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European Studies office contact information

Program office

Room B136, Cornett Building
Office Hours: 8:30-4:30 Monday - Friday
Phone: 250-721-6490
Fax: 250-721-7485
Email: eusprog@uvic.ca

Advising Hours: Tuesdays 9:00-10:00am , Wednesdays 1:00 - 2:00 pm and Thursdays 2:00-3:00 or by appointment.

Mailing address	Courier address
European Studies Program c/o Department of Political Science PO Box 3060 STN CSC Victoria BC V8W 3R4	European Studies Program c/o Department of Political Science SSM-A316, 3800 Finnerty Road Victoria BC V8P 5C2

Graduate student office SSM A313

Faculty

Paul Schure, PhD (European University Institue, Florence)
Director, European Studies
Department of Economics
Office: BEC 336
Phone : 250-721-8535
E-mail: schure@uvic.ca
Visit Paul's web page

Financial intermediation, industrial organisation, and European economics.

Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, PhD (UWO)
Associate Director, European Studies
School of Public Administration
Office: HSD A344
Phone : 250-721-6418
E-mail: ebrunetj@uvic.ca
Visit Emmanuel's web page

Local government and politics; crossborder regions; comparative urban politics. View a video of Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly on the EUCANet website.

Sara Beam, PhD (Berkeley)
Department of History
Office: CLE B205
Phone : 250-721-7406
E-mail: sbeam@uvic.ca
Visit Sara's web page Social and cultural history of early modern Europe (1400-1800), with a particular on Francophone regions. Current research examines history of torture in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Marina Bettaglio, PhD (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies
Office: CLE B436
Phone : 250-472-4475
E-mail: bettagli@uvic.ca
Visit Marina's web page

Twentieth-century Spanish and Italian literature, women's studies, gender studies, critical theory, translation theory.

Claire Carlin, PhD (Calif., Santa Barbara)
Department of French
Office: CLE C259
Phone : 250-721-7366
E-mail: ccarlin@uvic.ca
Visit Claire's web page

Seventeenth-century French literature, feminist theory, marriage in early modern France.

Hélène Cazes, PhD (Paris X-Nanterre)
Department of French
Office: CLE C254
Phone : 250-721-7367
E-mail: hcazes@uvic.ca
Visit Hélène's web page

Medieval and renaissance French literature.

Alison Chapman, PhD (Glasgow)
Department of English
Office: CLE D238
Phone : 250-853-3741
E-mail: alisonc@uvic.ca
Visit Alison's web page

Victorian period, including publications on Victorian poetry, mesmerism and spiritualism, photography and technology, the Gothic, Elizabeth Gaskell, children's literature, and Victorian internationalism (especially transatlanticism and Anglo-Italian literary, political and cultural relations).

Derek Fraser, LLB(UBC)
Centre for Global Studies
Office: SEDG C177
Phone : 250-655-9662
E-mail: fraserd@uvic.ca
Visit Derek's web page

Senior research associate at the Centre for Global Studies at the UVic where he has supported democratization in the Ukraine, and organized or contributed to academic and foreign policy conferences, notably on failed states and Eastern Europe.

Peter Gölz, PhD (Queen's)
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Office:CLE D242
Phone : 250-721-6329
E-mail: pgolz@uvic.ca
Visit Peter's web page

Literary theory, contemporary literature, CALL, film, vampires.

Elizabeth Grove-White, PhD (Trinity College)
Department of English
Office: CLE 318
Phone : 250-721-7263
E-mail: grovewhi@uvic.ca
Visit Elizabeth's web page

Irish literature, literary journalism, language change and mass literacy, collective memory.

Helga Hallgrimsdottir, PhD (Western)
Department of Sociology
Office: COR A315
Phone : 250-472-4723
E-mail: hkbenedi@uvic.ca
Visit Helga's web page

Historical-comparative sociology, social inequality, and social movements, protest and activism.

Cathrine Harding, PhD (University College, University of London)
History in Art
Office: FIA 151
Phone : 250-721-7940
E-mail: charding@uvic.ca
Visit Catherine's web page

Late medieval and early renaissance art in Europe.

Susan Lewis Hammond, PhD (Princeton)
School of Music
Office: MAC B116
Phone : 250-721-7909
E-mail: sglewis@uvic.ca
Visit Susan's web page

The madrigal, music printing and publishing, court culture, and music and urban life in early modern Europe.

Andrea McKenzie, PhD (Toronto)
Department of History
Office: CLE B211
Phone : 250-721-7403
E-mail: mckenzie@uvic.ca
Visit Andrea's web page

Seventeenth and eighteenth-century English social and cultural history, crime, execution, gender (especially masculinity and courage), print and popular culture, religion and eschatology.

