Leonard Hammer
LEONARD HAMMER holds the Edwin and Alma Lakin Chair on the Holocaust, Human Rights, and Comparative Genocide. His scholarship focuses on holy places in Israel and Palestine, examining the socio-legal frameworks that shape their governance. He has authored books and...
Alexander Tentser
ALEXANDER TENTSER is a Kyiv-born concert pianist and music educator. A graduate of the Gnessin Russian Academy and the University of Arizona, he teaches at Pima Community College and has led numerous adult courses on music appreciation. Known for his engaging style...
Steven Taubeneck
STEVEN TAUBENECK has taught at the Universities of Virginia, Washington, and British Columbia, focusing on German literature, existentialism, and continental philosophy. At UBC, he taught courses on the Frankfurt School and existentialist thought for over two decades....
Sarah McCallum
Sarah McCallum is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Classics. She specializes in Roman poetry and is the author of Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil’s Aeneid (OUP, 2023). Her research explores the evolution of literary tradition in ancient Rome. She is a...Various Faculty
Allen Buchanan
ALLEN BUCHANAN is an internationally recognized philosopher specializing in bioethics, political philosophy, philosophy of international law, and ideology theory. He particularly focuses on the implications of evolutionary anthropology for moral progress. Dr. Buchanan...
Kyungsun Choi
KYUNGSUN CHOI has had a varied career as a soloist, chamber musician, accompanist, and teacher. A native of Seoul, South Korea, he graduated from Yonsei University in Seoul, where he earned his bachelor’s in piano performance. He earned his doctorate in piano...
Peter Ecke
PETER ECKE (Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1996) is Professor of German and Second Language Acquisition in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona. He teaches courses on applied linguistics, second language acquisition and teaching,...
Barbara Citera
BARBARA CITERA is an Associate Professor of Practice in German Studies at the University of Arizona. She earned her PhD in History from Ludwig- Maximilian-University, Munich. Her professional experience includes serving as Associate Dean of the Sierra Vista branch...
Obenewaa Oduro-Opuni
OBENEWAA ODURO-OPUNI is an assistant professor of German studies. Her teaching and research center on Black German studies. She is particularly interested in the ideology underlying 18th- and 19th-century white German abolitionist rhetoric, which has led to the...
Kelsi Vanada
KELSI VANADA is a 2024 NEA Translation Fellow. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa. She writes poems and translates from Spanish and collaboratively from Swedish. She cultivates a...
Elisabeth Jaquette
ELISABETH JAQUETTE is the Executive Director of Words Without Borders and a translator from Arabic. Her translation of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli was a finalist for the National Book Awards. Elisabeth served as Executive Director of ALTA from 2017-2024. She taught...
Timothy Wadkins
TIMOTHY WADKINS, an emeritus professor at Canisius University and a Designated Campus Colleague at the University of Arizona, specializes in Global Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity. He’s leading a $2 million research project on megachurches in the Global...
Lynne Schepartz
LYNNE A. SCHEPARTZ received her PhD from the University of Michigan and is currently Paleontology Collections Manager at the University of Arizona’s Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill. She is a biological anthropologist with research interests in human diet and...
Laura Miller
LAURA MILLER is a Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona. She specializes in systems biomechanics with nearly 30 years of experience and has earned prestigious awards for her research, including the...
Jennifer Roth-Gordon
JEN ROTH-GORDON is Associate Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where she has taught courses on race and social justice to thousands of students since 2004. Her book Race and the Brazilian Body examines racial inequality and beliefs in the...
Victor Baker
Victor R. Baker is Regents Professor of Planetary Sciences, Geosciences, and Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. An American Geophysical Union Fellow and former President of The Geological Society of America, his publications include 20 books and more than 450...
Sumayya KR Granger
Dr. Sumayya Granger holds a B.A. in French and Art History and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics, all from the University of Arizona. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Public and Applied Humanities (PAH) at UA. She has taught classes on...