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  • 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…

  • 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.