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Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs
Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) has work from her “Free Parking” series in the Sioux City Art Center’s 2026 Biennial “Interstates” in Sioux City Iowa, April 16-August 19. She also has work from her “Terrain” series in the exhibitions “Natural World ” at Silverwood Park, March 12-April 30, and “Infinite Weight | Present Histories” at…
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Faculty Spotlight: Phillip Voight
Phillip Voight (Communication Studies) presented a paper at the University of Stirling on April 8 entitled “Shopping in the Age of Trump: Polarization, Negative Partisanship and Commodity Activism,” and another paper in Glasgow at the British Association of American Studies on April 10 entitled “Confronting the Fascist Turn in American Politics: Teaching Students to Over-Code Missing…
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Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey
Blake Couey (Religion) presented a paper titled “Can a City Menstruate? The Personification of Jerusalem in Lamentations 1” at the Upper Midwest American Academy of Religion Meeting on April 11 in St. Paul.
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Faculty Spotlight: Maria Isabel Kalbermatten
María Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) edited the book En busca de una caracterización de la ironía verbal en español. This volume brings together leading scholars from Spain, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina to explore verbal irony in a range of linguistic and social contexts. The book highlights the diversity of research on…
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) published a chapter titled “Lutheran Commitments to Children and Child Well-being: Theological Foundations and Contemporary Challenges” in the recently published volume Here We Stand: A Lutheran Response to Child Abuse, co-edited by Craig L. Nessan and Victor I. Vieth (Pickwick Publications), pp. 3–27. She was also invited to present her work at a…
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Faculty Spotlight: Stephanie Otto
Stephanie Otto (Health and Exercise Science) mentored a student research project with Haillee Wilson, Grace Banse, Taylor Katzenmeyer, and Sydney Timm. This research was recently selected and presented at the Northland American College of Sports Medicine Conference in Sioux Falls, SD. The title of the research project was “The Effect of Flexibility on Perceived Pain form Delayed Onset Muscle…
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Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe
Kristen Lowe (Art & Art History) has a current solo exhibition, Lines of Resistance, an Evolution of Animal Representation in Nature, that has been extended to Sunday, May 4. The exhibition is at Artistry’s Inez Greenberg gallery at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. See more of Lowe’s work at her website.
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) has published a chapter titled “Honoring the Full Humanity of Children: Lessons from Robust Theologies of Childhood for Child Protection and Wellbeing” in The Wellbeing of the Child: Promotion—Protection—Rights, co-edited by Myriam Wijlens and Yeshica Marianne Umaña Calderón (LIT Verlag). The volume brings together scholars from diverse disciplines and regions of the world.…
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Faculty Spotlight: John Clemons
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.
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
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…