THE LONGBOAT

NEWSLETTER FOR ASF FELLOWS—1911-2016

2013—2015

—JOAN PERLMAN, ÞINGVELLIR,

Dear Past & Present ASF Fellows,

2013 marked the 101st year of the American – Scan- All of us at ASF are tremendously proud of our Fellowship dinavian Foundation’s Fellowship and Grant Program. and Grant Program and of our Fellows, past and present. In the first year of the program, seven scholars (three We invite you to keep in close touch and share all perti- Americans, two Norwegians, and two Swedes) received nent career updates with us and your fellow Fellows. a total of $1,900 in funding for study abroad. In 2013- 14, sixty-five individuals (twenty-five Americans, two Danes, two Finns, ten Icelanders, nineteen Norwegians, Sincerely, and seven Swedes) received over $675,000.

So we can safely say that as it enters its second century, the ASF Fellowship and Grant Program is alive and well. Edward P. Gallagher In this issue of Longboat, it is possible to see the great ASF President diversity of disciplines and projects represented by our Fellows as well as the institutions with which they are affiliated. It is also possible to see here a brief sampling of the ongoing accomplishments of past Fellows.

PG 2 PG 3 PG 5 PG 6 RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS AN ASF FELLOW REPORTS ASF VISITING LECTURERS ASF TRANSLATION PRIZE BY ASF FELLOWS RECIPIENTS 2 RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS promoted to Full Professor at the University of Illinois at BY ASF FELLOWS Urbana-Champaign.

MILLE GULDBECK, US TO , 1991 & 2006—Ms. Guldbeck had a solo exhibition at Nelimarkka Museum, and was one of 12 artists accepted from the entire Midwest region for the South Bend Museum of Art’s Biennial 28.

ROGER GREENWALD, 1984 & 1990 FELLOW TO , 1991 FELLOW TO —STEPHEN HILYARD, MOUNTAIN I & 1996 ASF TRANSLATION 1ST PRIZE WINNER—Mr. Green- STEPHEN HILYARD, US TO ICELAND, 2007 & 2012 US TO NORWAY, 2012— wald published his second book of poems, Slow Mountain Mr. Hilyard presented an extensive exhibition of his work, Train. He also won the Harold Morton Landon Translation including the entire “Rapture of the Deep” series, “Water- award for Guarding the Air: Selected Poems of Gunnar fall”, and two pieces from “King Wave,” at The Minnesota Harding. North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Marine Art Museum. He also had an exhibition entitled The Jacobsen: A Bilingual Edition, translated and edited by Mr. New Sublime at Phoenix Gallery in Brighton UK. Greenwald, has been issued in paperback by the University of Chicago Press. BRANDON BOOR, US TO FINLAND, 2013—Mr. Boor presented his paper entitled “Crawling-Induced Resuspension of Settled SIMEN JOHAN, US TO ICELAND, 2009—Mr. Johan had a solo Floor Dust” at the Indoor Air 2014 Conference in Hong exhibition co-presented by Bethel University, St Paul and Kong, where he received a Best Student Paper Award. Minneapolis Institute of Art. SIRPA SALENIUS, FINLAND TO US, 2001—Ms. Salenius had her ERIC AHO, US TO FINLAND, 1993 & US TO NORWAY, 2003—Mr. Aho book entitled Rose Elizabeth Cleveland: First Lady and had an exhibition entitled Wilderness Studio at DC Moore Literary Scholar published by Palgrave Macmillan. Gallery, NYC and another exhibition entitled Ice Cuts at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College. CINDY MARI IMAI, US TO ICELAND, 2012—Ms. Imai published her article “Associations between Infant Feeding Practice Prior to Six Months and Body Mass Index at Six Years of Age” in Nutrients — Open Access Human Nutrition Journal.

