The Longboat – 2010-2011 Issue

The Longboat Charting the Course of Fellows of The 2010-2011 American-Scandinavian Foundation

An ASF Update from the President or 100 years, the ASF has provided sup- In more recent years, the ASF has become known for Fport across a vast spectrum of initia- its cultural programming at Scandinavia House. This tives which have together advanced the fall, Scandinavia House celebrated its 10th anniver- CONTENTS understanding of Scandinavian arts, culture, sary of presenting the best of the art, culture, and LETTER FROM PRESIDENT 1 and thought. This work has built bonds of thought of Scandinavia to audiences old and new. And our programs will soon reach our national and TRANSLATION COMPETITION 2 friendship, bringing the peoples of the two regions closer together. international members through the web as we begin VISITING LECTURESHIP 3 to broadcast programs and symposia online.

ASF AT SOM FELLOWSHIP 4 As we kick off our Centennial Year, it is interesting to think back to the world as it As we look to the next century, the mission of the ASF FELLOWS 5 existed at the time of the ASF’s founding. ASF remains as relevant and as important to these

COOPERATING OFFICES 12 Scandinavia then consisted of Denmark, times as it was at its founding. Fellowship fund- Norway, and Sweden, though Finland ing continues to be an integral source of support SUPPORT THE ASF 13 would be independent within the decade. for the next generation of scholars and scientists, Organizations dedicated to multi-national particularly in light of the ASF’s willingness to fund cooperation were virtually non-existent, and the interdisciplinary post-graduate study that many the idea of creating a private organization other funds cannot cover. to promote educational exchange between the United States and a group of foreign Despite changes in technology that make the work countries was new and untried. It was a time of scholars and artists in Scandinavia globally and of rapid development in science, mathemat- instantaneously accessible, the need for a champion ics, and global exploration, yet there was a continues. The Nordic countries have taken the lead widespread lack of information in the United on many issues – climate change, the health of our States on the arts, culture, and thought of polar regions and oceans, sustainable development, Scandinavia. and the status of women are just a few. The ASF’s role as liaison and advocate for communication, In the intervening years, the ASF has gone collaboration, and exchange between the U.S. and on to build a very diverse program of Scandinavia remains vital as these issues and more educational and cultural exchange that has enter the global dialogue. benefited some 30,000 individuals. This year alone, the ASF has supported 67 fellows and The Centennial of the ASF provides the opportunity 45 public projects through its grant program. to look back with pride, and to set the organization’s And over 200 interns and trainees have course for the next century as we continue the work received ASF support in obtaining visas and begun by our founding visionaries over a century work placements. The ASF is also recognized ago. for its distinguished publications, most nota- bly Scandinavian Review, which reaches over 4,000 individuals. Edward P. Gallagher ASF President

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2The ASF Translation Competition

The Board of Trustees of The American-Scandinavian Foundation announced that Steven Finney from Grand Forks, North Da- kota, has been awarded the 31st annual ASF Translation Prize for his translation of Into the Mountain (Bergtatt), a short story by Norwegian author Ingvar Ambjørnsen (b. 1956.)

The judges praised the translation and made the following comments about Mr. Finney’s work. “The translator’s keen ear for realistic dialogue and his ability to match the clear, crisp style of the original narrative produced an English translation that captures the natural flow of this story by one of Norway’s best contemporary writers. Through his deft rendering of both the colloquial dialogue and the somber background atmosphere, the translator succeeds in capturing the shifting moods of the characters as well as the air of eerie suspense that permeates the story. ” As winner, Mr. Finney will receive a cash prize, a bronze medallion, and publication of an excerpt of his translation in Scandina- vian Review, the illustrated journal published by the ASF.

Two translation prizes are offered each year by the ASF: the ASF Translation Prize, and the Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award, which recognizes distinguished effort by a translator who has not previously published a literary translation. Since 1980, the work of nearly 50 translators has been recognized through the ASF translation competition. The ASF translation prizes are awarded annually for the best translation of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose originally written in a Nordic language by a Scandinavian author born after 1800. Longboat 2010-2011 3

ASF Visting Lectureship 3

2010 - 2011

From Sweden

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL The Scandinavian Program of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures hosted Dr. Gunlög Sundberg (Stockholm University), Fall Semester 2010. Thord-Gray Memorial Fund, $25,000.

