Dr. John K. Cox
Professor and Head of Department
Telephone: 701-231-7709
4 Putnam Hall
John K. Cox (Ph.D. 1995, Indiana University)
His specialty is modern Europe and he has taught popular
courses on the Holocaust, modern political ideology, Russia,
and history through film and literature. Dr. Cox hails from
Raleigh, NC and did his undergraduate work in political science
and German area studies at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC.
After studying abroad in Munich, Szeged (Hungary), Vienna (the
greatest city on earth), and Ljubljana, he then spent 13
pleasant years teaching at Wheeling Jesuit University near
Pittsburgh. He venerates espresso, likes cats and bicycles, and
believes that the study of foreign languages helps you grow
another brain. If you want to get on his good side, tell him
you think Graham G. should have won the Nobel.
Teaching Awards: 2002, Wheeling Jesuit University's Outstanding Teaching Award.
Committees:
NDUS Arts and Humanities Summit organizational committee, 2008; Lincoln Symposium Planning Committee of the North Dakota Humanities Council, 2008; Minard Hall Renovation committee, 2008- present.
External grants: 2009, Trubar Foundation Translation Grant from the Slovene Writers'
Association
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Courses at NDSU |
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Eastern Europe Since Napoleon |
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Russia since 1861 |
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Ottoman Empire |
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Europe Since 1914 |
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Europe, 1815-1914 |
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Theories of Nationalism |
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Germany since 1750 |
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Books Published: THE HISTORY OF SERBIA (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002) SLOVENIA: EVOLVING LOYALTIES (London: Routledge, 2005) Translation of and introduction to: MANSARDA by Danilo Kis (New York, Serbian Classics, 2008) Translation of and introduction to MARTIN KACUR: BIOGRAPHY OF AN IDEALIST by Ivan Cankar (New York/Budapest: Central European University Press, in press) _______________________________ Sample literary translation: "Games on the Banks of the Danube" by Ivan Ivanji at www.wordswithoutborders.org |
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