LESLIE ANDERSON-PERKINS, US TO DENMARK, 2012—Ms. Ander- son-Perkins published an article entitled “The Forgotten

—ALIX W. HENRY Pendant of Christian August Lorentzen’s Model School at the Academy” in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, an ALIX W. HENRY, US TO DENMARK & FINLAND, 2013—Ms. Henry online journal. presented her paper “Learning from Functionalist Nordic WALKER WELLS, US TO SWEDEN, 2012 Mr. Wells published an Houses towards Passive, Active, Adaptable and Prefab- — article entitled “Sweden, the Green Giant” in Planning ricated Homes” at the 7PHN Sustainable Cities and Magazine. Buildings Conference in Denmark. TENLEY BANIK, US TO ICELAND, 2008 & 2014—Ms. Banik published ROBERT DELL, 1999 US TO ICELAND, 1999—Mr. Dell had his an article entitled ”Magma–ice–sediment interactions collected works “Robert Dell papers, 1985-1999” added to and the origin of lava/hyaloclastite sequences in the Síða The Smithsonian as a permanent archive. formation, South Iceland” in the Bulletin of Volcanology. BRENDAN FAEGRE, US TO NORWAY, 2010—Mr. Faegre had one JOAN PERLMAN, US TO ICELAND, 2013 Ms. Perlamn had works of his compositions performed at the Cabrillo Festival of — included in the exhibition IN DIRECT LIGHT at the Nan Rae Contemporary Music and the Lake George Music Festival. Gallery at Woodbury University. New York Youth Symphony has also commissioned a new work from him. MIMMI FULMER, US TO FINLAND, 2009—Ms. Fulmer published the first volume of her Nordic song anthology, “Midnight Sun”, MARION BELANGER, US TO ICELAND, 2006—Haverford College in which includes songs in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Pennsylvania hosted Ms. Belanger’s exhibition Rift/Fault. A Danish from the classical, traditional, and sacred repertoire. book entitled Rift/Fault will be published by Radius Books. Volumes 2 and 3 will be released in 2016. ANNA STENPORT , US TO SWEDEN, 2009—Ms. Stenport was 3 1919, it has been committed to a progressive curriculum, ASF FELLOWS REPORT stressing cosmopolitanism rather than nationalism, and a free and democratic way of conducting academic THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND research - rather than one of censorship or suppression. THE DEMOCRATIC TRADITION—BY BENJAMIN ASK It is this committment which led to the founders breach POPP-MADSEN with during the First World War. From In Denmark we often pride ourselves on our democratic 1933 on, The New School was renamed University in Exile tradition. We have one of the highest electoral turnouts as many German and French Jews were brought from a in national and local elections; and parents and other war-torn, anti-Semitic to teach at The New School, stakeholders, often govern schools, daycare centers, and which resulted in a unique combination of American and civil societal organizations. Furthermore, the political European democratic thought. In short, The New School debate often centers on different ways of linking —at least for me—stood in both theory and praxis as the ‘Danishness’ to a certain democratic way of life: if you can ultimate advocate for the democratic ideal. prove that your way of defining ‘Danishness’ has certain Having spent a year at The New School with the impressive democratic content, your argument will often be seen as support of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, to well founded. which I am truly grateful, I must admit that I am extremely and positively surprised by the school’s intellectual environment, its commitment to urgent political issues, and its conviction that democratic thought has something significant to tell us about the problems we face today.

