Faculty and research experts at the University of Kentucky (UK) are available to speak to the news media about a variety of topics ranging from finance and economics to literature and the arts. Members of the media wishing to interview or consult with
these individuals should call (859) 257-1754.
Categories:
Chinese Studies
Denise Ho, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1515
E-mail: dyho222@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Social and cultural history of modern China
Liang Luo, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone: (859) 257-9139
E-mail: liang.luo@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Modern Chinese literature, performing arts, film and popular culture
Modern Chinese and Japanese intellectual and cultural exchanges
Gender politics in modern China
East Asian cities (Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Chongqing, and Hong Kong)
International avant-garde and modern China
Classics
Hubert Martin, Jr.,Professor of Classics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 272-2387 or 257-3387
E-mail: hubertmart@gmail.com
Specialization:
- Ancient Greek language and literature
All areas and aspects of Greek and Roman civilization
Athenian democracy
Plutarch’s Parallel Lives of the ancient Greeks and Romans
Greek tragedy and comedy
The Greek historians
Plato
The art and architecture of classical Greece
Methodologies for teaching Greek and Latin
Milena Minkova, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact phone(s): (859)-257-5710
E-mail: mmink2@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Latin Language and Literature
Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin
Latin Composition
Latin Pedagogy and Active Latin
Diplomacy
Carey Cavanaugh, Former Ambassador and Director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, Professor of Diplomacy
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 4666 or (859) 317-0975
E-mail: ambcavanaugh@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Conflict Resolution
Diplomacy
Mediation
Assistance and Humanitarian Issues
U.S. Foreign Policy, Arms Control
Europe and Russia, the Middle East
Congress
Defense/Military
Ethics
Ethnic Conflict
Foreign Policy
Robert Farley, Assistant Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4668
E-mail: robfarley@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Military Doctrine
Transnational Politics
National Security
East Asia/Pacific
Arms Control
Defense/Military
Foreign Policy
Homeland Security
George Herring, Professor Emeritus, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, Alumni Professor of History, Department of History
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4666 or (859) 492-0332
E-mail: gherring@uky.edu
Specialization:
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U.S. Foreign Relations
Vietnam War
History
Evan Hillebrand, Associate Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6928
E-mail: Evan.Hillebrand@uky.edu
Specialization:
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International Economics
Economic Modeling
Economic Relations
Energy
Modeling of Political Relationships
Globalization
Thomas McGinty, Adjunct Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4671
E-mail: tamcgi2@email.uky.edu
Specialization:
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Trade
Export Assistance
Economic Relations
Globalization
George Staples, Adjunct Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 4666
E-mail: cameroonegamb@yahoo.com
Specialization:
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Diplomacy
Foreign Policy
Ethics
African Assistance and Development
Africa
Cultural Relations
Human Rights
Clayton Thyne, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 6958
E-mail: clayton.thyne@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Interstate conflicts, civil conflicts, coup d'etats
International education policy
Democratization
Geoffrey Wallace
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-2709
E-mail: Geoffrey.Wallace@uky.edu
Specialization:
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International security
International institutions
International law
Public attitudes toward foreign policy and experimental methods
Democratization
French & Italian Studies
Gloria Allaire, Lecturer in Italian Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3761
E-mail: allaire_students@insightbb.com
Specialization:
- Medieval Italian literature
Chivalric literature
Codicology
Paleography
"Manuscript studies"
Medieval travel literature
Stephanie Coker, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3133
E-mail: coker.steph.d@gmail.com
Specialization
- Medieval French literature
Joan of Arc
Language pedagogy
Jacqueline Couti, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3761
E-mail: jacqueline.couti@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Francophone Caribbean, African, and New World literatures and cultures
John Erickson, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3761
E-mail: jeric1@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Twentieth-century and Francophone literatures and cultures
Julie Human, Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3761
E-mail: julie.human@gmail.com
Specialization:
- Medieval French literature
Arthurian literature
Ioana Larco, Lecturer in Italian Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3761
E-mail: ioana.larco@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Twentieth-century Italian literature and culture
Autobiography
Italian women writers
Italian film
Jeffrey Peters, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3761
E-mail: jnp@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Early modern French literature and culture
17th- and 16-century French literature and culture
Critical theory
Rhetoric and poetics
Film studies
Rupert Pickens, Professor emeritus of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3761
E-mail: rtpickens@insightbb.com
Specialization:
- Medieval French Literature
Leon Sachs, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1896
E-mail: leon.sachs@gmail.com
Specialization:
- Nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century literature and culture
Modern French literature and culture
Science and the humanities
Secularism and schooling
The history of pedagogy and literary education
The representation of war
Suzanne Pucci, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1066
E-mail: pucci1@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Eighteenth-century French literature and culture
