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Staff


Faculty

George Ross, Director
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 Académiques. 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.


Sabine von Mering, Executive 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's Tragedies in the 18th Century: from Gottsched to Guenderrode" at UC Davis in August of 1998. S At Brandeis she teaches courses in German Language, Literature, and Film. She has worked for CGES since her first days at Brandeis, first as Assistant Director, and since 2002 as Executive Director. 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,'02 in 2002, and Russian-Jewish Emigrants after the Cold War: Perspectives from Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United Stateswith Olaf Gloeckner and Evgenija Garbolevsky in 2006.

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.


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.

Three new assistants will be joining us in the Fall of 2007:

Larissa Liebmann
lara2010@brandeis.edu

Sarah Naomi Olsen
nolsen@brandeis.edu

Zachary Zorfas
zorfas@brandeis.edu