Even though I cannot claim to have solved the paradox —BENJAMIN ASK POPP-MADSEN between democratic pride and the lack of participation and interest in politics that I outlined earlier, my studies But, at the same time, the political parties are continuously at The New School have certainly provided me with losing members, people are less engaged in NGOs; a useful insight into the questions surrounding democratic profound lack of interest in politics and disgust with engagement. politicians is spreading. First of all, democracy is not limited to the possibility of This is not only a Danish phenomenon. I take it to be a voting every four years, and participation in the selection general diagnosis of the democratic culture of most of one’s leaders. It is also the ability to govern directly. Western societies. The political scientist Robert Putnam This was characteristic of a revolutionary 19th-century has, for example, analyzed the lack of political and civic America, when people, through town-hall meetings, engagement in America. For Putnam, American democratic conventions, and extensive public debate, to a large degree culture—which has always been characterized by an governed themselves by a means of direct democratic extraordinary level of public participation since it was institutions. One explanation for today’s lack of political first assessed by Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in engagement and distrust in politicians is that when America—has lost its vitality. The political act has lost ordinary people lose the possibility of self-rule, when the its intrinsic worth, and the importance of a personal distance from everyday problems to political decisions commitment to civil society has lost its obviousness. becomes too vast, politics is regarded as something our Instead—and this applies to Denmark and most European representatives do and not something we all do. When countries as well—people live their lives in private, behind the political system does not regard the opinion and the privet hedge. participation of ordinary people as valuable, democracy is To understand this paradox—the pride in our democratic seen as burdensome and difficult and politics as dirty and traditions and our aspirations to spread this type of technical. government to other countries (Denmark was a part of Returning to Denmark, I take with me the conviction that the coalition of the willing in both Iraq and Afghanistan) in order to give back democracy its true meaning—that is on the one hand, and the lack of participation in and government by the people—we have to divide the political commitment to these democratic traditions on the space into smaller, more equal communities that allow other—I went to study democratic theory at The New for more direct political participation. I certainly found School for Social Research. My choice of university was no such a community at The New School, and that leaves me coincidence. Ever since The New School was founded in with great optimism for the democratic ideal and with 4 great gratitude for the opportunities with which ASF has heavily underutilized despite almost a century of research, provided me. is due to the fact that the complex lignin biopolymer has not successfully been selectively depolymerized into Benjamin Ask Popp-Madsen, ASF Fellow 2012-2013, its smaller, higher-value components. That is, scientists University of Copenhagen and The New School for Social can’t separate the lignin polymer from the other biomass Research components. It is these smaller components that make up CONVERTING BIOMASS INTO A FEEDSTOCK FOR RENEWABLE the polymer that could potentially serve as a feedstock for FUELS AND CHEMICALS—BY MAGNUS JOHNSON renewable fuels and chemicals. To simply degrade lignin is not difficult, as it can be achieved by simply applying heat, though this typically generates a complex mixture of tars and chars. The challenge lies in the fact that a successful valorization process would require a highly selective depolymerization that would generate a homogeneous product mixture consisting of similar components. This could be achieved by selective cleavage of the carbon to

—MAGNUS JOHNSON oxygen bonds that make up the core of the lignin polymer.

