Faculty

Dr. Beatrice Guenther is the Director of International Studies and received her B.A. from the University of Toronto and her PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She taught French and German at the College of William and Mary (Virginia) from 1990-2005 and has been teaching courses in French, Canadian Studies, and International Studies since joining the faculty at BGSU in 2005. She directed the Program in International Studies from 2015-2020 and is starting her term as director again in fall 2023. Her research interests are in 19^th-century narrative, and she is working on a book on women’s education as cultural capital from the French Revolution until the eve of the 3e République. Having grown up in Japan, Germany, and Canada, she continues to teach courses on the issue of global migration and its impact on human rights.

Dr. Kristie Foell has taught at BGSU since 1995, serving as on-site director of the Academic Year in Salzburg, Director of International Studies, and founding director of the Global Village residential program. She has published on Elias Canetti (feminist and holocaust studies) and co-edited two volumes on post-unification German culture. Recent teaching and scholarship have focused on the encounter between Islam and the West, including Turkish-German cinema. She previously taught at Vassar and Gustavus Adolphus, received two Fulbright fellowships (Vienna and Berlin), and holds degrees from UC Berkeley (PhD) and Yale (BA). She also speaks French, Italian, and some Arabic.

Dr. Douglas Forsyth, Associate Professor (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1987).  Dr. Forsyth is author of The Crisis of Liberal Italy: Monetary and Financial Policy, 1913-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 1993). He is co-editor (with Daniel Verdier) of The Origins of National Financial Systems: Alexander Gerschenkron Reconsidered(Routledge, 2003); and (with Ton Notermans) of Regime Changes: Macroeconomic Policy and Financial Regulation in Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s (Berghahn, 1997). Prior to joining the Bowling Green faculty,  Dr. Forsyth taught at Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As an affiliate at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, he co-chaired the Italian Studies group. He is currently at work on a book-length project with the working title: “Transparency: The Institutionalization of Information Flows in the Economies of Britain, Germany, and the United States since 1870.”

Dr. Fritsch’s research focuses on issues of international relations, international political economy and comparative politics. He is particularly interested in the relationship between technology and international affairs, the political economy of technological innovation, global trade issues, globalization, theories of International Political Economy, Multinational Corporations, and European integration. In 2012-13 and 2016-17 he served as Resident Director for BGSU’s Academic Year Abroad Program in Austria (Salzburg).

Carrie Hamady is a registered/licensed dietitian and the Director of the Undergraduate Dietetics Program at BGSU. She worked as a clinical dietitian for the majority of her career in sub-acute rehab and long-term care facilities. She has presented at FNCE, the Ohio NDEP Conference, and the CREATE Conference on innovative teaching practices and was featured in Today’s Dietitian for her use of Twitter in the classroom. She has also presented at the SCAN symposium and is nutrition coach for the Sports Performance Team. She serves as the Vice-Chair for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Nutrition Informatics Committee and is the group leader for the Nutrition Care Process and Research Outcomes (NCPRO) Committee for ANDHII. She serves the Faculty Affiliate on campus for the Presidents United to Solve Hunger (PUSH) initiative. She won the award for best innovation in dietetics education at FNCE, and the Faculty Excellence Award for Community-Based Teaching at BGSU. Carrie completed her doctorate in Leadership Studies at BGSU in 2019.

Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Landgraf studied philosophy and literature at the Universities of Zurich, at U of Illinois, Chicago, and The Johns Hopkins University. His research and publications focus on aesthetics, literature, and philosophy in the age of Goethe, on Nietzsche, critical improvisation studies, and theories of posthumanism. 

Recent books include:  Improvisation as Art. Conceptual Challenges, Historical Perspectives (2011), the anthology Posthumanism in the Age of Humanism: Mind, Matter, and the Life Sciences After Kant, coedited with Gabriel Trop and Leif Wetherby (2018), and an anthology coedited with Elliott Schreiber with the title Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 (2020).
See also:  Improvisation, Posthumanism, and Agency in Art (Gerhard Richter Painting) and Improvisation in the Arts and everyday life.

