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Advisory Board

The Center for European Studies Faculty Advisory Board is chaired by Center Director Priscilla Layne and comprises UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and administrators from across the College of Arts & Sciences and the Professional Schools as well as the University Library System.


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Priscilla Layne

Priscilla’s first book, White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture, is forthcoming April 2018 with the University of Michigan Press. In this book, she examines how, following WWII, German artists often associated white, rebellious male characters with black popular culture, because black culture functioned as a metaphor for rebellion. Priscilla is currently working on her second book, Out of this World: Afro-German Afrofuturism, which focuses on Afro-German authors’ use of Afrofuturist concepts in literature and theater. In addition to this project, some of the broader themes she is interested in are German national identity, conceptions of race and self/other in Germany, cross-racial empathy, postcolonialism, and rebellion.
Dr. Layne was recently interviewed on about her new book White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture.

After serving as Vice President from 2020-2021, Dr. Layne is now President of the American Association of Teachers of German through 2023.
3211 FedEx Global Education Center, CB#3449, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office Phone: (919) 962-4634

A picture of Kathleen Shanahan Lindner smiling at the camera

Executive Director Katie Lindner

Katie Shanahan Lindner received her BA in International Studies from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MA in Trans-Atlantic Studies (TAM Program) from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Before beginning TAM, she worked at the International Visitors Council in RTP, which is where she discovered her love of organizing programs and international education. Upon receiving her MA, she from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin where she managed programs including TAM, Euromasters, German-Turkish Masters as well as the international doctoral program at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences. She focused on such aspects as program development, student and career services, international recruitment, and collaboration with international partners. Katie Lindner returned to UNC and joined CES in 2015, after living in Berlin for sixteen years.

3211 FedEx Global Education Center, CB#3449, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office Phone: (919) 962-6765
klindner@email.unc.edu


Chad Bryant
Associate Professor
Department of History
468 Hamilton Hall, CB# 3195, UNC-Chapel Hill
bryantc@email.unc.edu

Joanneke Fleischauer
Monographic Services
UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries
Davis Library, CB# 3902, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office Phone: (919) 962-3700
joanneke@email.unc.edu

Liesbet Hooghe
W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
369 Hamilton Hall, CB# 3265, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office Phone: (919) 843-6164
hooghe@email.unc.edu

Serenella Iovino
Professor of Italian Studies & Environmental Humanities
Department of Romance Studies
218 Dey Hall, CB# 3170, UNC-Chapel Hill
Department Phone: (919) 962-9093
serenella.iovino@unc.edu

Gary Marks
Burton Craige Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Department of Political Science
309 Hamilton Hall, CB# 3265, UNC-Chapel Hill
marks@unc.edu

Susan Dabney Pennybacker
Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History
Department of History
507 Hamilton Hall, CB# 3195, UNC-Chapel Hill
Office Phone: (919) 962-2925
pennybac@email.unc.edu

Daniel Sherman
Lineberger Distinguished Professor of Art and History (Joint appointment with Art History)
Department of Art and Art History, Department of History
109 Hanes Art Center, CB# 3405, UNC-Chapel Hill
dsherman@email.unc.edu