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Category: Faculty Activities

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was a lecturer and expert on the Great European Journey through the Rhine River Valley and Switzerland with Smithsonian Journeys.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

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    Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) delivered the commencement address at Parnassus Preparatory School in St. Paul. She spoke about her path to Classics as a second generation Korean-American and the value of Classics, the humanities, and a liberal arts education for personal growth and career potential.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jill Locke

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    Jill Locke (Political Science) published an article “Beyond Heroes and Hostility: Greta Thunberg, Vanessa Nakate, and The Transnational Politics of Girl Power” in the journal NORA, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. The article is part of a special issue on “Unashamed Citizenship: Activist Voices in Scandinavia,” which is inspired by Locke’s concept of…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) has been invited to serve on the Editorial Board for the Nature Portfolio journal Scientific Reports. His term on the Board began in June 2023.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jill Locke

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    Jill Locke (Political Science) gave a talk and Q&A at the Saint Peter Senior Center on May 4. Locke was also recently named as the next James and Patricia McPherson Endowed Professor at Gustavus.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Mimi Gerstbauer

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    Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science) and co-authors James Huff (Wheaton College) and Vilma “Nina” Balmaceda (Duke University) published an article “Faith in Peacebuilding Assemblages in Colombia and Peru” in The International Journal of Latin American Religions.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Yurie Hong

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    Yurie Hong (Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies) delivered an invited lecture about Gender, Identity, and Classics at St. Paul Academy and Summit School’s Speaker Day.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

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    Kate Aguilar (History) was selected for the CIC Faculty Seminar on the Legacies of American Slavery at Yale (Summer 2023), along with the Southern Historical Association’s Junior Scholars’ Workshop (2023-2024). She was also awarded the 2023 North American Society for Sport Historians Dissertation Award.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Peg O’Connor

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    Peg O’Connor (Philosophy) published The Sober Philosopher Workbook for Exploring Addiction and Creating Recovery (Wildhouse Publications, 2023). Her essay, “Nothing Says Resentment Like Unfulfilled Expectations,” appears in the May issue of Psychology Today magazine.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jill Locke

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    Jill Locke (Political Science) and Ainsley LeSure (Political Science – Brown University) published, “The Girls’ Bureau of Freedom and Social Uplift,” a futuristic essay that is part of a 50th Anniversary issue of the journal Political Theory.