Faculty Speakers Bureau
Do you need a qualified speaker for your club, institution, or organization? Many UMUC Europe faculty members are available to speak on a variety of informative topics. Faculty Speakers Bureau members volunteer their services as guest speakers free of charge. If an engagement involves personal expenses to the speaker (e.g., travel, lodging, meals), host organizations normally agree to cover or offset such costs. Please make necessary arrangements directly with the speaker.
Participants may be willing to speak on additional subjects related to the topics they have listed. Each topic is listed only once even though it may fit in more than one category. Click on the faculty names below for more information about speakers, including e-mail addresses and geographical locations.
Topics by Category
The Arts
Documentary or Posed Art?: The Techniques of Robert Mapplethorpe's Photography (Powers)
War memorials and memorial culture (Hatlie)
Business and Economics
American Mistakes Concerning the International Cultural Environment (Henderson)
Constructing a Business Plan (Tevis-Noelting)
Development of Strategies for Personal Investment and Wealth Maximization (Massey)
Economic Restructuring and Liberalization in the Eastern Block (Massey)
Farmed Animals and the Environment (Campbell)
International Law Applied to Business (Henderson)
Issues in Small and Personal Business Management (Tevis-Noelting)
Issues in Transitional Litigation (Henderson)
Leading and Managing in International Business (Henderson)
Performance and Motivation (Rambow)
Starting a Business, in Germany vs. in the U.S. (Tevis-Noelting)
Teamwork and Leadership in Organizations (Rambow)
Ten Ways to Improve Your Business Writing (Powers)
World Business (Ertl)
World Economic Change (Ertl)
Education
Meeting the Challenge Transitioning from Classroom to Online Instructor: Myths and Tips (Powers)
Baltic history (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) (Hatlie)
Business and Economics in the European Union (Rambow)
The Challenge of European Integration: Introduction of a Common Currency (Massey)
Euro Interaction (Ertl)
Euro: Money in Europe (Ertl)
German history (Hatlie)
Russian history (Hatlie)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
Electing the President (Schlundt)
Human Rights and the American Criminal Justice System (Campbell)
John F. Kennedy in Historical Perspective (Schlundt)
U.S.A.: World Leader? (Ertl)
Health
Getting Nations on Their Feet: A Cross-cultural View of Efforts to Promote Health-enhancing Physical Activity (Jones-Palm)
Healthy Aging in a Couch Potato World: The Importance of Physical Activity in Maximizing Health (Jones-Palm)
Keeping Kids Healthy: Health Risks Behavior of Youth (Jones-Palm)
The Marlboro Man vs. the Public Health: International Perspectives on the Health Consequences of Tobacco (Jones-Palm)
Social Factors in Health and Illness (Jones-Palm)
When Injury is No Accident: A Look at Social-psychological Factors in Injury in Youth and Young Adults (Jones-Palm)
History
Baltic history (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania) (Hatlie)
German history (Hatlie)
Is America an Empire? (Hatlie)
Russian history (Hatlie)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
War memorials and memorial culture (Hatlie)
Law
The American System of Corrections (Campbell)
Property Issues: How to Hold Property, the Effect of Community and Separate Property (Tevis-Noelting)
Women, Business, and the Law (Tevis-Noelting)
Literature
Agrarian Metaphors in Harlem Renaissance Poetry (Powers)
Europe Through American Eyes: What Edith Wharton and Henry James Have to Say (Powers)
Killing the "Angel Within": What Virginia Woolf Offers Contemporary Women's Groups and Feminism (Powers)
Style in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (Powers)
Military
The American Small Arms Industry (Campbell)
Effective Military Writing for Staff Officers and Senior NCOs (Powers)
War memorials and memorial culture (Hatlie)
Miscellaneous
Atheism (Hatlie)
Interviewing Skills and Résumé Writing (Rambow)
Margaret Sanger: American Birth Control Pioneer (Campbell)
Paul Robeson: Actor, Singer, Activist, Communist (Campbell)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
Multiculturalism
American Mistakes concerning the International Cultural Environment (Henderson)
Comparative European and American Legal Systems (Henderson)
German Christmas Customs (H. Hoepffner)
German Easter Customs (H. Hoepffner)
International Law Applied to Business (Henderson)
Leading and Managing in International Business (Henderson)
Multiculturalism Toward the Year 2000: A Brief Survey of Politics, Philosophy, and Literature (Powers)
Outside-Inside: Coping with Multicultural Challenges of Family and Life as a Foreigner (Jones-Palm)
These Strange German Ways (H. Hoepffner)
The Year of Living Querulously: My Experience as a Fulbright Scholar, 2008-2009 (Campbell)
Philosophy
Atheism (Hatlie)
Psychology
Worldwide Trends in Aging and How They Promise to Transform and Challenge Our Future (Jones-Palm)
Science and Mathematics
Acoustic Propagation in the Ocean (Ruiz-Canavate)
Air-sea Interaction (Ruiz-Canavate)
Cauchy-Navier Splines (Brudowsky)
Climatic Change: The Greenhouse Effect (Ruiz-Canavate)
The Strait of Gibraltar: Oceanographic and Acoustic Variability (Ruiz-Canavate)
Vector: Spherical Harmonics (Brudowsky)
Vector: Spherical Splines (Brudowsky)
What Is Oceanography? (Ruiz-Canavate)
Travel
Guided Tours of Würzburg (H. Hoepffner)
United States
The American Death Penalty (Campbell)
Is America an empire? (Hatlie)
Separation of Church and State (Hatlie)
Sport in the U.S. vs. Sport in Europe: Differences in Organization, Meaning, Opportunity (Jones-Palm)
If you are a faculty member and wish to add your name to this list or change your current entry, contact the Office of Marketing and Communications at marketing@europe.umuc.edu.
Last updated: 15 February 2011