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  • Faculty Spotlight: Jillian Downey and Kate Aguilar

    Faculty Spotlight: Jillian Downey and Kate Aguilar

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    Jillian Downey (Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics) and her colleagues have recently started a podcast, Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together (T5), to share a “teaching tension” experienced by post-secondary educators and discuss how they have approached it. The podcast does not try to provide the one right answer to the teaching tensions discussed, but rather…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari

    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…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

    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.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    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.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) published a book review in Nineteenth Century French Studies. The book, Law, Order, and Empire: Policing and Crime in Colonial Algeria is by Samuel Kalman of Saint Francis Xavier University.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) presented “Sticking the Debate: Immigration and Refugee Discourse on the Streets of Copenhagen” at the annual Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference.

  • Kate Aguilar, 2024-25 Humanities and Arts Scholarship Award Winner

    Kate Aguilar, 2024-25 Humanities and Arts Scholarship Award Winner

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    Kate Aguilar (History) was selected as the 2024-25 recipient of the Humanities and Arts Scholarship Award. This award recognizes a Gustavus faculty member for an outstanding peer-reviewed publication that contributes to the scholarly achievement and reputation of the faculty and the College.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) published a book review as part of an H-environment roundtable on the book, Starving Empire, by Yan Slobodkin. The roundtable is available online.

  • Gustavus History Department Excels in Public History

    Gustavus History Department Excels in Public History

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    James Baldwin once wrote, “History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.” One of the great challenges of the present is to make sense of how it illuminates the past. The work of public history, an ever-growing field, is for academics to present historical…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

    Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

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    Kate Aguilar (History) published an article in Time magazine’s Made By History series detailing how the January 9 NCAA Football National Championship semifinals matchup between Notre Dame and Penn State takes on added significance because the winning coach, Notre Dame’s Marcus Freeman or Penn State’s James Franklin, will then become the first Black head coach…