Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) consists of five CEES core faculty representing the Center's membership across MSU units, disciplines, academic ranks and backgrounds.
Current members of CEES Faculty Advisory Committee
Dr. Kyle Evered
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Science
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FAC term: Spring 2025 - Spring 2026
Kyle Evered is a political geographer of Eurasia. Trained to study geographies of the Middle East and North Africa and the former Soviet states of Eurasia, most of Kyle Evered’s research deals with topics associated with geographies of Turkey and its neighboring states. In particular, he has published on the cultural and historical geographies, political geographies, and cultural ecologies of the country and its wider regions. Some of his recent research concerns include geographies of the opium poppy, of health and wellbeing, and identity-place constructs (such as nationalism, territoriality, and regionalism).
Dr. Karrin Hanshew
Associate Professor, Department of History
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FAC term: Spring 2025 - Spring 2026
Karrin Hanshew researches and teaches the history of modern and contemporary Europe. She is the author of Terror and Democracy in West Germany (Cambridge UP 2012); co-author of Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, Society (Bloomsbury Academic 2018, 2025) and, most recently, journal articles on German-Italian postwar social relations and the trope of the Italian journey in West Germany. Her current book project is titled "From Axis to Europe: German and Italian Entanglements in the Social (Re)construction of Europe After World War Two."
Dr. Anna Moore
Associate Dean for Research Development
Director, Precision Health Program
Professor, Department of Radiology and Department of Physiology
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FAC term: Spring 2025 - Spring 2026
Anna Moore's disciplinary work is aimed at developing image-guided therapies for metastatic cancer. Dr. Moore is a recipient of multiple grant awards from the NIH and other funding agencies, and published her work in the most prestigious journals including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Biotechnology, PNAS and others. She received multiple national and international awards including a Distinguished Investigator Award from the Academy of Radiology Research and an Outstanding Teacher Award from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. She is a newly elected President of the World Molecular Imaging Society (WMIS). For her service to the Society Dr. Moore was elected as a WMIS Fellow. As a member of CEES Faculty Advisory Committee, Dr. Moore is contributing to the Center's mission by participating in important governance functions and engaging in discussions about the culture, language, and challenges faced by countries in the European region.
Dr. Matthew D. Pauly
Associate Professor, Department of History
Affiliate Faculty, Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel
FAC term: Spring 2025 - Spring 2027
Matthew Pauly is an Associate Professor of History. He is the author of Breaking the Tongue: Language, Education, and Power in Soviet Ukraine as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on early Soviet nationalities policy, education, childhood, medicine, and urban identity in the Russian Empire and Soviet Ukraine. He has won grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, the US Fulbright Program, IREX, ACTR/ACCELS, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, and the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies. Dr. Pauly is currently engaged in the writing of a research monograph, “City of Children: Juvenile Poverty, Crime, and Salvation in Odesa” and a textbook, Traversing Europe: Moments in 20th Century History. In the fall of 2024, he was a Visiting Scholar affiliated with the Chair of East European History and the Graduate School of History at the University of Basel.
Dr. Lynn Wollf
Associate Professor of German, Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Affiliate Faculty, Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel
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FAC term: Spring 2025 - Spring 2027
Lynn Wolff’s teaching and research interests encompass modern German literature and culture, in particular the relationship between literature and historiography, the representation of the Holocaust, theories of translation, practices of intermediality, and concepts of world literature. Lynn’s publications include the monograph W.G. Sebald’s Hybrid Poetics: Literature as Historiography (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014, paperback 2016; Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies 14) and three edited volumes: A Modernist in Exile: The International Reception of H.G. Adler (1910–1988) (Oxford: Legenda, 2019); Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H.G. Adler and W.G. Sebald (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2014; Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture, and Thought 1, co edited with Helen Finch (University of Leeds); and Aisthesis und Noesis: Zwei Erkenntnisformen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (München: Fink, 2013), co-edited with Hans Adler (University of Wisconsin, Madison). Together with Christian Klein, former Max Kade Professor at MSU, and Matías Martínez, Lynn co-edited the special issue Wirklichkeit erzählen im Comic / Narrating Reality in Comics of the journal Diegesis 8.1 (2019).
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