Scholarship / Research

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 Associate 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.

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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 Montreal, 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

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Kevin’s interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship is found in many important scholarly journals

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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/

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Solutions

https://thesolutionsjournal.com/author/kevinamidon/

Get Smart™: leveraging student social entrepreneurship and university-community engagement through co-curricular programs to facilitate COVID-19 awareness in rural western Kansas and global online student populations

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Critical Sociology

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0896920514565487

With Daniel Krier. “Critical Theory and the Limits of Academic Economics: Resolving the Political in Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” Critical Sociology 41:2 (March 2015): 349-58.

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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.

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Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

https://ascpt.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1038/clpt.2011.109

With Peter Langguth, Hans Lennernäs, Lawrence Yu, and Gordon L. Amidon. “Bioequivalence of Oral Products and the Biopharmaceutics Classification System: Science, Regulation, and Public Policy.” Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 90.3 (September 2011): 467-70.

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Biological Theory

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1162/biot.2008.3.4.357

“Adolf Meyer-Abich, Holism, and the Negotiation of Theoretical Biology.” Biological Theory 3.4 (Fall 2008 [published summer 2009]): 357-70.

https://philpapers.org/rec/AMIAMH

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Men and Masculinities

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1097184X08322611

With Daniel Krier. “On Rereading Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies.” Men and Masculinities 11.4 (June 2009): 488-96.

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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.

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New German Critique

https://read.dukeupress.edu/new-german-critique/issue/35/2%20(104)

“‘Diesmal fehlt die Biologie!’ Max Horkheimer, Richard Thurnwald, and the Biological Prehistory of German Sozialforschung.” New German Critique 104 (Vol. 35 No. 2, Summer 2008): 103-37.

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Agricultural History

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20454852?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

“The Visible Hand and the New American Biology: Toward an Integrated Historiography of Railroad-Supported Agricultural Research.” Agricultural History 82.3 (Summer 2008): 309-36.

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Journal of the History of Ideas

https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/11536

“Carrie Chapman Catt and the Evolutionary Politics of Sex and Race, 1885-1940.” Journal of the History of Ideas 68.2 (April 2007): 305-28.

https://go.gale.com/ps/anonymous?id=GALE%7CA161207055&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00225037&p=LitRC&sw=w

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Brecht Yearbook

https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AA3IL7RKGT4KXA8C/pages/AUYZ7OLIJWYNG68U

“‘Oh show us….’: Opera and/as Spectatorship in Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny.” Brecht Yearbook 29 (2004): 223-36.

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Journal of the Kafka Society of America

“‘Eng beisammen’: Travel and Human Relationships in Kafka’s Der Verschollene.” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 25 (June/December 2001 [published fall 2004]): 4-15.

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Kevin’s scholarship also is featured in many

recent edited scholarly volumes

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“Per Scientiam ad Justitiam: Magnus Hirschfeld’s Episteme of Biological Publicity” (2017)

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“The Constellation of Social Ontology: Walter Benjamin, Eduard Fuchs, and the Body of History” (2017)

“The Body Ontology of Capitalism” (2017)

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https://newsletter.language.iastate.edu/2016/11/14/photographs-and-identity/

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Scholarly Presentations

http://www.telospress.com/author/amidon/

http://manoa.hawaii.edu/brecht2010/program/paperabstracts/index.html

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Scholarly Acknowledgements

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137312778_9

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Beyond_Versus/nzyPAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=kevin+amidon&pg=PR11&printsec=frontcover

https://books.google.com/books?id=PpoVMbzc_3wC&pg=PR11&lpg=PR11&dq=kevin+amidon&source=bl&ots=Ck6G5GcLlk&sig=ACfU3U3DZI9OjRvo0jiUDXMI2tIrHPNpZw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjs0Jm60_TsAhUCS6wKHfm_Dzw4PBDoATAFegQIARAC#v=onepage&q=kevin%20amidon&f=false

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Citations

Telos (“A.R.L. Gurland….”)

https://books.google.com/books?id=GapODwAAQBAJ&pg=PT500&lpg=PT500&dq=amidon+worrell+gurland&source=bl&ots=m06n_VYqvF&sig=ACfU3U2CFMPNObikdUssPw4f1KOZ21fECA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIkZKA9sLtAhWh2FkKHbMWDGQQ6AEwCXoECAgQAg#v=onepage&q=amidon%20worrell%20gurland&f=false

