2009-10 Faculty Senate Members > Liberal Arts
Jane Davidson
Term Expires: May 2010
Phone: (775) 784-6561
Email: jdhexen@unr.edu
Brief Bio: Jane P. Davidson is Professor of History of Art. She has been at UNR for 31 years. She has been Department Chair twice. Currently, she teaches art history courses dealing with Early Modern Europe and various other topics including history of paleontology illustration.
Valerie Weinstein
Term Expires: May 2012
Phone: 784-4197
Email: vwein@unr.edu
Brief Bio:Valerie Weinstein is an associate professor in Foreign Languages and Literatures and teaches German, Core Humanities, and Holocaust, Genocide, and Peace Studies. She has been at UNR since 2001. Her expertise is in German Film 1918-1945, but she has also published on other aspects of German culture, from German colonial literature to music videos by the heavy metal band Rammstein.
Isabelle Favre
Term Expires: May 2012
Phone: (775) 682-8903
Email: favre@unr.edu
Brief Bio:Isabelle Favre teaches French in the Foreign Languages and Literatures department since 1997. She published two books in her specialty La différance francophone (University Press of the South) and De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine: écrits du silence (Karthala).
Louis Niebur
Term Expires: May 2012
Phone: (775) 682-9018
Email: lniebur@unr.edu
Brief Bio: Louis Niebur is an Assistant Professor of Musicology at UNR. His research primarily concerns avant-garde and popular music of the post-war era, focusing on musics that bridget the categories of high and low culture in society through media technology.