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One of the unique strengths of the ESC is its faculty. The Affiliated Faculty of the ESC are faculty from the various schools, departments, and campuses of the University of Pittsburgh.  

If you are a faculty member at any Pitt campus and wish to be affiliated with the European Studies Center, please send a message with your CV attached to our Associate Director, Erica Edwards.

Kenneth P. Deitrich School of Arts and Sciences

AFRICANA STUDIES

  • Felix Germain, Associate Professor

ANTHROPOLOGY

  • Joseph S. Alter, Professor
  • Marc Bermann, Associate Professor
  • Heath Cabot, Associate Professor
  • Stephanie Love, Assistant Professor
  • Gabrella Lukacs, Professor
  • Andrew Strathern, Andrew W. Mellon Professor

CLASSICS

  • Maggie Beeler, Teaching Assistant Professor
  • Jacques Bromberg, Assistant Professor
  • Ellen Lee,Teaching Assistant Professor
  • Marcie Persyn, Teaching Assistant Professor
  • Mark Possanza, Associate Professor
  • Carrie Weaver, Lecturer
  • Christian Wildberg, Andrew W. Mellon Professor
     

COMMUNICATIONS

  • Elfriede Fursich. Associate Professor
  • David Marshall, Professor

ECONOMICS

  • Daniel Berkowitz, Professor
  • Svitlana Maksymenko, Senior Lecturer

ENGLISH

  • Susan Andrade, Associate Professor
  • Jonathan Arac, Faculty Emeritus
  • Don Howard Bialostosky, Professor
  • Troy Boone, Professor
  • Carol Bove, Lecturer
  • Paul Bove, Distinguished Professor
  • Curtis Charles Breight, Associate Professor
  • Lori Campbell, Lecturer
  • Stephen Carr, Associate Professor
  • Lucy Fischer, Faculty Emeritus
  • Piotr Gwiazda, Professor
  • Hannah Johnson, Professor
  • Ronald Judy, Professor
  • Jennifer Keating, Teaching Professor
  • Adam Lowenstein, Associate Professor
  • Neepa Majumdar, Associate Professor
  • Ryan McDermott, Associate Professor
  • Gayle Rogers, Andrew W. Mellon Professor
  • Michael Sawyer, Associate Professor
  • John Twyning, Professor
  • Annette Vee, Assistant Professor
  • Jennifer Waldron, Associate Professor
  • Michael West, Professor 

FRENCH & ITALIAN LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

  • James Coleman, Assistant Professor
  • Lorraine Denman, Lecturer
  • Chloe Hogg, Associate Professor
  • Lina Insana, Associate Professor
  • Rachel Love, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Giuseppina Mecchia, Associate Professor
  • Chiara Montera, Teaching Assistant Professor
  • David Pettersen, Associate Professor
  • Ryan Pilcher, Visiting Lecturer in French
  • Todd Reeser, Professor
  • Amgad Serour, Visiting Lecturer
  • John Walsh, Associate Professor
  • Brett Wells, Senior Lecturer
     

GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND WOMEN'S STUDIES

  • Bridget Keown, Teaching Assistant Professor
  • Matthew Lovett, Teaching Assistant Professor
  • Kaliane Ung, Visiting Assistant Professor

GERMAN

  • Amy Colin, Associate Professor
  • Randall Halle, Klaus W. Jonas Professor
  • Viktoria Harms, Lecturer
  • Beverly Harris-Schenz, Faculty Emeritus
  • Jaclyn Kurash, Teaching Associate Professor
  • Ulrike Malandro, Part-time Faculty
  • Clark Muenzer, Faculty Emeritus
  • Lucas Riddle, Assistant Professor
  • Irina Simova, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Uwe Stender, Part-time Faculty
  • Sabine Von Dirke, Associate Professor

HISPANIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES

  • Ana Paula Carvalho, Instructor
  • Jerome Branche, Professor
  • Daniel Balderston, Professor
  • Serena Rivera, Assistant Professor

HISTORY

  • John Boonstra, Assistant Professor
  • Niklas Frykman, Associate Professor
  • Laura Gotkowitz, Associate Professor
  • Janelle Greenberg, Faculty Emeritus
  • Bernard Hagerty, Senior Lecturer
  • Leslie Hammond, Senior Lecturer
  • Diego Holstein, Professor
  • Irina Livezeanu, Faculty Emeritus
  • Jan Musekamp, DAAD Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor
  • Pernille Roege, Assistant Professor
  • Robert Ruck, Professor
  • Gregor Thum, Associate Professor
  • Bruce Lanier Venarde, Faculty Emeritus
  • Molly Warsh, Associate Professor
  • Mari Webel, Assistant Professor

HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

  • James Lennox, Faculty Emeritus
  • Paolo Palmieri, Associate Professor

HISTORY OF ART & ARCHITECTURE

  • Christopher Drew Armstrong, Associate Professor
  • Gretchen Holtzapple Bender, Teaching Professor
  • Andrea Maxwell, Teaching Assistant Professor
  • Barbara McCloskey, Professor
  • Christopher Nygren, Associate Professor
  • Mrinalini Rajagopalan, Associate Professor
  • Kirk Savage, William S. Dietrich II Professor
  • Anne Weis, Faculty Emeritus

