Category: Faculty Activities
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Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs
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Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) was one of three artists to give the Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture in Photography at the Hite Institute of Art and Design, University of Louisville. The lecture was in conjunction with the exhibition, Alteration: Three Approaches to Photographic Intervention, at the Schneider Hall Galleries, featuring Briggs and two…
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Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist and David Jessup
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Ursula Lindqvist and David Jessup (Scandinavian Studies) participated in the annual Association of Swedish Teachers and Researchers in America (ASTRA) symposium at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C. Dr. Lindqvist presented on the archival research she conducted during her recent sabbatical, “På jakt efter vad Vilhelm Moberg visste om indianerna och hur han fick veta…
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Faculty Spotlight: Lauren Hecht
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Lucie Henrich ’25, Reese Blondin ’27, Olivia Koeneman ’27, and Lauren Hecht (Psychological Science) presented a poster on attentional focus in short-distance collegiate runners at the Annual Conference for the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Ellen Becken ’25 and Hayley Russell (St. Francis Xavier University; former Gustavus faculty member) also collaborated on this grant-funded research…
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Faculty Spotlight: Lisa Heldke
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Lisa Heldke (Philosophy) was an invited speaker at an online symposium, Food and the Microbiome, sponsored by Culinary Mind, a research center and academic network promoting philosophical thinking on food based at University of Milan. Heldke presented a talk entitled “Chomping unto death: a parasitic conception of human personhood,” based on her recently published book…
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Faculty Spotlight: Priscilla Briggs
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Priscilla Briggs (Art and Art History) and Cameron Jarvis ’15 have a collaborative exhibition, Free Parking, on view through October at Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis. Through the exhibit, they explore their lived experiences as they traverse the road, both in a car and on foot. They contemplate the implications and histories of our designed infrastructure,…
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Faculty Spotlight: Denis Crnković
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Denis Crnković (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, retired) presented a seminar and hands-on workshop on the history and art of letterpress printing at the Cellar Press of New Ulm’s Grand Center for Arts and Culture, where he continues to serve on the selection committee for their Artist in Residence program.
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Faculty Spotlight: Rachel Flynn
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This month’s cover image for College and Research Libraries News, submitted to the publication by Rachel Flynn (Library and Archives), is a photograph titled BOB, or Bundle of Books. It features an unidentified student moving books from the first Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library (now Anderson Hall) to the library’s current location, which opened in 1972.…
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Faculty Spotlight: Sharon Marquart
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Sharon Marquart (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) gave a talk as part of a panel on “Remembering the Occupation and Liberation of France” co-sponsored by the Alliance Française of Minneapolis-Saint Paul and the University Club of Saint Paul. Fellow participants included a Holocaust survivor and the children of French…
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Faculty Spotlight: Hagar Attia
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Hagar Attia (Communication Studies) was named the 2025 Communication and Theater Association of Minnesota (CTAM) Outstanding New College Teacher and will be honored at the CTAM Awards banquet.
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Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari
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Maddalena Marinari (History) co-edited with Kevin Kenny (New York University), a collection of essays titled Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move. It offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants on the move from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries. The essays examine the moments, actions, sentiments, and material objects in the process of…