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International Issues and Languages

International Issues and Languages

Denner, Michael, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor of Russian Studies
(heads language and literature section at Stetson's Russian Studies Center)
Office phone: 386-822-7265

Expertise:

  • Contemporary Russian poetry, literature, film
  • 19th- and 20th-century Russian literature
  • Russian intellectual history
  • Soviet film and film theory
  • Leo Tolstoy

Dysart, David, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (German)
Office phone: 386-822-7279
Office fax: 386-740-3609

Expertise:

  • 19th century German literature
  • pedagogy
  • Theodor Storm
  • the German novelle
  • Germany and national identity

Eire, Ana, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Foreign Languages (Spanish)
Office phone: 386-822-7276

Expertise:

  • Spain today: cultural history, literature, film
  • Hispanic poetry 

Ferland, Richard A., Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (French)
Office Phone: 386-822-8165

Expertise:

  • politics in Russia and Kyrgystan

Fitzgerald, Peter
Title: Professor of Law, College of Law
Contact: Direct questions to College of Law Office of Communications at 727-562-7889 or 727-562-7346.

Expertise:

  • economic sanctions
  • export controls
  • import and customs law
  • international law
  • international trade
  • trade controls
  • World Trade Organization

Gardner, Royal C.
Title: Professor of Law and Associate Dean, College of Law
Contact: Direct questions to College of Law Office of Communications at 727-562-7889 or 727-562-7346.

Expertise:

  • international environmental law
  • international, war, conflict, foreign policy law

Huskey, Eugene, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Political Science
Office Phone: 386-822-7576

Expertise:

  • Russian and Central Asian politics and legal affairs

Kroumovitch, Routa
Title: Professor of Music
Office Phone: 386-822-8977

Expertise:

  • Latvian language
  • Russian language
  • Spanish language

McCoy, Ken, Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor of Communications Studies and Theatre Arts
Office phone: 386-822-7528
Home phone: 386-922-9427

Expertise:

  • acting got theatre and film
  • directing for the theatre

For more about this expert: http://www.stetson.edu/~kmccoy/whoami.html

Mueller, Carolyn B., Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Management and International Business
Office phone: 386-822-7408
Home phone: 386-943-9036

Expertise:

  • cross-cultural strategic management issues
  • cross-cultural top management team processes

Nagle, Luz Estella Ortiz
Title: Professor of Law
Contact: Direct questions to College of Law Office of Communications at 727-562-7889 or 727-562-7346.

Expertise:

  • international and comparative law
  • national security law
  • drug interdiction policy and the drug war in Colombia and the Caribbean basin
  • U.S. relations with Latin America
  • public policy and foreign affairs with Latin America
  • guerrilla insurgency in Colombia
  • Colombian crisis in general
  • international criminal law
  • money laundering
  • human rights in Latin America
  • e-commerce in Latin America
  • Latin American business law
  • international white collar crime
  • Spanish legal translation

Nylen, William Russell, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Political Science
Office phone: 386-822-7577
Home phone: 386-734-5458

Expertise:

  • Latin American politics and political economy (Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela)
  • democracy and democratization
  • political economy and economic development

Schorr, John K., Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Sociology and Anthropology and Director of Stetson Institute of Social Research
Office phone: 386-822-7246
Home phone: 386-441-3780
Other contact info: 386-405-2212

Expertise:

  • Latin American development

Sitler, Robert, Ph.D.
Title: Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Spanish), and Director of Latin American Studies
Office phone: 386-822-7281
Home phone: 386-734-7156

Expertise:

  • 2012
  • Mayan calendars
  • Mexican American community

Steeves, Paul D., Ph.D.
Title: Professor of History
Office Phone: 386-822-7538

Expertise:

  • contemporary religion in Russia
  • issues of religious freedom in countries of the former Soviet Union

Thaver, Ranjini L., Ph.D.
Title: Associate Professor of Economics
Office phone: 386-822-7573

Expertise:

  • poverty
  • microfinance
  • microcredit
  • local economic development
  • international trade and finance
  • entrepreneurship
  • personal finance and money smart
  • small business development and planning
  • service learning
  • community based research