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
Courses at NDSU |
Eastern Europe Since Napoleon |
Russia since 1861 |
Ottoman Empire |
Europe Since 1914 |
Europe, 1815-1914 |
Theories of Nationalism |
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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