Month: October 2025
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
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Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was invited by the Lilly Endowment to give a presentation at its national gathering of representatives from 295 Lilly-funded projects focused on children, parents, and caregivers held in Indianapolis. Bunge presented a talk entitled “Child-Attentive Theologies: Honoring Children’s Full Humanity, Empowering Ministries” based on insights from her book, Child Theologies: Diverse…
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Faculty Spotlight: Julie Bartley
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Julie Bartley (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) and students Miranda Vizoso-Marino (Geology ’27) and Katrinna Deters (Geology, Environmental Studies, and Studio Art ’26) presented their work at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in San Antonio, TX, over Fall Break. Miranda gave a poster titled “Stratigraphic interpretation of stromatolites on a mixed carbonate-clastic platform”;…
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Faculty Spotlight: Jillian Downey and Kate Aguilar
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Jillian Downey (Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics) and her colleagues have recently started a podcast, Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together (T5), to share a “teaching tension” experienced by post-secondary educators and discuss how they have approached it. The podcast does not try to provide the one right answer to the teaching tensions discussed, but rather…
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Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs
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Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) was one of three artists to give the Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture in Photography at the Hite Institute of Art and Design, University of Louisville. The lecture was in conjunction with the exhibition, Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention, at the Schneider Hall Galleries, featuring Briggs and two…
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Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist and David Jessup
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Ursula Lindqvist and David Jessup (Scandinavian Studies) participated in the annual Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America (ASTRA) symposium at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lindqvist presented on the archival research she conducted during her recent sabbatical, “På jakt efter vad Vilhelm Moberg visste om indianerna och hur han fick veta…
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Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Hecht
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Lucie Henrich ’25, Reese Blondin ’27, Olivia Koeneman ’27, and Lauren Hecht (Psychological Science) presented a poster on attentional focus in short-distance collegiate runners at the Annual Conference for the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Ellen Becken ’25 and Hayley Russell (St. Francis Xavier University; former Gustavus faculty member) also collaborated on this grant-funded research…
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Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke
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Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) was an invited speaker at an online symposium, Food and the Microbiome, sponsored by Culinary Mind, a research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food based at University of Milan. Heldke presented a talk entitled “Chomping unto death: a parasitic conception of human personhood,” based on her recently published book…
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Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs
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Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) and Cameron Jarvis ’15 have a collaborative exhibition, Free Parking, on view through October at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis. Through the exhibit, they explore their lived experiences as they traverse the road, both in a car and on foot. They contemplate the implications and histories of our designed infrastructure,…
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Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnković
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Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, retired) presented a seminar and hands-on workshop on the history and art of letterpress printing at the Cellar Press of New Ulm’s Grand Center for Arts and Culture, where he continues to serve on the selection committee for their Artist in Residence program.