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Faculty with Interests in European Studies

  • Anca Mitroi Sprenger
    • French

      3119 JFSB
      (801) 422-2306
      anca_sprenger@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Romania, France

      Discipline Interests
      Eastern European culture, modern France.

  • Charlotte Stanford
    • Humanities

      3047 JFSB
      (801) 422-4604
      charlotte_stanford@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France, Germany, England

      Discipline Interests
      Medieval architecture, art, manuscripts

  • Cinzia Noble
    • Italian

      3139 JFSB
      (801) 422-2209
      cinzia_noble@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Italy

      Discipline Interests
      Twentieth-century Italian literature, myth of America during fascism, Italian phonetics, linguistics, language.

  • Craig Harline
    • History

      2115 JFSB
      (801) 422-7848
      craig_harline@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe

      Discipline Interests
      Early modern Europe, the Reformation, religion, history on film.

  • Daryl Lee
    • French

      3133 JFSB
      (801) 422-9055
      darylplee@gmail.com

      Regional Interests
      France, Italy

      Discipline Interests
      Nineteenth-century, poetry, film, literature, space/architecture.

  • Debra Sowell
    • Humanities

      3041 JFSB
      (801) 422-1988
      debra_sowell@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France, Italy

      Discipline Interests
      Dance critic and historian.

  • Dick Hacken
    • HBLL

      5523 HBLL
      (801) 422-2374
      hacken@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe

      Discipline Interests
      Collection building and library use instruction for German, French, Italian, Benelux, and Scandinavian studies; research into digitization of European primary historical documents.

  • Don Harreld
    • History

      2145 JFSB
      (801) 422-4321
      donald_harreld@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe

      Discipline Interests
      European social and economic history, expansion of Europe, history of the Low European countries, European urban history.

  • Douglas Bush
    • Music

      E-208 HFAC
      (801) 422-3159
      douglas_bush@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Germany

      Discipline Interests
      Organ music in Roman Catholic and Protestant liturgies, German Renaissance and Baroque musical periods.

  • Eric Dursteler
    • History

      JFSB 2129
      (801) 422-5260
      eric_dursteler@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France, Venice

      Discipline Interests
      Early modern Mediterranean, France, Italy (Venice).

  • Gary Bryner
    • Political Science

      SWKT 832
      (801) 422-3276
      gary_bryner@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      America

      Discipline Interests
      American politics, public policy, environmental politics.

  • Grant Lundberg
    • Russian

      3092 JFSB
      (801) 422-2615
      grant_lundberg@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Central Europe

      Discipline Interests
      Slovene dialects, political borders, languages in Central Europe.

  • Hans Kelling
    • German

      3107 JFSB
      (801) 422-6225
      hans-wilhelm_kelling@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Germany

      Discipline Interests
      German culture and literature, German colloquial literature.

  • Ilona Klein
    • Italian

      3141 JFSB
      (801) 422-2016
      ilona_klein@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Italy

      Discipline Interests
      Italian language, literature, and civilization, Shoah.

  • Jerry Jaccard
    • Music

      C-582 HFAC
      (801) 422-3778
      jerry_jaccard@byu.edu

      Regional Interests

      Discipline Interests
      Musical pedagogy, music curriculum development, history of music education, IKS

  • Jesse Hurlbut
    • French

      3129 JFSB
      (801) 422-2448
      jesse_hurlbut@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France, Belgium, Holland

      Discipline Interests
      French civilization to 1815, fifteenth-century Burgundian culture, Medeival French drama, Medieval manuscripts

  • Jim Faulconer
    • Philosophy

      4087 JFSB
      (801) 422-9781
      james_faulconer@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe

      Discipline Interests
      Contemporary European philosophy, religion and philosophy, philosophy of social science, the history of philosophy

  • Joseph Parry
    • Humanities

      4002A JFSB
      (801) 422-3138
      joseph_parry@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      UK, Germany,Italy

      Discipline Interests
      Literature, Philosophy, Visual Art

  • Marc Olivier
    • French

      3131 JFSB
      (801) 422-5950
      marc_olivier@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France

      Discipline Interests
      Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature, science, technology and cultural history

  • Mark Choate
    • History

      2137 JFSB
      (801) 422-5324
      mark_choate@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Italy

      Discipline Interests
      Modern Italy from 1800, international history from 1860, world population migration from 1800, early modern Europe: 1500-1650, religion and ethnicity in the U.S. and Western Europe from 1860.

  • Mike Call
    • Humanities

      3008B JFSB
      (801) 422-2550
      michael_call@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France

      Discipline Interests
      Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French literature and arts, Romanticism, Impressionism.

  • Nicolaas Unlandt
    • French

      3123 JFSB
      (801) 422-2895
      nicolaas_unlandt@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France, Italy

      Discipline Interests
      Medieval literature.

  • Pat Debenham
    • Music Dance Theatre

      RB 2224
      (801) 422-3340
      pat_debenham@byu.edu

      Regional Interests

      Discipline Interests
      Labor movement analysis, pedagogy, the creative process, personal biographies, dance, and language.

  • Paul Kerry
    • History

      2149 JFSB
      (801) 422-2983
      paul_kerry@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe

      Discipline Interests
      European intellectual history: Enlightenment, Romanticism, Victorian; German and Jewish thought, historiography, philosophy of history, interdisciplinary history.

  • Phil Bryson
    • Finance

      616 TNRB
      (801) 422-2526
      phil_bryson@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Eastern Europe

      Discipline Interests
      Post-communist economies, Eastern European economies.

  • Ralph Hancock
    • Political Science

      SWKT 750
      (801) 422-3302
      ralph_hancock@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe

      Discipline Interests
      European political philosophy.

  • Roger Macfarlane
    • Classics

      3048 JFSB
      (801) 422-2864
      macfarlane@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Germany

      Discipline Interests
      German cultural history, German literature, urban literature.

  • Sam Otterstrom
    • Geography

      SWKT 690F
      (801) 422-7751
      samuel_otterstrom@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe, Slovakia

      Discipline Interests
      Geography of Europe, historical ethnic geography in Slovakia

  • Scott Cooper
    • Political Science

      SWKT 762
      (801) 422-4053
      scott_cooper@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France

      Discipline Interests
      Politics of Soviet successor states, former Soviet ruble zone, European monetary union, British and French colonial currency zones.

  • Scott Sprenger
    • French

      4002-A JFSB
      (801) 422-2770
      sprengers23@yahoo.com

      Regional Interests
      France, Balzac, Europe

      Discipline Interests
      Nineteenth- and twentieth-century France, Balzac, idea of Europe.

  • Stan Benfell
    • Comparative Literature

      3040 JFSB
      (801) 422-8110
      benfell@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Europe

      Discipline Interests
      Medieval and Renaissance literature; Dante and the Renaissance epic.

  • Steven Sondrup
    • Comparative Literature

      3025 JFSB
      (801) 422-2579
      sondrup@byu.edu

      Regional Interests

      Discipline Interests
      Nineteenth- and twentieth-century world literature

  • Wade Jacoby
    • Political Science

      SWKT 742
      (801) 422-1711
      wade.jacoby@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      Germany

      Discipline Interests
      International organizations, European security policy, German politics.

  • Yvon LeBras
    • French

      3135 JFSB
      (801) 422-2288
      yvon_lebras@byu.edu

      Regional Interests
      France

      Discipline Interests
      Seventeenth-century French literature, Quebecois literature, the French novel, French civilization (1715 to present), business French, English to French translation.