Category: Faculty Activities

  • Faculty Spotlight: Lai Sze Tso

    Lai Sze Tso (Sociology and Anthropology) was invited to receive the award for the Gustavus Chapter of Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD) at the American Sociological Association in Montreal, Canada. The Gustavus AKD chapter was selected from among 700 chapters internationally.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Chad Winterfeldt

    Chad Winterfeldt (Chaplains Office/Music) will play a festival recital for the rededication of the newly expanded Holtkamp pipe organ at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Aberdeen, SD, on Sunday, September 29 at 2 p.m. Participants in the festival include the adult choir, the handbell choir, and a brass quintet from the Bethlehem community.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Jeff La Frenierre

    Jeff La Frenierre (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) is a co-author of the article “Observing glacier elevation changes from spaceborne optical and radar sensors – an inter-comparison experiment using ASTER and TanDEM-X data,” recently published by the journal The Cryosphere.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Nicolas Darcourt

    Nicolas Darcourt (Art and Art History) has artwork included in the River 2 River National Juried Exhibition as part of the semi-annual Iowa Clay Conference. The exhibited artwork is a ceramic sculpture made from red stoneware press molds and hand-built parts, titled “Accumulated Perspectives”. The exhibition runs through October 26, 2024, at the Gilded Pear…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Carlos Mejia Suarez

    Carlos Mario Mejía Suárez (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) published with Ápeiron ediciones (Madrid, Spain) his novella La máquina de Hotefes contra las tebiras [Hotefes’ Machine Against the Tebirae] on September 9, 2024. The novel is published after receiving a positive recommendation in the Gregorio Samsa contest (Ápeiron). The novella takes place in a post-apocaliptic…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) has received two external grants to conduct archival research during her sabbatical on Swedish settler immigration to, and settlement in, Minnesota around the time of Gustavus’ founding. The first is an international research grant funded by the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies and The Swedish Emigrant…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Faculty Spotlight: Ursula Lindqvist

    Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies) gave a public lecture “Denmark in Global Cinema,” at the 78th annual Danebod Folk Meeting in Tyler, Minnesota, on Aug. 28. The gathering draws participants from multiple states and is inspired by the Danish folk school movement founded in the 19th century by N.F.S. Grundtvig, an influential Danish pastor, author, poet,…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Kathleen Keller (History) published a review of the book Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 by Amit Prakash in the American Historical Review‘s September 2024 issue.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Paschal Kyoore

    Paschal Kyiiripuo Kyoore (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) was invited to submit a piece on African culture, with discussion questions for educators and the general public. TED-Ed lessons feature the words and ideas of educators brought to life by professional animators. “The tale of the boy who tricked a tyrant” is a West African Dagara…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Darsa Donelan

    Zachary Kacmarynski ’22 co-authored an essay with Darsa Donelan (Physics) in the newly published book, “Space, the Feminist Frontier: Essays on Sex and Gender in Star Trek”. Their essay, “Standing Up to Sigma: Destigmatizing the LGBTQ+ Experience in Star Trek: Enterprise”, explores themes of the AIDS crisis, gender identity, and inclusive development as depicted throughout…