Charting the Course of Fellows of the American- Scandinavian

2008/2009 UPDATE FROM THE ASF PRESIDENT

Welcome to the first electronic edition of The commented that "for almost a century the Longboat, which we have introduced in our ongoing Foundation has been a focal point for the Nordic effort to develop more efficient, environmentally community in the United States and a window for friendly, and cost effective methods to communicate presenting our culture to the American public. with our constituents. We hope you will find this as Through a great variety of cultural events and schol- informative and enjoyable as the print edition and arships to Scandinavians and Americans alike, the will forward it to interested friends and colleagues. Foundation has helped strengthen the ties across the Atlantic and enhance the intercultural awareness It has been an enormously active year at the ASF between our two continents." Charting and in spite of the very large challenges posed by the worldwide financial crisis and its effect on our Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America own endowments, we have been able to maintain continues to present a wide range of cultural and high levels of grant and fellowship funding. educational programs. Of particular interest to our the Course Fellows is the exhibition, Northern (L)attitudes, fea- 2008-09 produced a very strong cohort of ASF turing a collection of photographs, paintings, videos Fellows. Fifty Scandinavian Fellows were awarded and mixed media celebrating the works of nine nearly $515,000 in funding by the ASF to carry out provocative contemporary artists (four American, five of Fellows projects in fields as diverse as electrical engineer- Norwegian) all of whom have been American- ing, journalism, music theory, neuroscience and edu- Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship recipients: Eric cation. Thirty five American scholars were awarded Aho, Marion Belanger, Lene Berg, Sandra more than $286,000 in funding bringing the total of Binion, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Ole Martin Lund Bø, of The 2008-09 fellowships and grants to $801,000. Unn Fahlstrøm, Nina Katchadourian, and Are American fellows carried out projects in fields such Mokkelbost. as fisheries biology in Norway, medieval studies in Iceland, conflict resolution in Sweden and Arctic A transatlantic cross-pollination of concepts and American- landscape painting in Finland. mediums, Northern (L)attitudes explores how each country's geography, environment and culture In addition, for the coming year the ASF has funded informs the work of the artist. The exhibition high- visiting lectureships at Wartburg College and the lights intersections of cultural exchange and how Scandinavian University of Arkansas. Additionally, we have funded they occur. It will be on display September 8th to the grants to 38 institutions in the U.S. and Scandinavia 19th and we encourage all ASF alumni to stop by to support public projects ranging from contempo- Scandinavia House to view the works of art. rary art exhibitions to dance performances. Foundation In March 2009, the ASF held its Annual Gala in the -Edward P. Gallagher presence of Crown Prince Frederik and Crown ASF President Princess Mary of Denmark. ASF Trustee Liv Ullmann served as Master of Ceremonies for the evening. In his remarks, Crown Prince Frederik

THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION 58 PARK AVENUE The ASF 2009 Spring Gala, left to right: Gala Co-Chairs Susie and Hon. Edward E. Elson, Her Royal NEW YORK NY 10016 Highness Crown Princess Mary, His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik, Gala Co-Chair Hon. Robin TEL: 212 879 9779 Chandler Duke, Chairman of the ASF Board of Trustees Bård E. Bunaes, and President of the ASF WWW.AMSCAN.ORG Edward P. Gallagher. (Photo: Tina Buckman) RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS BY ASF FELLOWS

Kenneth L. Caneva (1995 Fellow to Stephen Hilyard (2007 Fellow to Iceland) Denmark) published the article “Ørsted’s had a photo exhibit entitled The Beautiful Presentation of Others’ - and his own - Lie at Madison Museum of Contemporary work,” in Robert M. Brain et al. eds., Hans Art, Madision, WI. Christian Ørsted & the Romantic Legacy in Science (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007). William Jacobs (1989 Fellow to Denmark) recently accepted the position of Jay A. Clarke (2007 Fellow to Norway) Director of the Exhibition Program at the Julia Staples’ Luxury Views in Nordlingarhot served as curator for the highly acclaimed Library of Congress. at Lost Horse Gallery in Iceland Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Julia Staples (2008 Fellow to Iceland) Anxiety, and Myth exhibition at the Art had her first opening this year at Lost Institute of Chicago earlier this year. Dr. Horse Gallery in Iceland. She showed new Clarke has recently been appointed Manton works from a project about the Icelandic Curator of Prints, Drawings, and suburbs. Photographs at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown MA. Joan Templeton (1987 and 1999 Fellow to Norway) gave a lecture at Scandinavia Gunnhildur Daðadóttir (2007 Fellow from House in December 2008 in conjunction Iceland) accepted a one-year position with Rika Lesser’s Questions of Love with the publication of her new book, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Munch's Ibsen: A Painter's Visions of a Rika Lesser (2006 Fellow to Sweden) had Playwright. a new book of poems Questions of Love: New & Selected Poems published by Stephen Thomas (1996 Fellow to Sheep Meadow Press in November 2008. Denmark) performed Edvard Grieg’s Piano Her translation of Göran Sonnevi’s Mozart's Concerto in A Minor with the Nordsjælland Third Brain will be published by Yale Symfoniorkester (Denmark) in a series of University Press in fall 2009. concerts in Denmark and Romania, in October 2007, under the direction of Klaus John Logue (1970 Fellow to Denmark) Munk-Nielsen. and Eric Einhorn (1977 Fellow to Heidi Durrow’s Denmark) co-authored Modern Welfare The Girl Who Fell From the Sky States: Scandinavian Politics & Policy in the Global Age, (Praeger, 2003). Heidi Durrow (2007 Fellow to Denmark) will have her novel, The Girl Who Fell From Melissa Gjellstad (2006 Fellow to the Sky, a coming-of-age story about the Norway) accepted the position of Assistant daughter of a Dane, published by Algonquin Professor of Norwegian at the University of Books in February 2010. The book was North Dakota. awarded writer Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Lansing McLoskey (1993 Fellow to Change. Denmark) released a CD on Albany Joan Truckenbrod’s Portfolio Collection Records entitled Sixth Sense, which Evelyn Scherabon Firchow (1993 Fellow includes a recording of “Solsange,” a set- Joan Truckenbord (1994 Fellow to to Iceland) published her book Wege und ting of poems in Danish, written while living Denmark) appeared in the September Irrwege der mittelalterlichen Textausgaben. in Denmark as an ASF Fellow. 2007 issue of Sculpture Magazine. In 2005, ausgewählte Aufsätze (Stuttgart: Hirzel her Portfolio Collection was published by Verlag, 2007) Emily Oken (2005 Fellow to Denmark) Telos Art Publishing. She is currently a published an article in the American Journal Board Member of The Chicago Sculpture Peter Haarmark (2007 Fellow from of Clinical Nutrition based on the study of International. Denmark) recently accepted the position of associations of maternal prenatal fish intake Vice-President of International Marketing at and breastfeeding duration with child devel- Jo Yarrington (2007 Fellow to Iceland) Campfire A/S. opmental milestones. had her work in the Cryptoreal: Art & Myth exhibition at the Francis Lewis Gallery in Queens, NYC.

