Author: snowell
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Faculty Spotlight: Marta Podemska-Mikluch
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Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Business and Economics) published a new article in the European Economic Review, titled “Forgone innovation: regulation as pruning of the adjacent possible.” The paper examines how regulation can shape innovation not only through immediate costs and benefits, but by limiting which combinations of technologies and organizational models are possible to explore. Drawing on…
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Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson
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Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) published a paper with former student Dr. Julia McIntosh entitled “Estimating paleotemperature using stable isotopes of soil-formed phyllosilicates from paleosols: A review” in the journal Earth-Science Reviews. This work represents 19 years of method development and refinement by the authors at the University of California Davis and Gustavus…
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Faculty Spotlight: Marta Podemska-Mikluch
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Marta Podemska-Mikluch (Business and Economics) received the 2025 Duncan Black Prize from the Public Choice Society for a co-authored article, “Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic,” published in Public Choice. The paper examines why governments across countries relied on temporary scientific advisory committees during the COVID-19 pandemic…
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Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart
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Sharon Marquart (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) gave an invited talk at the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota. Titled “Situating Care with Agnès Varda,” the talk drew from her new book that is under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press.