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2238-38752013000500119

https://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=1669

https://dokumen.pub/the-blackwell-companion-to-adorno-9781119146940.html

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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

https://www.academia.edu/293173/Science_Normativity_and_Skill_Reviewing_and_Renewing_the_Anthropological_Basis_of_Critical_Theory

https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/bitstream/handle/document/69477/ssoar-2020-zeug_et_al-Towards_a_Holistic_and_Integrated.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://www.academia.edu/22009638/Four_German_Sociologists_Scientific_Autonomy_and_Empire_1880_1945_2014

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Agricultural History (“The Visible Hand….”)

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1051&context=bio_facpubs

https://books.google.com/books?id=nMQQ4w1_DS4C&pg=PA267&lpg=PA267&dq=amidon+new+american+biology+agricultural+history&source=bl&ots=eHTPpfQKKX&sig=ACfU3U0-F2reVnq7piuGkR0FfV8VL5y-eQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW8YGY8sLtAhXLtlkKHdGQAu4Q6AEwCXoECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=amidon%20new%20american%20biology%20agricultural%20history&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=WeRHDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA180&lpg=PA180&dq=amidon+new+american+biology+agricultural+history&source=bl&ots=n2hfKErvpI&sig=ACfU3U0ff-CpzLPyFSpY7mD2vh-X-cxVqw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjL-KXA8sLtAhUK11kKHS_1C-E4ChDoATABegQIBRAC#v=onepage&q=amidon%20new%20american%20biology%20agricultural%20history&f=false

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Journal of the History of Ideas (“Carrie Chapman Catt….”)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Chapman_Catt

http://history.port.ac.uk/?p=1338

https://sites.google.com/carthage.edu/womens-suffrage-in-the-america/neh-summer-institute/bibliography

The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00335630.2020.1785632

https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=speaker-gavel

https://books.google.com/books?id=bP8pAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=amidon+catt+journal+history+of+ideas&source=bl&ots=BOrphq6Qo5&sig=ACfU3U1n8zw27WHSn1YhC-PI5RUZnoGyWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtr6L-78LtAhUnwFkKHfHnA844ChDoATAHegQICRAC#v=onepage&q=amidon%20catt%20journal%20history%20of%20ideas&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=tmUoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=amidon+catt+journal+history+of+ideas&source=bl&ots=SignKFUZ8O&sig=ACfU3U14Llzb2ureFqa2alJLGeQwmcJR4w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtr6L-78LtAhUnwFkKHfHnA844ChDoATAIegQICxAC#v=onepage&q=amidon%20catt%20journal%20history%20of%20ideas&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=u6grDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA390&lpg=PA390&dq=amidon+catt+journal+history+of+ideas&source=bl&ots=5l7VUyIIiG&sig=ACfU3U1o8qthM5PVnUkigEB2Kvl2tv-IAg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjtr6L-78LtAhUnwFkKHfHnA844ChDoATAJegQIChAC#v=onepage&q=amidon%20catt%20journal%20history%20of%20ideas&f=false

https://hullhouse.uic.edu/hull/rec/resources.html

https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2192&context=jiws

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Brecht Yearbook (“Oh Show Us…”):

http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:12146/SOURCE02?view=true

Click to access 2009rambohoodmphil.pdf

https://books.google.com/books?id=Sdp1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=%22amidon%22+brecht+yearbook+mahagonny&source=bl&ots=nHOmqSzokV&sig=ACfU3U2ohZQxDTU9wrycsW3VyEbibJw2zg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJrZnm68LtAhUCy1kKHYajAp4Q6AEwBHoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22amidon%22%20brecht%20yearbook%20mahagonny&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=avKiDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=%22amidon%22+brecht+yearbook+mahagonny&source=bl&ots=n19KnFPMOr&sig=ACfU3U0dbWK7S8wxFXpuCxyQcdrU4F3PWQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJrZnm68LtAhUCy1kKHYajAp4Q6AEwBXoECAcQAg#v=onepage&q=%22amidon%22%20brecht%20yearbook%20mahagonny&f=false

https://www.jstor.org/stable/27668098?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents

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