2 poses together would make as much sense as American, repeated my An ASF Fellow Reports... forming a union of Volcanologists, Artists, question back, as Originally published in Grapevine (August 2008) alongside Smelter Engineers & Baristas. though I'd asked how to photos by ASF Fellow to Iceland Julia Staples. Rather than shove Americans under a the- yawn or chew. She'd matic umbrella, I'll define them as they define moved from The Book of Non-Icelanders: Iceland: by contrasts. Around the globe, my fel- Pennsylvania to Iceland What defines an American expat low citizens are infamous for sticking out, and on a freighter ship in living in Iceland doing little to change that. Reykjavik, thank 1946 and narrated her by Colleen Kinder heavens, is not a depot of "ugly Americans." tale as "the second 2008 US Fellow to Iceland People tell me an outsider will never truly fit in American woman to "I've never heard thunder here," Jonas, an on this island, but could one ever last here with- come here," with the American living in Reykjavik, blurted out during out trying? pride of a pioneer. our hike, as raindrops flecked our bare arms. I understand now why my interviewees resis- "What color are your blinds?" Stasia asked. "Really?" I checked. I'd been interviewing ted the term "expat," hinting that they identified Immediately, I knew my error. "White." Americans living in Iceland for a month, for a more as non-Icelanders: defined not by where I realized also why I was touching base so book project about expatriates. Just over a thou- they came from, but where they did not. At this compulsively about June light. Foreigners have sand Americans live in Iceland, and the few latitude, the challenge of expatriation is to claim no choice but to submit to the terms that govern dozen I contacted were willing to talk over tea or whatever space remains in a society that might Iceland, but it helps to first get a nod from one of shark. I wanted know, first: what brought them to as well be called a your own that these terms are not normal. Iceland; next: how they felt about this second family. And just as in- "Oh no," the pioneering American in Iceland home. laws at a family clucked at me, thereby revealing that once upon My sources could handle the first question in reunion know to go a time, some three or four decades ago, she had a word: "WWII" for instance, or "Einar." But part along with the cus- taken some measure to acclimate to this new two required another cup of tea, a tangent, a toms, the lingo, and world. brief rant on the rules of Icelandic grammar. the inside jokes, Because the language of frontiers kept com- Listening, I felt like I'd stumbled into an odd fam- Iceland's expats eat ing up (almost as much as outer space) I finally ily reunion and taken refuge at the in-laws' table. the skate, even if it looked up "pioneer" in the dictionary, finding one Like me, these expats were outsiders. But unlike feels like a joke on of its definitions well-suited to the experience of me, they knew all about the inside. them. expatriation to Iceland: "a plant or animal capa- I have Iceland's expats to thank for coaching I expected Americans to stand out from the ble of establishing itself in a bare, barren, or me through my first taste of shark, but also for Icelandic family when I opened the phonebook. open area and initiating an ecological cycle." nudging me out of the plane of first impressions. Tipped off that native names rarely begin with July dimmed and so did my astonishment for Every first-time traveler to Iceland begins by the letter 'c,' I flipped right to the third letter of midnight sun. But I went on collecting tips, enjoy- noticing the black fields of lava, then the quaint, the alphabet and began cold-calling. Soon, I was ing the routine verification that something was corrugated homes, and finally, the spindly yellow talking to a bunch of British Catherine's and odd, flip-flopped-alter-natural?-here. Planet cranes looming in every view. An expatriate, Christopher's, who sounded as confused as I Iceland: too many orbits away to hear thunder though, long ago looked past the features of the felt. My criteria for an "American name" was clapping. landscape, to notice what's absent. He uses proving flimsy, not to mention disturbingly "Isn't that weird?" Jonas had asked. what he misses and, conversely, what he's glad anglophile. Names that looked too Latino or too There was, in fact, a scientific explanation for to miss, to characterize his second home. European, I caught myself passing over for eth- Iceland's mute storms. But the point was to grant Iceland: where the busiest corner of the capi- nically milder versions. When I called Caroline this fellow non-Icelander my whole-hearted tal stations no beggar. Where no one starts her Linda Jeans on the basis of the jeans in her sur- agreement. workday by shoving onto a hot subway car. name, I knew I was grasping at straws for an "Weird." Where grown men aren't hawking cheap sou- American identity. I finally threw in the towel Who, but someone born elsewhere, could? venirs. Where little boys aren't washing the when Chuck Mack didn't answer his phone. windshields of cars stuck in traffic. Where Though depressing, my phone book experi- Repatriation women aren't blighted for babies they didn't ment was a clue to understanding what might plan. incline an American to approach a culture as My last interview was with an American expat Where litter is rare. So are pimples, and cat- dense and preserved as Iceland's with respect. on his way out, bound for New York. It dawned calls and sirens and the faintest sense of dan- We Americans take pride in our heterogeneity, on me to ask what he would miss most about ger. Where strangers at a party don't need to but it can also leave us feeling diluted. Melt Iceland. If Americans in Iceland portray the place know where you work. Where parents don't need everything into one pot and it's becomes hard to like Rorschach portraits, the blanks as telling as to know where kids play. Where store clerks and describe the taste. the blotches, what ghost features might a waiters don't bother with those how-are-you Shark can be criticized on many accounts, returned-expat project onto Manhattan? pleasantries, instead just asking what it is you but not for lack of taste. Seth looked out the window at Laugevegur want. Street. He, like me, lived three blocks away. It Glenn misses grape jelly, variety in cold med- Afraid of the Light was easy for us to meet. Each time we did, he icine, relatives that are his. Paul misses corned ordered soup. beef, Maryland crab cakes, criticism in the arts. Unaided by the phonebook, I resumed my "The simplicity," Seth answered. Others miss diversity that's not so conspicuous, expat hunt by word of mouth, following one I was in New York the day I sat down to fin- drinking that's not so excessive, humidity, expat to his friend, to her ex-boyfriend, etc. I ish this essay. Rain poured down in a sudden anonymity, washing machines that open up top. sometimes felt like I was cobbling together the August deluge, and roughly 313,000 wet New Each time I read through these phantom gro- tree of Iceland's foreign community: The Book of Yorkers took cover in the same Starbucks as cery lists and non-phenomena, I wonder what Non-Icelanders, WWII to present. Though I'd be me. Perhaps because my mind was many orbits they tell us about the American lives paused or lying if I said my interviewees were clamoring for away, on a planet deserted for Iceland. an Americans-In-Iceland club. There was just where light teaches one person who craved Yankee fraternity: me. you to miss darkness, What's In a Name June's brilliant light had troubled my personal where ease puts relationship with Mother Nature. I dreaded the stress into relief, and People warned me not to expect commonali- freakish evening hours like a little kid afraid of vice versa, a violent ties among expatriates in Iceland. Work and the dark. Except I wasn't afraid of the dark. I was bang overhead made love-the most universal of all themes-accounted afraid of light. Iceland's light. Unable to wind me jump like a child. for the presence of Americans on this island. down and sleep, I asked my interviewees for That was thunder. This Sure enough, most Americans I spoke with had tips. was home. clear professional purposes. To lump these pur- "How do I fall asleep?" Stasia, an 88-year-old 3 Mikael Thoustrup, to the Nicole Stokes-Dupass, from the RECENT University of North Carolina, University of Massachusetts, $10,600 Amherst, $4,000 ASF FELLOWS Mr. Thoustrup spent one year Ms. Stokes-Dupass's project studying Economics. His focus empirically analyzed the intersec- was on Quantitative Finance. tions of racial/ethnic identity, FROM DENMARK nationalism, and citizenship on constructions of the Danish TO DENMARK national identity. Thomas Bak, to the University of California, Irvine, $14,600 Mark Busbee, from Florida Gulf Mr. Bak continued his research in Coast University, $3,700 Julia Honkasalo, Fellow from Finland Continental Philosophy. He plans Dr. Busbee's research examined to receive his MA in Philosophy N.F.S Grundtvig's unpublished Julia Honkasalo, to the New from the University of texts of the Old English poem School for Social Research, Copenhagen in 2010. Beowulf. He is currently an $6,000 Assistant Professor of English. Ms Honkasalo attended Ph.D. Majken Bilsley-Jensen, to level courses in philosophy and Baruch College, City University of Martin Chase, from Fordham political theory & conducted New York, $10,600 University, $4,000 research for her dissertation Ms Bilsley-Jensen spent one Dr. Chase's research focused on "Arendt's Philosophy as Praxis of semester studying International Old Norse Christian Poetry at the Understanding." Finance and Capital Market end of the Middle Ages. He cur- Anne Wallen, Fellow to Denmark Theory, completing her Master's rently teaches at Fordham Iiro Mäkinen, to Stanford degree in Applied Economics and University. Anne Wallen, from the University University, $2,000 Finance at the Copenhagen of Minnesota, $4,000 Mr. Mäkinen attended Ph.D. level Business School (CBS). Kensha Clark, from the University Ms. Wallen's dissertation research courses in Economics, specializ- of California, Irvine, $16,000 studied the literary & social history ing in the economics of innovation Malthe Isbye Fabritius Falck, to Ms. Clark's project involved using of masked balls in 18th century and technological change. Texas A&M University, $9,000 redox active ligands, which are Scandinavia & the German-speak- Mr. Falck spent a semester study- ligands that can be oxidized or ing countries. ing Finance and Accounting. He reduced, as electron reservoirs plans to receive his MA in Finance facilitating the syntheses of early Kirsten Wolf, from the University and Accounting from the metal nitrido complexes. of Wisconsin, Madison, $3,000 Copenhagen Business School in Dr. Wolf spent the summer of 2009. 