As a researcher of international communication and critical intercultural communication studies, my work addresses gender and identity in transnational performance studies, spiritual communication, and how communication can advance social, economic, and environmental justice. My research is published in, among others, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Text and Performance Quarterly, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Journal of Health Communication, Feminist Media Studies, and Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Grants awards total nearly $500,000 for research and co-directed partnership development programs from U.S. Department of State’s Middle East Partnership Program and Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and the Fulbright Program.

Dr. Franziska Schultz is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Dr. Schultz’s research and teaching focuses on International Relations in Asia, specifically between Japan and its neighbors, and the interaction of political and economic exchange. Before joining BGSU, Dr. Schultz has served as Research Associate and Lecturer at the University of Tuebingen (2014-2016), Adjunct Professor at Temple University, Japan Campus (2019-2021), and Lecturer at Rikkyô University, Japan (2019-2021).

Marc V. Simon is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science as well as Coordinator of the minor in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) at Bowling Green State University.  He teaches courses on international relations, foreign policy, peace studies, and conflict resolution.  His research examines war and political violence, nonviolence, conflict resolution, economic sanctions, and environmental policy. 

Dr. Rachel Ann Walsh (she/her) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Literature Program of the English Department and International Studies. Her research focuses on Multiethnic Literatures of the U.S. and transnational and global literatures that operate as archives of the intergenerational traumas of settler-colonialism, slavery, apartheid, and U.S. imperialism. Her more recent projects have examined the relationship between the global sites of neoliberalism, post-9/11 border control, and white supremacist movements. Her work, ranging from studies of South African literature of the apartheid to depictions of neoliberalism and anti-Asian violence in contemporary transnational literature, has been published in Contemporary Literature, Twentieth-century Literature, Radical Philosophy Review, and the interdisciplinary journal, Society and Space: Environment and Planning. She has a book chapter in the forthcoming collection on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman. She holds a PhD in Literature and Cultural Studies from Stony Brook University and a BA (summa cum laude) in English from BGSU (and is, indeed, a Forever Falcon). Prior to returning to BGSU, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University.

When she is not reading (novels, Black studies and Border studies theory, and her students’ often inspired work), she is a committed cyclist, an ambivalent runner, a maker of unabashedly excellent meals, and she also sings back-up vocals in the Columbus-based, early aughts cover-band, Dad Bod Date-night Mix.

Dr. Man Zhang is a full professor in the Schmidthorst College of Business at BGSU. Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. in business administration at Washington State University in 2005. She joined the faculty at Bowling Green State University in 2005 as an assistant professor in the College of Business Administration. During her time at BGSU, Dr. Man Zhang’s primary teaching responsibilities have been with International Business courses for both undergraduate and graduate students. (e.g., she teaches international business, global strategy and international management courses). In addition, she advises approximately 50 undergraduate international business majors per year. She is also the coordinator of the international business programs. Dr. Zhang’s research goals are to contribute to the current literature in International Business (IB) by extending and building theories that are relevant to practice in these fields. Her current research interests focus on the impact of institutional environment on international entrepreneurial capability of SMEs in emerging markets. Her publications have appeared in outlets such as Journal of Business Research, Multinational Business Review, Information Systems Journal, International Business Review, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of Global Information Management, American Journal of Business, Innovative Marketing, Journal of Technology Research, Journal of Asia Business Studies, Journal of Global Marketing and Journal of International Business and Economics. Dr. Zhang is also active in professional organizations at the state and national levels. She has been involved with AIB-Midwest (Academy of International Business-Midwest Chapter) since 2008. She served in different executive positions in this chapter, including secretary, program chair, and president of AIB-Midwest. She currently serves as an Executive Officer at MBAA-International (Midwest Business Administration Association-International) and is also a founding member of AIBRP (Association of International Business Research and Practice).