The University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign’s Scandinavian Program in the Department of Germanic Lan- guages and Literatures hosted Dr. Gunlög Sundberg during the fall 2010 semester. Dr. Sundberg is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Scandinavian Languages at Stockholm University. She holds higher degrees from Stockholm University and the University of Indiana. At Illinois, Dr. Sundberg’s teaching obligations included teaching a course about contemporary multiculturalism in Sweden as well as guest presentations to an Advanced Swedish class. She contributed her research on multicultural workplace communication to a range of units and research groups concerning the idea of representativity in the public sector in a multilingual and multicultural society. She also participated in a weekly interdisciplinary and campus-wide multicultural applied linguistics seminar. In addition, Dr. Sundberg had the opportunity to attend the annual Swedish Teacher’s Conference in North America, hosted by the Swedish Institute in fall 2010.

Through the ASF’s Visiting Lectureship program, American universities and colleges can apply for funding to host a Norwegian or Swedish lecturer for an appointment of one semester falling within an academic year. The terms of the award include a $20,000 teaching/research stipend, $5,000 stipend for lecture-related travel with the U.S. and a 6-month visa sponsorship for the lecturer. The lecturer is expected to teach at least one course in the social sciences, either at the graduate or undergraduate level, with a concentration in one of five areas: public policy, conflict resolution, health care, environmental studies, and multiculturalism. The award is appropriate for any department or interdisciplinary program with an interest in incorporating a Scandinavian focus into its course offerings. The ASF encourages consideration of the practitioner as well as the academic as a lectureship candidate. Longboat 2010-2011 4

4ASF AT SOM Fellowship

2010 SOM Fellowship

Eva Haggrén was born in Espoo, Finland in 1981. She started her studies in Architecture at the University of Oulu in 2003. Prior her architecture studies she took classes in art and photography. She received her master's degree with distinction in Architecture in Fall 2010 and she has participated with success in several domestic and international student competitions. Her first realized project was the linoleum manufacturer Forbo's undulating fair stand at the Stockholm Furniture Fair in 2007, designed after her winning proposal forthe Nordic student competition "A New Look at Linoleum" in Spring 2006.

In the process of her studies Eva realized that she has a special interest in the relationship between natural daylight and architecture. During her last semesters she concentrated in the physics of light, its possibilities in architecture and the experiential qualities in the relationship between space and light. Her diploma work ”Space for Light and Nature- Landscape pavilion to Nuuksio National Park” was based on these themes.

Eva Haggrén received the ASF AT SOM Fellowship 2010. After receiving her master's degree she moved from Helsinki to New York and started working as an intern in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. The initial three months' internship has been extended and she continued her work at SOM, until Spring 2011, when she was granted 21,000 € by the Finnish Cultural Foundation to develop her thesis as realized project. Her theses was also nominated for Gerda and Salomo Wuorio Prize, prize given for the best diploma work each year in Finland.

The American-Scandinavian Foundation | Annika Teig | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Fellowship (ASF AT SOM Fellowship), honors the memory of Annika Teig, a former Associate at SOM. SOM and ASF accept applications from post-graduates and mid-career architects holding Scandinavian citizenship seeking experience in interior design at a leading architecture firm in New York City.

