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  • Kate Knutson, 2023-24 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Winner

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    Kate Knutson (Political Science) was selected as the 2023-24 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. Presented each year at Honors Day, this is the…

  • Laura Burrack, 2023-24 Mansergh Faculty Scientific Research Award Winner

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    Laura Burrack (Biology) was selected as the 2023-24 recipient of the Mansergh Faculty Scientific Research Award. Presented each year at the final faculty meeting, this award recognizes a Gustavus faculty member for an outstanding peer-reviewed publication that contributes to the scholarly achievement and reputation of the faculty and the College.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

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    Kathy Lund Dean’s (Business and Economics) book “How to Become an Effective Journal Editor in Business and Management: A Guide to Developing Authors,” is now available from Edward Elgar press. The book shares what Kathy learned over her 20 years of editorial work, not the least of which is that editors’ work goes well beyond…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Maria Isabel Kalbermatten

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    Maria Isabel Kalbermatten (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) published the article “Depicting ‘La Grieta‘: The Role of Political Satire and Humor in Argentinean Polarization.” In this article, Kalbermatten explores “la grieta” in Argentine society, the deep and irreconcilable division, primarily between Kirchneristas and Anti-Kirchneristas, that fragments and polarizes the nation. It significantly shapes political, social,…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge

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    Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) published a chapter on “Christianity, Child Well-Being, and Corporal Punishment” in a volume entitled Faith in Law, Law in Faith. The book’s three co-editors, R. Domingo Oslé, G. Hauk, and T. P. Jackson, have led various interdisciplinary and international projects, including at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) published an opinion piece “We Need Federal Cannabis Legislation,” in MinnPost.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean

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    Kathy Lund Dean (Business and Economics) will be returning to Rikkyo University in Tokyo this summer on a Fulbright Specialist award. Continuing her work from last year, she will be helping business school faculty and administrators with their initial AACSB accreditation efforts, helping with scholarship development and publishing, and (hopefully) finalizing the Gustavus direct admission…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Aaron Banks

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    Aaron Banks (Health and Exercise Science) spoke and was honored at the “Minnesota Athletes Celebration” on April 8, 2024.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnkovic

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    Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, retired) recently conducted two seminars about the history, theory, and practice of letterpress printing at New Ulm’s Grand Center for Arts and Culture Cellar Press studio.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

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    Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) published his novella “Antonieta de muchos nombres” [“Antonieta of Many Names”] on March 28, 2024 (Ediciones Alborismos). The novel is an imagining of Antonieta Rivas Mercado’s biography. Rivas Mercado was a Mexican writer and art promoter at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. She found herself…