Provost

Month: March 2026

  • Faculty Spotlight: John Clemons

    Faculty Spotlight: John Clemons

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    John Clemons (Music) has been named Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music following a national search. After serving as a visiting professor for the 2025-26 academic year, Clemons will continue as conductor of the Gustavus Wind Orchestra and Gustavus Wind Symphony in 2026-27 and beyond.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

    Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

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    Marcia Bunge (Religion) was the inaugural speaker for the new Bi-annual Berryman Lecture Series hosted by the international Center for the Theology of Childhood and made possible by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. The online lecture was entitled “Honoring Children’s Full Humanity: Jerome Berryman’s Sacred Gift, Our Shared Calling” and attracted participants from North and South…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Colleen Stockmann

    Faculty Spotlight: Colleen Stockmann

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    Colleen Stockmann (Art and Art History) was named as one of the 2026-27 M. C. Lang Fellows in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources by Rare Book School (RBS) based at the University of Virginia. Stockmann is also presenting “Tree Grief: Living Material Culture for Mourning in the U.S., 1540–1920” for the…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) lectured at the University of Tartu (Estonia), hosted by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic Cafe, titled “European Minorities: Reflections on Minorities by way of the Estonian-Swedes.” He was also a featured speaker at the Estonian National Museum’s 3-day conference on the Estonian-Swedes,…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Kelly

    Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Kelly

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    Brenda Kelly (Provost’s Office, Chemistry & Biology) has been named the next President at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. The College of St. Scholastica’s announcement is available online.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

    Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

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    Carlos Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) celebrated the release of his new novel El señor de las erratas (The Lord of Typos) with the publisher Calixta Editores. Writer Luis Izquierdo introduced Carlos and engaged him in conversation during the event, which took place at Le Tiende in Bogotá on February 28. The novel…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

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    Kate Keller (History) presented on her book in progress, A Magnificent Fraud: An African Life in Twentieth Century France, as part of a roundtable titled “Imperial Grifters: Understanding Fraud in the Modern French Empire” at the Society for French Historical Studies in Philadelphia on March 7.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Justin Knoepfel

    Faculty Spotlight: Justin Knoepfel

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    Justin Knoepfel (Music) recently served as a guest orchestra clinician for both the Lake Conference Orchestra Festival and the Metro West Conference Orchestra Festival, providing technical guidance and artistic mentorship to some of the area’s top high school ensembles. Furthermore, he served as the high school guest conductor for the 14th annual StringFest held at…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

    Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe

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    Kristen Lowe (Art and Art History) has a solo exhibition, Lines of Resistance, an Evolution of Animal representation in Nature, at Artistry’s Inez Greenberg Galley located at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. Learn more online; the exhibit runs through April 5, 2026.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Christopher Flynn

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    Christopher Flynn (History) had an article entitled “Sport at War: Nithard’s Strasbourg Cavalry Games of 842” published in The International Journal of the History of Sport.