The world is facing a significant challenge when it comes The general idea of how to efficiently convert and valorize to finding new raw materials or feedstock for energy. biomass is considered to be through catalysis. Catalysis is Modern infrastructure is largely based on fossil fuels, and the ability to increase the rate of a reaction by the addition this is the source of many of the environmental issues we of a catalyst that ideally is not itself consumed during the are concerned with today. Therefore, chemists work hard process. In other words, by using a catalyst, the energy to find new feedstocks for renewable fuel production. input required (typically heat) for a reaction to start taking The importance of sustainable resources is anticipated place, can be significantly reduced. This is essential when to increase significantly during the next few decades. As working with biomaterials as these often decompose in reserves of fossil materials steadily decrease, biomass is high temperatures, which often drastically reduces the increasingly important as a raw material for the renewable yield of the valuable products in a valorization process. production of fuels and chemicals. Generally, catalysis can be divided into three categories, In 2005, the European Union was estimated to obtain all with its advantages and disadvantages: A. enzymatic, 66% of its renewable energy from biomass, which B. heterogeneous, and C. homogeneous catalysis. Due to means exceeding the total combined contributions from various reasons, enzymatic and heterogeneous catalysis hydropower, wind power, geothermal energy, and solar proves more disadvantageous to catalysis of lignin than power. Currently, the worldwide production potential for homogeneous catalysis. The advantage with homogeneous sustainable biomass production is tremendous, a very catalysts is that they typically suffice with much milder fortunate actuality at a time when the replacement of reaction conditions, i.e. compatible with biomaterials, but fossil fuels with renewable alternatives is highly desirable. also that they are small and easy to modify and optimize towards the desired reactivity. It is interesting to note Biomass, or more specifically lignocellulosic biomass, that only during the last 10 to 15 years has homogeneous e.g. wood, consists of approximately 40% cellulose and catalysis evolved as a useful approach to selectively 30% lignin, a type of organic polymer that makes up split isolated C-O bonds that resemble those present in the structural materials in vascular plants. Cellulose has authentic lignin. several applications, ranging from paper to food additives and building materials. Lignin, on the other hand, is used My work involves synthesizing and testing new significantly less industrially. Only 2% of lignin is used homogeneous molecular catalysts towards different in low-value products such as dispersing agents, while small molecules that resemble the lignin polymer. When the rest is burnt as low-energy fuel. Estimation holds a catalyst is found that shows reactivity in the desired that the pulp and paper industry alone has the potential fashion, for example by cleaving one of the C-O bonds, to produce 50 million tons of lignin annually. With its then this is further tested on more complex molecules massive abundance and lack of practical applications in that show even higher resemblance with authentic lignin. the modern industrial world, lignin would be an excellent Typically, a homogeneous catalyst consists of a transition feedstock for renewable energy if it could be converted metal, e.g. nickel, rhodium or iridium, surrounded by an into a fuel or useful bulk chemical. The reason why lignin is organic molecule. By changing the characteristics of 5 this lignin, the reactivity of the catalyst can be changed the Minneapolis/St. Paul Committee on Foreign Relations, towards optimization. the Minnesota International Center, and the American- Swedish Institute, as well as at other colleges in the The application of homogeneous catalysis towards lignin region. He attended several conferences in his field in the depolymerization is a research field that is still in its U.S., including the 2014 joint meeting of the Society for infancy, but could make an important contribution to the Advancement of Scandinavian Study and the Baltic. solving this global problem especially from a long-term Studies Association at Yale University in March 2014. perspective. Likely, the full solution to optimize lignin valorization will involve several steps where different techniques will play important roles. Though it is still far 2014-2015— from reality, if a solution is found, a renewable fuel that would be suitable for the combustion engines that our infrastructure is based on today could, in princple, be produced.

Magnus Johnson is a Swedish postdoctoral Fulbright scholar at the , supported by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. He was highlighted _DR. ANN-KRISTIN WALLENGREN AND DR. HANS WALLENGREN as one of 30 promising chemists under the age of 30 by Scientific American. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

The University of Washington’s Department of Scandinavian Studies was selected to host Dr. Ann-Kristin Wallengren and Dr. Hans Wallengren as American- Scandinavian Foundation Swedish Visiting Lecturers during the 2014 Fall Semester. Dr. Ann-Kristin Wallengren holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from Lund University and is currently a Professor of Comparative Literature and —DR. HENRIK BOHLIN Film at Lund University. She has published on a wide range of topics within Swedish film and television. Dr. ASF VISITING LECTURERS Hans Wallengren earned his Ph.D. in History from Lund University. He is currently the Director of the Center for 2013-2014— Labor History at Lund and the Training Coordinator at the National Graduate School of History. At the University COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT of Washington, Drs. Wallengren taught the course College of Saint Benedict’s Global Business Leadership SCAND 490: Cinema, Migration and the Making of the department hosted Dr. Henrik Bohlin from Södertorn Other in Modern Sweden. The course served upper-level University’s School of Historical and Contemporary Studies undergraduates and graduate level students and surveyed during the Spring Semester of the 2013-2014 Academic how immigrants and emigrants from the second half of the Year. Dr. Bohlin holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Stockholm 1800s to the present have been constructed as “the other.” University and is currently a Docent and Senior Lecturer Who was/is in and who was/is out in Swedish society? In of philosophy at Södertörn University in the School of the course, historic and cinematic interrelations concerning Historical and Contemporary Studies. He has published national identity, migration, and multiculturalism in Sweden on a wide range of philosophical topics, including David were analyzed. Additionally, a slate of lectures is arranged Hume’s philosophy, empathetic understanding, critical on the West Coast, including at the University of Tacoma, thinking, relativism, tacit knowledge, Bildung, education, WA; University of California, Los Angeles; University of and skepticism. At the College of St. Benedict, Dr. Bohlin California, Berkeley; The Swedish Club, Seattle; and The taught a seminar on ethics in addition to furthering his Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle. own research on critical thinking and the philosophy of education. He also gave public lectures at the college through its Global Awareness Lecture Series, and presentations in Minneapolis/St.Paul arranged through 6 ASF AWARDS She is currently translating a collection of contemporary Icelandic poetry and working on further translations of TRANSLATION PRIZES Gyrðir Elíasson’s works. 2013— 2014—

