Honors College Faculty and Staff
Kevin S. Amidon, Director
He studied German, economics, history, musicology, and art history in Ann Arbor, Freiburg, Princeton, Frankfurt am Main, and Berlin, and received his Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University in 2001. He has published a wide range of articles on critical theory, gender history and theory, eugenics, race theory, evolutionary thought, the Frankfurt School, German and American history, opera, theater, and pedagogy. His current research projects include further work on cultures of persuasion in the German biological sciences 1890-1945, and on the philosophy of music in mid-twentieth century Germany and its consequences for critical theory. During 2003-2004 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has won major university awards for his teaching three times during his career. Beyond his university duties he performs regularly as a violinist with the Hays Symphony, often as concertmaster, and pursues his hobby restoring and maintaining classic European automobile and motorcycle engines.
Professor Amidon’s repository of open-access publications can be found at: https://works.bepress.com/kevin_amidon/
Track Kevin's scholarly activity at Google Scholar, and you can learn more about all of his many interests at https://kevinsamidon.com.
Kathay Johnson, Administrative Specialist
CONTACT
Honors College
Fort Hays State University
Forsyth Library Room 72
Phone: 785-628-4744
fhsuhonorscollege@fhsu.edu
