Darlene St. Clair is Director of the Multicultural Resource Center at St. Cloud State University, which provides services and resources for students, faculty and community members to research, teach about, and broaden their knowledge of historically excluded racial and ethnic groups of color in the United States. She is also a visiting professor...
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Shea, Peter
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St. Clair, Darlene
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2015-05-01
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cristina Pippa completed her B.A. at Columbia University and her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship to participate in Sundance Theatre Lab. Cristina is one of the first Artists in Residence at the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, NY,...
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Shea, Peter
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Pippa, Cristina
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2016-04-15
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Michal Hvorecký, born in 1976, is a writer, translator and director of the library at the Goethe Institute in Bratislava. He has published several books, including Dunaj v Amerike (Danube in America) in 2010, which has been translated to English in collaboration with Profs. Eva Hudecová (U Minnesota – Twin Cities) and Mark Lencho (U Wisconsin – ...
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Shea, Peter
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Hvorecký, Michal
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2015-04-11
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ot√°vio Bueno is a professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he is also Chair of the Philosophy Department. "Most of my work focuses on philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. I have been trying to develop an empiricist view about science that is compatible with a nominalist view about mathemati...
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Shea, Peter
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Bueno, Ot√°vio
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2016-02-11
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ryan Hill and Heather Stone talk about their involvement with Sandbox Theatre, and its production process, starting without a script and developing the play by communal inquiry and creative experimentation. They also describe their production for the 2009 Fringe Festival.
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Shea, Peter
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Hill, Ryan| Stone, Heather
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2009-07-30
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The late Jerry Blue was a senior librarian for Hennepin County and a renowned storyteller. He died in October 2014. In this interview, he talks about how he came to tell stories and how he helped others to tell their own.
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Shea, Peter
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Blue, Jerry
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2014-08-11
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Matteo Convertino is Assistant Professor in the UMN School of Public Health’s Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and Principal Investigator of the HumNat Lab for Analysis, Modeling and Management of Complex Biological and Socio-technical Systems.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Convertino, Matteo
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2015-09-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Norbert Finzsch (Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. His project concerns "The End of Slavery, the Role of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the Introduction of Sharecropping in the American South, 1863 to 1880". In this interview, he discusses controversies around the ratification o...
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Shea, Peter
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Finzsch, Norbert
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2014-10-29
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Steve LeBeau is Editor in Chief of Minnesota Business Magazine. He has more than 30 years of experience as a producer, writer and editor in radio, television, print and Internet, spanning the fields of journalism, public relations and entertainment. He served in the Communications Office of Governor Jesse Ventura for four years as a speechwriter...
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Shea, Peter
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LeBeau, Steve
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2015-11-02
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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.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Von Drasek, Lisa
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2014-04-01
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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.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fondakowski, Leigh
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2011-12-01
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Catherine Meier's work explores the meaning of "open space" through animation, site-specific installations, and large-scale prints and drawings. Representing a state of mind as well as a state of being, these expansive works are redolent of the artist’s own travels crossing the Great Plains of North America and the Mongolian Steppe where her e...
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Shea, Peter
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Meier, Catherine
Created:
2014-04-02
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ron Reed, now deceased, was a Professor of Philosophy and Education and Director of the Analytic Thinking for Children program at Texas Wesleyan University. Probably his best known book is Rebecca, a text named after his daughter and used around the world to stimulate philosophizing by children.
