Kevin AmidonAssistant ProfessorProfessor Amidon teaches all level of German language and culture for the department. After graduating from the University of Michigan in Economics and German, he completed his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in German Studies at Princeton. He arrived at Iowa State in 2002 after lectureships at Princeton and Michigan in Politics, Classical Studies/Great Books, and German. In his research he works on two sets of ideas and institutions in nineteenth and twentieth century German culture: music (especially opera) and the natural sciences (especially biology). His dissertation treated the position and significance of opera in German cultural life during the 1920s, and he has begun a new project on evolution and human diversity in German biological thought. He also maintains research and teaching interests in the history and culture of technology, especially transportation technology in Germany and the United States. He spent 1997-1998 as DAAD fellow at the University of Frankfurt (Main), and was appointed Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the Free University of Berlin for 2003-2004. Spring 2006 SyllabiFall 2005 Sillabi |
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