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  • Kathleen Keller (History)

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    Kathleen Keller published a book review in the April 2018 issue of H-France Review of Harry Gamble’s Contesting French West Africa: Battles Over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900-1950.

  • Greg Kaster (History)

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    Greg Kaster has been awarded a place in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Slavery and the Constitution in Washington, DC, July 8-21, 2018, co-directed by Paul Finkelman and Paul Benson. The institute will be based at the Library of Congress and will include as faculty such distinguished historians as Finkelman (a…

  • Kathleen Keller (History)

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    Kathleen Keller published her first book Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa. The book, published by University of Nebraska Press, appears in the series France Overseas. Colonial Suspects is a history of policing and traces the development of the concept of “suspicious” persons, strategies of political surveillance, and…

  • Kathleen Keller (History)

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    Kathleen Keller was awarded a $6,000 grant by the American Philosophical Society for summer research in French archives on her new project, “Prince, Wizard, and Marabout: an African Life in Twentieth-Century France”

  • Paschal Kyoore (Modern Language, Literature, and Cultures), Ursula Lindqvist (Scandinavian Studies), and Kathleen Keller (History)

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    Paschal Kyoore, Ursula Lindqvist, and Kathleen Keller represented Gustavus at an African studies conference hosted by Saint Olaf College titled “Africa in the 20th century classroom.” Keller also presented a paper titled “Myths, Misconceptions, History, and Stereotypes: Teaching about African ‘tribes’.”

  • Maddalena Marinari (History)

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    Maddalena Marinari wrote a short article and gave an interview to Public Radio International’s The World about the latest travel ban. She provided a historical perspective on the bans. The article and the interview can be found on PRI’s website.

  • Sverker Oredsson Lecture

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    The Office of the Provost invites you to join us for a lecture by renowned Swedish scholar, Sverker Oredsson. Oredsson is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of History at Lund University and is considered a leading scholar in Sweden on Gustav II Adolph and the Swedish Great Power Period. In addition to work around the…

  • Maddalena Marinari (History)

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    Maddalena Marinari was interviewed on Public Radio International about the history of immigration bans in the United States.  

  • From History Major to Protector of Domestic Violence Victims

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    Kristine McLean ’14 recently earned her law degree, winning honors along the way. She embodies the Gustavus commitment to excellence and justice in her work, and as a History Major she feels well prepared for her chosen career. As Kristine elaborates: I graduated from Mitchell Hamline in May 2017. I sat for the Minn. bar…

  • Maddalena Marinari (History)

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    Maddalena Marinari recently published an essay in Laura E. Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra’s New Italian Migrations to the United States. The volume has already received its first positive review.