Awards are granted to those individuals from Scandinavia who have or are currently studying architecture, and have submitted a portfolio found promising by a review panel selected by SOM. Fellows are awarded a three-month, paid internship at SOM's New York office on Wall Street. Working with estab- lished project teams at SOM, Fellows will be involved in the day-to-day planning and design of SOM's numerous projects. Longboat 2010-2011 5 5 ASF Fellows FROM DENMARK Konrad Smiarowski, from CUNY Nathan Wales, from the Univer- Graduate School and University sity of Connecticut, $22,000 Søren-Filip Hansen, to Queens Center, $21,000 College, $3,000 Mr. Wales utilized the special Mr. Smiarowski’s project was a equipment at the Centre for Geo- Mr. Hansen studied clarinet under multi-disciplinary investigation Genetics to isolate and interpret Mr. Charles Neidich at the Aaron of the medieval Norse Eastern ancient DNA from plant remains Copeland School of Music Settlement and the interaction from archaeological sites in Arme- at Queens College. of its subsistence and exchange nia and Denmark. economies on local and regional Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, to the scales in the North Atlantic re- FROM FINLAND University of California, Berkeley, gion. His research was conducted Denmark $16,000 in both Denmark and Greenland. Eero Puurunen, to the Yale School Finland of Architecture, $12,000 Mr. Jørgensen spent an academic Jennifer Stob, from Yale Univer- Iceland year studying Biology at the Uni- sity, $2,000 Mr. Puurunen pursued a Master of Norway versity of California, Berkeley. His Environmental Design from the Sweden focus was on biological responses Ms. Stob conducted dissertation Yale School of Architecture. His to environmental change. research on Danish artist Asger focus was on sustainability at the Jorn and the Situationist Interna- urban scale and on methods of TO DENMARK tional. She used the archives of quantifying urban greenhouse gas Jorn’s work at Silkeborg Museum emissions. Noel Adams, from Marquette of Art to gain insight into his roles University, $14,000 in the Situationist International and as a painter, philosopher, Dr. Adams conducted research on participant and patron of the the extent to which the work of avant-garde. Søren Kierkegaard was influenced by arguments and conceptual David Tanenbaum, from Pomona commitments of the thinkers College, $10,000 belonging to an early to mid 19th century movement in Germany Dr. Tanenbaum researched the Eero Puurunen called “mediation theology.” use of graphene, a new material for transparent electrodes in poly- Ville Vokkolainen, to the New Christopher Lee McGowin, from mer solar cells, with Dr. Frederik England Conservatory, $12,000 Louisiana State University Health Krebs at the Danish National Science Center, New Orleans, Energy Laboratories, Risø DTU. Mr. Vokkolainen began a Master’s $5,000 program at the New England Con- servatory, studying contemporary Dr. McGowin conducted research classical music and the possibili- with Dr. Jørgen Jensen on an ties of improvisation based music emerging sexually transmitted with electric guitar. pathogen, mycoplasm genitalium. The purpose was to test the hy- pothesis that antibodies specific to MgPa proteins can induce rapid genetic changes ultimately facili- tating antigenic variation. Nathan Wales 6Longboat 2010-2011 6 Lauren Elisabeth Holmes, from Berglind Gísladóttir, to Columbia Yale University, $3,000 University, $4,500

