Category: Faculty Activities
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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…
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Faculty Spotlight: Mimi Gerstbauer
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Mimi Gerstbauer (Political Science) was selected to be a 2025-26 Council on Foreign Relations Higher Education Ambassador. The program is an eight-month engagement that connects educators across the country with free educational resources, professional development activities, and a cross-disciplinary network of professionals committed to equipping students with literacy in global affairs. This year’s cohort includes…
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Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar
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Kate Aguilar (History) has been appointed Section Editor for Film, Media, and Museum Reviews at the Journal of Sport History.
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Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson
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Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) has been appointed a panelist for the Life and Environments through Time program at the National Science Foundation.
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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) has published an article, “Le care comme éthique du savoir: les métaphores échouées de Jamaica Kincaid” in a special issue of the Canadian scholarly journal Ethnologies on the theme of care.
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Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking
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Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was an expert and lecturer on a cruise of the Baltic Sea with Smithsonian Journeys, a travel program of the Smithsonian Institution. He gave talks on World War II refugees from the Baltic States, the Danish Kingdom in the Second World War, and security and alliances in Northern Europe.
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Faculty Spotlight: Kathy Lund Dean
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Kathy Lund Dean (Business and Economics) recently co-authored an article in the Journal of Management Inquiry examining the sustained and increasingly intense managerial resistance to remote work. Because remote employee productivity and quality of life gains have been measured across industries, Lund Dean and her co-author were curious about the growing return-to-office mandates even among…
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Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist
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Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) presented a paper, “Whose Story? Authorship, Authenticity, and Agency in Vilhelm Moberg’s Settler Narratives,” at the Nordic Association for American Studies (NAAS) annual meeting in Turku, Finland, and at the Eighth European Congress on World and Global History in Växjö, Sweden. She presented early analysis of the archival research she conducted…