Faculty and Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Ayse Kaya

Professor

Program Coordinator, Global Studies

Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8471
  2. Edley-Morgan Hall 311
  3. Office Hours: Wednesdays 9:30am-11:30am.  Please book an appointment.

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Office Hours Sign Up
  3. Website
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Carina Yervasi

Associate Professor

Executive Director, Global Engagement

On Leave - Academic Year

Modern Languages & Literatures-French & Francophone Studies

Global Engagement Office

Global Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8167
  2. Kohlberg Hall 309
  3. Office Hours: Mondays (in person, Kohlberg 309) : 5-6pm - No appointment necessary in person in Kohlberg 309 || Tuesdays/Thursdays (in person, Kohlberg 309) : 2:40-4:30pm - Sign up via link ||  Fridays (virtual) : 12:30-3:00pm - Sign up via link

Links

  1. Profile
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Shashwat Dhar

Visiting Assistant Professor

Global Studies

Peace & Conflict Studies

Contact

  1. Edley-Morgan Hall 106
  2. Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00-4:45 p.m. and by appointment. 

Links

  1. Profile
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Kelly Gomez Zimmer

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5048
  2. Edley-Morgan Hall 107

Links

  1. Profile
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Support, Lang Center-Social Responsibility

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Edley-Morgan Hall 110
  3. Edley-Morgan Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

Sibelan Forrester

Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages

Division Chair, Interdisciplinary

Section Head, Russian

Modern Languages & Literatures-Russian

Comparative Literature

Interpretation Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8162
  2. Kohlberg Hall 340

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Homepage

Interests: Russian and East European women writers; gender and sexuality in language and literature; Modernism; literary and scholarly translation and translation theory

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Farha Ghannam

Professor of Anthropology

Sociology & Anthropology-Anthropology

Contact

  1. Phone: Phone: 610-328-8104
  2. Kohlberg Hall 240
  3. Office Hours: By appointment
    Thursdays 1:00- 2:00pm

Links

  1. Profile
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Steven Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Department Chair, Religion

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Pearson Hall 209

Links

  1. Profile
Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Jose-Luis Machado

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Environmental Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8562
  2. Singer Hall 401
  3. Singer Hall 424

Links

  1. Profile
Research: Soil Biogeochemistry and Plant Physiological Ecology of Temperate and Tropical  Ecosystems


 

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Maria Pia Olivero

Associate Professor

Economics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7331
  2. Kohlberg Hall 213
  3. Office Hours: Thursday, 10:00 - 12:00 pm; or by appointment

Links

  1. Personal site

Areas of interest: Macroeconomics, International Finance, Credit Markets, Latin American Economies.

Maria Pia Olivero

Sunka Simon

Henry C. and Charlotte Turner Professor

Section Head, German Studies

Modern Languages & Literatures-German

Film & Media Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7354
  2. Martin Hall 106
  3. Office Hours: Office Hours: Mondays 4:15-5:15pm, Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm every second week (9/2, 9/16, etc.), otherwise Wednesdays 9:30-10:30am (9/9, 9/23, etc.), or by appointment

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website

Sunka Simon is the author of German Crime Dramas from Network Television to Netflix (2023) and Mail-Orders: The Fiction of Letters in Postmodern Culture (2002), co-editor of Globally Networked Teaching in the Humanities (2015) and numerous articles on German literature, film, television, and popular music.

 

Sunka Simon headshot in which she wears a black shirt with white polk a dots with a black jacket over top and smiles. Greenery is visible in the background

Tristan Smith

Associate Professor of Physics

On Leave - Academic Year

Physics & Astronomy-Physics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8259
  2. Science Center 127A

Links

  1. Website

Research interests: Early universe cosmology; tests of modified theories of gravity; analysis of the cosmic microwave background

Tristan Smith, Professor

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