Kevin Amidon pursues a cross-disciplinary and collaborative program of scholarship and research. Trained originally in German cultural and critical theory, he has developed his work through historical and sociological methods to explore literature, music, the history of the life sciences and medicine, and economic thought. In addition to his role as Director of the Honors College at Fort Hays State University, he serves as Professor of Modern Languages and Instructor of Philosophy.
He maintains an extensive repository of open-access publications, and Google Scholar tracks the breadth and significance of his work.
OCRID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3941-4414
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Amidon-2
Semantic Scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Kevin-S.-Amidon/3989583


In recognition of Kevin’s longstanding service to scholarship and the profession as well as his broad interdisciplinary vision and administrative skills, the officers and Executive Director of the German Studies Association have appointed him to a two-year term as Program Director. He will work with a distinguished Program Committee to build the cross-disciplinary programs for the GSA’s 2022 conference in Houston, Texas and 2023 conference in Montréal, Quebec. He will provide guidance and support for the Program Committee’s selection of several hundred panels, papers, roundtables, and seminars for presentation at the conference.
https://thegsa.org/conference/program-committee-2021
Kevin’s interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship is found in many important scholarly journals
The German Quarterly

“The flaneur in the Borsig locomotive works: Walter Benjamin, the Berlin Radio Youth Hour, and sound as pedagogy.” The German Quarterly 96.1 (Winter 2023): 56-73.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gequ.12320
https://works.bepress.com/kevin_amidon/23/
Feminist German Studies
“Today, Tomorrow, And In-Between: Straub/Huillet, the Schoenbergs, and the Gendered Micropolitics of Operatic Performance in Von heute auf Morgen.” Feminist German Studies 37.1 (Spring/Summer 2021): 86-110.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/797053
https://nebraskapressjournals.unl.edu/issue/9000027078148/feminist-german-studies-371/
Critical Sociology
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0896920514565487
Telos
http://www.telospress.com/author/amidonsanderson/
With Zachary Gray Sanderson. “On Subjectivity and the Risk Pool; or, Žižek’s Lacuna.” Telos 160 (Fall 2012): 121-38.
http://journal.telospress.com/content/2008/144/129.abstract
With Mark P. Worrell. “A. R. L. Gurland, the Frankfurt School, and the Critical Theory of Antisemitism.” Telos 144 (Fall 2008): 129-47.
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/clpt.2011.109
Biological Theory
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1162/biot.2008.3.4.357
https://philpapers.org/rec/AMIAMH
Men and Masculinities
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X08322611
Endeavour
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18539331/
“Sex on the Brain: The Rise and Fall of German Sexual Science.” Endeavour 32.2 (June 2008): 64-69.
New German Critique
https://read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-critique/issue/35/2%20(104)
Agricultural History
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20454852?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Journal of the History of Ideas
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/11536
Brecht Yearbook
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AA3IL7RKGT4KXA8C/pages/AUYZ7OLIJWYNG68U
Journal of the Kafka Society of America
Kevin’s scholarship also is featured in many
recent edited scholarly volumes
“Per Scientiam ad Justitiam: Magnus Hirschfeld’s Episteme of Biological Publicity” (2017)
“The Body Ontology of Capitalism” (2017)
https://newsletter.language.iastate.edu/2016/11/14/photographs-and-identity/
Scholarly Presentations
http://www.telospress.com/author/amidon/
http://manoa.hawaii.edu/brecht2010/program/paperabstracts/index.html
Scholarly Acknowledgements
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137312778_9
Citations
Telos (“A.R.L. Gurland….”)
https://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=1669
https://dokumen.pub/the-blackwell-companion-to-adorno-9781119146940.html
New German Critique (“Diesmal fehlt…”)
https://www.berose.fr/article1947.html?lang=fr
https://www.cairn.info/revue-actes-de-la-recherche-en-sciences-sociales-2010-5-page-12.htm
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0198-8719(2009)0000020009/full/html
Agricultural History (“The Visible Hand….”)
Journal of the History of Ideas (“Carrie Chapman Catt….”)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Chapman_Catt
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00335630.2020.1785632
https://hullhouse.uic.edu/hull/rec/resources.html
Brecht Yearbook (“Oh Show Us…”):
http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:12146/SOURCE02?view=true
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668098?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
Scholarly Book Reviews
https://www.fhsu.edu/honors/honors-college-faculty-and-staff
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevin-amidon-77a253169
https://works.bepress.com/kevin_amidon/
https://history.archives.mbl.edu/people-and-courses/person/kevin-amidon
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Amidon-2
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Amidon-2/research
https://myopportunity.com/profile/kevin-amidon/nw
https://www.discogs.com/artist/3242086-Kevin-Amidon
https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Kevin-S.-Amidon/3989583
https://dmsymphony.org/about/meet-the-musicians/kevin-amidon/
https://kevinamidon.mystrikingly.com
https://wiza.co/d/fort-hays-state-university/8926/kevin-amidon
https://www.thegsa.org/conference/program-committee
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1097184X08322611
https://www.telospress.com/author/amidon/
https://brill.com/display/title/32103
https://www2.ashland.edu/eashland/node/71207
http://www.asatheory.org/current-newsletter-online/conference-book-series-announcements
https://read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-critique/issue/35/2%20(104)