Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Visiting Scholars in European Studies

Dr. Maya Soboleva, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009

The Mildred Miller Fort Visiting Scholar for fall 2008 and spring 2009 was Dr. Maya Soboleva. Dr. Maya Soboleva has a PhD and habilitation from St. Petersburg State University. She is presently a University Lecturer at the University of Marburg, Germany.Dr. Soboleva's areas of expertise include epistemology, philosophy of language, and Russian and German philosophy.
She taught PHIL 1105 "Introduction to Philosophy" and PHIL 3575 (Cross listed with ENGL 5545U) "The Western European Philosophy of Language".

Dr. Klas Borell, fall 2007- spring 2008

The Mildred Miller Fort Visiting Scholar for fall 2007 and spring 2008 was Dr. Klas Borell. Dr. Borell is internationally renowned for his work in the sociology of terrorism, including essays written during his studies in Beruit, the site of many recurring terrorist attacks. With a PhD from Uppsala University in Sweden, Dr. Borell has also published books and articles on social networks, trust, family and aging, and social theory.

Dr. Borell taught two classes at Columbus State University during fall 2007, and two classes in spring 2008.

Dr. Igor Kuzmin, spring 2007

The spring 2007 Mildred Miller Fort Visiting Scholar in European Studies was Dr. Igor Kuzmin, right, from Saint-Petersburg State Technical University, Russia. Kuzmin is from the Institute of International Educational Programs, where he is senior lecturer and associate professor in historical and political sciences. At CSU, he was in the Department of History and Geography, where he taught three classes:

HIST5565G (20414): Russia in WWII
HIST5565U (20415): Russia in WWII
and
POLS3555 (21475): Russian Foreign Policy Since 1991

Dr. Jeffrey Hill, spring 2006

The spring 2006 Mildred Miller Fort Visiting Scholar in European Studies was Jeffrey Hill, right, from DeMontfort University. Hill is director of the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at DeMontfort University and has published several books on 20th century British culture, politics and society. At CSU he taught two advanced courses in the Department of History and Geography: "Sport, Leisure and Culture in 20th Century Britain and the U.S."
and "Popular Culture and Society of Europe 1900-1950."

Learn more about Hill and his center's work.

Dr. Reneo Lukic, spring 2005

The spring 2005 Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Visiting Scholar in European Studies was Reneo Lukic, right, a professor at Laval University and senior fellow at the Institut Québécois des Hautes Études Internationales in Québec, Canada. Lukic taught two courses at CSU, “US-European Relations Since World War II” and “European Political and Economic Integration.”

Lukic earned his B.A. in economics at the University of Zagreb in Croatia and later completed his PhD in history and political science at the Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Lukic has held previous visiting scholar positions at Hokkaido University, Slavic Research Center in Sapporo, Japan; Insitut d’ Études Politiques de Paris; and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Lukic also spent time as a research professor of history and Mellon Fellow in Humanities at Emory University and as an assistant professor of government and foreign affairs at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Lukic is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies and has written and contributed to numerous books and articles.

Dr. Jürgen Michael Schulz, spring 2004

Jürgen Michael Schulz, right, of Berlin was CSU's spring 2004 Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Visiting Scholar in European Studies, teaching two history courses, “The Age of European Totalitarianism” and “Jewish Life and Identity in 20th Century Central Europe.”

Schulz is working on a book on East German cinema and culture that examines the implications of film production on the political history of the East German state, as well as its effects on social developments. From 1995 to 2003, Schulz was an assistant professor at the Institute for Communication History and Applied Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Additionally, he spent 2001-2002 as a visiting scholar at the University of Sussex in England.

Schulz studied at the Free University of Berlin, where he completed his master’s in history and media studies, as well as his doctorate in history.

Dr. David N. Wilcock, spring 2003

David N. Wilcock, a professor of environmental science at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland, taught “International Environmental Policy” and “River System Dynamics” while visiting CSU.

Wilcock, right, was educated at University College in London, where he received his B.A. in geography. He later earned his Ph.D. at the University of Liverpool. He holds memberships in the British Fulbright Society, the Geographical Society of Ireland and the Royal Geographical Society. He has also advised the Irish government on nature conservation as chairman of Northern Ireland Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside, and he has assisted the UK Natural Environment Research Council. He is a leading researcher of UK water resource management, river systems, and environmental science in general.
Since 1967, he has published over 50 contributions to various geology, geography, and environmental science publications and has written two books.

Dr. Cathie Carmichael, spring 2002

CSU's first Mildred Miller Fort Foundation Visiting Scholar in European Studies was a senior lecturer at Middlesex University, London, where her expertise is European nationalism, minorities and ethnic conflict in the Balkans.

Cathie Carmichael, right, is author of Language and Nationalism in Europe (Oxford University Press), Slovenia and the Slovenes: A Small State and the New Europe (Hurst & Indiana University Press), and The Destruction of Tradition: The Theory and Practice of Ethnic Cleansing in the Western Balkans (Routledge, 2002). She has published numerous essays in books and journals and serves as a consultant for the British Foreign Office.