In 2013, the American-Scandinavian Foundation In 2014, the American-Scandinavian Foundation was announced the opening of its 34th annual Translation pleased to announce the winner of its 34th annual Competition for the most outstanding translations translation competition. Jonell Lockhart Kristensen of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a received the ASF’s Nadia Christensen Prize for her Scandinavian author born after 1800. Two prizes are translation of selected poems by Danish poet Thorkild offered: the Nadia Christensen Prize, which includes a Bjørnvig. $2,500 award, and the Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize, given to an individual whose literature translations have not Mrs. Kristensen is an American who has lived in Denmark previously been published, which includes a $2,000 award. and taught at Danish folk high schools for many years. Both prizes also include publication of an excerpt in The judges described Mrs. Kristensen’s work as: “Displaying Scandinavian Review (the ASF’s illustrated journal) and a a deep affinity for the beauty of the poet’s words, the commemorative bronze medallion. For further information translator has masterfully recreated in English the rhythm or to apply, visit apply.amscan.org. and urgency of Thorkild Bjørnvig’s magnificent poems, which deplore the devastation of the natural world. The winners of the 2013 competition were Randi Ward Compelling and emotionally charged, these poems by a and Sola Bjarnadottir-O’Connell. Ms. Ward received the major Scandinavian writer—now in English for the first Nadia Christensen Prize for her translation of the works of time—carry a message that is as relevant today as when Faroese poet, Tóroddur Poulsen; Ms. Bjarnadottir-O’Connell they were first published.” received the Leif and Inger Sjöberg Prize for her translation of Icelandic poems by Gyrðir Elíasson. The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) promotes firsthand exchange of intellectual and creative influence Ms. Ward is a writer, translator, lyricist, and photographer between the United States and the : from West Virginia who earned her M.A. in Cultural Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. A publicly Studies from the University of the . Her work supported American nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, ASF has appeared in several publications—notably: Beloit has an extensive program of fellowships, grants, intern/ Poetry Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Cold trainee sponsorship, publishing, and cultural activities. Mountain Review, and Vencil: Anthology of Contemporary Headquartered in New York City, ASF has members Faroese Literature. The judges said that her translation throughout the United States, and alumni and donors “meticulously and convincingly conveyed in English the worldwide. startling, spare quality of Tóroddur Poulsen’s poems, allowing readers to enter the shadowy dreams and wry humor of the poet’s world while offering an unexpected glimpse of the power of the . This excellent translation for the first time gives a wider audience the opportunity to listen to a poetic voice from a vibrant culture that is largely unknown to the English speaking world.”

