GSD students awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships

James Pasternak and Anne Wallen have been awarded Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships by the University of Minnesota Graduate School, for the academic year 2009-2010. These fellowships, awarded in a University-wide competition, offer one year of support to advanced graduate students researching and writing their dissertations.

Adam Oberlin nominated for prizes at SASS

Germanic medieval studies graduate student Adam Oberlin has been nominated for the best graduate student paper and best graduate student history paper prizes at the 2009 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study conference in Madison, Wisconsin. His paper is entitled "Hákon Hákonarson's Norway and Crusading as Institution."

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."