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  • 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.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

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    Kate Aguilar (History) has an article forthcoming “‘It’s All About the U’: How University of Miami Football Challenged Reagan’s America,” in the Journal of Sport‘s spring 2024 edition.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) taught a session of the Foreign Service Institute’s Nordic and Baltic Area Studies course for U.S. State Department employees heading to the region. His session focused on Nordic history and its contemporary significance in politics and society.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was a lecturer and expert on a Baltic Sea cruise with Smithsonian Journeys, giving lectures on Nordic and Baltic history, and answering questions on Russia and the Baltic Sea region.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

    Faculty Spotlight: Glenn Kranking

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    Glenn Kranking (History and Scandinavian Studies) was a lecturer and expert on the Great European Journey through the Rhine River Valley and Switzerland with Smithsonian Journeys.

  • Kate Aguilar, 2023 Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Winner

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    Kate Aguilar (History) was selected as the 2023 recipient of the Swenson-Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching. The award honors the memory of two Gustavus students and members of the Student Senate, Greg Swenson and Holly Bunn, who were killed in a car accident in 1989. Presented each year at Honors Day, this is the only…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

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    Kate Aguilar (History) was selected for the CIC Faculty Seminar on the Legacies of American Slavery at Yale (Summer 2023), along with the Southern Historical Association’s Junior Scholars’ Workshop (2023-2024). She was also awarded the 2023 North American Society for Sport Historians Dissertation Award.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) was elected to the editorial board of the journal French Historical Studies.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kathleen Keller

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    Kathleen Keller (History) was Awarded the American Philosophical Society Franklin Grant to conduct research in France in summer 2023 on her new book, “A Magnificent Fraud: An African Life in Twentieth Century France.” The grant provides $6,000 to support research travel.

  • Faculty Spotlight: Kate Aguilar

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    Kate Aguilar (History) published a piece in the Washington Post about the historic significance of having two African American quarterbacks square off in this year’s Super Bowl.