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Birgitta Steene (1928-2023)
Birgitta Steene (1928-2023)
Georg and Nina Pedersen with Professor Marianne Stecher-Hansen
The Georg and Nina Pedersen Endowed Professorship
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Maxine Savage awarded the Arlene Hunter Scholarship for 2022-2023
Professors Lauren Poyer and Andy Meyer standing in seaweed, watching as students climb around on tidepool rocks. Photo taken on South Beach, San Juan Island.
Norwegian Retreat
An image of birch trees in a forest with the superimposed words Crossing North and Scandinavian Studies and University of Washington
Our Podcast Crossing North is back.
$60,000 Awarded in Scholarships in Spring 2022
Camille
Camille Witbeck Receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Study, 2020-2021
Assistant Teaching Professor Lauren Poyer to join new "Humanities First" initiative
Karen Blixen
Prof. Stecher interviewed for Danish POLITIKEN feature article
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Scandinavian Studies Department renews collaboration with National Nordic Museum for Scandinavian 30 lecture series
Amanda Doxtater and students in the studio
Crossing North podcast continues with Season 2
Pétur Valsson
Pétur Valsson receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies, 2019-20, for Lars von Trier research
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Sons of Norway Foundation Scholarships
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The Ibsen Society of America offers two student awards: apply in 2019!
Kim Kraft
New Undergraduate Adviser Kim Kraft
Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mary of Denmark
HRH Crown Princess Mary of Denmark Visits UW
Danh Vo Presentation
"Artworks of Danh Vo," Lecture by Marianne Torp, National Gallery of Denmark (February 14, 2018)
Jan Nielsen and members of his supervisory committee.
Jan Krogh Nielsen Advanced to Ph.D. Candidacy
Statue of H.C. Andersen in Odense, Denmark
Marianne Stecher To Deliver Keynote Lecture At H.C. Andersen and Community Conference
Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn
Olivia Gunn's research on  Den Store Barnedåpen and The Alberta Trilogy
Liina - Ly Roos
Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies
Karen Eriksson
Karin Eriksson Receives Antoinette Wills Endowed Scholarship, 2016-17
Anna Ruhl
Anna  Rühl  Awarded Aurora Borealis Prize, 2016
Kristina Legangar Iversen
Reading Scand Guilt in Contemporary Poetry 
The Faroese drunnur (dried sheep's tail)
Patricia Conroy Memorial Lecture, April 14th, 3:30PM, Univ of Washington Club