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  • Blake Couey, 2025-26 Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award Winner

    Blake Couey (Religion) was selected as the 2025-26 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Scholarly Accomplishment Award. This award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished scholarly achievements.

  • David Obermiller, 2025-26 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Winner

    David Obermiller (History) was selected as the 2025-26 recipient of the Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching. The award honors the memory of two Gustavus students and members of the Student Senate, Greg Swenson and Holly Bunn, who were killed in a car accident in 1989. This is the only award given to faculty by students.

  • Sarah Ruble, 2025-26 Faculty Service Award Winner

    Sarah Ruble (Religion) was selected as the 2025-26 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Service Award. Presented each year at Founder’s Day, this award is the highest accolade a Gustavus faculty member can receive for distinguished service activities.

  • Amy Vizenor, 2025-26 Carlson Award Winner

    I have the honor of introducing this year’s recipient of the Edgar M. Carlson Award for Distinguished Teaching, which is the highest honor bestowed upon a faculty member at Gustavus. This award recognizes excellence and innovation in teaching and advising, and the winner is selected from among nominations submitted by those who know our faculty…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…