2008 doing research on Old Norse-Icelandic Sagas. The proj- Signe Teuber Henriksen, to the ect was an extension of her previ- University of Notre Dame, ous research which is forthcoming $10,600 in "Manuscripta Nordica," a series Ms. Henriksen conducted Ph.D. presenting early Nordic manu- research in Chemistry. Her scripts in digital facsimile. research focused on medicinal Cecilia Oinas, Fellow from Finland chemistry and theoretical organic chemistry. She in currently a FROM FINLAND Cecilia Oinas, to the City Ph.D. student at the Technical University of New York, $20,000 University of Denmark. Mrs. Oinas conducted dissertation Kensha Clark, Fellow to Denmark research, focusing on the piano Martin Møller Sørensen, to the trios of Mendelssohn and University of California, Berkeley, Schumann. $10,600 Thea Eck, from the University of Mr. Sørensen spent one semester Michigan, Ann Arbor, $11,500 taking courses in convex optimiza- Ms. Eck worked towards creating TO FINLAND tion, approximation, hybrid sys- a body of work that re-imagines tems and intelligent control. He the archives at the Artic Institute Kenneth Leslie, from Johnson expects to receive his M.S. in and investigates the complex his- State College, $4,000 Electronic & Electrical Engineering torical relationship between Mr. Leslie completed a series of from Aalborg University in 2009. Denmark, Greenland and the paintings & an artist's book, which Arctic. are part of his Arctic project enti- Kristen Wolf, Fellow to Denmark tled "Top of the World: A combina- Iben Falconer, from Yale tion of geography, astronomy, University, $3,000 indigenous culture and myth." He Ms. Falconer researched how Tuomas Forsell, to University of has already completed work in architecture, design and infra- California, Berkeley, $2,000 Iceland, Alaska, Svalbard and structure have been used to Mr. Forsell attended two semes- Nunavut. "brand" Denmark globally. ters at UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism & gained Anthony Stellaccio, consultant at new perspectives on current the Lithuanian Art Museum, standards of journalism in Vilnius Lithuania, $7,000 America. Mr. Stellaccio worked with experts & staff at the Petersen Tegl Brick Factory to design unique brick fix- Iben Falconer, Fellow to Denmark tures, pedestals, & platforms for ceramic sculptures. He was also in residence at the Aage Birck Studio. 4 Kenneth Leslie, Fellow to Finland To Iceland continued... Sigriður Harðardóttir, to FROM NORWAY Brandeis University, $4,700 Kimberly Scott, from the Ms. Harðardóttir pursued an M.A. Mari Kristine Aasgaard, to New University of Kentucky, $16,300 in Economics. She majored in York University, $13,000 Ms. Scott researched the musical International Economics and Ms. Aasgaard earned a Master's & cultural influences of Finnish Finance. She will receive her B.S. degree in International Affairs. composer Einojuhani Rautavaara in Economics from the University Her Master's thesis focused on to complete her Doctorate of of Iceland. the changing nature of peace- Musical Arts in Piano Performance keeping operations in Africa. at the University of Kentucky. Hörður Kristinn Heiðarsson, to the Univ. of Southern California, Lars Stenberg Berg, to Monterey $4,700 Institute of International Studies, Mr. Heiðarsson began a Ph.D. Christopher Burawa, Fellow to Iceland $20,000 program in Electrical Engineering. Mr. Berg worked towards a MBA. His research focused on Controls Christopher Burawa, Literature His future plans are focused on and Robotics, particularly in rela- Director, Arizona Commission on business consulting & entrepre- tion to aquatic sensor networks. the Arts, $7,000 neurship in technology fields. Mr. Burawa spent 3 months in Þrándur Helgason, to the Iceland researching material on Sturla Lyngnes Fjesme, to University of Massachusetts, the relationships between family, Cornell University, $5,000 $4,700 cultural and societal history to Mr. Fjesme conducted Ph.D. Mr. Helgason conducted Ph.D.- write a book of poems and cre- research in financial economics. directed research in Food ative non-fiction. He used his own His dissertation looked at reasons Science, developing a novel col- Icelandic family's history to study some investors are favored over loidal delivery system based on how the macrocosms of national others in Norwegian Initial Public mini-emulsions and micro-emul- history have played out through Offerings allocations. sions, allowing the food industry to the microcosms of those who Kimberly Scott, Fellow to Finland develop bioactive-carrying foods. helped build Iceland into a modern Eirik Forus, to New York He is a currently Ph.D. candidate nation. University, $17,000 FROM ICELAND at the University of Iceland. Mr. Forus continued in the Master's program in Film at NYU, Ólafur Ari Jónsson, to Harvard which he began in 2007. He Bjarni Thor Árnason, to Univ. of Law School, $4,700 focused on writing his manuscript Southern California, $4,700 Mr. Jónsson began LLM-directed about a Gestapo agent hunting Mr. Árnason worked on a comput- studies, focusing on the similari- Norwegian saboteurs in occupied er graphics project. He is pursuing ties in the civil rights principles Norway during WWII. a career creating video games or applied and strategies involved in scientific visualization software. dealing with authorities in charge He will receive his B.S. from of different subjects. Reykjavík University. Andri Klausen, to Pratt Institute, Máni Arnarson, to Cornell NY, $4,700 University, $4,700 Mr. Klausen began a three-year Mr. Arnarson worked towards an Masters of Architecture program, M.A. in Systems Engineering. His examining the importance of Colleen Kinder, Fellow to Iceland focus was on mechanical engi- architectural design concepts in neering and systematic design. relation to historic and contempo- Colleen Kinder, from the He plans to receive his B.S. in rary issues in an evolving culture. University of Iowa, $4,000 Mechanical Engineering from the Ms. Kinder spent one month in University of Iceland. Benedikt Skúlason, to Columbia Iceland interviewing American Eirik Forus, Fellow from Norway University, NY, $4,700 expatriates to gather material for a Ólafur Guðmundsson, to Mr. Skúlason pursued an M.S. in non-fiction book that showcases Espen Hammer, Temple Stanford University, $4,700 Industrial Engineering, studying Americans in their chosen exiles. University and the University of Mr. Guðmundsson pursued an methods of manufacturing, pro- Pennsylvania, $10,000 M.S. in Electrical Engineering, duction planning, scheduling and Julia Staples, freelance photogra- Dr. Hammer spent four months as focusing on signal processing and financing of entrepreneurships. pher, $12,000 a researcher, focusing on the rela- control theory. His project involved Ms. Staples used photography to tionship between time and moder- the use of adaptive filtering tech- document how recent economic nity. Dr. Hammer is a philosophy niques to predict movement of growth spawned transformation of professor at the University of Oslo cancerous tumors. TO ICELAND the Icelandic landscape and how and an associate professor at the urban planning affects the melding University of Essex. Sigrún Gunhildardóttir, to and production of communities Columbia University, NY, $4,700 Tenley Banik, from Vanderbilt Dag Hovdhaugen, to Harvard Ms. Gunhildardóttir spent four University, $7,000 University, $19,000 months studying Operations Ms. Banik investigated ancient Mr. Hovdhaugen studied public Research. She studied quantita- glacio-volcanic features and their management theories, as well as tive decision problems concerning modern analogues in order to leadership and strategy in the the allocation and control of limit- understand potentially dangerous public sector. ed resources. She expects to landscapes in Iceland and other receive an M.S. in Operations parts of the world. Karsten Tønne Huitfeldt, to Research from Columbia and an Southern California Institute of M.S. in Engineering Management Architecture, $9,000 from the University of Iceland. Mr. Huitfeldt earned a Master's degree in Architecture, focusing on the use of computers in the Julia Staples, Fellow to Iceland design and production process. 5 From Norway continued... Saleh, Maria Gilani, to Columbia Knut Christianson, from University, $20,000 Pennsylvania State University, Ingibjørg Kristin Jonsdottir, to Ms. Saleh earned an MA in $4,000 St. John's University, $18,000 International Relations. Mr. Christianson conducted a Ms. Jonsdottir earned a Ph.D. in case study on the relationship Education. Her research will Tina Skouen, to the University of between glacier-bed seismicity examine the learning styles of California, Berkeley, $10,000 and surface motion on mountain minority students in Norway and Ms. Skouen conducted literary glaciers in Engabreen, Norway. how to respond to their needs. research which focused on com- This was the first empirical verifi- plaints by early modern English cation of hypothesized relation- Sara Elisabeth Sellevold writers about their perpetual short- ships between surface motion and Orning, to University of California, age of time. basal slip. Santa Cruz, $5,000 Håkon Mørch Stene Ms. Orning completed her Fellow from Norway dissertation entitled, Fleshly Embodiments: Genealogies, Practices, and Knowledge in Professional Development Grants: Philosophy, Film, and Art.

