy; Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer 
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/faculty/

SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES 

Brantly, Susan C. (Ph.D., Yale University) 
Swedish literature and language, Swedish-German literary relations 
http://scandinavian.wisc.edu/facstaff/susan.html

Ingwersen, Niels (Cand. Mag., University of Copenhagen) 
European folklore, Danish literature and language (emeritus) 
http://scandinavian.wisc.edu/facstaff/niels.html

Ringler, Richard N. (Ph.D., Harvard University) 
Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, the Vikings  (emeritus)
http://scandinavian.wisc.edu/facstaff/dick.html

SOCIOLOGY 

Marx Ferree, Myra
German women and gender issues in Germany
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mferree/#personal

THEATRE AND DRAMA 

King, Marna (MFA, Yale School of Drama, Emerita) 
Postwar German theater and production 

Skloot, Robert (Ph.D., University of Minnesota) 
Holocaust drama, history of European theater, directing 
http://www.theatre.wisc.edu/bios.htm#skloot

URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING 

Jacobs, Harvey M. (Ph.D., Cornell University) 
Green politics in Germany and Europe 
http://www.wisc.edu/urpl/people/jacobs/