Mark L. Winston is recognized as one of the world’s leading expert on bees and pollination, having had an illustrious career researching, teaching, writing and commenting on bees and agriculture, environmental issues and science policy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Winson, Mark
Created:
2015-08-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Margot Fortunato Galt grew up a Yankee in South Carolina during the 1950s. Her memoir, poetry, and prose often return to this period, or to her Italian/American background. She has published seven books, two of which were nominated for Minnesota Book Awards. Her poetry and creative prose appear in five anthologies and many small-press journals.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Galt, Margot
Created:
2014-04-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Manuel Esnoz is an Argentine visual artist and painter. He has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in New York..
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Esnoz, Manuel
Created:
2014-10-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Lisa Von Drasek is the Curator of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Children’s Literature Research Collections. In this interview, she talks about "Rejoice the Legacy!", the exhibit she curated for the Kerlan Collection centered around the work of Andrea Davis Pinkney.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Von Drasek, Lisa
Created:
2014-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Fondakowski compares her plays, including Casa Cushman and The People's Temple, talking about some differing approaches to oral history research, and offers her thoughts on the beginning of writing her play Spill.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
Created:
2011-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Millett is a journalist and author. He is the former architectural critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Millett, Larry
Created:
2014-03-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Larry Johnson is a storyteller, educator, and business owner who has managed outdoor education programs, directed CCTV and community cable operations, and produced numerous radio and TV shows, mainly around issues and local storytellers. He started the "teller-friendly" participatory patient TV channel at Mpls. Children’s Hospital in the mid 7...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Johnson, Larry
Created:
2015-09-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kristi Belcamino is a Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Award-nominated author of four crime fiction books, a newspaper cops reporter, and an Italian mama who makes a tasty biscotti. Her first novel, BLESSED ARE THE DEAD, was inspired by her dealings with a serial killer during her life as a Bay Area crime reporter. Belcamino has written and reported...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Belcamino, Kristi
Created:
2016-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
For over a decade, Kathy Kinzig was executive director of Eco Education, a Minnesota nonprofit offering an array of experiential, environmental education programs that inspire students to improve their academic performance, civic engagement and environmental stewardship. She passed away in 2008.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kinzig, Kathy
Created:
2006-06-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kat Hayes is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. Her research explores issues of agency, negotiation, resistance, and opportunistic power demonstrated by peoples who history once popularly regarded as having been totally powerless in contexts of European colonization, like indigenous communities and enslaved Afric...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hayes, Kat
Created:
2015-02-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
