Category: Faculty Activities

  • Sheng Yang (Economics and Management)

    Sheng Yang collaborated with Gustavus graduate Thanh Nguyen ’15 to publish an article titled “Skewness Preference and Asset Pricing: Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market” in Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

  • Julie Gilbert (Library)

    Julie Gilbert published a historical novel for middle grade readers. Lucy Fights the Flames: A Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Survival Story is part of the Girls Survive series from Capstone.

  • Marcia Bunge (Religion)

    Marcia Bunge and Kathi Tunheim co-wrote an article entitled “Rooted and Open as Resource for Expanding Opportunities on Your Own Campus.” The article was published in the most recent issue of Intersections (2019), which focuses on the document, “Rooted and Open: The Common Calling of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities.” Copies of the…

  • Whitney Dirks (History)

    Whitney Dirks (History)

    Whitney Dirks published an article, “‘Weighty Celebrity’: Corpulency, Monstrosity, and Freakery in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England,” in Disability Studies Quarterly.

  • Sharon Marquart (MLC/GWS)

    Sharon Marquart co-organized, with Andreea Marinescu (Associate Professor of Spanish, Colorado College), a panel session on “Reclaiming the Popular: Resistant Voices from the Global Margins” at the 2019 MLA International Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal. Dr. Marquart further gave a paper on “Popular Resistance in the Second World War” as part of the panel session.

  • Tom LoFaro (Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics)

    Tom LoFaro (Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics)

    Tom LoFaro was invited to present a paper entitled “Crossing the Threshold: The Role of Demographic Stochasticity in the Evolution of Cooperation” at the 2019 MAA MathFest.

  • Maddalena Marinari (History)

    Maddalena Marinari (History)

    Maddalena Marinari published an article titled “Cuccinelli’s ‘bootstraps’ line reflects historical amnesia of ‘public charge’” for Public Radio International that discusses Americans’ changing historical stance on immigrants from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and nationalities.

  • Angelique Dwyer (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

    Angelique Dwyer (Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)

    K. Angelique Dwyer has published a total of four creative non-fiction short stories written in Spanglish through PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, edited by Paul Allatson from the University of Australia. Allatson is a prestigious Latino Studies scholar known for editing the Spanglish works of Susana Chavez-Silverman. Dwyer’s stories are entitled: “La manda;” “Simon;”…

  • Misti Harper (History)

    Misti Harper (History)

    Misti Harper has published “Portrait of (an Invented) Lady: Daisy Gatson Bates and the Politics of Respectability,” in the Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Spring 2019). Dr. Harper’s work explores the early life and intersectional problems of race, sex and class that applied to the civil rights heroine in the years before the 1957 Little Rock Central…

  • Marco Cabrera Geserick (History)

    Marco Cabrera Geserick (History)

    Marco Cabrera Geserick has published a new book titled The Legacy of the Filibuster War: National Identity and Collective Memory in Central America (Lexington, 2019). His book “analyzes the development of the Filibuster War as a symbol of Costa Rican national identity and presents several challenges to traditional theories of modernization and the creation of…