Honors and Awards

Karin Filipsson
Newly Minted PhD: Karin Filipsson
January 12, 2026
Ian Gwin among statues
Ian Gwin Named Nadia Christensen Scholar, 2025-6
June 17, 2025
photo of Karin Filipsson from the SWEA prize announcement
Karin Filipsson Wins the International SWEA Prize in Literature
April 7, 2025
Helen Durst
Winner of this year's Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies
May 6, 2024
Tiina Nunnally
Tiina Nunnally, Affiliate Faculty Member Earns Critical Acclaim
April 5, 2024
Birgitta Steene (1928-2023)
Birgitta Steene (1928-2023)
November 14, 2023
Dubs and Andrew Nestingen
Department Graduation Ceremony on June 8th
June 12, 2023
Mia Filardi
Mia Filardi, 2023 Graduate With A Finnish Major & Scandinavian Area Studies Minor, Awarded Fulbright!
June 8, 2023
Spring Scholarship Breakfast program
Spring Scholarship Breakfast
April 18, 2023
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Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies is awarded to Karin Filipsson
October 20, 2022
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 Maxine Savage awarded the Chester Fritz International Research Fellowship for 2022-2023
October 4, 2022
Inger-Kristine Riber (l) and Reidun Horvei (r) (Photo: Oddleiv Apneseth)
Performance of "RIT" - The Poetry of Olav H. Hauge, October 27, 2022
August 8, 2022
Announcing 2021-22 Graduate Student Awards
June 30, 2022
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Maxine Savage awarded the Arlene Hunter Scholarship for 2022-2023
June 24, 2022
Photo by Joe Iano
Ian Gwin receives Aurora Borealis Award 
April 14, 2022
Picture of Embassy and Consulate buildings with program dates and locations.
Internship opportunity at the Norwegian Embassy or Consulate!
March 3, 2022
Karin Filipsson
Karin Filipsson wins Marna Feldt Graduate Publication Award
March 2, 2022
Katherine Hanson and Olav Hauge
Affiliate Associate Professor Katherine Hanson Honored with Anvil Award 
September 21, 2021
Connie Amundson
Connie Amundson Recognized with Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies for 2021-2022
June 28, 2021
Alumna Megan Penhoet awarded as Global Swede of 2021
June 19, 2021
Department Alumna Taylor Halverson awarded Jody Deering Nyquist Awards for Excellence In Undergraduate Research
June 18, 2021
Karin Filipsson
Karin Filipsson awarded 2021-22 Joff Hanauer for Excellence in Western Civilization Graduate Fellowship
June 11, 2021
Karin Filipsson
Karin Filipsson awarded SASS 2021 Aurora Borealis Prize in Language and Literature
April 18, 2021
UW Student selected as first Queen Silvia Nursing Scholar in US
December 23, 2020
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Camille Witbeck Receives Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Study, 2020-2021
December 16, 2020
22 UW students receive Fulbright awards
June 4, 2020
Faculty/staff honors: Lithuanian state decoration; National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute award; Google research awards
March 16, 2020
Andy, Ella, and Willa Nestingen
2019 Letter From the Chair
December 13, 2019
Andrew Nestingen and Stefan Lindström
Prof. Andrew Nestingen awarded Finnish knighthood
December 3, 2019
Andrew Nestingen Scandinavian Studies Lion of Finland
UW Scandinavian Studies chair honored with Finnish knighthood
November 21, 2019
the quad with cherry blossoms
University of Washington is a top producer of Fulbright recipients
February 21, 2019
Statue of Henrik Ibsen
The Ibsen Society of America offers two student awards: apply in 2019!
December 11, 2018
Recognition ceremony for Georg and Nina Pedersen
Pedersen Endowed Faculty Fund for Danish is Established
October 22, 2018
Finnish lecturer Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara
Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara Wins Kotikielen Seura Article Prize
April 11, 2018
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Swedish Major Elena Donaldson Awarded 2017 Dean's Medal in the Humanities
June 13, 2017
Mimi Nielsen
Mimi Nielsen awarded SWEA San Francisco Scholarship
May 17, 2017
Ilmari
Lecturer Ilmari Ivaska named Researcher of the Month by The Language Bank of Finland
May 16, 2017
Ilmari
Ilmari Ivaska awarded Kari Sajavaara dissertation prize
January 20, 2017
Liina - Ly Roos
Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Nadia Christensen Award for Excellence in Nordic Studies
May 12, 2016
Karen Eriksson
Karin Eriksson Receives Antoinette Wills Endowed Scholarship, 2016-17
May 9, 2016
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Liina-Ly Roos Awarded Chester William Fritz Scholarship for 2016-17
May 9, 2016
Anna Ruhl
Anna  Rühl  Awarded Aurora Borealis Prize, 2016
May 9, 2016
Ilmari Ivaska
Ilmari Ivaska Wins Kotikielen Seura Dissertation Prize
March 22, 2016
Marianne Stecher invited Keynote Speaker for AASSC at Congress 2015 for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa, June 2nd.
June 8, 2015
ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY HONORS PROFESSOR ANN-CHARLOTTE GAVEL ADAMS
March 9, 2015
President’s Medalist Mitchell Krawczyk studies Danish, Drama, and Neuroscience
March 4, 2015
Michael Biggins named 2015 Janko Lavrin Laureate
March 3, 2015
PÉTUR VALSSON RECEIVES NADIA CHRISTENSEN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NORDIC STUDIES
January 26, 2015
Mimi Nielsen Awarded Fellowship
April 25, 2014
Kielland-Løvdal Fellowship Awarded to Maren Anderson Johnson
June 26, 2013