German Studies: Graduate Students
Magelone Bollen
| Graduate Status: | Ph.D. student since 2006 |
| Guidance Chair: | Dr. George Peters |
| Dissertation topic: | undecided |
| Degrees Earned: | MA equivalent in German and History (Mainz, Germany, 1991) |
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Heather Hancock
| Graduate Status: | Ph.D. student since 2006 |
| Guidance Chair: | Dr. George Peters |
| Dissertation topic: | undecided |
| Degrees Earned: | BA in German Studies |
| Research Interests: | 18th Century German Philosophy. Fassbinder's Women |
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Heather Kirwan
| Graduate Status: | since 2006 |
| Guidance Chair: | Dr. Tom Lovik |
| M.A. or dissertation topic: | undecided |
| Degrees Earned: | BA in German Language, BA in Communications |
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Angelika Kraemer
| Graduate Status: | Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) |
| Guidance Chairs: | Drs. Kartin Wurst and Charlene Polio |
| Research Interests: | second language acquisition (computer-assisted language learning, language assessment, pragmatics, foreign language curriculum and materials development, and child language acquisition); contemporary German studies (contemporary literature, national identity, media, popular culture); 18th century German studies (women dramatists, media) |
| Dissertation topic: | "Engaging the Foreign Language Learner: Using Hybrid Instruction to Bridge the Language-Literature Gap" |
| Degrees Earned: | MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Michigan State University (2005); MA in German Studies from Michigan State University (2002) |
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Su Jin Lee
| Graduate Status: | Ph.D. student |
| Guidance Chair: | Dr. Patricia Pausell |
| M.A. or Dissertation Topic: | undecided |
| Degrees Earned: | BA and MA German Language and Literature |
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Jeannine Mickeleit
| Graduate Status: | Ph.D. candidate |
| Guidance Chair: | Dr. Thomas Lovik |
| M.A. or Dissertation Topic: | undecided |
| Research interests: | Culture and the implementation in the foreign language classroom |
| Degrees Earned: | MA in German Studies from Michigan State University (2006) and MA in Secondary education from University of Phoenix (2006) |
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Stephen Naumann
| Graduate Status: | Ph.D. candidate |
| Guidance Chair: | Dr. George Peters |
| Masters Thesis topic: | "Solving the Stadtschloss Dilemma: What a New Façade Will Say about Old Berlin" |
| Dissertation topic: | undecided |
| Research Interests: | Berlin’s urban landscape; memory culture; constructs of place; Polish-German history; football & identity. |
| Degrees Earned: | MA in German Studies (MSU, 2006); BA in German and Travel & Tourism (Western Michigan University, 2005); BA with focus on classical Greek, biblical Hebrew and German (Martin Luther College, 2001) |
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Steffi Schuetze
| Graduate Status: | Ph.D. candidate |
| Guidance Chair: | Dr. Karin Wurst |
| Dissertation topic: | undecided |
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| Degrees Earned: | M.A. (Dipl.-Journ.) HOCHSCHULE FÜR MUSIK UND THEATER HANNOVER, Germany; Thesis: Representation of East German Writer Christa Wolf in the news journal Der Spiegel M.E. (Dipl.-Ing. Päd.) TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDEN, Germany; Thesis: Incorporation of Literary Texts into the Social Science Curriculum |
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Jeffery Vansickle
| Graduate Status: | MA student |
| Dissertation topic: | undecided |
| Research Interests: | |
| Degrees Earned: | BA from Kansas State University |
