Faculty
Meet the Faculty
David Nordmann
Associate Professor of History
B.A., Coe College
M.A., University of Kansas
Ph.D., Indiana University
Dr. Nordmann teaches Western Civilization in addition to courses in East Asian history. His specialties include Meiji Japan, late 19th-century Korea, U.S.-East Asia relations and Asian-American history.
Chris Hatchell
Stead Family Associate Professor of Religion
B.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Email: chatchell@coe.edu
Dr. Hatchell teaches in the field of Asian religions, with particular interests in Buddhism, Hinduism and Daoism. His research focuses on Tibet, especially the Bön religion and a system of philosophy and practice called the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). His current project is a translation of a Tibetan text known as the Zermik (gzer mig), which is a biography of the founder of the Bön tradition, Tönpa Shenrab. Some of his other favorite topics are Indian and Tibetan tantra, Buddhist cosmology, contemporary Tibetan literature and film, digital initiatives in Tibetan Studies and Tibetan music and games. American old-time music is also a major interest — banjo and fiddle players are welcome to stop by his office.
Kimberly Lanegran
Joan and Abbott Lipsky Professor of Political Science, Chair
B.A., Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
M.A., Ph.D., University of Florida
Dr. Lanegran teaches courses on comparative politics, international organizations, women and politics and U.S. public policy. Her publications focus on international human rights trials and the political transformation of South Africa. Recently, she edited a special issue of African Studies Quarterly on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Africa.
Derek Buckaloo
Howard Hall Professor of History
B.A., Stanford University
M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Dr. Buckaloo teaches American history, with special interests in 20th-century politics and culture, foreign relations, particularly the Cold War and the Vietnam War, and Native American history. His present research is on the "Vietnam Syndrome."