Hope College | Mellon Scholars Program

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholars Program in the Arts and Humanities

Faculty Tutors:


Maria Claudia Andre: Professor of Spanish and Chairperson of the Department. PhD, State University of New York at Albany. Topical Areas: Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Translation.	Marc Baer: Professor of History, Chairperson of the Department and Director of the Pew Society. PhD, University of Iowa. Topical Areas: British and Irish History, Modern Imperialism, London since 1750, Christianity and History.

Barry Bandstra: The Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkingk Professor of Religion and Directof of Academic Computing. PhD, Yale University. Topical Areas: Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Biblical Hebrew language, Biblical theology, Biblical archaeology, Semitic linguistics, Functional grammar.	Virginia Beard: Assistant Professor of Political Science. PhD, Michigan State University. Topical Areas: Politics of Africa, Gender and Politics (especially in the African context), Resources, conflict and development in Africa, NGOs/Civil Society and development in Africa, Democratization in Africa, Poverty and public policy, Homelessness, housing, poverty and disability in the US context.

Albert Bell: Professor of History. PhD, University of North Carolina. Topical Areas: Roman history, New Testament history, historical fiction, Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger.	Steven Bouma-Prediger: Professor of Religion and Chairperson of the Department. PhD, University of Chicago. Topical Areas: Environmental Theology, Philosophy, or Ethics, Historical Theology, Philosophical Theology, Constructive Theology, Contemporary Hermeneutics and Epistemology.

Wayne Brouwer: Visiting Associate Professor of Religion. PhD, McMaster University. Topical Areas: New Testament, Biblical Studies, Early Church History, Ministry Studies, Judaism, Reformed Theology, Ecclesiology, Contemporary Christianity, Historical Jesus Quest.	Isabelle Chapuis-Alvarez: Assistant Professor of French. Doctorat en Études Grecques, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France. Topical Areas: Contemporary French Literature and Culture, Autobiographical Literature, General Popular Culture (the Visual Arts, Graphic Novels, Music and Films).

David Cho: Assistant Professor of English. PhD, University of Washington. Topical Areas: Asian-American and Ethnic Studies.	Ernest Cole: Assistant Professor of English. PhD, University of Connecticut. Topical Areas: Post-Colonial African, Indian, and Caribbean literatures, Victorian literature, Travel, and Empire.

John Cox: The DuMez Professor of English. PhD, University of Chicago. Topical Areas: English Lit from Beginnings to Romanticism, New Historicism, Renaissance Drama, Shakespeare.	Brian Coyle: Professor of Music and Chairperson of the Department. DMA, Michigan State University. Topical Areas: Jazz History, Jazz Improvisation, Jazz Education, Popular Music in American Culture.

David Cunningham: Director of the CrossRoads Project and Professor of Religion. PhD, Duke University. Topical Areas: Christian Theology and Ethics, particularly in relation to politics, rhetoric, and the arts (especially literature, the visual arts, and theatre).	Annie Dandavati: Professor of Political Science and Director of Women's Studies. Phd, University of Denver. Topical Areas: International Studies, Comparative Political, Economic and Cultural Systems of Developing and Transitional Societies. Human Rights and International Law and Organizations, Poverty, Women and Development, Globalization, Democratization.

Sander DeHaan: Professor of German and Dutch. PhD, Northwestern University. Topical Areas: German Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries, German civilization and history back to the early Middle Ages.	Andrew Dell'Ollio: Professor of Philosophy and Chairperson of the Department. PhD, Columbia University. Topical Areas: Philosophy of Religion, Ethics, Medieval Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, American Philosophy.

Jane Dickie: Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies. PhD, Michigan State University. Topical Areas: Children's Concepts of God, Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered Issues, Parent-Child Relationships, Gender Identity and Development, Psychology of Women.	Natalie Dykstra: Associate Professor of English. PhD, University of Kansas. Topical Areas: American Lit and culture (especially 19th-century), Photography, Biography.

Lee Forester: Professor of German. PhD, University of California Berkeley. Topical Areas: Second language acquisition, foreign language instructional materials, new media in second language acquisition, German studies, Historical German Linguistics, Cultural learning in foreign language instruction.	Janis Gibbs: Associate Professor of History. PhD, University of Virginia. Topical Areas: Early-Modern Europe and Germany, Reformation and Renaissance in the North, Gender Politics, US Legal and Pre-law, Middle East Genocide.

Linda Graham: Professor of Dance and Chairperson of the Department. MFA, University of Illinois. Topical Areas: Ballet, Jazz, Historical Social Dance.	Charles Green: Professor of Psychology and Director of the Philip Phelps Scholars Program. PhD, University of Florida. Topical Areas: Understanding race and ethnicity in United States; Cross-cultural communication.

Curtis Gruenler: Associate Professor of English. PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Topical Areas: Medieval Lit, Theology, Intellectual History, History of the English Language, Old and Middle English, Christianity and Lit, Lit Theory and Theology, The Oxford Inklings.	Jonathan Hagood: Assistant Professor of History. PhD, University of California-Davis. Topical Areas: Latin American Studies; History of Science, Medicine, and Technology; Gender Studies.