Ms Holmes conducted dissertation Ms. Gísladóttir continued in a PhD research at the Sibelius Academy program in Mathematics Educa- in Helsinki. Her dissertation ex- tion at Teachers College at Colum- plored the complex relationships bia University, that she began in between Finnish nationalism, 2009. The aim of her research was Terhi Lintukangas contemporary music, and politi- to explain which characteristics of cal policy, seeking to determine the mathematics teacher have a Terhi Lintukangas, to Pace Univer- how the music of Finland has been positive effect on student achieve- sity, $20,000 shaped by its politics and how ment. Finnish identity and politics have Ms. Lintukangas pursued a Mas- been shaped by music. Kári Helgason, to University of ter’s degree in Method Acting at Maryland, $4,500 Pace University’s Actors Studio FROM ICELAND Drama School. She has been Mr. Helgason continued in a PhD working as a puppeteer, puppet- Anna Björk Einarsdóttir, to the program in Astronomy at the Uni- theater director, playwright and University of California, Davis, versity of Maryland, that he began teacher of puppetry since 2003. $4,500 in 2008. His research had been largely carried out at the NASA TO FINLAND Ms. Einarsdóttir continued her Goddard Space Flight Center with doctoral studies in Comparative Dr. Alexander Kashlinsky. His re- Alex Freeman, from Carleton Col- Literature at the University of Cali- search focused on computer simu- lege, $7,500 fornia, Davis, which she began in lating cosmic infrared background 2009. The focus of her studies was radiation (CIB) and future James Dr. Freeman transcribed the a comparative study of contem- Webb Space Telescope (JWST) works of Finnish composer Armas porary American, Latin American observations. Launis and produced a score for and Scandinavian literatures. his chamber composition “Suite Halla Hrund Logadóttir, to Tufts Orientale,” which exists only in his Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir, to Bard University, $4,500 original manuscript and has never College, $4,500 been performed. While in Helsinki Ms. Logadóttir began in the he also collaborated with the Tapi- Ms. Gestsdóttir began an inter- Master’s program in International ola Choir on a new composition. diciplinary MFA program in Film Relations at the Fletcher School of at Bard College. Her program Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Uni- Paul Niemisto, from St. Olaf Col- focused on time based mediums, versity. Her focus was on Interna- lege, $3,000 film and video within the field of tional Business and Economic Law Fine Art. Her studies included film and International Commercial and Dr. Niemisto’s project involved installation, experimental film- Trade Policies. editing 19th Century Finnish brass making, and poetic storytelling. band scores and producing the first audio recordings of this rep- ertoire with the help of the Finnish military bands. This project was also part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Guard’s band in Helsinki. Kári Helgason Longboat 2010-2011 7

Ingvar Sigurjónsson, to Brandeis Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, to the natural topography and variously7 University, $4,500 University of California, San Diego, populated landscapes of Iceland $4,500 as geographical and historical Mr. Sigurjónsson began a MA locations, as well as agents that program in International Econom- Ms. Thorvaldsdóttir pursued a PhD intimately affect human experi- ics and Finance at the Interna- in Music Composition from UC San ence. tional Business School at Brandeis Diego. Her studies included writ- University. His research focused ing music and analyzing pieces of FROM NORWAY on economic globalization. music from various periods. Arne Nikolai Bech, to Stanford University, $10,000

Mr. Bech studied Electrical Engi- neering at Stanford University. He focused his research on areas related to computer science, design and human psychology.

Tryggvi Thorgeirsson Kjell Bech, to San Francisco State University, $8,500 Tryggvi Thorgeirsson, to Harvard School of Public Health, $4,500 Mr. Bech continued his studies in Anna Thorvaldsdóttir Structural & Earthquake Engineer- Mr. Thorgeirsson began a Master’s ing at San Francisco State Univer- of Public Health program at the Ísold Uggadóttir, to Columbia sity, where his studies focused on Harvard School of Public Health. University, $4,500 how to safely build and retrofit His main area of research was structures in areas of high seismic prostate cancer. Ms. Uggadóttir continued in a activity. MFA program at Columbia Univer- Vidar Thorsteinsson, to Ohio sity, which she began in 2008. Her Audun Dahl, to the University of State University, $4,500 focus was on writing and directing California, Berkeley, $10,000 film. Mr. Thorsteinsson began PhD- Ms Dahl began a PhD program directed studies at Ohio State TO ICELAND in Developmental Psychology University, where his studies ex- at the University of California in plored how contemporary works Samuel Eli-Curits Pittman, from 2008. Her studies focused on of fiction portray the relationship the University of Pittsburgh, $4,700 early moral, social and emotional between new productive practices development. and labor. Mr. Pittman worked on a creative investigation of the relations amongst the landscape of Iceland, the human body, and poetic sub- jectivity. This manuscript of poetry aimed to portray the unique Support the ASF The American-Scandinavian Foundation depends on its supporters and donors to make the difference! Finan- cial contributions from donors like you help the ASF continue its work to promote international understanding through educational and cultural exchange between the United States and the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Gifts to the ASF help ensure that we remain strong for the future and that we are able to continue and expand our programming at Scandinavia House and around the country. For more information on how to support The American-Scandinavian Foundation, please contact the ASF Development Department at (212) 847-9715, [email protected] or visit our website http://support.amscan.org Longboat 2010-2011 8

