Dr. Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Associate Professor of Cultural Studies & Humanities, is an interdisciplinary scholar who serves as Director of Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago. She teaches and lectures widely in...

Ann Hetzel Gunkel received a Doctorate in Philosophy from DePaul University (1994), where she studied Continental and Postmodern Philosophy. Her work in Cultural Studies addressing aesthetics, cultural & spatial politics and technologies emerged at DePaul when her dissertation, directed by. Prof. David Farrell Krell, examined the triple axis of poetics, techne and space in Platonic cosmology...

Dr. Hetzel Gunkel, is tenured Associate Professor of Cultural Studies & Humanities at Columbia College Chicago, where she co-founded and serves as Director of the innovative undergraduate Program in Cultural Studies...

Professor Hetzel Gunkel is a two-time Fulbright Scholar Award winner (Research: Germany, 1992; and Teaching: Poland, 2011), a recipient of the prestigious Joseph V. Swastek Prize from the Polish American Historical Association, and a former Dissertation Fellow of the American Association of University Women...

Dr. Gunkel serves on the Board of Directors of several professional organizations, the Editorial Board of Polish American Studies and is active in civic volunteerism. For a full list of professional memberships...