Staff: West European Studies (WEST): Indiana University Bloomington

Lois R. Wise, Director of West European Studies

Lois Wise's research and teaching interests center on the broad area of public management. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in public management and managing workforce diversity. Much of her scholarly work is comparative with a focus on public management reforms. A number of her studies examine bureaucratic behavior. She also has had a long interest in the effects of human diversity broadly defined on organizational performance and effective management. Her current work applies diversity scholarship to the digital divide and issues related to accessibility and responsiveness in the context of E-government. A relatively new prong to her research program focuses on the effects of globalization on the public work force. This includes studies of insourcing foreign professionals into the U.S. public and nonprofit sectors and studies of the effects new laws and policies regarding workforce mobility and citizenship requirements for civil servants and other employees of central governments. In addition to two books, she has published more than 30 articles in many different journals in the fields of public administration and human resource management and contributed more than 20 chapters to edited volumes in the United States and abroad. Her research has been supported by grants from both international and domestic sources. She is a former Fulbright Scholar (Sweden) (1992), recipient of the Swedish Institute Jubilee Prize (1995), the Swedish Bicentennial Fund Research Award (1985), and Inaugural Fellow, Randall L. Tobias Center for Leadership (2005).

Professor Wise is a member of the Governance and Management faculty group in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and Adjunct Faculty member of the Department of Political Science. She has served as consultant to public and private sector organizations in the United States and abroad including long-term projects with the National Institute of Justice in the USA, The Swedish Agency for Government Employers, and the Swedish Local Government Association (Kommunförbundet). Professor Wise served as visiting professor at the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, Göteborgs University, University of Örebro, and Umeå University.

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LINDA JEAN, Administrative Services Coordinator

Linda Jean has been a part of WEST for four years and a part of IU for 40 years. Her interests include travel, cross-stitch (award winning) and her "boys," Limerick and Hallagan.

HEIDI BLUDAU, Graduate Assistant

Heidi is a fourth year doctoral student in the Anthropology Department. After completing a BA in Anthropology and MEd in Curriculum and Instruction at Texas A&M University, Heidi spent 6 years working in higher education administration. In 2004, she came to IU to pursue her PhD in Social-Cultural Anthropology, focusing her dissertation research on the Czech Republic and issues of migration and EU integration. Her other research interests include European culture(s), postsocialism, food and globalization.

BRENDAN FAY, Graduate Assistant

Brendan is a third year doctoral student in the Department of History. Following the completion of his undergraduate work at the University of Texas-Austin, Brendan came to IU in 2005 to pursue a dual M.A./M.L.S. degree in History and Library Science, focusing on Modern Europe and Rare Books and Manuscripts. His current research centers on music and German national identity.

PAUL PASS, Graduate Assistant

Paul is from Columbus, Ohio and completed his undergraduate studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests include, but are not limited to European history of consciousness, small state and micro-state actors in the European Union, and renewable energy in Europe.

TRISTAN REITZ, Graduate Assistant

Tristan Reitz is a second year graduate student at WEST. His research interests include political movements among Diaspora populations in Europe and Spanish politics. Following his graduation from Purdue University in 2004, Tristan taught English in Spain for almost two years. He joined WEST in 2006.

TIA TRUEBLOOD, Graduate Assistant

Tia is from a dairy farm in Salem, Indiana. After receiving Bachelor's Degrees in Psychology and French from Purdue University, she worked as an English Lectrice at L'Université de Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse, France. Tia began graduate studies at Indiana University in the Spring of 2007, with interests in the structure of European higher education, French language and pastries, and most recently, Dutch.