Helena Karlsson defends dissertation

Helena Karlsson successfully defended her dissertation, "Toward a Multiculturalism for the 21st Century: German and Scandinavian Literary Perspectives, 1990-2005."

Ray Wakefield honored with teaching award

Prof. Ray Wakefield has received the 2007-08 Arthur "Red" Motley Exemplary Teaching Award by the College of Liberal Arts. This major award recognizes the lasting contributions of faculty to undergraduate and graduate education and advising.

GSD graduate students work with Special Collections

Adrienne Damiani, Laura Versaput, and Michel van der Hoek created descriptions for 30 of the manuscripts in the Special Collections & Rare Books sections of the Andersen Library.

Awards for Michel van der Hoek and Anne Wallen

Michel van der Hoek has been awarded a 2008-09 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School to support work on his dissertation project "Palatalization in Germanic."
Anne Wallen is the recipient of both an American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship and a Fulbright grant, for dissertation research in Copenhagen during the academic year 2008-09.

Anatoly Liberman receives anonymous grant

Anatoly Liberman has received significant funding support for 2008-10 for his Encyclopedic Dictionary of English Etymology project, from an anonymous out-of-state donor.

Monika Zagar will be visiting international fellow

Monika Zagar will be a visiting international fellow in the HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs) program "Divided States of Europe: Globalization and Inequalities in the New Europe," April 20-25, 2008.

Jenneke Oosterhoff granted professional development leave

Jenneke Oosterhoff was awarded a professional development leave for spring 2008 to complete grammar workbooks for basic and intermediate Dutch to be published in 2009.