Martha O'Brien, LLM (University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Faculty of Law
Office:
Phone : 250-721-8165
E-mail: mcobrien@uvic.ca
Visit Martha's web page

Canadian and international taxation and law of the European Union.

Eva Baboula
Department of History in Art
Office: FA 141
Phone : 250-721-7952
E-mail: ebaboula@uvic.ca
Visit Eva's web page

Arts of the East Mediterranean from the Late Antique to the Late Medieval periods

Charlotte Schalliè
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Office: CLE D250
Phone : 250-721-7321
E-mail:schallie@uvic.ca
Visit Charlotte's web page

Post-1945 German, Swiss and Austrian literature and film, diasporic, postcolonial and transcultural writing, theories of spatiality, multiculturalism and translation studies.

Matthew Pollard, PhD (McGill)
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Office: CLE D259A
Phone : 250-721-6328
E-mail: matthewp@uvic.ca
Visit Matthew's web page

Heinrich von Kleist, cultural and film studies, expressionism, Leni Riefenstahl.

Pablo Restrepo-Gautier, PhD (UBC)
Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies
Office:CLE B447
Phone : 250-721-7413
E-mail: spanit@uvic.ca
Visit Pablo's web page

Seventeenth-century Spanish theatre and fiction (Tirso de Molina, entremeses, the picaresque novel), post-Franco fiction, contempoary colombian fiction, gender studies, humour studies.

Stephen Ross, PhD (Queen's)
Department of English
Office: CLE C357
Phone : 250-721-7237
E-mail: saross@uvic.ca
Visit Stephen's web page

Modernism, critical theory (especially psychoanalysis, Marxism, deconstruction, and ideology critique), and the novel.

Oliver Schmidtke, PhD (European University Institute, Florence)
Centre for Global Studies
Department of Political Science
Office: SSM A345
Phone : 250-721-7490
E-mail: ofs@uvic.ca
Visit Oliver's web page

Citizenship and Immigration; identity politics; comparative politics; xenophobia and racism; European integration. View a video of Oliver Schmidtke on the EUCANet website.

Peter H. Stephenson, PhD (Griffith)
Department of Anthropology
Office:
Phone : 250-721-7351
E-mail: pstephen@uvic.ca
Visit Peter's web page

Applied and medical anthropology, aging & society, ethics, Indigenous Peoples in global perspective, urban planning, refugees, Canada, Europe, Australia.

Amy Verdun, PhD (European University Institute, Florence)
Department of Political Science
Office: SSM A337
Phone : 250-721-7491
E-mail: averdun@uvic.ca
Visit Amy's web page

European integration studies, monetary integration, European integration theory, European comparative politics, international political economy, international relations. View a video of Amy Verdun on the EUCANet website.

Serhy Yekelchyk, PhD (Alberta)
Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
Office: CLE D245
Phone : 250-721-7505
E-mail: serhy@uvic.ca
Visit Serhy's web page

Culture and identities in Russia and Eastern Europe, Stalinism, 20th-century Ukraine.

Staff

Marina Vespoli-Snyder
Program Coordinator, European Studies
Office: Cornett B136
Phone : 250-721-6490
E-mail: eusprog@uvic.ca

Paul Schure, PhD (European University Institue, Florence)
Director, European Studies
Department of Economics
Office: BEC 336
Phone : 250-721-8535
E-mail: schure@uvic.ca
Visit Paul's web page

Financial intermediation, industrial organisation, and European economics.

EUS Network

Associated faculty throughout the disciplines

While representing 5 faculties and 17 departments throughout UVic, the European Studies Program’s associated faculty and researchers bring a wealth of knowledge and variety of interests and areas of reserach to the program.

Associated faculty are involved with the European Studies Program in a variety of ways, ranging from participating in the team taught courses, to conducting research, to organizing conferences, lectures, or public outreach events.

Look through our list of associate professors and researchers to see who might be able to help you in your areas of research and study.

Announcements

Seminars

Dr. Stefan Seidendorf of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, Germany is visiting UVic on January 24th and 25th and will be presenting two seminars: January 24th and 25th.

See posters

West Coast Model EU 2013

Applications for West Coast Model EU 2013 at the University of Washington are now open! Please send your CV and letter of intent to eusprog@uvic.ca by November 15th. If you would like to act as advisor on this trip, the deadline is October 20th.

More information, e-mail us or access the WCMEU 2013 website.

NEW EUS 100 COURSE - FALL 2012

European Studies is now available at the 100 course level. It is an introduction to European Studies and it is coming out very promising. This course is also part of our Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence curriculum.

See JMCE webpage

Course Poster