Karine Hektoen, to Columbia Uni- Sara Elisabeth Sellevold Orn- 8 versity, $20,000 ing, to the University of California, Santa Cruz, $14,000 Ms. Hektoen studied International Affairs at Columbia University, Ms. Orning worked towards a PhD where she focused on Internation- in Literature at UC, Santa Cruz. al Economics and Finance. She focused on the connection between “body” and “mind” in Gunn Fedreheim Tarjei Helland, to the American critical theory, film, literature and University, $6,000 philosophy. Gunn Elin Fedreheim, to Indiana University, $10,000 Mr. Helland pursued a Master’s in Trygve Ottersen, to Harvard Uni- International Politics from Ameri- versity, $15,000 Ms Fedreheim attended the Work- can University’s School of Interna- shop in Political Theory and Policy tional Service, where he focused Mr. Ottersen researched resource Analysis at Indiana University to on the link between education, scarcity and the inevitability of gain an interdisciplinary under- human rights and democracy. rationing in health care as part of standing of institutions, incentives the Harvard Program in Ethics and and behavior as they related to Sofia Hussain, to Stanford Univer- Health as a visiting scholar. policy-relevant applications. sity, $16,000 Frode Saugestad, to Harvard Ole Johan Gillebo, to Columbia Ms. Hussain researched product University, $20,000 University, $20,000 development for children with disabilities at Stanford University’s Dr. Saugestad’s research inves- Mr. Gillebo started a MBA pro- Motion and Gait Analysis Lab at tigated the creation of personal, gram at Columbia University’s Lucille Packard Children’s Hospi- cultural and national identity in Graduate School of Business and tal. post-independence Morocco and School of International and Public to what extent this was articulated Affairs. Tor Bjørn Jorfald, to the University in the Arabophone novel. of Colorado, Denver, $5,000 Monica Hanssen, to Georgetown University, $20,000 Mr. Jorfald pursued a Master of Ar- chitecture degree, specializing in Ms. Hanssen pursued a Master’s environmentally friendly design. in Public Policy from Georgetown University, where she focused on Tom Christian Jovik, to the Uni- micro and macro economics, sta- versity of Pennsylvania, Wharton tistics and public management. School, $18,000 Sille Storihle

Rune Gjøringbø Haugseng, to Mr. Jovik enrolled in an MBA pro- Sille Storihle, to the California Massachusetts Institute of Technol- gram at the University of Pennsyl- Institute of the Arts, $20,000 ogy, $20,000 vania’s Wharton School of Busi- ness, where his studies focused on Ms. Storihle pursued at Master of Mr. Haugseng began his second Finance and Entrepreneurship. Fine Arts focusing on the complex year of a PhD program in Math- interrelationship between art and ematics at MIT, where his research Narges Kaynia, to the University the public sphere. focused on algebraic topology. of California, Berkeley, $15,000

Ms. Kaynia worked towards a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Norwegian University of Sci- ence and Technology. Longboat 2010-2011 9

Andreas Anderssen Tjeldflaat, Professional Development Grants: 9 to the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, $18,000 Tor Magne Handeland, to Park Nicollet Methodist CPE Center Mr. Tjeldflaat began a three-year Study of Clinical Pastoral Educa- Master’s program in Architecture tion, Minneapolis, MN. Profession- at the University of Pennsylvania. al Development Award, $3,000 Mr. Handeland entered a Clini- Anita Valrygg, to the Southern cal Pastor Education Supervisory California Institute of Architecture, Training Program at Park Nicollet $6,000 Methodist CPE Center. Brendan Faegre Ms. Valrygg pursued a Master of Architecture degree at the South- Brendan Faegre, from Indiana ern California Institute of Archi- University, $14,600 tecture, where she researched different methods to approach Mr. Faegre began a Master’s de- and think about architecture. gree program in Music Composi- tion, studying under the guidance Kato Waage, to the University of of Lasse Thoresen, at the Norwe- Kansas, $10,000 gian School of Music.

