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Author: snowell

  • Faculty Spotlight: Blake Couey

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    Blake Couey (Religion) presented a paper titled “Animal Cognition in the Book of Isaiah” at the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature in Denver in November 2022. It is part of a larger project that explores the biblical book Isaiah through the interdisciplinary perspective of animal studies. He also had an article, “Hide…

  • Gustavus History Professor Publishes Essay in the Washington Post

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    Professor Kathleen Keller of the history department published an essay in the Washington Post on Tuesday January 10, 2023, titled “China’s Increased Surveillance Capacity Could be Dangerous.” The essay appeared in the Made by History section of the Post which provides historical context to current events. Connecting to recent news about surveillance in China related…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

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    Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science), Charlie Potts (Dean of Students Office), and Emma Nelson ’22 had a research paper published in the Recreational Sports Journal. The paper —”If it’s not on Strava, it didn’t happen: Perceived Psychosocial Implications of Strava Use in Collegiate Club Runners”— examined how college-aged runners utilize Strava, a fitness-tracking social…

  • Faculty Spotlight: Hayley Russell

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    Hayley Russell (Health and Exercise Science) was interviewed for an article in Women’s Running Magazine titled, “Tips for a Positive Post-Season Retrospective: A sports psychologist’s top tips for managing the comparison trap and focusing on next year.”

  • Faculty Spotlight: Erik Gulbranson

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    Erik Gulbranson (Environment, Geography, and Earth Sciences) will publish “A global perspective of soil-forming conditions during the late-Pennsylvanian: potential stochastic forcing by geosphere–biosphere carbon pools,” in the Journal of the Geological Society of London. While specific in scope, this paper introduces two new concepts related to paleoclimate research that will interface with paleoclimate simulations to…

  • Casey Elledge: Faculty Scholarship at Gustavus

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    “While some intelligence is occasionally useful, the path of scholarship is ultimately about character: courage to take risks, patience to overcome adversity, faith to rise from failure, and reverence for all we experience through the journey.” — Casey Elledge, Professor of Religion 2019 Winner of the Gustavus Scholarly Accomplishment Award

  • Peg O’Connor: Faculty Scholarship at Gustavus

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    “My scholarship seeks to help people find meaning and value in both the ordinary and the extraordinary. This is also my aim in teaching. We encourage students to explore issues that matter to them because we scholars have experienced that intellectual intrigue and excitement. Teaching and scholarship are complementary enterprises; each makes the other better.…

  • Dwight Stoll: Faculty Scholarship at Gustavus

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    “One of the things I love about working with Gustavus students on research is that we get to discover together what they like and don’t like about the research experience. For some students the experience affirms their ideas about what research IS, and how it feels. In these cases we can build on this and…

  • Jillian Locke: Faculty Scholarship at Gustavus

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    “One of my favorite things about my recent sabbatical was meeting people in so many different disciplines and contexts engaged in overlapping issues. I was able to present my political science research to audiences in international studies, philosophy, cultural studies, and Nordic languages, and literature departments! These experiences felt a bit like being back in…

  • Paschal Kyoore: Faculty Scholarship at Gustavus

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    “My publications over the years have focused on topical issues such as identity in the African/African Diaspora historical novel, and female condition in the discourses of power. I have also published on African verbal art, and in the process challenged Eurocentric theories that I find inadequate in the study of African folklore. I share my…