Brigitte Hamon-Porter: Associate Professor of French. PhD, Indiana University. Topical Areas: French-Speaking Caribbean and African Literature, French 17th-century Literature. French History and Culture.	Anne Heath Wiersma: Assistant Professor of Art and Director of De Pree Art Gallery. PhD, Brown University. Topical Areas: Art and Architecture of the Middle Ages, Art and Liturgy, Art and Theology, Renaissance Art and Architecture, History of Books.

Teresa Heinz Housel: Assistant Professor of Communication. PhD, Indiana University. Topical Areas: Culture and Everyday Life, Popular Culture, Critical Media Studies, Journalism, Mass Media History, Cultural Studies, Qualitative Research Methods (including Ethnographic Research).	Stephen Hemenway: Professor of English and Director of the Vienna Summer School. PhD, University of Illinois. Topical Areas: Modern American Lit, Irish Lit, African-American Lit (esp. Harlem Renaissance), Satire, History, Literature, and Culture of Vienna.

Lorna Hernandez Jarvis: Professor of Psychology. PhD, Kent State University. Topical Areas: Language development, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, Acculturation Processes, and Latino Cultural Values.	James Herrick: The Guy Vander Jagt Professor of Communication. PhD, University of Wisconsin. Topical areas: History of rhetoric, critical thinking, rhetoric of religion, new religious movements, rhetoric of science.

Robert Hodson: Associate Professor of Music. PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Topical Areas: Music Theory, Music Analysis, Jazz Studies.	Steven Hoogerwerf: Associate Professor of Religion. PhD Duke University. Topical Areas: Christian ethics, Sexual ethics, Healthcare ethics, Religion and Culture, Service learning.

Christina Hornbach: Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Music Education Program. PhD, Michigan State University. Topical Areas: Early Childhood Music & Methods, Elementary General Music & Methods, Secondary Choral Music & Methods, Music History, Music Literature, Psychology of Music.	Jessica Hronchek: Humanities Librarian. MLS and MA (art history), Indiana University, Bloomington. Topical Areas: Library Science, History of the Book, illuminated manuscripts, US 19th-century popular prints.

Mark Husbands: The Leonard and Marjorie Maas Associate Professor of Reformed Theology. PhD, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. Topical Areas: Religion, Politics and the Modern West, Contemporary Theology: Karl Barth World Christianity, Secularism, Religion and Culture.	Charles Huttar: Professor Emeritus of English. PhD, Northwestern University. Topical Areas: English Literature, specifically 16th and 17th century, Christianity and Lit, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams.

Michael Jipping: Professor of Computer Science. PhD, Calvin College. Topical Areas: Mobile Computing, Mobile Software Development, Networking, Operating System Design.	Fred Johnson: Associate Professor of History. PhD, Kent State University. Topical Areas: Civil War, Military History, African American History, Foreign Policy, History of the Black Church, 19th Century U.S., and Africa.

Julie Kipp: Professor of English. PhD, University of Notre Dame. Topical Areas: 18th- and 19th-century English and Irish Literature, Women's Studies, Romanticism.	David Klooster: Professor of English and Chairperson of the Department. PhD, Boston College. Topical Areas: American Literature, especially 19th century, Literature Education, Puritans and Calvinist Literature, Melville and Hawthorne, Civil War Lit.

Joseph LaPorte: Associate Professor of Philosophy. PhD, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Topical Areas: Philosophy of language, metaphysics, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of religion, Epistemology.	Anne Larsen: Professor of French. PhD, Columbia University. Topical Areas: French Renaissance and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers, Epistolary, Literary Theory, Translation, Poetic Theory.

Marla Lunderberg: Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Director of FOCUS and SOAR Programs. PhD, University of Chicago. Topical Areas: Milton, Chaucer, and Shakespeare, 17th Century British Literature, Asian Studies, Japanese Literature.	John Lunn: The Robert W. Haack Professor of Economics. PhD, University of California, Los Angeles. Topical Areas: Economic history, History of economic thought, and Ideas of economic justice.

Tamba M'bayo: Assistant Professor of History. PhD, Michigan State University. Topical Areas: Colonial and Post-colonial history of French West Africa, Ethnicity and Religion in Africa, Pan-Africanism in the Atlantic world, and Africa in World history.	Ryan Mc Fall: Associate Professor of Computer Science. PhD, Michigan State University. Topical Areas: Web site Implementation and Instructional Technology.

Stephanie Milanowski: The Howard R. and Margaret E. Sluyter Assistant Professor of Art and Design. MFA, University of Michigan. Topical Areas: Graphic Design, Printmaking, Book Arts, Creative Brainstorming, and Entrepreneurialism.	Jesus Montaño: Associate Professor of English. PhD, The Ohio State University. Topical Areas: Latino/a Lit, Native American Lit, Medieval Lit.

