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Maxine Savage awarded the Arlene Hunter Scholarship for 2022-2023
Book cover of Nordic War Stories; WWII as History, Fiction, Media, and Memory. The cover depicts a single truck, carrying a coffin covered by the Norwegian flag, driving in a snowy forest landscape.
Faculty Publication
Letter From The Chair
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
Elise Rainer
Affiliate Assistant Professor Elise Rainer publishes book From Pariah to Priority: How LGBTI Rights Became a Pillar of American and Swedish Foreign Policy
Assistant Teaching Professor Lauren Poyer to join new "Humanities First" initiative
Andy, Ella, and Willa Nestingen
2019 Letter From the Chair
Scandinavian 30 Logo
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
Jan Store - A New Future for Europe lecture
Andrew Nestingen and Stefan Lindström
Prof. Andrew Nestingen awarded Finnish knighthood
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Sons of Norway Foundation Scholarships
Statue of Henrik Ibsen
The Ibsen Society of America offers two student awards: apply in 2019!
Kim Kraft
New Undergraduate Adviser Kim Kraft
Assistant Professor Olivia Gunn
Olivia Gunn's research on  Den Store Barnedåpen and The Alberta Trilogy
Professor Christine Ingebritsen
Christine Ingebritsen: Understanding Scandinavian Small States Helps Us Understand Brexit
Nordic Leaders and President Obama (WH Photo, C. Kennedy)
Nordic Leaders Meet with President Obama
From Convergence to Conflict: Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro
Alum Focus, Alison Johnston: Seattle, Stockholm, London, Corvallis
Kiruna, Sweden
Voting for the Scandinavian Studies Photo Contest in now open!
Ambassador Lyrvall and UW Scandinavian Studies Students
Swedish Ambassador Björn Lyrvall on Sweden in a Changing Europe
The Faroese drunnur (dried sheep's tail)
Patricia Conroy Memorial Lecture, April 14th, 3:30PM, Univ of Washington Club
Ivaska, Markkanen, Suokko, Borland, Hiukka, Nestingen
Finnish Consul General Juha Markkanen visits UW Finnish Program
Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) available to undergraduate, graduate and professional students
Professor Marianne Stecher and Lecturer Ilmari Ivaska
Scandinavian Studies at the UW Study Abroad Fair