LINGUISTICS

  • Myriam Abdel-Malek, Instructor
  • Rasha Al-Hashimi, Senior Instructor
  • Amani Attia, Teaching Professor
  • Viktoria Batista, Lecturer
  • Gunnel Bergstrom, Swedish Instructor
  • Ilknur Lider, Instructor
  • Claude Mauk, Lecturer
  • Areti Papanastasiou, Instructor
  • Marie Young, Instructor

MATHEMATICS

  • Juan J. Manfredi, Professor

MUSIC

  • Adriana Nadia Helbig, Associate Dean, Associate Profesor

PHILOSOPHY

  • Stephen Engstrom, Professor
  • Kenneth Manders, Faculty Emeritus
  • John McDowell, Distinguished University Professor
  • Nicholas Rescher, Distinguished Professor 
  • Michael Thompson, Professor; Director, Placement

POLICITAL SCIENCE

  • Barry Ames,  Andrew W. Mellon Professor
  • Chris Bonneau,  Professor
  • Horia Dijmarescu, Teaching Assistant Professor
  • Steven Finkel, Professor
  • Michael Goodhart, Professor
  • Jonathan Harris, Faculty Emeritus
  • Jude Hays, Professor
  • Ronald Linden, Faculty Emeritus
  • Gemma Marolda, Lecturer
  • B. Guy Peters, Professor
  • Alberta Sbragia, Faculty Emeritus
  • Burcu Savun, Associate Professor
  • Jae-Jae Spoon, Professor

RELIGIOUS STUDIES

  • Milica Bakic-Hayden, Faculty Emeritus
  • Steven Edwards, Faculty Emeritus
  • Haya Feig, Lecturer
  • Paula Kane, Professor; John and Lucine O'Brien Marous Chair of Contemporary Catholic Studies
  • Adam Shear, Associate Professor

SLAVIC LANUGAGES & LITERATURE

  • Olga Blackledge, Visiting Assistant Professor
  • Ljiljana Duraskovic, Teaching Professor
  • Jolanta Lion, Part-time Instructor
  • Oscar Swan, Professor 

SOCIOLOGY

  • Mohammed Bamyeh, Professor
  • Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, Teaching Professor
  • Melanie Hughes, Professor 
  • John Markoff, Distinguished University Professor
  • Vijai Singh, Professor, Associate Chancellor
  • Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Assistant Professor

THEATRE ARTS

  • Michelle Granshaw, Associate Professor
  • Patrick T. McKelvey, Assistant Professor

URBAN STUDIES

  • Carolyn Carson, Faculty Emeritus
  • Michael Glass, Senior Lecturer


Business

JOSEPH M. KATZ GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

  • C.B. Bhattacharya, H. J. Zoffer Chair in Sustainability and Ethics
  • Heidi K. Bartholomew, Clinical Associate Professor
  • Lawrence Feick, Professor
  • Carrie Leana, George H. Love Professor of Organizations and Management
  • Barry Mitnick, Professor
  • Josephine E. Olson, Professor Emeritus
  • Frits Pil, Professor of Organizations and Entrepreneurship, Distinguished Service Professor


Education

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS, AND POLICY

  • Maureen Porter, Associate Professor

TEACHING, LEARNING AND LEADING

  • Heather Hendry Annegan, Assistant Professor of Practice
  • Richard Donato, Professor
  • Cassie Quigley, Chair, Associate Professor


Swanson School of Engineering

CHEMICAL & PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

  • Goetz Veser, Professor
  • Radisav Vidic, Chair, Professor

CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

  • Tagbo Niepa, Assistant Professor
  • Piervincenzo Rizzo, Professor

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

  • Lisa Maillart, Professor
  • Larry Shuman, Distinguished Service Professor

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & MATERIALS SCIENCE

  • Giovanni Galdi, Professor


Computing and Information 

INFORMATICS AND NETWORKE SYSTEMS FACULTY

  • Martin Weiss, Professor


Law

  • Elena Baylis, Professor
  • Ronald Brand, Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Professor/Director of CILE
  • Vivian Curran, Distinguished Professor
  • Michael J. Madison, Professor
  • David Thaw, Associate Research Professor

School of Medicine

  • Michael Rizzi, Director of Student Affairs

Public & International Affairs

  • Lisa Alfredson, Assistant Professor
  • Carolyn Ban, Faculty Emeritus
  • Sabina Deitrick, Associate Professor
  • Müge Kokten Finkel, Assistant Professor 
  • Ryan Grauer, Associate Professor
  • John Keeler, Professor Emeritus
  • Michael Kenney, Associate Professor; Director, Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
  • Erica Owen, Assistant Professor
  • Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Associate Professor
  • Taylor Seybolt, Associate Professor; Director, Ford Institute for Human Security
  • Charles Skinner, Adjunct Professor
  • Philip Williams, Professor Emeritus

Social Work

  • Sara Goodkind, Professor
  • Mary Rautkis, Research Associate Professor

University of Pittsburgh at Bradford

  • Helma de Vries-Jordan, Associate Professor; Chair of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences 
  • Drew Flanagan, Director of the History/Political Science Program, Assistant Professor of History, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences
  • Orin James, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
  • Max Jensen, Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature


University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg

  • Paul Adams, Associate Professor, Political Science
  • Amber McAlister, Assistant Professor, History of Art & Architecture
  • William Pamerleau, Professor, Philosophy
  • Margaret Rechter, Faculty Emeritus, Department of Management


University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown

  • Barbara Petrosky, Associate Professor, Foreign Language Program (French)