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Sabine von Mering
Director
vonmering@brandeis.edu
Associate Professor of German. Area of Expertise: German Women Writers. German Cinema. Age of Goethe.

Sabine von Mering came to Brandeis as Assistant Professor of German in 1998. She completed her Staatsexamen in German and English Linguistics and Literature at the University of Goettingen, Germany in 1991. After a year as German-Language Scholar at Reed College, Portland, Oregon she went to the University of California at Davis. She completed her Ph.D. in German Literature on "German Women & Tragedies in the 18th Century: from Gottsched to Guenderrode", at UC Davis in August of 1998. At Brandeis she teaches courses in German Language, Literature, and Film. She has worked for CGES since her first days at Brandeis, initially as Assistant Director, since 2002 as Executive Director and presently as Director of the Center. Key aspects of her work have been the organization of meetings of the Jewish-German Dialogue at Brandeis. She also co-edited two volumes of conference proceedings, International Green Politics with Sarah Halpern-Meekin, in 2002, and Russian-Jewish Emigrants after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States with Olaf Gloeckner and Evgenija Garbolevsky in 2006.

George Ross
Chair, Executive Committee
gross@brandeis.edu

George Ross is Morris Hillquit Professor in Labor and Social Thought (in Sociology and Politics) and Director of the Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University. He has been Acting Director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and Executive Director of the European Union Center at Harvard Unversity. He is an editor of French Politics Culture and Society, former Chair of the West European Politics and Society Section of the American Political Science Association, executive secretary of the Conference Group on French Politics and Society, and a member of the European Union Team Europe in the United States. He served as Chair of the Council for European Studies from 1990-1997 and is presently a member of the Executive Board of the European Union Studies Association. He has been awarded numerous fellowships, held the Belgian "Chaire Franqui" in the social sciences in 1997-1998 and is an officier of the French Order des Palmes Academiques. His current interests include French and European politics, European industrial relations, the political economy of the European Union, European integration and changes in democracy in advanced industrial societies and globalization and social structures.

Senior Program Coordinator

Heidi McAllister
cgees@brandeis.edu

Heidi is originally from the Black Forest in Germany near the borders of Alsace Lorraine and Switzerland. She also resided in Munich for several years before immigrating to the east coast of the United States. Heidi joined the CGES team in the fall of 2005 and became Senior Program Coordinator in the summer of 2006. She is also on the staff of the Housing and Transportation Office at Wellesley College. Heidi has extensive experience as a technical designer and in computer drafting with AutoCad certification from the University of New Hampshire. She was a student of the Elisabeth Kaiser Davis Program at Wellesley College and graduated in 2004 with a B.A. in Comparative Literature and a minor in Psychology.

Graduate Assistant

Tim Neunzig
tim90@brandeis.edu

Tim was born in Stuttgart, Germany but moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1995. Tim has gone to Middle School and High School in Tuscaloosa. From 2002 to 2003, Tim did the compulsory military service required for German male citizens. In 2003, Tim started his undergraduate at the University of Alabama and graduated in May 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Management and German. Tim now studies for the MAief at the International Business School at Brandeis. Tim was very active at his old University and is excited to be contributing to the cultural understanding of Germany and Europe at Brandeis.

Student Assistants

Miranda Neubauer
mirandan@brandeis.edu

Miranda joined CGES in the fall of 2006. She grew up bilingual in English and German in Bielefeld, Germany. She is planning to major in American Studies, to combine her interests in politics, history and culture, and to minor in Journalism. Miranda also works as a writer for the student newspaper, The Justice. Aside from Bielefeld, Miranda also feels at home in her parents respective hometowns, Vienna, Austria and New York City.

Larissa Liebmann
lara2010@brandeis.edu

Larissa Liebmann has been a member of CGES since the fall of 2007. She grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York, but gained a great deal of exposure to the German language and culture through her frequent visits to family in Germany. Her understanding of Germany was strengthened through her participation in the Brandeis in Berlin summer program in 2007. Larissa is pursuing a double major in International and Global studies and Environmental Studies.

Aaron Winckler
winckler@brandeis.edu

Aaron Winckler was born and raised in Berlin, Germany.  He graduated from the Nelson Mandela School Berlin in 2007 with a Bilingual IB Diploma and has been a student at Brandeis since January 2008.  Aaron is considering a double major in Sociology and Psychology.  Outside of school he has gained a diversity of work experience with the Student Conversation Association in Mammoth Cave National Park, the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and as a fundraiser for the FRC Berlin. Aaron has been a member of CGES since the fall of 2008.