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Shea, Peter
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Reed, Ron
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2005-12-01
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bron Taylor is Professor of Religion, Nature, and Environmental Ethics at the University of Florida, and a Carson Fellow of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich Germany. His research involves both ethnographic and historical methods, and much of it focuses on grassroots environmental movements, their emotional, spiritua...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Taylor, Bron
Created:
2015-04-30
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Jürgen Kocka is Permanent Fellow at re:work International Research Center. The center investigates the history of relations between work and life course, between the images of work and the images of the life course;between rules guiding work and labour on the one hand, and the patterns which structure the life course and its phases on...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kocka, Jürgen
Created:
2014-10-29
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Salah Ammo, Kurdish musician, talks about his path to musicianship, his childhood experiences of nature, and his family. He talks about Syria's many layers of cultural history, his Kurdish background, and his life and music in Damascus and Vienna. He mentions his son's experience of moving from Syria to Vienna.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ammo, Salah
Created:
2014-09-20
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Craig Hassel is Associate Professor of Food Science and Nutrition and Extension Nutritionist at the University of Minnesota. His research explores "issues of food and health with cultural communities holding knowledge that does not correspond with Western science perspectives. This work pivots the culture/science relationship as it repositions s...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hassel, Craig
Created:
2015-11-24
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Brenda Kayzar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of expertise include downtown revitalization, housing provision, and environmental justice.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kayzar, Brenda
Created:
2016-01-15
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cletus Wessels made his profession as a Dominican friar in 1951, followed by his ordination as a priest in 1957. He held a doctorate in systematic theology from St. Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and his thesis was published as The Mother of God: Her Physical Maternity in 1964. During his concluding years of ministry, Cletus wrote two books: ...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wessels, Cletus
Created:
2006-06-28
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Diana Eicher is MCAD’s Printshop and Paper Studio Coordinator and has taught at the University of Hawaii, the Honolulu Printmaking Workshop, the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, the Bloomington Art Center, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the Textile Center of Minnesota. She was also a convener of the 2015-16 IAS Bee Arts Collaborative.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Eicher, Diana
Created:
2015-09-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 16/16 of Oil and Water. Barry Lehrman is Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Lehrman, Barry
Created:
2010-12-06
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 8/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues ...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-10-25
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 4/16 of Oil and Water. Zygmunt Plater was chair of Alaska's Legal Task Force following the Exxon Valdez disaster. He is currently Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwate...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Plater, Zygmunt
Created:
2010-09-22
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 7/16 of Oil and Water. Juliet Schor is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement ...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Schor, Juliet
Created:
2010-10-06
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 14/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Part 6/16 of Oil and Water. In the wake of one of the largest environmental disasters in United States history, this course explores the many problems and paradoxes associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. This course meets the Technology and Society Liberal Education requirement by exploring not only the technical and scientific issues ...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Gilmer, Robert
Created:
2010-10-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Will Weaver‘s debut novel was Red Earth, White Earth, about a native Minnesotan returning to his home town due to conflicts between white farmers and local Native Americans. It was made into a CBS-TV movie in 1989. His 1989 short story collection, A Gravestone Made of Wheat and Other Stories, won many awards, including the Minnesota Book Award...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Weaver, Will
Created:
2014-04-06
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
John Jodzio‘s work has been featured in a variety of places including This American Life, McSweeney’s, and One Story. He’s the author of the short story collections Get In If You Want To Live and If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home and the forthcoming Knockout (Soft Skull Press, Spring 2016).