Hans Augun Parmann, to Tor Magne Handeland, Chaplain, University of Pennsylvania, Asker Kirkelige Fellesråd, Asker, $18,000 Norway, $1,250. Mr. Parmann's studies focused on Mr. Handeland studied Clinical international law. His thesis topic Pastoral Education at the Park was on the Kyoto Protocol and the Nicollet Methodist CPE Center, in United Nations’ Framework Minneapolis, MN. Convention on Climate Change and their impact on Norwegian Inderjit Singh Mercy, Research Law. Vegard Holsen Sørby Scientist, Norwegian School of Fellow from Norway Veterinary Science, Norway, Patti-Belle Hastings, Fellow to Norway Vegard Holsen Sørby, to the $4,000 American Film Institute, $20,000 Mr. Mercy studied the use of Mr. Sørby pursued an MA in Film microarray technology in develop- Patti-Belle Hastings, from at the American Film Institute. His ing protective IPNV vaccines used Quinnipac University, $4,000 studies focused on film editing. in salmon farming at the United Ms. Hasting explored the creative States Dept. of the Interior, uses of mobile technologies, cre- Johan Tingulstad, to Columbia Western Fisheries Research ating engaging, tactile and viscer- University, $5,000 Center, in Seattle, WA. al artistic experiences. Ms. Mr. Tingulstad continued in a MA Hastings is currently an Associate program for International Affairs. Håkon Mørch Stene, Musician, Professor at Quinnipac University. His studies focused on comparing Norwegian Concert Institute, public and private involvement in $4,000 Dean Krouk, from University of Joakim Parslow, Fellow from Norway the field of social responsibility. Mr. Stene studied solo percussion California, Berkeley, $4,000 performance and had an artist's Mr. Krouk conducted dissertation Joakim Parslow, to the University residency with Steven Schick, research, focusing on irrationality of Washington, $9,000 Dept. of Music, at the University of in Knut Hamsun's work, as well as Mr. Parslow continued his Ph.D. in California, San Diego. that of Robert Musil and Virginia Middle Eastern Studies. His dis- Woolf. He expects to receive his sertation research focused on PhD in Spring 2010. identifying the conditions that have made Turkey's political Yuen-Ting Kwong, from Johns development different from other Hopkins University, $20,000 Muslim nations. Ms. Kwong studied the effect of chronic kidney disease on the Lars Rosvoll, to the University of mortality risk of elderly women Arizona, $20,000 compared with other populations, Mr. Rosvoll continued his Ph.D. working with Dr. Hallan at St Olaf research in the Musical Arts. His Johan Tingulstad, in Trondheim. dissertation research focused on Fellow from Norway performance and theory.

