Dr. Kate Sampsell-Willmann

Welcome to Dr. Kate's AUCA web page. I am currently building the page, which I hope will be available by the middle of October. In the meantime, please see my page at www.lightcritical.com. You may contact me at kswillmann@gmail.com or sampsell_c@mail.auca.kg.

Dr. Kate Sampsell-Willmann

Publications

Biography:

Dr. Sampsell-Willmann holds a Distinguished Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University, a J.D. from the University of Baltimore, and a Summa Cum Laude B.A. in history from McDaniel College, a traditional liberal arts institution in Maryland. She also holds certificates in photography, art history, and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts honor society. Dr. Sampsell-Willmann's main publication area has been intellectual history of the 20th century, especially the career and times of photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940). Her book Lewis Hine as Social Critic (University of Mississippi Press, 2009) is the first book-length monograph on the photographer who created the social documentary genre. She is preparing to publish recent research on Lewis Hine. Future research plans include the areas of visual political dissent, African American history, history of the anti-fascist Left, and U.S. Constitutional history. Her published work can be found in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, History of Photography, American Quarterly, and Reviews in American History. She is a reviewer for the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, and the Journal of Agricultural History and has presented her research at major conferences in the U.S., Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the U.K. and online at iTunesU, The Saylor Foundation, and the Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive Era (http://www.jgape.org/forum/3). Her work has been cited by scholars in the U.S., Great Britain, France, and Israel.

Dr. Sampsell-Willmann has been teaching at the college level since 1994. Her practical academic expertise is found in adapting American-style and -quality liberal arts education overseas. Previously, Dr. Sampsell-Willmann served as a department chair of the Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University in Ankara and as a founding member of the faculty of Georgetown University's Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar (SFSQ), where she chaired an international American art festival (2006), served as a member of the Georgetown faculty senate (DC), designed and implemented a faculty merit-review scheme, and inaugurated an American studies certificate. She specializes in curriculum and faculty development. Other international experience includes teaching at the United Arab Emirates University and active service in international American studies organizations in Beirut, Cairo, and Great Britain. Dr. Sampsell-Willmann has served as an accreditation expert consultant to the Faculties of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering at Bilkent University and as a history expert for the Saylor Foundation (www.saylor.org).

Dr. Sampsell-Willmann joined the faculty of AUCA in 2011.