Category: Faculty Activities
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Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart
Sharon Marquart (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures & Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) served as a panelist for a discussion on “Female Voices: On Progress, Setbacks, and Oppression” hosted by the Alliance Française Minneapolis-Saint Paul. The event was part of the nationwide “Night of Ideas” sponsored by the French Embassy in the United States and…
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Faculty Spotlight: Sarah Lahasky
Sarah Lahasky (Music) has been selected to participate in the American Musicological Society’s 2025 Summer Institute “Music of the United States: Telling Our Stories,” where she will work with primary source materials at the Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress to develop teaching materials for MUS 205: ‘America’s’ Music.
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Faculty Spotlight: Sheng-Ping Yang
Sheng-Ping Yang (Business and Economics) was recently featured on WalletHub.com. He shared his insights in an article about the Best Auto and Home Insurance Companies
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Faculty Spotlight: Lai Sze Tso
Lai Sze Tso (Sociology and Anthropology) presented her paper “Sandwich Caregivers and the Eldercare Ecosystem in Minnesota” at the Applied Demography Conference –Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Tucson, AZ. She also served as a panel reviewer for the Cultural Expression Grant for the Minnesota State Arts Board in 2024-25.
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Faculty Spotlight: Kate Knutson
Kate Knutson (Political Science) presented a paper coauthored with Rachel Flynn (Library) titled, “What Am I Reading? How Teaching Genre Improves Civic Skills” at the American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference in Alexandria, Virginia. Knutson also was selected to participate in the 2025 Minnesota Young American Leaders Program hosted by the University of…
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) was invited by the University of Erfurt in Germany to give virtual lecture on her child-related research for the university’s interdisciplinary course on “The Well-being of the Child: Promotion, Protection, Rights”.
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Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Baer
Elizabeth Baer (English, retired) presented a Zoom lecture “The Girl in the Green Sweater,” to an audience of 200 people around the world on February 1, 2025. The talk was sponsored by Knitting History Forum, a British organization, and told the story of a sweater worn by a young girl hiding from the Nazis in…
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Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist
Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) published a scholarly book review article… about Tami Navarro’s Virgin Capital: Race, Gender, and Financialization in the US Virgin Islands. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021. Pp. 242,” in Scandinavian Studies issue #97.1 (2025), p. 122–126.
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Faculty Spotlight: Darsa Donelan
Rose Paddock ’23, former Student Observatory Manager at Gustavus, had her first first-author publication in the Journal of Double Star Observations. The paper, “Albireo Double Star Observations: A Comparative Study Using Unistellar EV, Meade LX600 (10”) and LX200 (16”) Telescopes,” explores the Albireo double star system and compares different telescope designs to assess their value to the astronomical community.…
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Gustavus History Department Excels in Public History
James Baldwin once wrote, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.” One of the great challenges of the present is to make sense of how it illuminates the past. The work of public history, an ever-growing field, is for academics to present historical…