Peter Ecke

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

Jennifer Roth-Gordon

Jennifer Roth-Gordon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona where she has taught racial and social justice classes to thousands of undergraduate and graduate students since 2004. Her first book, Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness,...
Victor Baker

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

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...
Laura C. Berry

Laura C. Berry

LAURA C. BERRY is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona.  She is the author of The Child, the State and the Victorian Novel, and numerous articles on Dickens, the Brontes, George Eliot, and Victorian literature and culture.  She received her...
Irène d'Almeida

Irène d'Almeida

IRÈNE D’ALMEIDA is Professor of French and Francophone literatures in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Arizona. In addition to French language, Dr. d’Almeida’s teaching focuses on African literature and specifically on African women writers....
Brian Silverstein

Brian Silverstein

BRIAN SILVERSTEIN is Associate Professor in the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona, where he heads the new Arizona Center for Turkish Studies. He is the author of Islam and Modernity in Turkey (2011) and many journal articles. His current research is...
Melissa Tatum

Melissa Tatum

MELISSA TATUM is a professor at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law, where she specializes in Indian law and tribal government. She has spent more than two decades working in Indian country, and most of her work involves the structure and...
Charles Tatum

Charles Tatum

CHARLES TATUM is Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona. He served as dean of the College of Humanities from 1993 to 2008. He is the author of a monographic study Chicano Literature (1982), published in translation in Mexico in 1986. Among his...
Mary Beth Haralovich

Mary Beth Haralovich

Mary Beth Haralovich is Professor Emerita and Hanson FilmTV Institute Fellow at the University of Arizona. In the School of Theatre, Film & Television, she taught television and film history and served as Director of the Film & Television Internship Program....
Doug Weiner

Doug Weiner

A former president of American Society for Environmental History, DOUG WEINER has taught and studied Russian and Soviet history, environmental history, and the history of science. Among his publications are Models of Nature: Ecology, Conservation and Cultural...
Lynda Zwinger

Lynda Zwinger

LYNDA ZWINGER is Professor of English, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, and Editor of Arizona Quarterly at the University of Arizona. She specializes in the novel and late-19th- to early-20th-century American...