Honors College Faculty and Staff

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. 

Courtney is a senior majoring in Health and Human Performance, with a concentration in Teaching and Coaching, and Ag Education. She comes from the Oasis of the Plains, home of the Wheat Jesus, Colby, KS--where she attended Colby Community College. Courtney is involved with Alpha Gamma Delta, Catholic Disciples, Intramural sports, Barnhoppers, and Fort Hays Honor Society. She enjoys long-distance running (with her $20,000 legs--ask her why), tennis, being with livestock, riding four-wheelers, reading, movies, hanging with friends, and doing crazy spontaneous things! 

CJ is a sophomore English and Psychology major, but he only offers advice in exchange for coffee. When he's not studying, listening to audiobooks on long walks, or hyping up the Honors College, CJ is involved in Tiger Media Network, Spanish Club, Sigma Tau Delta, Psi Chi, and Fort Hays Honor Society. He’s a fourth generation Tiger and a grandma's boy who overly romanticizes the Walden lifestyle. Since joining the Honors College, he's had his future (accurately!) predicted in tarot by an Honorable, has had his ribcage tattooed, and has made a semi-spontaneous road trip to Boulder. He's written and presented about misophonia and hopes to someday advocate for more student-centered education as a prospective school psychologist.