Jack Mulder: Assistant Professor of Philosophy. PhD, Purdue University. Topical Areas: Philosophy of Religion, Catholic Theology and Philosophy, "the thought of past thinkers"=history of philosophy, esp. Kierkegaard, Buddhist Philosophy, Connections between Religion and Ethical Theory.	William Pannapacker: Associate Professor of English and Director of the Mellon Scholars Program. PhD, Harvard University. Topical Areas: American Literature, Digital Humanities, American Studies, Environmental Writing, Autobiography, Critical Theory, Urban Studies, History of the Book, Visual and Material Culture, Film, Opinion Journalism.

Anthony Perovich: Professor of Philosophy. PhD, University of Chicago. Topical Areas: History of Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind.	Pablo Peschiera: Assistant Professor of English. PhD, University of Houston. Topical Areas: Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics, Latina/o Poetry, Popular Culture (especially Poetry and Music), Literary Translation.

Jeanne Petit: Associate Professor of History. PhD, University of Notre Dame. Topical Areas: Women's History, US History, late 19th to 20th century, Immigration, Catholic religions of the US.	Lyra Pitstick: Assistant Professor of Religion; Doctor of Sacred Theology, University of St. Thomas. Topical Areas: Theology in art and literature, Catholic theology and culture (particularly Christ's descent into hell), theology of personhood and morality, classic horror fiction.

Julia Randel: Assistant Professor of Music. PhD, Harvard University. Topical Areas: Music History (especially 19th- and 20th-century), Opera, Ballet, Symphony, Art Song, Music and Dance, Music and Literature, Gender in Music, Non-Western Music.	Geoffrey Reynolds: Director of the Joint Archives of Holland at Hope College. MLIS, Wayne State University. Topical Areas: Archival Administration, Michigan History, Pleasure Craft Boat Building Industry History, and Women in Boat Racing History.

William Reynolds: Dean fo rthe Arts and Humanities and Professor of English. PhD, University of Illinois-Urbana. Topical Areas: English Literature, Beowulf through Spenser, Spenser's Faerie Queene, Detective Fiction.	Daina Robins: Professor of Theatre and Chairperson of the Department. PhD, Tufts University. Topical Areas: Theatre History, Dramatic Literature.

Peter Schakel: The Peter C. and Emajean Cook Professor of English. PhD, University of Wisconsin. Topical Areas: 18th-century British Lit, Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, C. S. Lewis.	Heather Sellers: Professor of English. PhD, Florida State University. Topical Areas: Creative Writing (Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction); Creative Writing (Pedagogy); American Literature (Contemporary Short Story, Story Cycles, Linked Stories); History and Theory of the Short Story; Journals (Illustrated, Creative, Nature-Journaling); Children's Literature.

Carol Simon: The John H. and Jeanne M. Jacobson Professor of Philosophy and Director of General Education and Interdisciplinary Studies. PhD, University of Washington. Topical Areas: Ethics, Philosophies of Human Emotion, Topics at the intersections of Philosophy, Literature, the Arts and Theology.	Deborah Sturtevant: Professor of Sociology and Social Work and Chairperson of the Department. PhD, Michigan State University. Topical Areas: History of Nongovernmental Organizations, International Community Development, Global Issues of Orphans and Vulnerable Children.

Katherine Sullivan: Associate Professor of Art. MFA, Boston University. Topical Areas: Painting, Drawing, Color Theory, Political Activism and the Visual Arts, Contemporary Visual Art.	Elizabeth Trembley: Associate Professor of English. PhD, University of Chicago. Topical Areas: Graphic Novels, Detective Fiction, Contemporary Popular Narrative, Creative Nonfiction, Creativity and Innovation, Journaling (including art journaling), Popular Culture (TV and film).

Gloria Tseng: Assistant Professor of History. PhD, University of California Berkeley. Topical Areas: French History, late 19th- to early 20th-century, Modern China, Late-modern Europe.	J. Jeffery Tyler: Professor of Religion. PhD, University of Arizona. Topical Areas: History of Christianity to 1600, Medieval, Reformation, and Early Modern European History, Legal and Social History, History of Biblical Interpretation.

Scott VanderStoep: Professor of Psychology and Chairperson of the Department. PhD, University of Michigan. Topical Areas: History of Athletics and Recreation in American Culture.	Steve VanderVeen: Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Faithful Leadership. PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago. Topical Areas: History of Business, Joining scholarly research to consulting and entrepreneurial activities.

Kathleen Verduin: Professor of English. PhD, Indiana University. Topical Areas: English and American Literature, especially 19th-century, Dante, Updike, Melville, Medievalism.	Boyd Wilson: Professor of Religion. PhD, University of Iowa. Topical Areas: Indian history, culture, religion, philosophy and ancient language (Sanskrit), Asian philosophy, Asian history and culture, Asian religion, World Christianity.

Daniel Woolsey: Assistant Professor of Spanish. PhD, Indiana University. Topical Areas: Classroom second language acquisition, bilingual education, foreign language teaching methods, computer-assisted language learning.