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I
have taught at Presbyterian College since 1997, so I have had the
distinct pleasure of working with a great group of students and
faculty over the past decade. My research field is American immigration
history, particularly the movement of people from Sweden to America,
but I have also developed interests in a number of other areas in
American history. I teach American Colonial and Revolutionary History,
History of the South, Women in American History, Young America,
Immigration History, Slavery and Freedom in America, American history
survey courses, as well as the Modern World, one of PC’s general
education courses. I have also led, with other faculty colleagues,
travel courses to Oxford University and to the American West of
Lewis and Clark. I am currently organizing a student trip to Sweden, scheduled for June of 2011
I received
my B.A. in Swedish and economics with a minor in history at North
Park University in Chicago, Illinois. It was at North Park that
I came to understand the value of an education received at a small
liberal arts college. I earned my M.A. and my Ph.D. from Northwestern
University in Evanston, Illinois. Shortly after completing my
doctorate, my husband, Charlie, and I moved to South Carolina
where a few years later our son Karl was born. We now enjoy living
near the Presbyterian College campus and feel very much at home
in South Carolina. In 2007 I was named Presbyterian College’s Professor of the Year and received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities.
Despite living in a part of the country where few Swedes settled, I have continued my research in Swedish immigration history. I have published a number of articles, including: “’We Hope to be Able to Do Some Good’: Swedish-American Women’s Organizations in Chicago,” for which I received the Franklin Scott prize for best new article appearing in the Swedish-American Historical Quarterly. Others I have recently published are: “Jenny Lind on Tour: The Swedish Nightingale’s Visit to Charleston, 1850-1851,” “North Park: Building a Swedish Community in Chicago,” and “Teaching Swedish in the Public Schools: Cultural Persistence in Minneapolis.” I hope to have my manuscript, Making Chicago Swedish: The Shaping of an Immigrant Community in Chicago, 1880-1920, published soon.
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