Archive for 2016Page 2
Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management)
Kathy Lund Dean facilitated an intensive masters course entitled “Fostering ethics and ethical decision-making in your organization: Tools and trends for the future” in the executive MBA program at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The course was part of Canterbury’s Master Courses offerings for the eMBAs and details outcomes from her longitudinal ethical decision-making […]
Lisa Heldke (Philosophy)
Lisa Heldke was the featured speaker at Macalester College’s observation of World Philosophy Day, an annual event created by UNESCO to recognize the value of philosophy in the contemporary world. Her talk was entitled “We’re All Parasites: Eating, Guts, and Fundamental Metaphysical Categories. Astonishingly, despite the title, refreshments were still enjoyed by the audience.
Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science)
Mimi Gerstbauer published U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Apology with Routledge (2017). The book addresses important questions about the politics of apology and reconciliation in relation to some of the most controversial cases of U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years: Vietnam, Nicaragua, and the most recent war in Iraq.
Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez published an article “Los hombres y sus barbas: visibilidad y atenuación del deseo homosexual en ‘Tercer Fausto’ de Salvador Novo” [“Men and their Beards: Visibility and Attenuation of Homosexual Desire in Salvador Novo’s ‘The Third Faust’.”] in the November issue of Chasqui, journal of Latin American Literature 45.2. The article is […]
Yumiko Oshima-Ryan (Music)
Yumiko Oshima-Ryan received funding from the Minnesota State Arts Board for the Artist Initiative grant program in the literary and performing arts. Oshima-Ryan’s application was one of 87 applications out of a pool of 307 to be awarded a grant. A full list of grantees include dance, music, poetry, prose, and theatre.
Kathy Lund Dean (Economics and Management)
Kathy Lund Dean and co-author Sarah Wright (University of Canterbury) have published “Embedding engaged learning in high enrollment lecture-based classes” in Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research. The article came out of Kathy’s 2015 Erskine Fellowship to the University of Canterbury and is part of her larger research stream that explores experiential […]
Lisa Heldke, 2016 Faculty Service Award Winner, Philosophy Department
Lisa Heldke was selected as the 2016 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Service Award. Presented each year at Founder’s Day, this award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished service activities.
Joyce Sutphen (English)
Joyce Sutphen was interviewed on WCCO Radio after Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Ursula Lindqvist, Kjerstin Moody, and David Jessup (Scandinavian Studies)
Ursula Lindqvist, Kjerstin Moody, and David Jessup participated in the annual Sweden Symposium of the Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America (ASTRA) held in Boulder, Colorado, October 20-22. This year’s theme was “Sweden in the World, the World in Sweden.” This was Professor Lindqvist’s final year presiding over the organization as president, so […]
Joaquín Villanueva (Geography)
Joaquín published a chapter “Rights” in Mark Jayne and Kevin Ward’s (2016) Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives, Routledge. The book introduces urban theoretical debates to undergraduate and early graduate students.