A native Icelander who has lived in New York for the past thirty years, Ms. Bjarnadottir-O’Connell is pursuing a lifelong interest in bringing Icelandic poetry and literature to an English speaking audience. The judges said Ms. Bjarnadottir-O’Connell’s “concise and deliberate translations of poems by Gyrðir Elíasson bring vividly to life the stark landscape of Iceland and the anguished observations of the poet in a collection of apocalyptic visions and dreams of future life under a cooling sun.” 7 FELLOWS Roleson Fund, $16,000 Helen Lee and Emil Lassen Fund $6,087 TO—Stanford University 2013 - 2014 WALGENBACH, School of Medicine ELIZABETH BOOR, BRANDON TO DENMARK Dissertation Research, FROM—Yale University FROM—University of Biomaterials; Wahlroos Fund $13,500 ERDELYI, MAYA TO—Arnamagnaean Texas Institute TO—University FROM—California of Helsinki, Aalto KOISTINEN, RITVA Institute of The Arts Dissertation Research, University TO—Hans Christian History; Amanda E. TO—Manhattan School Dissertation Research, Andersen Museum Roleson Fund, $2,000 of Music Environmental Graduate Research, Film; WOLF, KIRSTEN Engineering; Finnish Masters of Music, Henrik Kauffmann Fund, Fund, $1,300, Direct Study; Finnish $5,000 FROM—University of Scandinavian Seminar Fund $5,000, Martha Wisconsin, Madison Fund, $3,500 and Jack McFall Fund GREAVES, KERRY TO—Arnamagnaean $2,500, Soderhom Fund Institute MORO, TAKESHI $2,500 FROM—CUNY Graduate Postdoc Research, Center FROM—Santa Clara TO ICELAND TO—University of Philology; Scan|Design University by Inger and Jens Bruun TO—Arteles Creative Copenhagen, Danish PERLMAN, JOAN National Library Foundation Fellowship, Art Center, Finnish Red $5,000 Cross FROM—San Francisco Art Dissertation Research, Institute Graduate Research, Art History; Henrik VANEK, SUSAN TO—Klaustrið Artist Visual Arts/ Kauffmann Fund, $4,320 Residency FROM—Binghampton Photography; Thor and HERSEY, DR. ANNA University Saimi Soderholm Fund, Graduate Research, TO—University of $500; Former Fellows Visual Arts/Multi-Media; FROM —Iowa State Copenhagen Fund, $4,500 Thor Thors Memorial University Fund, $5,000 TO—Royal Danish Dissertation Research, WRIGHT, EVAN Academy of Music, Anthropology; SINNOTT, DR. University of Scandinavian Seminar FROM—University of JENNIFER Copenhagen Fund, $10,500 Washington TO—University of FROM—Harvard Postdoc Research, FROM DENMARK Helsinki University Musicology; Amanda E. TO—University of Iceland Roleson Fund, $5,000 Dissertation Research, NIELSEN, MAJKEN Literature; Finnish Fund, Postdoc, Biostatistics; MARINO, DR. SØNDERGAARD $4,700, Thor and Saimi Thor Thors Memorial

GORDON Soderholm Fund, $7,500, Fund, $5,000 TO—Columbia University Martha and Jack McFall FROM—St. Olaf College Graduate School of Fund, $6,000 FROM ICELAND TO—Søren Kierkegaard Journalism Research Center FROM FINLAND M.S., Directed Study, REYNISSON, GÍSLI Postdoc Research, Journalism MÁR Philosophy; Amanda E. HALLVAR, JONATAN Roleson Fund, $4,000 TO FINLAND WILLIAM TO—Columbia University

M.S., Financial VOGELIUS, DR. TO—Columbia University BECKER, EDWARD Engineering; Charles K. CHRISTA Law School Willey Fund, $4,500 FROM—Harvard FROM—University of LLM, Directed Study; University Michigan Rikke Fredriksen Barth TO—Aalto University BRAGADÓTTIR, TO—Danish Emigration Fund $6,000, Martha GUÐRÚN ELSA Archives Graduate Research, and Jack McFall Fund Architecture; Finnish $500 TO—State University of Postdoc, American Fund, $5,000; Henrik New York, Buffalo Literature; Amanda E. Kauffman Fund $11,250; ELOMAA, LAURA Ph.D., Directed Study, 8 Comparative Literature; Colorado M.B.A., Business; DNB M.A., Business Charles K. Willey Fund, TO—Nasjonalbiblioteket/ Fellowship for Graduate Administration; Andrew $4,500 NRK Study in Business E. and G. Norman Administration and Wigeland Fund, $20,000 SMÁRASON, Postdoc Research, Finance, $20,000 Music; King Olav V Fund, HALLDÓR HELLEVIK, $5,000 BRAANAAS, PERNILLE RIVEDAL TO—Manhattan School MERIAM of Music STODDARD, RYAN TO—Columbia University TO—University of FROM—Institute of Arctic MM, Directed Study, Southern California M.F.A., Film; Andrew E. Classical Composition; Biology, University of and G. Norman Wigeland Thor Thors Memorial Alaska M.F.A., Film and Fund, $10,000 Fund, $1,000, Charles K. 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