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Description:: Sarah Stonich, best-selling author, talks to Peter Shea about her writing process. She discusses the influence of Minnesota in her novels. Stonich recounts the story of her building a cabin in northeastern Minnesota with her young son following her divorce. This process motivated her to write a memoir on the events. She discusses how this connec...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Stonich, Sarah
Created:: 2014-07-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Juanita Garciagodoy was born and raised bilingual, binational, and bicultural in Mexico City by a father from Guadalajara, Jalisco, and a mother from farm country in southwestern Minnesota. After college at Macalester in St. Paul, and a Master of Theological Studies degree from Harvard, she taught literature, philosophy, and civics at a bilingua...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Garciagodoy, Juanita
Created:: 2006-06-28
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Professor Hans Bertram (Humboldt-Universit√§t zu Berlin, Germany) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. His research concerns "Work-Life Balance. Comparing Japan and Germany".
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Bertram, Hans
Created:: 2014-11-04
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Dr. Nitin Varma (Humboldt University, Germany) is a Research Associate at re:work International Research Center. His research concerns colonial labor practices and the social history of domestic servants in India.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Varma, Nitin
Created:: 2014-10-29
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Christopher Morris lives in Dallas, Texas, and is Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is the author of two books, Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770-1860, and The Big Muddy: An Environmental History of the Mississippi and Its Peoples from Hernando de Soto...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Morris, Christopher
Created:: 2015-04-08
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Paul Hillmer is director of the Hmong Oral History Project and Professor of History at Concordia University. He is author of A People‚Äôs History of the Hmong (2009), based on over 200 oral history interviews. His six-part History Channel-funded documentary, From Strangers to Neighbors, examines Hmong people and their resettlement in the Twin Ci...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Hillmer, Paul
Created:: 2014-04-11
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Bruce Glymour is Professor and department head of Philosophy at Kansas State University. In his career, he has been a co-instructor with the Seminar in Scientific Ethics for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and a past board member for Kansas Citizens for Science and the Center for Origins at K-State. He is also a past Fellow o...
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Glymour, Bruce
Created:: 2016-03-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Norbert Eder is a producer of juice and owner of a communal juice press, Pankrazhofer Most und S√§fte, Tragwein.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Eder, Norbert
Created:: 2014-09-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: Waltraud Haslhofer and Andreas Ortner are owners of Hutti‚Äôs Jausenstation, a restaurant in Pierbach, M√ºhlviertel.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Haslhofer, Waltraud; Ortner, Andreas
Created:: 2014-10-18
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13

Description:: John Akre is an animator, videomaker and teaching artist who lives in Minneapolis. He creates public animation work with his animation station and a variety of other animation techniques, makes video documentaries, and empowers youth to create media. His films have shown at festivals around the planet.
Creator:: Shea, Peter
Contributor:: Akre, John
Created:: 2015-09-25
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Last Updated:: 2018-02-13