Category: Faculty Activities
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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…
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Faculty Spotlight: Kristen Lowe
Kristen Lowe (Art & Art History) has a current solo exhibition, Lines of Resistance, an Evolution of Animal Representation in Nature, that has been extended to Sunday, May 4. The exhibition is at Artistry’s Inez Greenberg gallery at the Bloomington Center for the Arts. See more of Lowe’s work at her website.
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
Marcia J. Bunge (Religion) has published a chapter titled “Honoring the Full Humanity of Children: Lessons from Robust Theologies of Childhood for Child Protection and Wellbeing” in The Wellbeing of the Child: Promotion—Protection—Rights, co-edited by Myriam Wijlens and Yeshica Marianne Umaña Calderón (LIT Verlag). The volume brings together scholars from diverse disciplines and regions of the world.…
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Faculty Spotlight: John Clemons
John Clemons (Music) has been named Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music following a national search. After serving as a visiting professor for the 2025-26 academic year, Clemons will continue as conductor of the Gustavus Wind Orchestra and Gustavus Wind Symphony in 2026-27 and beyond.
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Faculty Spotlight: Marcia Bunge
Marcia Bunge (Religion) was the inaugural speaker for the new Bi-annual Berryman Lecture Series hosted by the international Center for the Theology of Childhood and made possible by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. The online lecture was entitled “Honoring Children’s Full Humanity: Jerome Berryman’s Sacred Gift, Our Shared Calling” and attracted participants from North and South…
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Faculty Spotlight: Colleen Stockmann
Colleen Stockmann (Art and Art History) was named as one of the 2026-27 M. C. Lang Fellows in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources by Rare Book School (RBS) based at the University of Virginia. Stockmann is also presenting “Tree Grief: Living Material Culture for Mourning in the U.S., 1540–1920” for the…
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Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking
Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) lectured at the University of Tartu (Estonia), hosted by the Department of Scandinavian Studies and the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic Cafe, titled “European Minorities: Reflections on Minorities by way of the Estonian-Swedes.” He was also a featured speaker at the Estonian National Museum’s 3-day conference on the Estonian-Swedes,…
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Faculty Spotlight: Brenda Kelly
Brenda Kelly (Provost’s Office, Chemistry & Biology) has been named the next President at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. The College of St. Scholastica’s announcement is available online.
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Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez
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
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.