Jack Zipes awarded Graduate School grant

Professor Emeritus Jack Zipes has been awarded a Professional Development Grant for Retirees from the Graduate School for the project "De-Disneyfying the Fairy-Tale: A Social and Cultural History of the Fairy-Tale Film in America and Europe."

German undergraduate receives Birkelo Scholarship

German and global studies major Jonathan Rabb received a Selmer Birkelo Scholarship, CLA's most prestigious merit award for undergraduates.

Anja Shepela receives travel grant

Anja Shepela has been awarded a Zantop Travel Award from the Coalition of Women in German, to support archival research in Berlin during summer 2009.

GSD faculty receive Imagine Fund grants

Poul Houe, Rembert Hueser, Rick McCormick, Charlotte Melin, and Monika Zagar received grants from the Imagine Fund, a University of Minnesota and McKnight Foundation initiative to support research projects in the arts and humanities.

Adi King defends dissertation

Adi King successfully defended his dissertation, "The Pedagogy of Pop: Implicit Codes of Conduct in the Weimar Novels of Irmgard Keun and Vicki Baum."

Rick McCormick receives funding for research in Berlin

Rick McCormick has been awarded grants from the DAAD and the UofM Office of International Programs to support research in Berlin for the project "Sex, Politics, and 'Transnational' Comedy: the Films of Ernst Lubitsch - from Berlin to Hollywood."

Ginny Steinhagen wins AATG scholarship

The American Association of Teachers of German has awarded lecturer Ginny Steinhagen a scholarship to attend the seminar "Neuer Blick, Neue Stimmen: Interkulturelles Leben und Wirken," taking place this summer in Berlin. An essay by Steinhagen can also be found in the first issue of Neues Curriculum: Journal of Best Practices in Higher Education German Studies.