Erlend Kibsgaard Vested, to Zachary Berman, Fellow to Norway Yale Universtiy, $5,000 Mr. Vested received an MA in Political Science. He studied the implications of the existence and TO NORWAY proliferation of weapons of mass destruction for national and inter- Zachary Berman, from CUNY national security policies. Graduate Center, $3,800 Mr. Berman conducted disserta- Anne Ytreland, to Columbia tion research on the slave-dealing Yuen-Ting “Diana” Kwong University, $6,000 merchant-king Zubayr Pasha of Fellow to Norway Ms. Ytreland continued in a MA Sudan. program for International Affairs. Her studies focused on international economic policy. Lars Rosvoll, Fellow from Norway 6 To Norway continued... Emma Ekdahl, to the University Fredrik Tunvall, to Columbia Susan Szmania, from University of Denver, $10,000 University, $18,000 of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, $7,000 Ms. Ekdahl's studies focused on Mr. Tunvall was enrolled in a Dr. Szmania studied the formal the interaction of norm diffusion Master of Science program. His and informal conflict resolution and human rights NGO's in EU research focused on the possibili- methods used by the Swedish countries. ties and limitations of a child's government and the Iraqi immi- memory and cognition. grant population to manage the Martin Guss, to C.W. Post process of integrating a traditional College Long Island University, Muslim population into the secular $20,000 TO SWEDEN and highly egalitarian Swedish Mr. Guss’ graduate studies society. She is currently an focused on immunology and Assistant Professor with the hematology. University of Wisconsin.

