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  • 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: 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: 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.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) had a letter to the editor published in the New York Times on Feb 19. The letter connects contemporary events in Minnesota to the history of Native Americans in the state.

  • Faculty Spotlight – Christopher Flynn

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    Christopher Flynn (History) was awarded a travel grant from the Medieval Academy of America to present a paper entitled, “The Imperial Worldview of the Annals of Xanten, 831-873,” at the Medieval Academy of America annual meeting in Amherst, Massachusetts, March 19-21.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jillian Downey and Kate Aguilar

    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…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari

    Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari

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    Maddalena Marinari (History) co-edited with Kevin Kenny (New York University), a collection of essays titled Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move. It offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants on the move from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. The essays examine the moments, actions, sentiments, and material objects in the process of…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

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    Kate Aguilar (History) has been appointed Section Editor for Film, Media, and Museum Reviews at the Journal of Sport History.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was an expert and lecturer on a cruise of the Baltic Sea with Smithsonian Journeys, a travel program of the Smithsonian Institution. He gave talks on World War II refugees from the Baltic States, the Danish Kingdom in the Second World War, and security and alliances in Northern Europe.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) published a book review in Nineteenth Century French Studies. The book, Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria is by Samuel Kalman of Saint Francis Xavier University.