Dr. Ann Hetzel Gunkel, Professor of Humanities & Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago, is an interdisciplinary Humanities scholar/educator, specializing in Urban Cultural Studies. 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 Professor of Humanities & Cultural Studies at Columbia College Chicago, where she co-founded the innovative undergraduate major in Cultural Studies...

Professor Hetzel Gunkel is a Fulbright Scholar (Germany), 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, as Vice President of the Polish American Historical Association and is active in civic volunteerism. For a full list of professional memberships...