TO MULTI-COUNTRIES Shale Rose, Fellow to Norway Katherine Larson, from the Shale Rosen, Fisheries Research University of Washington, $3,100 Manager, Gulf of Maine Research Ms. Larson examined technical Institute, $10,634 factors which may have con- Mr. Rosen researched the shifting Caylen Carey, Fellow to Sweden tributed to the warp-weighted of commercial fishing efforts to loom's suitability for weaving reduce seabed impact from bot- Cayelan Carey, from Cornell reversible double-weave bedcov- tom trawling, hoping to result in University, $4,000 ers. the development of a mid-water Ms. Carey's project studied the trawl to replace bottom trawls cur- Martin Guss, Fellow from Sweden factors that influence gloeotrichia Ursula Lindqvist, from the rently in use. echinulata development and University of Colorado, $4,000 Sofia Näsström, to Columbia growth and its impacts on lake Dr. Lindqvist spent time in Don Sheriff, from the University University, $20,000 ecosystems. She expects to earn Denmark and Sweden doing of Iowa, $4,000 Dr. Näsström conducted research her doctoral degree in Ecology in research to complete a book enti- Dr. Sheriff applied Doppler ultra- on the possibility of taking repre- 2012. tled Nordic by Design: Nationalism sound techniques, developed at sentative democracy beyond the and the Imperial Imagination in the University of Oslo, to his study confines of the nation-state. Hyunok Choi, from the Harvard Sweden, Denmark and the of the circulatory system in School of Public Health, $10,000 Caribbean. She is currently an humans during head-down tilting Dr. Choi's project examined pre- Instructor of Nordic Studies at the followed by head-up lifting. He Siri Öhman, to New York natal and childhood exposure to University of Colorado. hopes to unravel the contribution University, $14,000 household chemicals and subse- of central and peripheral regulato- Ms. Öhman completed an LL.M. quent development of reproduc- ry mechanisms to the dizziness degree focused on corporate law. tive anomalies, asthma and aller- and fainting associated with gies, and neurodevelopmental upright posture. Celine Ruben-Salama, to syndromes. Columbia University, $10,000 Tanya Thresher, from the Ms. Ruben-Salama pursued a Kate Leonard, from Colorado University of Wisconsin, Madison, Master of Environmental Science College, $4,000 $4,000 and Policy Management. She is Ms. Leonard spent seven weeks Dr. Thresher examined Henrik planning a career focused on for- in Bohuslän, Sweden developing Ibsen's use of melodramatic mode mulating and carrying out corpo- an archive of preparatory imagery and genre, hoping to outline the rate strategies that integrate envi- for a new body of paintings relationship between theatrical ronmental stewardship. exploring coastal landscapes that convention, gender and modernity will be exhibited in Gothenburg, Ursula Lindqvist, Fellow to Denmark and its relevance to the continued Märit Sällström, to University of Sweden and Colorado. and Sweden popularity of the Norwegian Wisconsin, Madison, $20,000 dramatist. Ms. Sällström's research concen- Samantha Lipscomb, Instructor, Suzanne Martin, from the trated on developing sustainable Chicago Hot Glass, $19,000 University of California, Berkeley, Brooke Wilkerson, from the soil and water management prac- Ms. Lipscomb studied glassblow- $19,900 University of Vermont, Burlington, tices, hoping to alleviate the ing techniques at The National Ms. Martin spent time in Norway $10,334 degradation and pollution of these School for Glass in Orrefors. and Sweden analyzing the works Ms. Wilkerson's research studied resources. Afterwards, she worked with of three non-Sami writers to deter- the effect of forest policy on forest Ingalena and Ragnar Klenell in mine how their rewritings of Sami biodiversity and its potential appli- Kennedi Samuels, to Fordham their private studio in Sunne. history align with or differ from cations on both sides of the University, $2,000 both Sami and non-Sami repre- Atlantic, utilizing long term moni- Mr. Samuels worked towards an Jennifer Mack, from Harvard sentations of Sami history. She toring data from Norway's National LLM at Fordham University in University, $20,000 plans to complete her doctoral Forest Inventory. New York, specializing in interna- Ms. Mack's research examined degree in 2010. tional corporate and business law. how soccer reshapes the relation- He is currently employed as an ship between society and territory Carrie Roy, from the University of FROM SWEDEN associate at Advokatfirma Lindhs in Södertälje, Sweden. She will Wisconsin, Madison, $4,000 DLA Nordic in Stockholm. complete her doctoral degree from Ms. Roy conducted a survey of Oscar Ax, to the University of Harvard University in 2011. Viking period artifacts with a Virginia, $10,000 Carin Tillman, to University of prominent motif known as the Mr. Ax conducted research on the- Colorado, $20,000 Paula Patterson, from University "gripping beast." The work is part ories of identity and collective Ms. Tillman spent a year of Washington, Seattle, $20,000 of a larger effort to better under- memory to prepare for his future researching the relationship Ms. Patterson's project examined stand the world view of pagan and dissertation dealing with German between short-term memory and the sacred architecture of agrarian Scandinavian societies national identity in the aftermath of complex cognition. Swedish architect Sigurd through material culture. the Holocaust and the Third Lewerentz using site work and Reich. archival research. 7 Former Fellow Experiences “You're a fine writer, but you'll never be a brickee.”

