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  • 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…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari

    Faculty Spotlight: Maddalena Marinari

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    Maddalena Marinari (History) was featured in The New York Times, sharing her expertise on the complex history of immigration in the United States. Dr. Marinari’s research and teaching cover an impressive range of topics, from immigration history and U.S. identity to America’s place in the world. A leading scholar with a focus on twentieth-century U.S.…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) presented a paper titled “Black, French, and Living in Occupied France” at a conference on Global Black Studies at Boston College on October 3, 2024.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

    Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    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: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was an invited participant and speaker at the International Symposium on Estonian Swedish History, Culture, and Language in Haapsalu, Estonia. He presented “The Unexpected Benefits of Feuding in the Golden Age of the 1930s.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Keller

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    Kate Keller (History) presented a paper “Migrating to France, Staying Connected to Senegal: Mamadou Kane, an African Migrant between Two Worlds” at the French Colonial Historical Society Annual Meeting in Charlottesville, VA.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) presented “Sticking Their Politics: Race and Immigration Debates through Stickers on the Streets of Copenhagen” at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Convention, hosted by Columbia University.

  • Faculty Task Force, 2023-24 Faculty Service Award Winners

    Faculty Task Force, 2023-24 Faculty Service Award Winners

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    Faculty Task Force Members (Chair Kate Knutson, Political Science; Betsy Byers, Art and Art History; Yurie Hong, Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies; Maddalena Marinari, History; Dave Stamps, Music; Dwight Stoll, Chemistry; and Valerie Walker, Education) were selected as the 2023-24 recipient of the Gustavus Faculty Service Award. Presented each year at Founder’s Day, this award…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was the invited speaker for the Twin Cities Estonian community’s Estonian Independence Day celebration.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Greg Kaster

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    Greg Kaster (History) had a letter to the editor published about slavery’s centrality to the Civil War in the Star Tribune. His letter rebutted a previous opinion piece by one of the paper’s editors, D.J. Tice.