Mr. Waage began a PhD program Rennesa Osterberg, from Uni- in Political Science/International Terje Joranger versity of Washington, Seattle, Relations at the University of $23,000 Kansas. His studies focused on Terje Joranger, Guest Lecturer, understanding and influencing Sogn og Fjordane District College, Ms. Osterberg conducted disser- how to better utilize military force Norway. St. Olaf College, MN. tation research on contemporary when employed in international Professional Development Award:, Norwegian literature at the Uni- operations. $3,000 versity of Oslo and the National Library of Norway. She investigat- Jonas Weltan, to Tufts University, Mr. Joranger researched migra- ed the undercurrent of metanar- $5,000 tion and ethnic history, exploring rative, focusing on authors Hanne retention and assimilation of Nor- Ørstavik, Lars Saabye Christensen Mr. Weltan enrolled in a two-year wegian cultural traditions among and Dag Solstad. Master in International Relations Norwegian immigrants and their program at the Fletcher School of offspring. Bethany Peterson, from Univer- Law and Diplomacy at Tufts Uni- sity of Missouri, Columbia, $2,800 versity. His studies focused on the TO NORWAY increased Chinese involvement in Ms. Peterson conducted disserta- the developing world. Christina Bisulca, from the Univer- tion research that will also serve sity of Arizona, Tuscon, $5,000 as a basis for her first nonfiction Juliet Jordanos Yemane-Ge- book. Her project consisted of a bremeskel, to the New School for Ms. Bisulca collaborated with series of lyric essays that wrestle Management and Urban Policy, researchers from the Museum with both disappearances and $10,000 of Cultural History on the use of with the question of whether re- inorganic consolidation material covery from disappearance is ever Ms. Yemane-Gebremeskel pur- to render fragile artifacts stronger. possible. The book is anchored sued a Master’s in Nonprofit Man- She currently works as Objects and framed around the story of agement at the New School for Conservator at the Arizona State the Jostedalsbreen Glacier in Management and Urban Policy. Museum. Norway. 10Longboat 2010-2011 10 Roland Paulsen, to Cornell Univer- FROM SWEDEN sity, New York, $14,500

Olof Dallner, to Rockefeller Uni- Mr. Paulsen conducted disserta- versity, $20,000 tion research with Prof. Richard Swedberg at Cornell University. Dr. Dallner spent one year in Prof. His researched the dynamics of Bethany Peterson Jeffrey Friedman’s laboratory “slackers,” employees who are not at Rockefeller University as a working while at work. Jeremy Schulz, from the Univer- postdoctoral researcher. He in- sity of California, Berkeley, $5,000 vestigated the importance of the Hans Gustav Percivall, to Yale hormone leptin in the context of University, $20,000 Mr. Schulz compared the life obesity and type II diabetes. His experiences and life strategies work will help to find new ways to Mr. Percivall began his fifth year of the Norwegian working class prevent diabetes and its complica- of the PhD program in Art His- and compared the findings with tions. tory. His dissertation research in- a similar study on those similarly vestigated the attitudes towards situated in America. He received a Helena Eva Marie Jung, to Univer- Romantic painting in England MA in Sociology from the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, $16,500 during the 1850s. sity of California in 2002. Ms. Jung enrolled in a doctoral Julia Przedmojska, to New York Michael Straus, Freelance Private program at the University of University, Tisch School of the Arts, Saxophone Instructor, $4,500 California, Berkeley where she $20,000 focused on International Invest- Mr. Straus studied and docu- ment Law. Ms. Przedmojska holds a BA in mented the integration of new Architecture from the University technologies in contemporary of Brighton, UK. She pursued an Norwegian saxophone music. This MFA in Set Design from New York research was coupled and assisted University. by a three month association with NoTAM and attendance at the ten Clara Theresa Vincent, to Weill day Ultima Contemporary Music Medical College of Cornell Univer- Festival in Oslo. sity, $20,000