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jodzio, John
Created:
2015-09-11
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Andreas Eckert is Director of re:work International Research Center, Berlin. The center investigates the history of relations between work and life course, between the images of work and the images of the life course;between rules guiding work and labour on the one hand, and the patterns which structure the life course and its phases o...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Eckert, Andreas
Created:
2014-11-05
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Samantha Bohrman is a writer based in Northeast Minneapolis: "Shortly after graduating from law school, I had three children and began writing novels. I have never looked back, though I suspect my husband has. When I’m not writing you can probably find me at Target forgetting to buy broccoli and shopping for scarves I don’t need. If it’s a...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bohrman, Samantha
Created:
2016-02-19
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Hong-Ming Liang, Ph.D., is Chief Editor of The Middle Ground Journal: World History and Global Studies and Assistant Professor of History and Politics at The College of St. Scholastica, in Duluth. He teaches and studies world history, Asian history, Taiwanese history and politics, human rights, global history and politics, nationalism and nation...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Liang, Hong-Ming
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2014-04-03
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Naomi Scheman is Professor of Philosophy and Gender Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, and a guest researcher at the Umeå Centre for Gender Studies in Sweden. She received her BA from Barnard College and her PhD from Harvard University. Her research interests include politics of epistemology, feminist theory, and trustw...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Scheman, Naomi
Created:
2016-04-18
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shane D. Courtland is the managing director of the Center for Free Enterprise at West Virginia University. His main research interests lie in three different areas: political philosophy, ethical theory and applied ethics. With Gerald Gaus, he is the author of the entry on Liberalism in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His reviews have ap...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Courtland, Shane
Created:
2014-04-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
obert Wallace is an evolutionary biologist and public health phylogeographer. His blog, Farming Pathogens, follows agriculture, infections, evolution, ecological resilience, dialectical biology, and the practice of science. His current work explores the evolution and economics of avian influenza;this interview was filmed at the St. Paul State Fa...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Wallace, Robert
Created:
2015-07-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Martin Balluch is an Austrian physicist, philosopher, and prominent animal rights activist. He co-founded the Austrian Vegan Society in 1999, and has been president of the Austrian Association Against Animal Factories (Verein Gegen Tierfabriken) since 2002. Writing about his work in Austria, Balluch says activism has given Austria animal protect...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Balluch, Martin
Created:
2014-08-21
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Norbert Hintersteininger is a software designer for breeding software for rare domestic animals and a preserver of rare breeds in Sankt Thomas am Blasenstein.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hintersteininger, Norbert
Created:
2014-09-24
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Stacy Alaimo talks about transcorporeality, an awareness of the body in material reality, as it relates to environmental health, monster movies, and human interactions.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Alaimo, Stacy
Created:
2009-11-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Katharina Hagenhofer is a graduate student in organic agriculture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, studying the mechanisms by which young people acquire land or access to land for farming.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Hagenhofer, Katharina
Created:
2014-08-21
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Garciagodoy, Juanita
Created:
2006-06-28
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Professor Hans Bertram (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) is a Fellow at re:work International Research Center. His research concerns "Work-Life Balance. Comparing Japan and Germany".
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Bertram, Hans
Created:
2014-11-04
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Morris, Christopher
Created:
2015-04-08
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Paul Hillmer is director of the Hmong Oral History Project and Professor of History at Concordia University. He is author of A People’s 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
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ann Treacy has a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science and has worked extensively with the Internet since 1995. As a former librarian, she is interested in making information accessible to more users -- by improving the pipes that the information travels through as well as improving organization of information. Towards that end, s...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Treacy, Ann
Created:
2014-04-07
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Carolyn Halliday is a textile and sculpture artist based in Northeast Minneapolis, who manipulates natural materials using fiber techniques to create work centered around the themes of nature, the body, ecology, and evolution.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Halliday, Caroline
Created:
2015-09-18
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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
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
This oral history session with former Swede Hollow residents took place at Metropolitan State University on October 28, 1995, organized by the Friends of Swede Hollow.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Sanchelli, Joseph; Sanchelli, Michael
Created:
1995-10-28
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thia Cooper is Associate Professor in Religion, Latin American Studies, Peace Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College. Her teaching and research interests include theology and liberation, theology and development, faith and practice in faith-based aid agencies, non-western Christianities, and religion in Lat...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Cooper, Thia
Created:
2014-04-30
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Douglas Huff is a Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College, and a professionally produced playwright. His philosophical interests have focused on a variety of problems in virtue ethics, philosophy of religion, and issues raised by Wittgenstein.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Huff, Douglas
Created:
2006-10-01
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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.
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Galt, Margot
Created:
2014-04-18
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cathy Jordan, PhD, LP, pediatric neuropsychologist by training, is an associate professor in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota. She is also an Extension Specialist in the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Community Vitality. Cathy has two primary are...
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Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Jordan, Cathy
Created:
2015-12-14
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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
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University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
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.
Peg Meier has written seven books about Minnesotans, past and present. She was an award-winning reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune for 35 years before happily retiring in 2006. At the newspaper, she wrote mostly about ordinary Minnesotans who told her their extraordinary stories. Meier also found stories about Minnesota history, presented...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Meier, Peg
Created:
2014-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