Anthony Stellaccio, 2008 US Fellow to Denmark

In May of 2008, with a Creative Arts Fellowship from The American-Scandinavian Foundation, I began a three-month residency at the Petersen Tegl brick factory in Broager, a Danish town in south Jutland. In operation since 1791, Petersen Tegl was once one of many Danish brick factories surrounding the picturesque Flensburg fjord. Now, Petersen Tegl is one of the last family owned brick factories in the region. It is also one of the most famous.

What has made Petersen Tegl famous is the entrepreneurial vision of the factory's current owner, Christian Petersen. With his guidance, Petersen Tegl has, in a relatively short time, risen from standard production and a handful of employees to a position where the factory employs more than one hundred persons who produce some of the world's highest quality and most specialized, avant-garde bricks.

The quality of Petersen Tegl's production has attracted some of Scandinavia's most famous artists and architects, and the factory has learned much from the resulting collaborations. Particularly important for Petersen Tegl was its collaboration with Swedish ceramic artist Ulla Viotti. Truly inspired and inspiring, Petersen Tegl has, with its handmade production, its hundred or so trained specialists, its willingness to experiment, and its belief that they can do anything, become a living, breathing, creative organism. Petersen Tegl sees as art not only what other people make from their bricks, they also see the bricks and the business of making them as art. I too see bricks as art and Petersen Tegl cherishes its relationship with artists who bring new ideas and new possibilities to their factory. During my residency we, naturally, got along quite splendidly.

Installed in the handmade production division known as Tivoli, I was given all the materials, knowledge, and technology that I needed to make my own specialized production of miniature coal fired bricks. From these bricks I made small-scale ceramic sculptures that mimicked the forms and motifs of architectural monuments. I also learned how to produce full-size bricks in the age-old fashion, with wooden molds and a little elbow grease. These bricks then became modular sculptural elements, which I carved, glazed, stacked, cut, and drilled. There also was a third dimension to my creative activities. After creating a number of sculptures from small and large bricks, I spent one month at the studio of Danish ceramic artists Heidi and Aage Birck where I lived, learned, and worked in porcelain. The porcelain objects were then incorporated into a number of brick compositions, often being combined with current samples of the ever-changing production at Petersen Tegl.

These three types of work, miniature brick sculptures, full-size brick sculptures, and brick/porcelain combines, were developed at Petersen Tegl over three months of inspired 12-18 hour workdays and are now deeply ingrained in a newly formed artistic vocabulary. That vocabulary will live on in my work, as will my newfound knowledge of brick-making and masonry, my impressions of the Danish people - most importantly my friends at Petersen Tegl, the Danish landscape, and Denmark's rich tradition of ceramic art.

Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir, 2007 Fellow from Iceland.