Gregory Thielker, Independent Dr. Vicent’s research focused on Artist, $4,900 the early steps of the metastatic process, the identity of the circu- Mr. Thielker created a series of Kristin Ljungkvist lating cells involved and the sig- drawings along several of Nor- nals controlling these processes. way’s Tourist Routes, centered Kristin Ljungkvist, to Fordham along the Geiranger-Trollstigen University, $14,000 Karl Westerling, to The Gradu- area in western Norway. He was ate Center, City University of New invited by Mari Hvattum and Ms. Ljungkvist spent six months York, $20,000 Janike Kampevold Larsen of the at Fordham University conduct- “Routes, Roads, and Landscapes” ing dissertation research on Mr. Westerling conducted disser- project of the Oslo School of Ar- global cities, contemporary urban tation research on the contempo- chitecture and Design. politics and urban governance and rary drag scene in New York City. management. Longboat 2010-2011 11

Benjamin Martin, from San Fran- Alyssa Joyce, from The University TO SWEDEN cisco State University, $4,000 of British Columbia,11 $5,000

Christopher Ray Bishop, from the Dr. Martin spent two months as Dr. Joyce studied the develop- University of Wisconsin-Madison, a visiting scholar at the Dept. of ment of the shellfish aquaculture $22,000 History of Uppsala University to industry in Scandinavia, focusing research Sweden’s participation in on the innovation and supply-side Mr. Bishop conducted historical the pan-European cultural system management of underutilized and ethnographic fieldwork on created in the 1930s and during resources. the student nations at Uppsala WWII to support Hitler’s European University, analyzing the evolving empire. identities of groups that date back to the mid-1600s. TO MULTI-COUNTRIES

Benjamin Danforth, from the Uni- Andrew Bearnot, from Rhode versity of North Carolina, Chapel Island School of Design/Brown Hill, $21,000 University, $17,000

Mr. Danforth conducted an Mr. Bearnot’s project investigated in-depth historical analysis of the artistic and scientific dimen- education and training policies in sion of glass craft in a cultural Sweden in order to identify key context rife with collaboration be- political variables and contextual tween the aesthetic and the tech- conditions that were necessary for nical. While in Sweden he partici- Allen Pope reform during the postwar era. pated in a course at the Kalmar University School of Design and Allen Pope, from Cambridge Uni- Mamie Hyatt, from Boston Univer- a three month internship at the versity, UK, $5,000 sity, $19,000 Swedish Glass Institute in Växjö. In Denmark he performed a three Mr. Pope collected data on full Ms. Hyatt examined the paint- month observation at the Danish spectrum glacier surface reflec- ings of Herbert Gentry, an African Design School in Copenhagen. tance and relevant surface physi- American expatriate, produced cal properties in central Iceland while living in Sweden from Nigel De Juan Hatton, from Stan- and Svalbard’s Brøgger Peninsula, 1965-1976, as well as the African- ford University, Palo Alto, $21,000 to develop a glacier surface clas- American expatriate communities sification scheme which will allow that formed in Sweden between Mr. Hatton conducted post-doc- for better remote glacier monitor- the late 1950s and early 1970s. toral research on two twentieth- ing techniques. century African-American artists, William H. Johnson and Cecil Brown, who fled discriminatory conditions in the US and found creative freedom in Scandinavia. His research took him through Denmark and Norway.

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The ASF’s Fellowship and Grant Program is made possible through the assistance of its sister organizations in Scandinavia. These organizations direct the Scandinavian application process and nominate candidates for awards funded by the ASF. The Foundation acknowledges with gratitude its long-standing affiliation with these organizations.

The Denmark-America Foundation Fiolstræde 24, 3. sal 1171 Copenhagen K Denmark www.daf-fulb.dk

The League of Finnish-American Societies Mechelininkatu 10 A 001 00 Helsinki Finland www.sayl.fi

The Icelandic-American Society Raudarárstigur 25 150 Reykjavík Iceland www.iceam.is

The Norway-America Association Rådhusgaten 23B 0158 Oslo Norway www.noram.no

The Sweden-America Foundation Box 5280 102 46 Stockholm Sweden www.sweamfo.se

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