French and Italian language
literature and art, particularly early modern literature and culture
performance Studies
Italian cuisine
Sadia Zoubir-Shaw, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-5729
E-mail: szs.shaw@gmail.com
Specialization:
- Linguistics
Translation (English/French)
Conference Interpreting (English/French)
German Studies
Ted Fiedler, Professor of German Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact phone(s): 859-257-4642
E-mail: tfiedler@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Literary and cultural studies of the German-speaking countries since 1870
Yugoslavian wars of the 1990 and their aftermath
Harald Hobusch, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Division of German Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1873
E-mail: hhoebu@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Thomas Mann
Mountains in German Literature
Culture Foreign Language
Pedagogy
TA Training and Mentoring
Globalization
Evan Hillebrand, Associate Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6928
E-mail: Evan.Hillebrand@uky.edu
Specialization:
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International Economics
Economic Modeling
Economic Relations
Energy
Modeling of Political Relationships
Globalization
Ana S.Q. Liberato, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 6069
E-mail: ana.liberato@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Race, ethnicity and gender and interplay with political identity and political attitudes
Cultural and political impacts of migration and the well-being of immigrant populations
Political, cultural and socioeconomic processes of Caribbean and Latin American societies as a consequence of globalization and democratization
Sarah Lyon, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 5038 or (859) 539-1296
E-mail: sarah.lyon@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Economic anthropology
Consumption
Tourism
Alternative markets and globalization
Agricultural commodities (coffee)
Central America and Mexico
Anthropological perspectives on globalization
Thomas McGinty, Adjunct Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4671
E-mail: tamcgi2@email.uky.edu
Specialization:
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Trade
Export Assistance
Economic Relations
Globalization
Hispanic Studies
Cristina Alcalde, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Affiliated Faculty, Latin American Studies and Co-director, A&S Wired
E-mail: cristina.alcalde@uky.edu
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-9719
Specialization:
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Latin America (with an emphasis on Peru and the Andean region)
Latinos/as in the U.S
Gender and race
Intersections of state
Institutional and interpersonal violence
Domestic violence
Migration
Latino masculinities
Mariana Amato, Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-5756|
E-mail: mariana.amato@uky.edu
Specialization:
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19th-21st Century Literature and Intellectual History
Critical Theory (Psychoanalysis, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics)
Aníbal A. Biglieri, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4640
E-mail: biglieri@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Medieval Studies
Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture
Alan V. Brown, Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-7093
E-mail: avbrow2@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Second Language Acquisition
Spanish Applied Linguistics
Heather Campbell-Speltz, Lecturer, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-5763
E-mail: heather.campbellspeltz@uky.edu
Specialization:
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20th-Century Theater
20th-Century Latin American Literature
Translation
Moises Castillo, Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-5772
E-mail: moises.castillo@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Early Modern and Colonial Studies
Francie Chassen-Lopez, Professor, Department of History and Support Faculty, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4344
E-mail: frclopz@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Latin American History
Modern Mexico
Women and Gender in Latin America Race
Ethnicity in the Americas
Irene Chico-Wyatt, Senior Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Elementary Language Instruction, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-2711
E-mail: iochic1@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Spanish Peninsular and Spanish American contemporary poetry
Women’s poetry
Golden Age poetry and drama
Film studies
Spanish American theater
Contemporary women's fiction
Susan Larson, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Hispanic Studies
Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1569
E-mail: slarson@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Modernity
Urban Studies
The Avant Garde
Film Studies
Ana S.Q. Liberato, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 6069
E-mail: ana.liberato@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Race, ethnicity and gender and interplay with political identity and political attitudes
Cultural/political impacts of migration and the well-being of immigrant populations
Political, cultural and socioeconomic processes of Caribbean and Latin American societies as a consequence of globalization and democratization
Carmen Moreno-Nuno, Associate Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies and Director, Latin American Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 7092
E-mail: morenonuno@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Cultural representation of historical memory
Contemporary Spanish Literature and Culture
Narrative
Interdisciplinary Studies: Painting, Film, Comic-Strip
Myth Theory
War Studies
Trauma Studies
Tad Mutersbaugh, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1316
E-mail: mutersba@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Political ecology
Rural development in Mexico
Yanira Paz, Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Elementary Language Instruction, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-7100
E-mail: yblaba0@email.uky.edu
Specialization:
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Oral Traditions
Sociolinguistics
Discourse Analysis
Teaching of Spanish
Ana Rueda, Professor and Chair, Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture, Department of Hispanic Studies
Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-7091
E-mail: rueda@email.uky.edu
Specialization:
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18th-21st Century Peninsular Literature
Narrative (short story, novel, epistolary, travel writing, war literature)
Haralambos Symeonidis, Associate Professor, Hispanic Linguistics, Department of Hispanic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-7094
E-mail: haralambos.symeonidis@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Spanish and Portuguese in South America (Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil)
Contact Languages
Jewish Spanish
Indian Studies
Srimati Basu, Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Anthropology
E-mail: srimati.basu@uky.edu
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4372
Specialization:
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Women and Law
Violence against women
Marriage, Kinship
Mediation and Alternate Dispute Resolution (especially in marriage)
Legal Anthropology
Women in Development
South Asia
Feminist Theory and Methodology
Work, Property and Women
International Studies
Carlos de la Torre, Professor, Department of Sociology; International Studies Program Director
Contact Phone(s): n/a
E-mail: c.delatorre@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Bolivia
Ecuador
Latin America
Venezuela
Islamic Studies
Ihsan Bagby, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-9638 (office), (859) 494-3743 (cell)
Email: iabagb2@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Islam
Islam in America
African American Muslims
Mosques in America
Paul Chamberlin, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 4346
E-mail: paul.chamberlin@uky.edu
Specialization:
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International History
Middle East History
Foreign Relations
Hsain Ilahiane, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6920 or (859) 539-4867
E-mail: Hsain.ilahiane@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Information and communication technologies for development
Social and economic dynamics in the developing world
Business anthropology
Small-scale farming
The Informal sector
Anthropology of the Middle East and Africa
Islam
Philanthropy and Islamic Charitable institutions
Politics of the Muslim/Arab world
Applied Anthropology
Social Change
Development
Global poverty
Oasis agriculture and agrarian change
Community-based resource management
Kristin Monroe, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-5390
E-mail: kristin.monroe@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Anthropology of the Middle East
Urban anthropology
Cultural geography
Mobility and migration studies
Political anthropology
Built environment
Youth culture
Conflict studies
Military culture
Robert Olson, Professor, Department of History and Support Faculty, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4346
E-mail: hisposta@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Ottoman Empire
Islamic History
The Kurdish people
General contemporary politics of the Middle East
Michael Samers, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-6966
E-mail: michael.samers@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Economic and Urban Geography
Immigration (especially political economy, labor markets and Islamic/Muslim issues)
European Union, France, US
Anna J. Secor, Associate Professor, Department of Geography
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1362
E-mail: ajseco2@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Space, subject and the state
Turkey
Islamic Studies
Gregory Stump, Director, Linguistics Program, Department of English
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 1184
E-mail: gstump@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Morphological Theory
Typology
Celtic languages
Indo-Iranian languages
Japan Studies
Masamichi (Marro) Inoue, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 7024
E-mail: msinoue@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Japan Studies
Cultural Anthropology
Doug Slaymaker, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 7557
E-mail: dslaym@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Japanese literature, society and culture since 1900
Asia and travel
Environment and agriculture in arts and culture
Akiko Takenaka, Assistant Professor, Department of History
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-3584
E-mail: ata225@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Social and cultural history of modern Japan
Memory and historiography of the Asia-Pacific War
War and society, nationalism, memory studies and visual culture
Judaic Studies
David Olster, Professor, Department of History and Judaic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-4348
E-mail: dmolst01@uky.edu
Specialization:
- Jewish History
Jeremy Popkin, Professor, Department of History and Judaic Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-1415
E-mail: popkin@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Modern French History
Jewish History
Haitian History
The French and Haitian Revolutions
Russian Studies
Victoria Ivleva, Lecturer, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Contact phone: (859)-257-1756
E-mail: viv222@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Eighteenth-Century Russian Culture
Eighteenth-Century Russian and French Sartorial Culture Nabokov
Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Professor and Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages,
Division of Russian and Eastern Studies
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 1756
E-mail: j.rouhier@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Russian language
Russian ritual
Russian folk religion
Verbal semantics
Cognitive linguistics
Intersection of language and culture
Dan Rowland, Associate Professor, Department of History
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257-2386
E-mail: hisdan@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Early modern Russian History
Soviet History
Investigation of rituals, art and architecture in the throne rooms of Russia
Cynthia Ruder, Associate Professor, Department of Modern & Classical Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
Contact Phone(s): (859) 257- 7026
E-mail: cynthia.ruder@uky.edu
Specialization:
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Russian Language Pedagogy
Cultural Studies of Stalinism Russian Federation Higher Ed Russian Studies