My name is Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir and I was a 2007 Fellow through the Thor Thors Memorial Fund in my last year of study in the Master of Music program at The Juilliard School in New York City. As a classical- ly trained cellist, alongside a performing career, I am also a teaching-artist as a fellow of The Academy, a new program at Carnegie Hall (www.acjw.org), performing chamber music in venues across the city and bringing classical music into the New York City Public Schools. As a component of my work, I regularly teach both general music classes and string classes at P.S. 28 in Brooklyn. One of the inevitable questions that the students ask me is "Where do you come from?" and I am always eager to tell them about Iceland and show them on the map the tiny island in the middle of the North Atlantic.

Additionally, in my collaboration with American musicians, I always try to draw attention to Icelandic music and culture. Recently, I have tried to shed a little light on the economic downturn that the country has taken and to clear up some misconceptions clouding the situation and its causes. Of major concern is the future of artistic funding in Iceland and the extent to which musical life has been affected and although I can only speak from my personal experience and knowledge, I am sorry to report that cancel- lations are plenty and future plans uncertain. Even the Icelandic Symphony has postponed all international tours for this coming season and the Icelandic National Opera has postponed its staging of L'elixir d'amore until the fall of 2009. In an effort to do my part, I constantly look for oppportunities to play Scandinavian works, new and old. Recently I have commissioned a piece for cello by fellow Icelander Daníel Bjarnason, have performed it in concert in New York City, and plans are being made to record it Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco on CD on an Icelandic label which is set to debut worldwide in the fall of 2009. I hope that this piece can show, even if in a small way, the true wealth that lives in the Icelandic nation's artistry.

In my beginning career, the support from The American-Scandinavian Foundation has been essential, for which I am very appreciative. The crowning event of my fellowship year was a concert as part of the Young Musicians series in Victor Borge Hall last spring where I was able to share my art with other fellows and friends of ASF. To continue in this vein, I hope that ASF can help to facilitate collaborations between Scandinavian musicians and artists in projects that will highlight the artistic potential of our countries.

It is my pleasure and honor to be a connection for many people to a small nation, putting a face to a country that has been in the spotlight of international media in the past months. I hope that through my performances, teaching, and informal meetings that happen on a daily basis I can show a creative and strong side to the Icelandic people in these difficult times.

8 ASF Awards 2008 Translation Prize

The Board of Trustees of The American-Scandinavian Foundation announced that Patrick Phillips from Brooklyn, New York, has been awarded the 29th annual ASF Translation Prize for his translation of selected poems of Cathedral (Katedral) by the Danish author Henrik Nordbrandt (b. 1945). The ASF jury said, “it is rare to find a translation that eliminates all thoughts that it is a translation and one that reads as beautifully as the original work. This selection of poems entitled Cathedral evinces in every line the translator's great sensitivity to both the sound and the imagery of Henrik Nordbrandt's poetry. Containing poems from the author's most recent collections, it makes Nordbrandt's evolving poetic voice available to an English-language audience, who will find its themes both timely and striking. The translator captures the sense of loneliness and isolation that pervades Nordbrandt's poems and the fierce resistance his persona raises in defense. The translator attends to the cadence and word choice of the original and reproduces them with competence and sensitivity in his English renderings. Idiomatic yet entirely accurate, these translations are certain to make Henrik Nordbrandt better known in the English speaking world. " Patrick Phillips (Photo: Peter Dant) As the winner, Mr. Phillips has received a $2,000 honorarium and a commemorative bronze medallion. An excerpt of his translation appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of Scandinavian Review, the journal published by The American- Scandinavian Foundation.

ASF Visiting Lecturer

From Norway: College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, St. Joseph, MN Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement, Department of History in support of hosting Professor Chris Butters (University of Oslo), Spring Semester 2009.

Prof. Butters, who is a professor at the University of Oslo, spent the spring 2009 semester affiliated with the Department of History, Environmental Studies Program, at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University. Professor Butters holds a postgraduate diploma in Energy Planning from the Prof. Christopher Butters University of Oslo (1979) and a Bachelors of Architecture from Montpellier, France (1978). He is cur- (Photo: Per Kristian Bjøkeng) rently a course leader at the University of Oslo. He also works as an architect for GAIA Oslo AS and as a consultant for GAIA International. At the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, he taught courses on Sustainable Community Development. Professor Butters participated in two conferences during his stay, Renewing our Global Community: The Path to Energy Self-Sufficiency, An International Symposium at the University of Minnesota and A Critical Examination of Preservation and Sustainability at Goucher College. He was also invited to offer a series of semi- nars in association with The Eugene McCarthy Center for Public Policy and Civic Engagement's Alumni Chapter in Twin Cities, as well as programs in association with the Immigration Research Center at the University of Minnesota and Minnesota Historical Society.

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9 From the Director of Fellowship & Grants

The past year at the ASF has been a wonderful learning experience. I've enjoyed getting to know more about Scandinavian studies and cultural exchange. I made my first trip to Scandinavia last September when I had the opportunity to visit several American Fellows while they were in-country conducting their projects. I look forward to getting to know each of you so please don't hesitate to contact me if you ever need anything, or just want to say hello. Also, stay in touch with updates of the ASF's grant and fellowship programs with the new electronic version of The Longboat by sending us your current email address. Emails can be sent to [email protected] or by calling 212 979 9779. We will of course mail printed copies of the Longboat to anyone who requests one, but we encourage you to use the electronic version from now on.

Valerie Hymas Director, Fellowship & Grants

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